Goke: Body Snatcher from Hell
The ultimate kitchen sink movie! I've seen this once before but it had been a while.
****
Disaster movie. Airplane goes down on a supposed island after encountering possible flying saucer emanating a bright light. There's a bomb threat and assassin who recently killed a British ambassador. Not to mention birds flying right into the plane. The sky is a vibrant orange, with one of the passengers mentioning how peculiar the atmosphere seems to be.
Sci-fi. Alien goo that crawls inhabits humans to use as hosts, once done when vessel no longer benefits the life form leaves the body to deteriorate rapidly as it turns into ash carried away in the wind.
Vampire movie. To sustain it's habitation in the human body the alien must feed from the blood of other humans, turning the victim's faces blue.
Antiwar film. The screenplay goes out of its way to condemn the human race over the wars of the film's time. One character is a war profiteer in cahoots with a corrupt politician who allowed the guy to sleep with his wife in exchange for a major contract. An American woman was flying to pick up her husband's body after he was killed in Vietnam with tearful outbursts common. Hiroshima is a part of the conversation. War footage is shown.
Apocalyptic film. The film's main heroes, a brave and protective pilot and a humane stewardess, find civilization which has been drank dry. Alien ships travel towards earth preparing for colonization.
We see humanity at its worst (the politician and weapons businessman go at each other, while the businessman's wife defends the politician who is aching for water; the politician is helped by the pilot and stewardess after he had voluntarily left the damaged, downed plane only to return when peril faced him and rewards them by locking them out! The pilot must contend with a bunch of petty, unscrupulous folks who give him nothing but grief despite being cherubic at every turn. Bickering, temper tantrums, pointed accusations, guns going off, the survivors turning on each other) and best (the pilot protects a panicky passenger as rocks avalanche from a mountain and this kid turns out to have called in the bomb threat for kicks! The pilot and stewardess help those undeserved of such kindness).
You have a head splitting open and the alien goo using the wound as an entrance into human victims. You see a bomb go off while in the hand of a goof. Bodies fall off cliffs. Petrified corpses sometimes let us see just what happens to humans invaded and then discarded. You see a mall littered with vampire victims while scattered cars reveal those inside dead. Flying saucers glowing red. This is one delightfully tacky, wacky, colorful, over the top, unsubtle, and unpredictable little everything goes genre mishmash. The cast letter rip. Even the space biologist seems to reveal a less favorable side when he's okay with sacrificing one among them to see for sure if this vampire exists...he's one of the level-headed, cerebral types. There's even a psychiatrist who instigated paranoia by pondering if a bomb was what the pilot was checking for when he and a fellow co-pilot (who perishes when the plane crashes) received a warning from headquarters, just to gauge the reactions of the passengers!
You just can't go wrong with this one. Good music and exciting direction. It is fun and fast paced. A zany treat!
****
Disaster movie. Airplane goes down on a supposed island after encountering possible flying saucer emanating a bright light. There's a bomb threat and assassin who recently killed a British ambassador. Not to mention birds flying right into the plane. The sky is a vibrant orange, with one of the passengers mentioning how peculiar the atmosphere seems to be.
Sci-fi. Alien goo that crawls inhabits humans to use as hosts, once done when vessel no longer benefits the life form leaves the body to deteriorate rapidly as it turns into ash carried away in the wind.
Vampire movie. To sustain it's habitation in the human body the alien must feed from the blood of other humans, turning the victim's faces blue.
Antiwar film. The screenplay goes out of its way to condemn the human race over the wars of the film's time. One character is a war profiteer in cahoots with a corrupt politician who allowed the guy to sleep with his wife in exchange for a major contract. An American woman was flying to pick up her husband's body after he was killed in Vietnam with tearful outbursts common. Hiroshima is a part of the conversation. War footage is shown.
Apocalyptic film. The film's main heroes, a brave and protective pilot and a humane stewardess, find civilization which has been drank dry. Alien ships travel towards earth preparing for colonization.
We see humanity at its worst (the politician and weapons businessman go at each other, while the businessman's wife defends the politician who is aching for water; the politician is helped by the pilot and stewardess after he had voluntarily left the damaged, downed plane only to return when peril faced him and rewards them by locking them out! The pilot must contend with a bunch of petty, unscrupulous folks who give him nothing but grief despite being cherubic at every turn. Bickering, temper tantrums, pointed accusations, guns going off, the survivors turning on each other) and best (the pilot protects a panicky passenger as rocks avalanche from a mountain and this kid turns out to have called in the bomb threat for kicks! The pilot and stewardess help those undeserved of such kindness).
You have a head splitting open and the alien goo using the wound as an entrance into human victims. You see a bomb go off while in the hand of a goof. Bodies fall off cliffs. Petrified corpses sometimes let us see just what happens to humans invaded and then discarded. You see a mall littered with vampire victims while scattered cars reveal those inside dead. Flying saucers glowing red. This is one delightfully tacky, wacky, colorful, over the top, unsubtle, and unpredictable little everything goes genre mishmash. The cast letter rip. Even the space biologist seems to reveal a less favorable side when he's okay with sacrificing one among them to see for sure if this vampire exists...he's one of the level-headed, cerebral types. There's even a psychiatrist who instigated paranoia by pondering if a bomb was what the pilot was checking for when he and a fellow co-pilot (who perishes when the plane crashes) received a warning from headquarters, just to gauge the reactions of the passengers!
You just can't go wrong with this one. Good music and exciting direction. It is fun and fast paced. A zany treat!
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