1968 ‘吸血鬼ゴケミドロ’ Directed by Hajime Sato
The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.
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The universe is filled with things of which mankind knows nothing.
bloodsuckers from space gonzo style. the sky red as blood, a sea of neon hellscape. a orange-lit UFO possesses people into a feverish phantasmagorical daze turning them into blood-thirsty vampires. I was immediately sold after the first encounter, so eerie. suicidal birds and a familiar b-movie sci-fi feel straight out of the 50s, almost feels like a long lost nonexistent Japanese Twilight Zone episode, so fun and full of strange occurrences.
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell joined forces with The Thing turning people against eachother and The Blob when things start to get alittle too gooey, only this has a vampire with a vagina on his forehead.
jeez, I loved it! need I say more?
Saw this description somewhere on this site:
“Alien blobs in glowing orange UFOs turn airplane crash survivors into space vampires by crawling inside bloody slits they carve into their foreheads”
Can confirm, this checks out. Super fun slice of alien space vamp body snatcher shit that’s high on cosmic terror atmos and features many moments of low budge genre splendor. Cool little movie that’s entertaining as all get out and kinda felt a bit like Train to Busan? Some of those plane scenes gave me anxiety and the poster here on lb is a banger. Can’t wait to watch this again!
This Japanese update of the 1950s science-fiction/ B-movie is in many respects superior to its decade ealier North-American counterpart. It managed to enthrall me from start to finish (with hardly any dull spots) and the practical effects were super impressive, even by today's standards.
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell really is one of the best movies that this genre has to offer.
I LOVED this movie, so much I went out and bought a (used, mind you) of the Criterion 'When Horror Came to Shochiku.'
I felt genuine menace coming from the interior of that plane. Then again, (and truly, I apologize if I've told you this story before), when I had just turned twenty-one, I had to fly back to Ketchikan from Seattle to attend my brother's memorial service and the night before, I had this dream where I was in an underwater airplane and all the other passengers were dead and Walking on the Moon by The Police was playing from some mysterious source...I don't know if this is standard on other airlines, But Alaska Airlines always had some music…
Wild, freak-like energy on this one. A plane full of the damned crash lands on the set of a desert Star Trek planet in southern Japan and one by one the awful freaks onboard start going at each other’s throats instead of the guy with the world’s most obvious “I AM AN ALIEN” scar on his forehead. Politicians and arms dealers are shown for the scum and slobs they are, selling innocent people out and turning in each other for whatever petty bullshit reason flashes into their furrowed little skull. Right on. Only the noble flight attendants make it out unscathed, which I found historically accurate.
Takes more than a few shots at American imperialism, which is fair. Presents the…
68/100
An enraged Vietnam, late 60s paranoia trip, festering anguish and frustration through a survival sci-fi lens. Certifiably insane and sadly as timely as the day it was released. A real gem.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Well, this was certainly up my alley. Been meaning to watch this for years as it's one of those films I always knew I'd love. Didn't realise how strong and intense that love would be though. From its opening pre-title sequence, Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell is a nightmare bathed in hellish oranges and suicidal birds. Goke straddles an amazing line. It manages to be both unrelenting in its BLEAKNESS and yet squeal-inducing in its FUN. It has a dizzying otherworldly vibe. The events feel like they take place in some kind of squelchy horrible purgatory. Heads split open. Gross gooey aliens crawl inside. There's vampirism. Bodies are reduced to crumbling dust. (Such a cool effect.) A woman jumps…
"It's too late to wish you had lived differently" - Overlord,
- Daily Horror Hunt #11 (May 2019): boxd.it/2S3Py
Day 10 - May 10, 1995: Hajime Sato passed at the age of 66. Let's honour the man by watching one of his movies.
All the money people put into creating cool looking spaceships for movies but for my money I'll take a cool looking flying saucer any day.
A group of intense, emotional, and occasionally dangerous people on a plane end up crashing in the middle of nowhere and are slowly attacked by blobs that turn them into vampires that bizarrely kiss people's necks. They deal with a lot of ethical questions along the way, and don't handle them as…
Pretty cool Japanese take on a 50/60’s Science Fiction/Horror movie with shades of Bava’s Planet of the Vampires and The Blob and some Vampires thrown into the mix. Visually, I thought this one looked very colorful and pleasing. I liked the first half a bit more than the second but the ending was also very cool and fittingly dark. Not a classic, but a very nice and enjoyable piece of B-movie Science Fiction/Horror made in Japan. I liked it quite a bit.
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Eerie, just plain eerie man...
That first possession scene is kinda everything I want from a horror flick, at least when it comes to atmosphere. A DENSE 'n' suffocating mood, hitting that fear from beyond the stars/cosmic terror vibe so perfectly. A constant pulse throbbing like a trance, mesmerizing mannerisms that our mind-controlled host humans take on, the LIGHT! It definitely triggered something out there in my brain... And oh yeah, the alien-vampire mind slime oozin' all up in peeps fresh forehead holes. They're pretty swell too!
Atmosphere aside, this is a solid creature feature. Shares sci-fi themes that are similar to a bunch of other movies from the era, but are done so…
"I'd lost all faith in humanity, including myself."
The death of humanism
I love a good allegory. Here we are, 1968, two decades into the Cold War, four years into the Vietnam War. Humanity is tearing itself apart. It feels like the entire world has been at war with itself for as long as anyone left alive can remember. Like Dr. Momotake, we'd lost faith in humanity, including ourselves; as R. J. MacReady puts it, "Trust's a hard thing to come by these days." We no longer trusted anybody to act in anyone's best interest, not even their own. Set on the precipice of self-destruction, the collective human consciousness seemed all too ready to opt in favor…
As effectively pessimistic as Carpenter's Thing would be when it came to shapeshifting parasitic aliens vs humanity two decades later, with the added shadow of post-WWII Japanese angst looming in the background, and an interesting nod to the Vietnam war (one of the characters on the plane is widow of a dead American G.I) -the special effects hold up fairly well, but the camerawork is what's really remarkable here--with the early scenes playing like a bad dream and then, as the film stretches, a nightmare you can't wake up from, leading to a finale that's an interesting variation on the end of, say, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
