The Green Slime

From The Grindhouse Cinema Database

Main Details

  • Released in 1968
  • Color
  • Running Time: 90 min | Japan:77 min (laserdisc)
  • Production Co: Lun Film | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Ram Films Inc. | Southern Cross Feature Film Company | Toei Company
  • Distribution Co: Toei Company (1968) (Japan) (theatrical) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1969) (USA) (theatrical) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1969) (UK) (theatrical)
  • Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
  • Written by Bill Finger, Ivan Reiner, Tom Rowe, Charles Sinclair
  • Starring Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel
  • Produced by Walter Manley, Ivan Reiner, William Ross
  • Original Music by Charles Fox, Toshiaki Tsushima
  • Cinematography by Yoshikazu Yamasawa
  • Film Editing by Osamu Tanaka

Plot Summary

  • After destroying a giant asteroid heading towards Earth, a group of scientists unknowingly bring back a strange green substance that soon mutates into a monster.

Also Known As

  • Bataille au-delà des étoiles (Canada) (French title) / France
  • After the Destruction of Space Station Gamma: Big Military Operation
  • Batalla más allá de las estrellas (Spain)
  • Battle Beyond the Stars
  • Death and the Green Slime
  • Eisvoli apo agnosto planiti (Greece) (reissue title)
  • Il Fango verde (Italy)
  • Gamma #3 Big Military Space Operation
  • Gamma sango uchu daisakusen (Japan)
  • De Gröna monstren (Sweden)
  • Green slime - Kriget bortom stjärnorna (Sweden)
  • Monster aus dem All (Germany)
  • Polemos teraton sto diastima (Greece)
  • The Battle of Space Station Gamma
  • Uhka avaruudesta (Finland)

Taglines

  • Invaders From Beyond The Stars!
  • The Green Slime are coming!!
  • The Green Slime is coming!!
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