The B&R Monday Matinee
The Green Slime
I don’t know what it is, but even as cheesy as a joint Japanese/American 1968 sci-fi flick could be, it’s still unnerving and probably psychologically scarred me for life.
A group of astronauts set out to stop a giant asteroid on a collision course with the planet Earth. They land on the asteroid, plant explosive charges and destroy it. Afterwards they return to the staging area, a space station called Gamma 3 in orbit around the Earth. Unfortunately, a scientist from the mission has unwittingly carried a luminous-green substance on the leg of his spacesuit which quickly mutates into one-eyed, tentacled monsters with the ability to discharge lethal bolts of electricity. The Gamma 3 crew fend off the alien creatures with their laser-based weaponry, only to discover the creatures feed off the energy which, in turn, allows them to multiply rapidly, sprouting the new creatures from their blood. As the creatures overrun the station the crew continues to fight back against overwhelming odds.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured a portion of the American version in its unofficial and never aired on television pilot episode. It also provided the Genesis for the Green Slime Awards which honors the worst in science fiction from the past year and is presented at Bubonicon in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Maybe we can attach a similar award to the climate scientists and con-artists who sold the world green and pocketed the difference.
