Very cool title, but Lordy Mama - this is just too dumb for words. I know the Japanese monster flicks like the Godzilla clones were made for a pre-teen audience but this isn't even in that bailiwick; youngsters should be kept away from this one at all costs. It's been a long while since I've made a change to my 'Top Ten Worst Movies List', but I was able to make the call after watching this cheese-fest without any hesitation at all. It zoomed right up to the Number Three spot right behind "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet" and "The Incredible Petrified World". It could very well go higher.
Adding to the film's off the wall story line is probably the dumbest dialog I've yet to encounter in a picture. This could possibly be due to the English translation offered in the version I watched; my summary line is from pilot Sugisaka (Teruo Yoshida) to Miss Asakura (Tomomi Sato) after he crash lands their hijacked, UFO-blinded airplane. Not to be outdone of course, by creepy politician Mano (Eizo Kitamura) when he chides the hysterical American Mrs. Neal (Kathy Horan) with "What is the foreign broad so worked up about?"
Speaking of Mrs. Neal, just how bad a shot do you have to be to miss hitting a human/vampire target at point blank range with a rifle. She practically had it in the guy's chest and still missed at least four times! Fortunately that pail of gasoline just happened to be handy to bid hijacker Teraoka (Hideo Ko) a fond and fiery farewell.
With an apparent nod to the 1951 movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still", the Gokemidoro blob creature didn't have the patience of Klaatu and Gort from that picture in which the aliens warned us poor Earthlings to get our minds right about war and nuclear proliferation before they took charge. In this one, the Gokes are leaving out the middleman and destroying Earth just for the heck of it. Which is a pretty harsh way of dealing with things, thus prompting Sugisaka's understatement of the decade when he muttered - "Why did this have to happen"?
Addendum**** 10-28-2016 - I actually did move this picture up a notch to the Number #2 position on my 'Worst' list, but it would have gone to Number #1 if I hadn't seen "The Aztec Mummy Against the Humanoid Robot" just a week later. Imagine those two on a twin bill.
Adding to the film's off the wall story line is probably the dumbest dialog I've yet to encounter in a picture. This could possibly be due to the English translation offered in the version I watched; my summary line is from pilot Sugisaka (Teruo Yoshida) to Miss Asakura (Tomomi Sato) after he crash lands their hijacked, UFO-blinded airplane. Not to be outdone of course, by creepy politician Mano (Eizo Kitamura) when he chides the hysterical American Mrs. Neal (Kathy Horan) with "What is the foreign broad so worked up about?"
Speaking of Mrs. Neal, just how bad a shot do you have to be to miss hitting a human/vampire target at point blank range with a rifle. She practically had it in the guy's chest and still missed at least four times! Fortunately that pail of gasoline just happened to be handy to bid hijacker Teraoka (Hideo Ko) a fond and fiery farewell.
With an apparent nod to the 1951 movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still", the Gokemidoro blob creature didn't have the patience of Klaatu and Gort from that picture in which the aliens warned us poor Earthlings to get our minds right about war and nuclear proliferation before they took charge. In this one, the Gokes are leaving out the middleman and destroying Earth just for the heck of it. Which is a pretty harsh way of dealing with things, thus prompting Sugisaka's understatement of the decade when he muttered - "Why did this have to happen"?
Addendum**** 10-28-2016 - I actually did move this picture up a notch to the Number #2 position on my 'Worst' list, but it would have gone to Number #1 if I hadn't seen "The Aztec Mummy Against the Humanoid Robot" just a week later. Imagine those two on a twin bill.