Starring Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel, Bud Widom, Ted Gunther
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
After returning from a successful mission, a team of astronauts accidentally bring back some slime from an asteroid to their space station, which mutates into a horde of deadly creatures.
There's lot of science fiction fun to be had in this US/Japanese co-production, filmed in Japan but featuring American actors, and benefitting from nifty special effects which while they're definitely dated, were likely quite serviceable for the era. The "green slime" creatures are the showpiece of the movie, and the scenes with the space station personnel trying to contain them are efficiently directed and suspenseful. Subplots about the conflict between the station commander and the officer who takes over his command, and their involvement in a love triangle offer nothing new or different, but add the proper drama to the struggle against the creatures.
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