The Slime People

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The Slime People

I really enjoy this genre (sci-fy/horror B-graders) but I will have to say this one is pretty much void of any value even to the most tolerant of bad movies. On the other hand, I have watched it more than once and I'm not sure why. Maybe the buxom, blonde little flirt stirs some primeval attraction in my loins. Maybe the shambling slimeball monsters work for me in some way. Maybe there's a so-bad-it's-good quality to it. I really don't know. In any case, I can't really recommend anyone shell out any money for it unless it's included in some collection of equally bad films. But who knows, maybe someone else can develop a little misunderstood affection for it as well.

Suck on your Slippery Elm Throat Lozenges, slop syrup on your snack of strawberry shortcake, and prepare to be stuck to your sofa in shock as this slimy celluloid silliness slides onto the tv screen! Robert Hutton battles the bubblegum beasts bursting from the bowels of L.A., but neither he nor bubblebrained blonde Judee Morton (the only other actual acting talent) can beat the grad "B" badness of this boring box-office bilge! Still, some of the nonsensical newscasts are a hoot and a holler! "Stick" to a lot of booze if you choose to watch this ooze!

Well this is my first review. My grandmother tried to explain cateracts one time to me. I never really understood until the fog scenes in this movie. Slime creatures mysteriously appear and create a wall of fog which no one can get through. five people are trapped but manage to get out. The fog is so dense in this movie you literally can't see what's going on. The acting was quite bad but funny to watch, accept from the marine.......I kept rooting for the slime men and they couldn't finish the kid off. But all's well that ends well as always in old sci-fi movies. People figure out how to break through the wall and manage to kill a few slime people along the way and save the day as always. It's not really the worst thing I've ever seen and really not bad if you like old school scifi like I do.

"The Slime People" is the typical sci-fi flick from the early '60s that could have gotten shown on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". In this case, a species of creatures coat Los Angeles in a strange mist and take over, while a few people hold out. Yes, it's basically a B minus movie. Had they waited at least ten years to make it, it would have shown people violating the rules that "Scream" laid out about horror movie survival. As it is, the line "I'd like to see more of you" is up for some cool misinterpretation! So, this movie is nothing special, but fun to watch. A modern tag-line could be: THERE'S SOMETHING BAD IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD...AND THIS TIME, YOU CAN'T CALL THE GHOSTBUSTERS!

"The Slime People" is not a good film and I won't shy away from that. But for an extremely low budgeted horror film with crappy looking monsters, there are worse...such as "Robot Monster" or "From Hell It Came". The story begins with a man landing his small airplane at a California airport and noticing that there is no one there...no one. Soon he is met by a professor and his daughters and learns that some weird monsters have come out of the earth and are attacking mankind. That really is the entire plot! All in all, this is a bad film with bad dialog and REALLY annoying female characters who cry and scream A LOT. But it's not bad as a time-passer...or something to laugh at as you watch.

The Slime People would only appeal to the hard core lover of early science fiction movies. The over extensive use of the fog machine makes it difficult to see some of the scenes clearly enough to follow the action. The traditional wholesome characters (50's style, men at table discussing important things, woman putting away the dishes) engaging in supposedly serious discussions/explanations of the Slime folks "wall of fog" is just plain funny. But when all is said and done the movie did entertain me, but certainly not for everyone. Hats off to the actress stuck playing Bonnie, the dumb blonde teenager.

Far from being a cinema classic, or even a classic of low-budget films, The Slime People still has a kind of charm that makes you want to stay with it until the end. Cheap sets and costumes, and pretty bad acting, make this one mostly forgettable, though the plot really isn't too bad. With a bigger budget and some better actors this might have been come off as a classic. Worth watching on a rainy Sunday afternoon if nothing else is on.