Review – Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell

The body snatcher must come from the same place that produced the movie. This is a bizarre Japanese horror movie from the late 1960s. It blends average cheap horror picture aesthetics with a strange sense of intellectual paranoia (or is it just terrible writing?). After a plane crashes in a strange, deserted landscape, one of the passengers – an assassin, no less – runs off, gets hypnotized into entering a UFO, and is possessed by a big blob of goo. Sadly for everyone else, the goo injection turns the guy into a vampire. For the most part this is one of those closed-environment people-in-an-extreme-survival-situation dramas, but it does have some fun, 60s-era, low-budget special effects. Mildly amusing