The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.n a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin reviewed an 83 minute English-dubbed version of the film. The review described the film as an "Uninspired mélange of flying saucers and vampirism" that was "woodenly directed and bogged down by long stretches of melodramatic dissension among the characters which acts as an uneasy springboard for much preaching and moralizing about why mankind deserves to be taken over by invaders from another world." That is terribly unfair. The movie might have some slow stretches, but just look at the incredible effects. The red sky, the rocky terrain, and the blob creature... wow. This seems like something more appropriate from the 1980s than the 1960s. Allegedly, Quentin Tarantino loves this film (he seems to love everything), and I can see why... this is the sort of movie that just screams out to be a cult classic.

This is a Grade B Japanese sci-fi-/horror flick, and another version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Maybe those who dissed Nicole Kidman for her performance may find what they are looking for here.The effects are cheap, and the acting is lame, and there are plot holes you can fly a 747 through, but that is not the point.I hear the red sky was so amazing that Quentin Tarantino used it in a Kill Bill movie. It was amazing, to say the least. It was the cloud that caused the plane to crash in the desert. No, it's not Lost, it is an invasion.The politics of war and hate are woven throughout this film from the flashbacks to the Vietnam War, the war widow on the plane, mushroom clouds, the arms dealer and politician also among the passengers, and the assassin, who becomes the first victim. It is through our preoccupation with killing each other, that the aliens find as vulnerable to invasion.Now, we add in a little of The Blob as the aliens are some blue gelatin and they split the head of the victim to invade the body. The host is now a vampire. That's something I haven't seen in a Japanese film.It all ends with a new Adam and Eve, or in this case Sugisaka and Kuzumi, Maybe they will populate the Earth with people not intent on killing each other.

Goke is one of those films that I had only heard about in the 1980's but was never able to see. It had a reputation among the hard core film fans as something out of left field but not very good. Many years later I had forgotten about the film but had chanced across director Sato's deliriously silly kid's film "Golden Bat". I was rather surprised that this film was by the same man.The film is very artificial from the first shot of a model jet in front of a red sky to the rock quarry most of film takes place in. Most Japanese film fans will recognize this quarry. It's in samurai films, gangster films and every other episode of Power Rangers. The cheapness is off-set by the care of the direction and photography. The special effects are super color saturated and very bizarre at times. While definitely not a children's film, Sato utilizes a number of techniques from Golden Bat including the generic action music and the kabuki inspired movements for the possessed. The energy that's put into this film makes up for the logic gaps, bad acting and cheapness. The ending is very unexpected, nightmarish and disturbing. Finishing this film is like waking from a very bad night of sleep. As Sato has no further films in his listing here yet lived for quite a while after, I wonder what was his state of mind while making this film.Recommended.

GOKE, BODY SNATCHER FROM HELL- pretty much says it all, huh? Only Goke's not from hell, per se, but "out there." Director Hajime Sato crams about as many disparate characters as is humanly possible into a single plane: a mad bomber; a skyjacker who moonlights as an assassin; the titular e-t; and, worst of all (by far), a corrupt businessman. There are rock-slides (two or three; I lost count, but they were usually timely), human sacrifices, and suicidal birds who throw themselves at the plane to bring it down. Most of the movie has that distinctive Mario Bava look (and, sometimes but not often, the feel), but interspersed throughout are grisly, red-tinted photos from the then-current Vietnam war that are most definitely out of place- jarringly so. Goke's objective is admirable: the destruction of the Human Race- and the ending of the movie is great-, but some of the lines are hysterical. When faced with the prospect of coming face to face with a vampire, the resident scientist says (almost wistfully), "A chance like this comes once in a lifetime." So bad it's good.