A handful of people find themselves being terrorized by slimy subterranean humanoid monsters in a misty and empty Los Angeles. This picture starts out promisingly enough with a solid feeling of eerie desolation, but soon falls apart in the most entertainingly inept way possible thanks to star Robert Hutton's slack direction (however, to be fair, Hutton acquits himself well enough as stalwart reporter hero Tom Gregory), leaden pacing, plenty of laughably terrible acting, silly moments of cornball romance, clumsily staged attack scenes, gut-busting tin-eared dialogue ("Gee whiz, after sitting here talking to you, I don't even think about the slime people!"), and wild overuse of a fog machine. Veteran character actor Les Tremayne easily steals the show with his hilarious portrayal of a crazy writer with a pet goat (!). The titular creatures look pretty gnarly. Plus there's some mighty tasty eye candy courtesy of the extremely fetching Susan Hart and the super cute Judeee Morton. Moreover, this movie has a certain sweet clunky charm to it that's impossible to dislike or resist. A real schlocky hoot.
Review of The Slime People
The Slime People
(1963)
Hugely enjoyable Grade Z creature feature dreck
28 October 2013
Warning: Spoilers