Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell [Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro] (1968)

Posted on by Mark Cole

Wow.

For those of you needing a longer review:

Wow.

This is not your average Japanese SF movie of the 60s.  Goke is all in its own insane, psychedelic class.

Against a horrible orange sky, a flying saucer forces a jetliner down into the mountains.  If that wasn’t bad enough, there is a terrorist on board.  Oh, and the flying saucer has landed not too far away, and the creature inside has taken over one of the survivors so it can kill the rest of them off one by one.

The use of color is extraordinary – and it is hard to unsee the moment when the victim’s head splits open so the creature can crawl inside.

And, sorry, kiddies, it all comes to a very downbeat ending, with a horde of invading saucers which  Tim Burton stole for Mars Attacks

Or, to summarize:

Wow.

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Mark Cole hates writing bios. Despite many efforts he has never written one he likes, perhaps because there are many other things he'd rather be writing. He writes from Warren, Pennsylvania, where he has managed to avoid writing about himself for both newspaper and magazine articles. His musings on Science Fiction have appeared in Clarkesworld and at IROSF.com, while his most recent story, "Finale" appeared in Daily Science Fiction.