108 - THE SLIME PEOPLE with short: COMMANDO CODY PT 6

Genre:  Ultra-low budget Horror (1962, B&W)

Short:  This experiment begins with another installment of the Commando Cody serial, with better than usual riffing in this segment.

Synopsis:  And, in yet another ultra-bad horror movie, a group of strange-looking, hunched-backed creatures called the Slime People have somehow encased Los Angeles in a fog that hardened into a dome and are now changing the climate inside to their liking. An old scientist and his two daughters are trapped inside the dome with an airplane pilot and another young guy they meet at a movie studio.  They are desperately trying to find a way out while avoiding the spear carrying Slime People.  They first run into the Goat-Man, an old man who apparently thinks carrying a goat around will somehow keep the Slime People away (but he’s soon dead Slime meat).  The group runs out of gas and are stuck inside a butcher shop while the Slime People wander around outside.  The youngest guy and the youngest daughter decide to go outside, where the daughter is taken hostage by the Slime People.  So the two young men go out and rescue her and discover a machine of some sort that is powering the wall.  But the old scientist says that instead of destroying the machine, it’s better to just rub salt water on the wall until they get through (whatever, old man).  Finally, in the end though, the old man destroys the wall-producing machine with a rather lame girly throw of a spear.

Don’s Review:  Bad movie... very bad movie...  The plot of this movie is extremely stupid as these Slime People take over L.A. and produce a technologically advanced dome over the city, yet they only use spears as weapons.  Also bullets can’t hurt the Slime People, yet a feeble armed throw of a spear takes them out, no problem.  And the fog produced by the Slime People is so thick, that in most of the action scenes of the movie, it’s too dark and foggy to see anything that’s going on!  But this is a decent Season One episode, with fairly good riffs and even a few good host segments in this episode (although the invention exchange is rather lame).

Don’s Rating:    [ S:   F: ]

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