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Information
- A.k.a.
- Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell
- Year
- 1968
- Runtime
- 84 min.
- Director
- Hajime Sato
- Genres
- Sci-Fi, Horror
- Rating *
- 6.2
- Votes *
- 830
- Checks
- 377
- Favs
- 20
- Dislikes
- 7
- Favs/checks
- 5.3% (1:19)
- Favs/dislikes
- 3:1
Top comments
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DJPowWow
aka: "Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell"
Very weird, slightly twisted, and entertaining as hell. A great addition to Criterion's "Eclipse Series". 11 years 9 months ago -
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Siskoid
1968 Japan's Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell, is a wild suspense-horror-science fiction hybrid that presages, I think, a lot of the doom-and-gloom downer sci-fi of the '70s. After being briefly hijacked, something in an eerie red sky makes a plane crash down in a quarry (calling it like I see it). What follows is a pressure cooker survival story in which the survivors aren't on the same page as to what to do, especially once they are stalked by a vampiric alien blob that's taken over the hijacker's body (one of the film's weaknesses, since it just trades a villain for the same villain). The film has a strong humanistic streak, but its bleak message is that the human race isn't humanistic enough, and because of that, all will be lost. The small sample of humanity in the plane includes some pretty nasty characters, in fact, and the shadow of Vietnam overtly darkens the picture. At its best when dealing with the claustrophobic struggle of the human characters, Goké manages some nice sci-fi/horror thrills along the way. The ending feels a bit long, but is well worth it as the film's final word on our species' failings. 4 years 10 months ago
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This movie ranks #143 in The Criterion Collection's Eclipse Series
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This movie ranks #191 in 366 Weird Movies
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