Lack of good storyline.

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Look, the whole point of this flawed-but-interesting film is that the invading aliens (Gokemidoro) are a metaphor for the United States. See, the Japanese were a warlike people whose behavior caused a more powerful race of beings to invade them. AND to suck the life out of their militaristic culture. That's why "space vampires." One of the few alien invasion flicks where the bad guys are ACTUALLY the good guys. "Lord of the Flies" meets "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Worth a look if you can check it out from the library for free.

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 strange, colourful Japanese sci-fi/horror film has something for everyone: terrorists, assassins, plane crashes, vampires, flying saucers, alien blobs, and a great downbeat ending. The movie would be best watched in the middle of the night when the general silliness (maybe) becomes creepy and unsettling. Film buffs (and who else would be watching this) will likely know that this was one of Tarantino's obscure favourites, necessitating a brief homage in one of his films (look it up or try to guess). Acting, dialogue and special effects are what you'd expect in a low budget '60s shocker but there is an imagination and an ooziness that you would not find in a contemporary genre film with equivalent budget made in the 'West'.

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.