'Let's watch this film and see if we can learn anything'
Welcome back to my Dark Corner of this Sick World
‘Man, am I glad to see you people’
Reportedly, over half the budget of The Slime People was spent on the creatures’ costumes.
Money well spent,
But that’s really the only good news.
‘Will someone please tell me what happened?’
Tom Gregory flies into LA through a strange bank of fog to find it deserted.
'Hey you guys, wake up.'
Only 3 people seem to remain.
'I’m professor Galbraith, these are my daughters, Lisa and Bonnie’
Something, some city-emptying catastrophe must have occurred while Tom was in the air.
‘Well 1st the slime people came and the whole army came to fight them and they lost...
'Then the slime men built a big wall but before it hardened, LA got evacuated and nobody is left but the slime men’
I’m sorry; there was a brief war, LA was evacuated, and you didn’t hear about it?
‘I don’t think so’
Where were you flying in from, Narnia?!
‘Well that’s about the way it happened’
Okay benefit of the doubt;
maybe the attack of subterranean monsters and complete evacuation of a major city was hushed up,
maybe it wasn’t on the news.
'The reports of large monstrous creatures roaming about the fog of our city and committing mass murder has been confirmed’
Nope there it is.
‘Casulaties have been tremendous in these 2 days of fighting’
and there’s been at least 2 days of fighting, so;
no I really don’t see any way you could have failed to hear about this
or any way you could have registered a flight plan without someone saying...
‘you might want to steer clear of LA’
‘Do you care’?
To get me, the audience, back on side, the rest of this film had better be phenomenally good.
‘Let’s all keep our fingers crossed huh’
Because the professor has 2 daughters there are of course also 2 men and,
in classic B movie fashion they fall in love like lightning.
‘Did you have a boyfriend before all this happened?’
and he’s in.
Elsewhere...
‘You know, for someone strong enough to take all this, you’re quite gal’
and unbelievably, he’s also in.
And the girl’s father, walking in on them, has a perfectly normal paternal reaction.
‘Penetrating this wall could prove quite an experiment’
LA has been surrounded by a dome of hardened fog.
‘Well the fog seems to have turned to stone all around the city’
Sounds to me like you could tunnel under but why nit pick?
‘We can break their wall with sodium chloride’
To get through the wall they need salt and a car, and marine Cal decides to find the latter.
'I need to find a car and find it fast'
‘I’ll go with you’
'No you stay here'
Good call, there's monsters out there.
'Let me come. I can help you.'
‘OK’
Boy, you really stuck to your guns there, but maybe it’ll be alright.
Well that’s the end of her.
‘I think they’re taken her’
That sounds like wishful thinking as the slime people have killed every person they’ve met,
but it turns out Tom knows everything.
‘Cave down there. This is probably where they first came up from underground’
Yeah, this particular cave – this looks right.
‘What is it?’
'The machine that makes the wall. It must be’
Why must it be?!
‘I’ve never seen anything like it before’
And yet you immediately identify it as a solid fog wall building machine?
‘Maybe I shouldn’t have done that’
Although of course he is a scientist.
‘I’m a newscaster, sports mostly’
Did I say scientist? I meant sports journalist.
‘I’ll give it a whirl anyway’
You’re probably wondering how they tracked down the kidnapped girl -
she could be anywhere in LA
‘Look at this – blonde hair’
That’s it! They set off in a completely random direction, happen upon a lock of hair
and from that, track her down.
‘I thought you’d never find me’
You know what? I watch a lot of improbable films and I always try to play along,
‘It’s all a lot of nonsense’
But I just don’t believe a word this films says!
‘I don’t even want to think about Slime People’
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'You better get out of here, right now, you hear.'