GL84 Forced to crash-land on a deserted island, a flight-crew finds their chances for survival hindered by their constant squabbles for control as well as the ravenous blob-like alien species on the island with them and must find a way of stopping them and get off alive.This here was quite the enjoyable if overall flawed horror effort. This generates quite a lot of great points here with the strong opening that really sets this one off on a wild note by initiating plenty of seemingly disparate moments into a seeming whole. Instigating a plot-thread about a damaged plane, the strange gas- cloud following them and the potential UFO sighting all within the first part of the film sets this one off on a seemingly wild bent even before bringing along the hijacker that causes them to crash the plane, and when that gets them not only stranded on the island but also forced to confront the potential of something else stuck there with them it's a rather strong and impressive set of circumstances that bring this along. Followed by the crash and the first instances of the realization of the island being inhabited by something with the discovery of the alien ship there that infects the one passenger, it creates quite an appealing and generally wild atmosphere that carries on to the other scenes throughout here of the passengers being abducted and taken to the spaceship on the island where they also get infected with the virus-like being that turns them into the deadly creatures. That gets carried on nicely here with the aliens coming after them repeatedly in the final moments of this one and generating quite a few tense scenes including where he attacks them on the plane, a chase through the mountains on the side of the crash-site and the thrilling final battle around the plane where they finally manage to overcome the creature, these here work nicely and give this one a lot to really like overall. There's still a lot of flaws here, mostly taking place with the fact that there's just not a lot of action here with this one focusing more on the utterly ridiculous notion of focusing on the crew squabbling and being completely oblivious to anything about what's happening around them as they try to wrestle with each other over their petty issues. It's the kind of notion that's really hard to believe would realistically happen in a scenario as this with a vast majority of the film taken up with everyone arguing over each other and not really generating any kind of effort to bring themselves into a nominal plot line and really makes the film hard to root for what's going on by focusing on this irritating, unbelievable and unnatural scenario. Likewise, the purpose of their visitation and why they're here is never made clear as the point of infected hosts when their mission is to destroy them eventually makes little sense and isn't really explored until quite late in the film. The low-key special effects might turn some off, but on the whole there's not a whole lot else really wrong here.Rated PG: Violence and Language.

whpratt1 Enjoyed this film which concerned an airplane which is flying with a group of people and find themselves being controlled by the power of outer space beings that seem to control their plane and their lives. There are hints about the A Bomb dropped on Japan and also the fact that war creates suffering and horror, and also Viet Nam. This plane crashes into a desert and the outer space people invade those people on the plane and some of these people experience a creature that has a big glob that seems to enter his head and he turns into a vampire that seeks the blood of everybody living on earth. This film goes into great detail about war that has occurred on earth and it brings outer space people who want to establish a more stable way to bring peace and less strive on earth, however, blood seems to be their only essential item they need to obtain daily.

marbleann The title did it for me. I had to watch it. If you can get past the real cheesy effect of a model plane posing as a real plane. Making a left to go to Okinawa when the plane is Hijacked be prepared to be surprise My first hint this was going in another direction then I thought is when the lone American turns out to be a widow of a GI who was just killed in Vietnam and she was on her way to claim his body. AlL I will reveal is there is a plane crash. And the plane coincidently was filled with passengers that made the passengers in Con Air look like ballerinas. And a cowardly politician that makes no qualms in about being a coward and will go to any means to survive. A great performance that rivaled Eddie Arnold's cowardly Captian in Attack. I am not sure in the end who was worse the blood suckers in the title or him. The ending is great.

OllieMugwump This 1968 apocalyptic Japanese sci-fi/horror classic (the opening shot of the aeroplane against a blood-red sky ripped-off by Tarantino) seems like a hybrid of the over-hyped TV hit "Lost", Romero's classic "Night of the Living Dead" and Jenkins/LaHaye's "Left Behind" (accept no Christian deity 'raptures' any Bible-thumping drones here).As the British Ambassador to Japan is assassinated, the Vietnam war and other conflict rages; the 'End Times' appear to be upon us. Flight JA 307 receives warning a bomb may be aboard. A search finds no bomb, but a rifle - belonging to the Assassin (Hideo Ko) who attempts a hi-jacking but a UFO encounter sends the plane crashing into an uninhabited mountainous area.The crash survivors; co-pilot Mr. Sugisaka (Teruo Yoshida) and stewardess Miss Asakura (Tomomi Sato), - these two being the only real decent examples of humanity - with brooding 'space-biologist' Dr. Sagai (Masaya Takahashi), oily politician Mr. Mano (Eizo Kitamura), corrupt arms-dealer Mr. Tokyasu (Nobu Kaneko), his down-trodden young wife Noriko (Yuko Kusunoki), sadistic shrink Dr. Momotake (Kazuo Kato), whiny Vietnam war-widow Mrs. Neal (Kathy Horan), a wonderful anti-American caricature and a dissolute youth (Norihiko Yamamoto) who turns out to be the real bomber.As it transpires the Assassin has also survived and takes Miss Asakura hostage only to once again encounter the Flying-Saucer which brought them down. Lured inside; the Assassin is implanted with a silver, slimy parasite/bio-control device which basically turns him into a vampire! Our survivors, now besieged in the plane-wreck, must co-operate but human selfishness (as usual) gets in the way, and they are picked-off one by one by the un-seen Gokemidoro; superior alien beings who've concluded humankind a hateful pest to be eliminated.With excellent, dateless FX and beautifully pessimistic conclusion "Goke Bodysnatcher From Hell/Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro" is a gem which belongs in every 'Weird Cinema' Fan's collection.