Space Amoeba

1970 84 min ★ 6.4 Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror

When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide to take over their new world one creature at a time. Soon, the parasitic life forms latch onto three indigenous critters -- a squid, a crab and a snapping turtle -- and transform them into colossal mutant monsters.

Cast

Akira Kubo

Taro Kudo

Atsuko Takahashi

Ayako Hoshino

Yukiko Kobayashi

Saki, native girl

Kenji Sahara

Makoto Obata

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Dr. Kyoichi Mida

Tetsu Nakamura

Chieftain Ombo

Yū Fujiki

Asia Development Promotion Division Manager

Noritake Saito

Rico

Yûko Sugihara

Stewardess

Sachio Sakai

The Editor

Details

Director

Ishirō Honda

Screenplay

Ei Ogawa

Tagline

"An alien aiming for the Earth transforms monsters to attack!"

Status

Released

Original Language

JA

Production

TOHO, Toho Eizo Bijutsu, Tokyo Laboratory

Reviews

C

CinemaSerf

June 3, 2023

★ 5/10

This is certainly not one of Ishiro Honda's better efforts; but it does kind of work. Some would-be alien invaders hitch a ride on a probe returning to the Earth that lands on a Pacific atoll. They set about creating supersized monsters bent on humanity's destruction so they can take over the world. Nothing new so far, nor indeed anywhere really, as a team of human hoteliers and local islanders tr...