Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell is a 1968 film from Japan, directed by Hajime Satō, running 84 minutes. reelscum files it under kaiju & tokusatsu.
- Year
- 1968 · 1960s films
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Director
- Hajime Satō
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (51/100)
- Also known as
- Body Snatcher from Hell · Goke, Bodysnatcher from Hell
Defined in the glossary: Kaiju & tokusatsu
Bleeding skies, a forehead-splitting alien, and an ending with no comfort in it whatsoever.
A passenger jet full of thoroughly unpleasant people goes down in a wasteland under a blood-red sky, and the survivors soon discover they are not alone. A silver alien slime called Gokemidoro slips into a body through a gash in the forehead and starts turning people into blood-drinking husks, and the film uses the setup to be as bleak about the human race as a genre film can manage. Shochiku shot it in 1968 as their strangest stab at horror, and Tarantino lifted the bleeding-sky shot wholesale for the opening of Kill Bill. It is Cold War despair dressed as a monster movie, and the final image is one of the most pitiless in Japanese genre cinema.
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