A spaceship buzzes an airplane causing it to crash on a barren rocky landscape. The survivors are offed by a space vampire. The title promises a wacked-out ride, but this Japanese science fiction horror movie from 1968 is mostly a boring rehash of misanthropic clichés about the savagery of humankind in extremis and the typical throat-sucking monster attacks. Some late 1960s era turmoil is horned into the proceedings including assassination, terrorism, Vietnam, and of course the bomb, imbuing the movie with an appropriately apocalyptic backdrop. Hajime Sato (TERROR BENEATH THE SEA) directs; the movie stars Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Sato, Eizo Kitamuro, and Hideo Ko.
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