Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Uriah43 This film begins with a Japanese passenger airplane on a routine flight over the Pacific Ocean when the pilot suddenly gets instructions to return to Japan because a suicide bomber might be on board. Upon attempting to change course, however, the airliner nearly collides with an alien spaceship which forces the airplane to crash land on what appears to be an isolated island. Unfortunately, the alien spaceship also lands on this same small island and inside it is a malevolent blob-like creature who has no high regard for the human species. Not long afterward it subsequently infests one of the passengers thereby turning him into a type of vampire which then begins to feast on those in the airliner. However, rather than dealing with the fact that someone is trying to kill them one-by-one, the passengers end up pursuing their own individual agendas and start fighting among themselves. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that was a grade-B sci-fi film from start-to-finish which included a rather obvious anti-war message thrown in for good measure. Although some of the special effects were rather good, the acting clearly needed improvement as a more subtle tone would have greatly enhanced an otherwise interesting plot. In short, although it certainly could have been much better, this still wasn't necessarily a bad film by any means and because of that I have rated it accordingly. Average.

JLRVancouver This strange, colourful Japanese sci-fi/horror film has something for everyone: terrorists, assassins, plane crashes, vampires, flying saucers, alien blobs, and a great downbeat ending. The movie would be best watched in the middle of the night when the general silliness (maybe) becomes creepy and unsettling. Film buffs (and who else would be watching this) will likely know that this was one of Tarantino's obscure favourites, necessitating a brief homage in one of his films (look it up or try to guess). Acting, dialogue and special effects are what you'd expect in a low budget '60s shocker but there is an imagination and an ooziness that you would not find in a contemporary genre film with equivalent budget made in the 'West'.

SnoopyStyle The flight of JA307 is relayed a bomb threat from the control tower. The pilot searches the bags and finds a gun. One of the passengers hijacks the plane. Meanwhile birds keep crashing into the plane and an UFO nearly hits them. It causes the plane to crash land on a deserted island. The UFO has also landed there taking over some of the people. Apparently, they intend on taking over the world after humans wear themselves out killing each other.This is B-movie through and through. It's a Japanese sci-fi horror B-movie. The effects are cute and campy. The acting is generally very broad and bad. The campiness is good for a few laughs until it gets a little boring. This is for B-movie horror fans only. Even then, this is mostly for the cheese factor. It's not really actually scary. Even the way the possessed suck out the other people is hilariously silly looking. The blob alien enters the possessed through a gash in their foreheads. It's kind of funny looking. It's one of those movies that people make fun of by dubbing in funny dialog. Maybe somebody will make a hilarious dubbed version and I can rate that higher.

Bloodwank Whatever you make of Quentin Tarantino as a film-maker (and I can take or leave him), its hard to imagine a livelier nor more influential champion of the weird and woolly corners of cult cinema. I don't recall the moment in Kill Bill cribbed from Goke: Bodysnatcher from Hell (a scene of plane in blood red sky), like many other details it was lost for me, just another colorful bauble in that magpie's nest of a film, but with renewed interest Goke can now be seen as it should, in pristine widescreen subtitled form. And so a new generation of weird cinema enthusiasts can experience a film that, while somewhat flawed offers up enough arresting moments to be an overall solid watch. It begins impressively on a plane mid sky, all around turns blood red and birds fly to bloody smears on windows, then comes a UFO fly pass and system failure leading to a crash. An assassin on board and possible bomb threat have people already very much on edge, but things get a whole lot worse when an extraterrestrial menace comes into play, and the surviving passengers and crew will have to keep their baser instincts at bay if they want any hope of survival. This of course proves easier said than done, the confined space and lack of provisions drawing out every tension, pulling nerves taut till they fray away and snap, the course of things predictable but individual events fortunately less so. The various character decisions that drive the film don't always ring true but they do provide a dramatic pulse, and the cast throw themselves into their roles with suitable aplomb. Hideo Ko wields cold menace as the potential assassin, an understated determined malevolence making him a solid villain. Yuko Kusunoki is entertainingly loathsome as a more outre slimeball, Eizo Kitamura appropriately desperate and irritable as a politician. Kazuo Kato makes for a decent creepy oddball psychiatrist, the sort of person you wouldn't want treating you under any circumstances. There's a dependable good guy in Teruo Yoshida to balance out the overstrained or openly villainous though, and Tomomi Sato as a stewardess backing him up. In fact the only weak link is American Kathy Horan, whose performance is kinda shrill and irritating, though she also has the disadvantage of the film's worst writing. See there's a message here, an obvious one that the film puts across with all the subtlety of a jabbering town crier pounding nine inch nails into your skull with a ball-peen hammer. It's an overbearing approach that detracts from the experience in general, though having reflected on the film for a few days the good stuff does stand out more than the bad. Cool cheapo effects including a model plane, ominous colored lighting and a silvery alien slime creature, cool opening and absolute dynamite finale with enough to sustain between, overall memorably unusual atmosphere, its fun stuff that grew on me all the more thinking on it after. It may not be a truly bonkers classic, but for seekers after the strange this is definitely a worthwhile trip. 7/10