As they do every October, TCM is going heavy on the monster movies. So far my gem o' the collection has been Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell, a gleefully insane bit o' sci-fi from late 60s Japan. Here's a review. Here's another. My take is somewhere in the middle. I didn't find it as cheesy as the Rumor Machine reviewer. But I think the TCM article gets a little full of itself and starts art-housing the movie to death. The look of the movie will be familiar to anyone who's seen Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster, Tokyo Drifter, or the Green Slime. Apparently Tarantino's a big fan of this movie and the airplane scene in Kill Bill is an homage. But I don't hold that against Goke. There's too much plot but the movie looks great, the overacting is delicious, the alien-invasion effect is truly creepy, and one of the characters wears a superbad white suit, looking like he wandered in from Tokyo Drifter in fact. Oh yeah, and the ending is so nihilist it makes Planet of the Apes look like It's A Wonderful Life.

On TCM, Robert Osborne ended his intro segment saying:
"Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell. Starring Judi Dench..." (dramatic pause) "...just kidding."