may contain spoilersi feel sorry for kid 34 year ago who be entice by green tint newspaper ad and entrance by a cool famous monster cover while they must have be truly disillusion when they actually saw the movie . one member of robert horton expedition accidentally pick up a gobbet of alien glop on his uniform and carry it back to the space station . horton and richard jaeckel in one of his many thankless role argue over who fit to lead the expedition and when theyre not fight over luciana paluzzi . much of this action take place at a mod style party that effectively date the film for all time . the slime and meanwhile and kill several people and mutate into a what look like a one eyed dill pickle with tentacle . the officer and crew find out the hard way that new creature instantly emerge from the spilled blood of the original and that sunlight heals the monster wound . they shoot at the slime creatures anyway with ray gun and when their gun run out of ray and throw them at the monster . some of the blue screen effect be as terrible a the script . the idea of a deadly creature be pick up by space traveler bring back faint echo of the superior it . the terror from beyond space . fan of film with alien trash spaceship have to wait eleven year for another good one .