Space Amoeba

Space Amoeba (1970) — watch online on iFILM — a Japanese tokusatsu sci-fi horror from director Ishiro Honda, who made the original Godzilla in 1954. A space probe returns from deep in the solar system and crashes onto a remote Pacific atoll. A survey team arrives to develop the island into a resort and finds the local wildlife behaving wrong.

The alien organisms that came back on the probe have a method: they latch onto indigenous creatures — a cuttlefish, a crab, a snapping turtle — and inflate them into colossal monsters, each one more difficult to deal with than the last. Honda plays it completely straight, the same earnest conviction that made Godzilla terrifying rather than campy the first time around. Stream Space Amoeba online on iFILM.