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Kabbage - 2016-02-16

Holy shit


Cena_mark - 2016-02-16

I've never seen this. I'm impressed.


Old_Zircon - 2016-02-16

Same here, it looks much better than I always assumed.


Nominal - 2016-02-16

Why would you assume less from Cronenberg?


Binro the Heretic - 2016-02-16

This wasn't a Cronenberg. This is from the same guy that did "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors".


infinite zest - 2016-02-16

My dad took me to see this when I was like 6 years old because he was a fan of the original Drive-Thru era Blob. In fact he might have thought that it was just a re-screening of the original, can't really remember. He just told me not to tell his mom, but it was weird because I was too young to understand that this stuff was supposed to be gross and gory, so I didn't really care. But I think there was a scene where Blob was like a fireball or something which gave me nightmares, althought that might've been a different movie.


John Holmes Motherfucker - 2016-02-16

This is of my favorites from that era. It's not a Cronenberg. Its not dark, deep, or complex like that. It's a conventional horror movie that uses its conventions intelligently, playing against them enough so some of the deaths surprise on the first viewing, and remain effective on subsequent viewing. It also plays nicely against your expectations if you've seen the original.

It shows up on hulu from time to time.


Nominal - 2016-02-17

Somebody tell me why the fuck I thought this was The Fly?


Old_Zircon - 2016-02-17

It has that 86-88 major studio gore movie look.


yogarfield - 2016-02-17

@nominal because it's all melty.


Rodents of Unusual Size - 2016-02-16

This actually had decent effects, but the acting in the original is still surprisingly good. A giant metaphor for communism.

A really good idea for a sequel would be to have it take place in the universe of the original where they ship the Blob to the Arctic at the end and have the Blob melt because of global warming, go into the ocean, and seek out cities around the globe to pop up and just absorb millions of people. Maybe the Blob can separate into chunks that take on different cities.


Binro the Heretic - 2016-02-16

There was a really cheesy sequel where a guy working on the Alaskan Pipeline brought home a chunk of the original blob and accidentally let it thaw. It then proceeded to eat most of the major stars of 1970s sitcoms. In fact, I think it was directed by Larry "JR Ewing" Hagman. I remember it eating Cindy Williams and Dick Van Patten.

I'm sure it was intended as a tongue-in-cheek horror comedy and I recall it being a lot of fun.


memedumpster - 2016-02-16

Son of Blob!

There's a scene where the Blob is on TV in the background.


Old_Zircon - 2016-02-16

The original was also conceived as satire, and is arguably one of the first modern horror comedies.


somedongus - 2016-02-16

In retrospect, this was a super fucked up movie for 8 year old me to have watched.


The Mothership - 2016-02-16

That's about how old I was when I saw it too, and yes, it scared me.


poorwill - 2016-02-16

I always respected that they killed off a little kid - and in such a gruesome way.


Binro the Heretic - 2016-02-16

And I was shocked when the generic "hero" guy became the second victim.


Scrimmjob - 2016-02-16

This movie kicks ass, thanks to this and "The Raft" from creepshow 2 I developed an unnatural fear of slimy blobs as a kid.


poorwill - 2016-02-16

The Raft is really great.


chumbucket - 2016-02-16

Stars for King's The Raft and this with their caustic digestive filmy crap killers.


Old_Zircon - 2016-02-16

The Raft is fantastic, and the original short story is one of my favorite things Kind wrote, too.


somedongus - 2016-02-16

Also somewhat related is Kings short story 'Grey Matter', where an alcoholic drinks a bad beer and begins to mutate into something that craves warm beer and dead cats.


Old_Zircon - 2016-02-16

Yes, that one is also excellent. King's short stories from that period, the ones that ended up in Night Shift and Skeleton Crew, were mostly pretty good, I always liked them much better than any of his novels.


Old_Zircon - 2016-02-16

The Body is fantastic, too, even I lean toward believing the plagiarism accusation (it really doesn't feel like anything else he had published up to that point, including the other stuff in Different Seasons).


NewHeavenSockman - 2016-02-16

the deaths are great, but honestly after the theater scene the remake shifts from a pretty clever subversion of monster films to "man is the true monster, also greenscreen" snorefest.


lotsmoreorcs - 2016-02-17

oh shut the fuck up


Nominal - 2016-08-13

That is a wrong opinion.


Robin Kestrel - 2016-02-16

Love this movie.


lotsmoreorcs - 2016-02-17

child death tag is long overdue, just sayin


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