The Blob

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The Blob

Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch, Kevin Dillon, Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark, Joe Seneca, Paul McCrane, Beau Billingslea, Art LaFleur, Erika Eleniak

A scientific experiment gone bad creates a jello-like mold that grows as it devours human flesh.

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  • kiriyamakazou
    March 21, 2009
    kiriyamakazou
    The original is one of my all time favourite films. I love it so much. From the bizarre opening theme tune to Steven McQueen a) being called Steven and b) trying to play a teenager. It was pure genius. This remake is a surprisingly fantastic and brutal film. Sure it leaves behind...( read more) the theme tune :'( but this is the 80's and that means Body-Shock horror. I'm surprised this isn't mentioned along with The Thing or The Fly, both excellent and twisted remakes. Here we see The Blob melting people away and it isn't nice. They scream, they beg and they melt and they bleed. The film doesn't care whom it kills or in what order. Having seen so many films, I was surprised, it clearly presents The Blob as a creature that will kill anyone. I loved the effects and the slight twists on the original, giving The Blob a slightly different origin. They'll make a fine double feature that I'll be happy to sit through. It creeps and leaps...
  • Showrogan
    November 27, 2008
    Showrogan
    On the fence here...I haven't seen the original so I can only judge this remake, but this movie in itself, as I have read, has come under heavy negative critisism due to the movie's changes from the original, most notably being the Blob's new origin as a government experiment gon...( read more)e horribly wrong, and not just a monster from outer space. The film was also criticized for all the sub-plots introduced into it, such as the government's involvement and other notable examples. It was also argued that the new Blob resembled little to the original monster...hmmm...
    But all negative comments aside, the movie has received many good reviews, due to its gore, action sequences, plot and special effects...
  • LitelBluHli
    November 2, 2008
    LitelBluHli
    I remember this came on tv when I was about 9 or 10...it was a Sunday afternoon...nothing to do. My sister and I actually watched the whole thing! lol...
  • SilentWarProductions2009
    August 24, 2008
    SilentWarProductions2009
    Directed by: Chuck Russell.
    Starring: Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn.

    <<" It will come consuming sinner and saint alike...and who will be sparred? None but the righteous brothers and sisters...None but the righteous" >>...( read more)

    The story follows a small town hit by a meteorite that is discovered to contain a jello-like substance that grip itself onto someone and from there continues to grow and feed.

    I'm shocked at how averagely rated this film is, completely understandable that the film doesn't reach high quality levels in the way of character and plot, but you do know that that is never the point...right?

    What really had me going within the first 10 minutes of the film was the fact that the film had going for it what exactly I was wanting. We all need a moment where we can sit back with a pile of food and enjoy and equally silly and funny B-grade comedy/horror and The Blob achieves that balance brilliantly.

    Written and Directed by the man behind the 2nd Nightmare on Elm Street sequel (the only good sequel) and co-written by legend Frank Darabont, they both masterfully work the right tone into this remake, making it vividly comical, quite tense and exciting in its moments and of course just one hell of a fun time thanks to some impressive effects work (if you ignore the obvious blue screen work) and brilliantly creative death ideas...at the end of the day, the acceptable plot and mediocre characters are not the point, as you never care for any of them, you just want them to die in the greatest ways, and Russell and Darabont know this and keep that in mind all the same, even when the film trails off a little in the final act.

    I can't exactly review the remainder of the film such as performances, because the films purpose is never for that and being a 80's B-Grade film, I never expected it. Instead I expected The Blob to be a brilliantly comical B-Grade Comedy/Horror and I got that for one hell of a 90 minute running time.
  • 366weirdmovies
    July 31, 2008
    366weirdmovies
    Small town teens battle the titular goo. With action, good special effects and the minimal characterization we expect from monster movies, it?s at least as entertaining as the overrated original.
  • moviemaniacgirl
    October 29, 2009
    moviemaniacgirl
    Besides the just above average acting this is no more a gore fest than Edward Scissorhands. It's a comic movie, without trying to be. Shawnee Smith did a good job, but the movie itself was a discredit to the original "Blob". Each death is less than scary and makes you unnerved on...( read more)ly because it passes as 'horror' in some peoples eyes.

    Maybe a watch. It has some good moments, but nothing scary. The gore had once been called the goriest movie of all time. Now I'm going to say, No. Saw is much gorey, obviously. This is less gorey than Sweeney Todd but more gorey than BeetleJuice. It might be creepy, if there was any way in hell it could be real. I'd say watch only if your bored and can't find the original.
  • ArcAngelys
    October 28, 2009
    ArcAngelys
    The name and date has changed but the upgrade is kewl. Oh the stuff they used in the first movie? Was it that stuff that kids love to have, fart putty? LOL
  • dukeakasmudge
    October 28, 2009
    dukeakasmudge
    A good glob of a movie
  • CHILIcheeseDONUTSwithTUNAonTOP
    October 20, 2009
    CHILIcheeseDONUTSwithTUNAonTOP
    A different approach than the original in that there is no unbelievers. Also, if the original was a subtle commentary on the expansion of military weaponry, this one was an overt one as the ?blob? here was the direct result of chemical weapons development. Also, the commentary on...( read more) the state of the healthcare industry is still applicable today ? just compare the result of taking the vagrant to see the doctor in the original with the results here. This was definitely a product of the 80's as the cliché of the teens having sex are killed. A lot of people who I thought were going to be major characters were killed, which I thought was cool. Pretty good, but not as good as the original. Let's just hope Rob Zombie doesn't screw up the latest remake.
  • spacecasefukface
    October 19, 2009
    spacecasefukface
    one of the better 80s remake of a 50s films(the best being The Thing)
    great special effects ... loads of gore and kevin dillion
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