The Blob
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Movie Reviews of The Blob
Movie Review: 4.5 Stars, a gory good time!
Summary: 5 Stars
Who says all remakes are terrible? This 1988 reworking of the classic "The Blob" is super fun, gory, fast paced, and still holds up twenty years later. Even as a science fiction/horror movie on it's own, it easily ranks as some of the best the 80's has to offer.
What appears to be a meterorite crashes down to earth landing in the outlying woods of a small town, bringing with it a grotesque blob creature with an appetite for humans! The havoc that ensues brings about the unlikely pairing of the high school outcast and preppy cheerleader as they struggle to escape the merciless, oozing fiend. Together they discover that the government is the true culprit behind the creature's scandalous origins, and attempt to reveal the truth to the town.
The death scenes in The Blob are some of the most horrific looking ever. There is no task too dirty for the blob, it knows no limits! It may strike by entering any orifice of your body and imploding you, it may strike from above suffocating you as your body dissolves into a mis-shapen heap of goo, any way you slice it this thing is serious business. There isn't much left to the imagination in this flick in regards to the special effects, and surprisingly for 1988, not much of it comes across as dated at all.
When all is said and done, The Blob is just a great time. The gore effects are plentiful and superb looking, the humor works, acting is convincing and well done, you couldn't ask for much more. If you're looking for creepiness or genuine scares, this may not be your cup of tea as this is strictly one for fans of monsters and lots of the red stuff. Great selection for a Friday night with your buds, this is not one to pass up.
Movie Review: Best Horror Movie Ever Made!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Blob is 1980's horror at its VERY BEST!!!None of that CGI stuff --- were talking PURE animatronics and puppetry, in full effect!
The outcome is a Blob, that to me at least, looks very real --- couple that with the fact that all of the attack scenes and dead bodies were done up with real makeup (once again, no CGIing) and we've got VERY realistic, bloody, scenes
I must say that the attacks in this movie are INNOVATIVE!!! Most movies today would avoid showing you what actually takes place (take The Ring, for example, which cuts away whenever the GOOD stuff happens) --- The Blob, on the other hand, leaves NOTHING at one's imagination.... I recall a scene where The Blob pulls an entire man into a sink drain or when it depresses the entire face of one woman --- seriously, this is some serious attack stuff
Is the plot good? Actually, yes! I loved the plot! I don't wanna give too much away, but I think it very much symbolizes that 1980's feel of insecurity over one's own government --- the source of more problems than solutions (perhaps the filmmaker was a Reagan Republican?)
and of course, ya gotta love the sultry, Shawnee Smitth!
The Blob is significant because, shortly after, most horror movies abandoned puppeteering and makeup, in favor of CGI and graphics --- making The Blob, truly, the pinnacle of what yesterday's technology could offer ---- and in this filmmaker's opinion, I'm inclined to say that yesterday's technology was a lot more fun (so far)
This movie should be required within every DVD collection, especially horror/scifi ones!
Thank you for reading my review and happy buying!
Movie Review: The Blob gets an 80's upgrade!
Summary: 5 Stars
An unlikely pair of teens have to work together to save their small town when it is invaded by a deadly, shapeless, oozing visitor from space and a government group with cold-blooded intentions. This remake of the Steve McQueen sci-fi classic from 30 years earlier amps things up with great oldschool special effects and gore, and a story that is familiar but still keeps the surprises coming with its relentless killing spree and conspiratorial twists. That last one could have set up a great "Son of the Blob" remake! A shame it never happened.
Directed by Chuck Russell, who co-wrote this Blob remake with Frank Darabont, 1988's "The Blob" is one of the many great horror films to come out of the 80's for fans of horror/sci-fi films beyond just the popular slasher genre. The cast, headed up by Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith, is mostly great. Shawnee's acting seems rather bland at times, but she never looked better. Also worth mentioning, the reimagined Blob is more lively than ever before, and far more frightening! If you love 80's sci-fi horror like the Return of the Living Dead films, Night of the Comet, The Thing, Critters, Chud, Night of the Creeps, and so on, this one belongs in your collection. Too bad the DVD has no real special features beyond the trailer, and whoever put together the front cover imagery and text made it look like a dollar DVD. Don't worry though, it's not. This Tri-Star release looks good in its widescreen, anamorphic presentation. Don't hesitate to pick it up!
Movie Review: A smart entertaining remake
Summary: 5 Stars
The Blob was an entertaining, yet eventually campy classic. The limited tools for special effects dampered the original but the story and idea was there. Flash forward nearly 30 years later and the folks in hollywood decide to take another crack at it. The result is an entertaining, frightening horror film that feeds to a certain extent on the strength of special effects, but also claustrophobia as well.
The story is that a meteorite has crashed landed on earth near a small town. An organizm on the metorite gets loose and attaches itself to a bum passing through. As it slowly eats him it begins to grow and as it grows it starts to eat, preferably people. Eventually it comes down to (you'll love this) a cheerleader and a local rebel to stop it.
The reason this movie is great is for numerouse reasons. First the movie realizes that it is campy, and uses it to it's advantage. It also takes pop culture of that time (1980's) and pokes fun at it. Case in point is that Slasher films were big then, so what do they do? They make a scene with a crowded audience watching a really bad slasher film featuring a gardener in a hockey mask using a motorized Hedge Trimmer.
The one other area I like about this is the feeling that no one is safe as is demonstrated when a young boy gets absorbed and dissolved by the blob.
I can't praise this movie enough. Definetly worth checking out if you want a fun campy classic horror film.
Movie Review: That's MR. BLOB To You!...
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a fanatic for the first, 1950s THE BLOB, as well as the swingin', cheeze-log 70s version, BEWARE! THE BLOB!. In this 80s update, we get a cheerleader (Shawnee Smith from Saw) and a local tough-guy (Kevin "Not Matt" Dillon) who try to convince the sleepy town of Arborville that a giant alien mass is eating its way through the population. In keeping with the original, no one believes them. This time out, we get the added attraction of a massive government conspiracy! The best aspect of the new one is its superior SFX, complete w/ rampaging protoplasm and its realistically dissolving victims! My favorite scenes include the "disintegrating football jock", "man sucked down the sink drain" "phonebooth waitress squish", and "imploding dream-date" sequences! There are even a few nods to the Steve McQueen version in the meteor, freezer and movie theatre scenes. Co-written by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist). A worthy addition to the BLOB legacy... P.S.- It's always a treat to see Candy Clark (American Graffiti, The Man Who Fell To Earth) in anything. Her endearing waitress character is memorable...