The Stuff
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Movie Reviews of The Stuff
Movie Review: "Are you eating it, or is it eating you?"
Summary: 4 Stars
Larry Cohen blends gross out gore with dark humor to make the delectable B-movie treat "The Stuff". Just think Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Blob, only the resulting movie wouldn't be quite as awesome as you'd imagine.
When some miner's find an unidentified white substance oozing out of the ground, they do what anyone would do and taste it, only to find that it's delicious! Now the goo, aptly titled "The Stuff", is being marketed all across America and has taken the title of the country's most popular dessert. The ice cream industry has decided to send in "Mo", a saboteur who intends to find the truth about what "the stuff" is and where it comes from. Along with some help, he discovers that "the stuff" is a living alien organism that turns the consumers into zombies.
The Stuff has a little bit of everything. Good gory sequences, likable characters, and some mildly amusing humor. It also parodies consumerism and advertising for those interested in a horror movie with a little wit behind the gory exterior. Sure it isn't the most superbly crafted movie ever, but it delivers what B-movie and horror lovers want in spades. The Stuff is worth the time, check this one out.
Movie Review: Acquire And Consume...
Summary: 4 Stars
Larry Cohen's movies have always been good, schlocky fun. After all, he's the guy behind the great IT'S ALIVE trilogy, Q: THE WINGED SERPENT, and GOD TOLD ME TO. These movies are all packed w/ horror, comedy, weirdness, and Cohen's brand of interesting social commentary. THE STUFF needs to be seen in the same light, as a part of the Larry Cohen collection. It's message of commercial insanity and blind consumer idiocy is even more relevant today than it was in the '80s! THE STUFF is a wonderful metaphor. In this movie it's a totally addictive dessert (like a sweet, gooey version of crack cocaine), but it could stand for any product that we simply can't seem to live without. Ever seen two grown adults fighting over the last Elmo doll or video game console at christmas-time? It's pretty ugly! THE STUFF works because it tells us what we know but don't want to hear, that we are being duped by advertising gurus into buying anything they push on us. We are consumer zombies. Yep, we actually believe the commercials! Cohen's a genius. While THE STUFF is pure B-movie schlock, it's moral is clear: We truly ARE what we eat...Movie Review: stuff-tacular!
Summary: 4 Stars
i love this movie! its one of my favorite 80's horror flicks; its so funny. any movie with the line 'we do have to keep the world safe for ice cream, i guess,'
has to be good.
but what's really moving about this film is a typical feature of 80's horror: a commentary on consumerism and capitalism as the 'real killer' of the film. 'the stuff' is really a clear warning to audiences: don't blindly trust our government. don't blindly trust capitalism. don't blindly trust the media.
'the stuff' tells us that we shouldn't buy everything we see on tv because the picture pefect surface we see is often covering something darker and more deadly; as could be said of the society that produces and markets these superficial ads/items.
thanks to the 80's we now have a wealth of silly/serious films teaching valuable lessons about the media.... don't get me wrong - the humor in 80's horror is worthy of our attention; we should stop talking trash about 80's horror and start listening to what they're trying to teach us....
Movie Review: Frightnite Theatre
Summary: 4 Stars
First saw this wierd flick when I was a little lad; ok I aint so little even now. However, this movie had a really interesting plot about some subterreanen organism that some company sells as a refreshing dairy dessert. Needless to say, something goes wrong. The special arent bad for this movie and its a real refresher against the usual blood and gore splatter-stars.Anyway,the story revolves around a boy whose family has become "stuffed" and they try to force him to eat it. He escapes with this lady and they hook up with other people to find the real deal of the Stuff. The ending isnt all gore out but its disturbing in its own way to have the men who started the whole thing get a "taste" of their own medicine. Good film
Movie Review: Good movie
Summary: 4 Stars
If you like eating yogurt or any white-colored soft-serve snacks, then you may want to hold off on watching this movie. The movie had a simple story but with good special effects for its time when it was produced. I have watched this movie when it was on VHS but never bothered to purchase it. A few years later, this movie was re-released on DVD and I decided to purchase it. I felt the same way I did back then when I first rented this movie on VHS. I would not consider this something to buy but I decided to buy the DVD re-release as a way of remembering the earlier times when horror movies had simple special effects and even simpler storylines.