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The Blob

The Blob (1988)

August. 05,1988
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6.6
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R
| Horror Science Fiction Mystery

In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, the trio witness the Blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and the police refuse to believe the kids without proof.

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Stevieboy666
1988/08/05

Remake of the cult movie that starred Steve McQueen, this is one of the best stand alone titles from the 1980's, arguably one of the best decades for cinematic horror. The special effects are awesome, on par with the likes of The Thing. Quite spectacular. It's a horror film but, without giving any spoilers, the line "Ribbed!" is hilarious, as funny as anything from the likes of American Pie. Highly recommended - and better than the original.

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tcbdeo
1988/08/06

Nothing on screen in The Blob is ever independent: it always relates to some other part of the film. The best example is of the priest who is judgmental of others. Particular attention is paid to him walking home and dropping his bottle of alcohol, a show of him being hypocritical. He is shown, early on, the take a sample of the crystal blob. At The Blob's end, the priest has embraced his evil nature, taking advantage of the weak-minded through religion and at the same time holding the key to the apocalypse. The Blob's ending, then, is provided for: not some curve ball out of nowhere intended to shock the viewer. There is even another subtle detail. The priest is one of the first characters shown in the film, standing in the bleachers of the football game.The method of defeating the blob is introduced in the first few minutes of the film: the snow machine. Deaths are even hinted at through dialogue before they occur: Flagg asks if he is a 'broken man' to Deputy Briggs; forty minutes later, Briggs is broken in half. Nothing in The Blob goes to waste.Why is The Blob's rating only 6.3? Because people don't pay attention to good writing. The rating is only that high because people cannot ignore the film's groundbreaking special effects (which have yet to be outdone, twenty years later).Give The Blob another chance, preferably with the subtitles on! You will be pleasantly surprised at just how good it really is! And lament! For the up and coming remake is bound to be half-assedly written and the digi-blob will look like stiff puke.

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Edward Painter
1988/08/07

This is a silly, god awful film but it is funny. I have no idea why I watched it and I don't plan on watching it again but it was strangely funny. It is blatantly obvious that they were trying their hardest to turn this remake, of a not great film anyway, into a actual horrific teen horror movie. No. The premise is just to stupid. A blob?!? Please. The only way it would work was if they turned it into a horror comedy. They didn't try to but it ended up that way anyway. There's this one scene that just made me crack up so much. The bit when an unsuspecting teen sticks his hand down a sleeping woman's top (on purpose, obviously) and the blob comes out and... Well... Does whatever a blob does?! Anyway, if you know what your gonna get and don't mind it, then it's well worth a watch. It's a horror comedy that doesn't know it yet manages to still be a great horror comedy. Besides the crappy practical effects, this film works. Not how it's meant to but it does. Don't go expecting an ending like Godzilla, but it is reasonably good when the blob starts squishing people. I've rated it 5 because the film was a bad horror movie. But if it was a horror comedy, it would be a 7 or 8.That's my view anyway.

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GL84
1988/08/08

Following a rash of mysterious deaths in a small Midwestern town, a local teen finds it to be done by a killer amorphous blob that grows bigger with each body dissolved into it and forces him and his friends to try to find a way to stop it before it gets out of hand. Overall this was an outrageously fun remake that really has a lot going for it and is a lot more enjoyable than expected. One of the better parts here is the ton of high quality special effects on-board, which is quite well removed from the original an serves as this one's biggest influencing factor. With a large portion of that coming mainly from the slimy creature and it's constantly changing appearance, there's some really creepy work done here to make the different incarnations of the creature, going from formless blob and distorted, mechanized mass it eventually turns into as this is quite an impressive creature. Much as that works, this one has a lot of great stuff that gives it a cheesy, enjoyable quality on the special effects front, mainly because of the increased screen-time here for the creature so not only is there more action scenes but they're also highly energetic and enjoyable. The attack on the clinic is a prime example as it just winds through the personnel with a great sense of fun and action as the race to get up from the bed in order to get out before the creature gets to the dissolving victims that generates a lot because of the gory wounds and scars. Due to the how it plays out, that continues on into the finale that really plays up a rather healthy amount of excitement due to the course of the action scenes of the creature's attacks on the different defensive groups in the sewers before the utter fun of the big shootout at the end to really get a lot out of this so there's a lot of impressive elements at work throughout the film. Overall, these are more than enough to hold off the few small flaws here. While providing the film with a lot of great action scenes, the introduction of the biohazard team in the last half doesn't really do much and seems to feel tacked on merely for an added body count since they're not mentioned before then just get dropped into the film without a lot of cleverness to the story. That lack of regard for cohesiveness is what makes their overall purpose hinder the film a tad, and it never really gives a solid explanation for the purpose behind their experimentation either as for how it got loose to begin with. Likewise, the fact that there's a few too many similarities both in terms of storyline and even wholesale sequences that come straight from the original could be a bit problematic for some with this one due to those factors. Overall, though, this one is a lot of fun and has plenty to like about it.Rated R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.

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