![]() As the title implies, the film’s 84 minutes are devoted to the gradual decline of astronaut Steve West (Alex Rebar), who returns from a mission to Saturn with a serious skin problem (it tends to fall off) and an insatiable appetite for human flesh. There’s a hint of Peter Jackson’s warped humour in this short, low-budget B-picture from 1977. Nowhere else will you see a man devoured by a dozen gallons of sentient shaving cream. The Stuff of the title is a white, yogurt-like substance that is discovered deep underground, and soon marketed as a non-fattening alternative to ice cream.Īn immediate sensation, most of North America becomes addicted to the Stuff, until observant youth Scott notices that the substance has the unfortunate side effect of turning those addicted to it into brainless zombies.Ī satire on marketing and corporate greed, The Stuff features a great, tongue-in-cheek performance from Michael Moriarty as an industrial saboteur with all the best lines (“No one is as dumb as I appear to be” he drawls in his introductory scene), and there are some great low-budget effects courtesy of Ed French.Ī mix of The Blob, Night Of The Living Dead and quirky comedy, The Stuff is an underrated, endearingly daft horror film. “Are you eating it, or is it eating you” was the tagline for this extremely odd and fun 1985 horror from writer and director Larry Cohen. Bottin’s effects work on this Matryoshka doll-like creature is quite remarkable, and the entire film is a showcase for his extraordinary skill. The scene in which a corpse’s gnashing ribcage chomps off Richard Dysart’s arms is the one that is most often discussed, but my favourite moment, for sheer gruesome detail alone, is the one where Doctor Blair (Wilford Brimley) attempts to dissect a disgusting lump of extra-terrestrial limbs and flesh, only to discover yet more appendages and bones within. The transformations the creature undergoes when it’s cornered are truly horrific, and pushed the boundaries of gore in a mainstream studio picture at the time. Otherwise, we may end up with another film like this…Ĭapable of assuming the likeness of any creature it came into contact with, the creeping alien is unwittingly welcomed into the warmth of an Antarctic research station, and soon begins absorbing its inhabitants one by one. Let’s hope they throw a bit more cash at the latest remake, which is reportedly in production (Rob Zombie was attached, but dropped out last year). Hagman’s only big-screen directing credit, Son Of Blob was so shockingly amateurish, it made the low-budget original look like Avatar. ![]() Alternately known as Son Of Blob or Beware! The Blob depending on where you live, it was directed by none other than Larry Hagman, who was most famous for his performance as J R Ewing in Dallas. True fans of goo movies will know there was a Blob film that came out between the first one and its remake. ![]() Schlocky B-movie fun, fans of gore will find even more to enjoy in the 1988 remake, which retains the same basic plot while upping the body horror aspects considerably.ĭrawing inspiration from Rob Bottin’s effects in The Thing six years earlier, the 80s iteration of the Blob gained the ability to mutate and absorb human bodies, and in one stand-out scene, pulls a luckless man down the plughole of a kitchen sink, before barfing him back up onto the ceiling in a fountain of pink ooze. Steve McQueen starred in the 1958 original, which saw a gigantic globule of alien strawberry compote terrorise a small town in America. If you want a film filled with goo, look no further than The Blob.
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