The Blob (1988)

[Scott]

Saw 15 minutes of this a couple nights ago and was having fun watching it, but could only watch the first 15 minutes of it. Did anyone like it?





Post Edited (05-11-04 23:12)

[daveblackeye15]

I like it. I think it's one of the few remakes that actually works. If a remake can add something new and it's slightly different and doesn't conflict with the original material then it can work. It worked for Twelve Angry Men but it didn't work so good with Night of the Living Dead. Now I want to see the 80's blob all over again, I remember watching the first blob and getting pretty creeped out about it but when I saw the new blob only a few years ago I was scared. The new blob just morphs into stuff and it's far more aggresive and faster to! Doesn't the Blob scare (freak/creep out) Andrew a little? I think he said that once. I like both version a lot.

[BeyondTheGrave]

yeah i seen the new blob a couple times when i was younger. for a giant piece of jello that thing is creepy. the scene i always remeber is when the lady is in the phone booth and the blob comes and surrounds and oozes in. that scene always creeped me out for some reason.

"Dont be a fool for ur tool"

[JohnL]

I like the new Blob, but I don't care fort he texture of the blob itself. In the original, it really looked like it could all squeeze through the tiniest hole. The new blob kind of looks like a giant piece of chewed gun and I have a problem believing it would actually fit under a door.

[The Burgomaster]

I saw it during its original theatrical run and I liked it.  However, repeat viewings aren't nearly as good as the first time.  I still like the original Steve McQueen version a lot better.  One thing I do not like about the remake is the fact that the Blob has tentacles.  I think that a slimey, oozing mass is much scarier than something with tentacles.

[Mr. Hockstatter]

It was a really fun movie.  I remember it had this plot about the town's good girl (sheriff's daughter?) and the town's motorcycle riding, black jacket wearing bad boy.  Then there was theat really spooky preacher guy.  Cool movie.  The special effects worked well, it was nice and creepy.

[Gerry]

Mr. Hockstatter wrote:

> It was a really fun movie.  I remember it had this plot about
> the town's good girl (sheriff's daughter?)

...played by Shawnee Smith, who went on to be the ditsy medical assistant on the TV sitcom "Becker".

She's cute, but really really weird.

[StatCat]

I like the original way more.  The part I always remember in this one is the sink drain scene, eck.

[JohnL]

>I remember it had this plot about the town's good girl (sheriff's daughter?)

Nope, she was the pharmacist's daughter. Remember, her date's friend is buying condoms at the drugstore and when the town priest shows up, the friend pretends that the condoms aren't for him, but for Shawnee Smith's date. He ends up getting ribbed ones. Later, when the guy goes to pick up Shawnee, she invites him into to meet her father. He puts down his paper and it's the pharmacist. He takes one look at her date, his smile fades and he says "Ribbed".

[Mr. Hockstatter]

Ah yes, how could I forget that!  Classic scene.

[Flangepart]

Tenticles are a dime a dozen. Not a red oozing mass you don't dear even touch...THATs scary! When i was a kid, i saw it, and it made me want a phaser so bad! I pretended i was setting for "Disintrigrate". Hey, it worked on the Mugato!

[Scott]

Well, it seems that everyone enjoyed this remake. Encore Channel Mystery (or regular) showed it this month. I'll have to check the listings to see if it's coming on again. Encore usually repeats films during the same month.

[Max Gardner]

Gore generally doesn't get to me in movies, but for some reason the effects in The Blob struck me as incredibly gruesome, even difficult to watch.  In that regard it's unique, but the dialogue's awful (not awful enough to be entertaining).

[JohnL]

>I'll have to check the listings to see if it's coming on again.

Go for it, it's a fun movie. :)

[Yaddo42]

I like it, not as much as the original, but still liked it enough to buy it from the $5.50 Bin of Terror at Wally World. A buddy watched in high school and was most creeped out by the guy getting eaten while trying to cop a feel from the drunk girl. He seemed to think that was "unfair" and couldn't handle the idea that the blob was eating the girl from the inside out apparently.

I can remember seeing the original on the early morning movie one Sunday when I was about 5 or 6 and being creeped out when the blob became a ball, rolled silently and cornered the nurse. After we got to church I kept trying to peek around and under the pews and into the aisle since I was convinced the blob was coming for me and no one would hear it coming. Couldn't explain it to mom to save my life when she got on to me.

I know the 1988 version wasn't a hit but I always wished they had made a sequel, since the ending with the preacher was so creepy. It couldn't have been any worse than the 1972 Larry Hagman directed sequel "Son of the Blob". One of the few times I can remember feeling sorry for every actor I recognized in it: Robert Walker Jr., Burgess Meredith, and Godfrey Cambridge.