The Blob | | Cast : | Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch | | Director : | Chuck Russell | | Studio : | Columbia/Tristar Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | August 05, 1988 | | DVD Released Date : | August 31, 2004 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 19, 2005 | | Summary | The blob | Content
 | It is extremely freaky , I still can not get to sleep without the lights on, but it has great special effects and and a extreme gore factor so I give it 2 stars |
| Rating | | | Date | June 06, 2005 | | Summary | This Is A Great Drive In Movie!!! | Content
| This movie is a remake of the 1958 Classic starring Steve McQueen. Kevin Dillon plays his role in this film as the bad boy in town with a rebellious attitude. Shawnee Smith plays the All American Cheerleader and the two of them make an unlikely duo as they try to save the town from the Entity known as "The Blob". This movie also features a very good performance by the late Joe Seneca who I last saw in Crossroads (The Blues Movie not the Britney Spears busllstuff ). I give this movie 5 stars because the acting is great and it also has wonderful special effects. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 25, 2005 | | Summary | Be Afraid | Content
| I thought maybe this was going to be another B-movie remake of a classic with lame affects since it was the eighties. I was extremely surprised to see how real everything looked. the special effects were incredible considering it was somewhat low-bugdet. The underrated actors played good rolls too, especially Shawnee Smith. Donovan Leitch, brief but efficient.
When a strange, and mysterious comet suddenly crashes to earth in the outskirts of the small quiet town of Arborville, only four seemingly innocent people have witnessed the scene. When two of them suddenly disappear without a trace, and even more residents of aborville do too, the people who are left know something has to be wrong.
Witnesses claim that the meteor that came to earth produced a strange gel substance that sticks to anything it touches. The blob like thing has also been seen devouring people by absorbing, and melting them. As the blob gets bigger, the population of the town gets smaller, and things get even stranger though. Before anyone even knows what's going on, a shadowy organazation group made up of scientists has been investigating the site where the thing crashed. As the scientists grow even more interested, the Blob grows even bigger, and nothing in it's path will stop it.
I have to say that all the versions of the blob had pretty good special effects for their time. The first was good for thrills, the sequel to the first was good for laughs, and the last one was made for extreme gross outs, and scares. Just make sure no one under the age of 11 sees this version. I saw this when I was merely ten because of the fact that I had seen the original and was interested in the remake. There's a scene where the underrated Donovan Leitch gets devoured by the blob (a very subtle image of it on the front cover compared to what really happened in the movie) and it devistated me for life.
As a result, I only saw it one other time, and that was when I was eleven. Not much a difference in the scares, but for about a year, I had to sleep with a blanket over my head to make sure the blob wasn't going to ooze out on top of me. I'm 14 now, but I'm not really sure I want to take the risk of seeing it again. Those nightmares can be pretty scary. The movies still very vivid to me anyway. Make sure to sleep with your fire extinguisher after watching this movie. You'll need it.
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| Rating | | | Date | January 03, 2005 | | Summary | A smart entertaining remake | Content
| 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. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 01, 2004 | | Summary | The Blob returns again! | Content
| The original 1958 film, "The Blob" (which you should see first) really wasn't that bad. I guarantee you watch it and you will get hooked. That is really what small towns looked like, the way movie theaters used to look like and that is what people wore, and the kind of simple wholesome houses they lived in. people spoke politly then.
The 1958, "The Blob" had young Steve McQueen in his first film ever and with Aneta Corseaut.
A sequel to "The Blob" was made, BEWARE!, THE BLOB (1972) also known as SON OF BLOB (1972), with Larry Hagman, Cindy Williams and other familar faces. Directed by Larry Hagman, he still laughs today at how low-budget it was.
For this generation, we have a new modern version, "The Blob" (1988). Filmed in Abbeville, Louisiana.
Noteable cast is: Shawnee Smith, Ricky Paull Goldin, Candy Clark, Beau Billingslea and Clayton Landey.
Not as good as the original. Why is it rated "R"?
I only watched this film because Mr. Ricky Paull Goldin was in it.
Wait until free tv for this one.
Paramount Pictures announced October 29, 2004 that they will be making a new film of THE BLOB from the 1958 version. |
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