The Blob

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Video & Tri-Star Pictures, Inc./ Rated R </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director...........Chuck Russell (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.....Chuck Russell & Frank Darabont </B></div> <div> <B>Music..............Michael Hoenig</B></div> <div> <B>Producer........Jack Harris & Elliott Kastner</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer....Andre Blay</B></div> <div> <B>Special Visual Effects by Hoyt Yeatman/Dream Quest</B></div> <div> <B>Make-up Special Effects by Tony Gardner</B></div> <div> <B>Creature Effects designed by Lyle Conway</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Brian Flagg..Kevin Dillon (The Doors, Remote Control, No Big Deal)</B></div> <div> <B>Meg Penny....Shawnee Smith (Desperate Hours, Summer School)</B></div> <div> <B>Bill.........Donovan Leitch (And God Created Woman, Cutting Class)</B></div> <div> <B>Sheriff......Jeffrey DeMunn (Christmas Evil, The Hitcher, Frances)</B></div> <div> <B>Fran.........Candy Clark (American Graffiti,Amityville III, Big Sleep)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Meddows..Joe Senecar (Crossroads, Mississippi Masala, Wilma)</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Penny...Sharon Spelman </B></div> <div> <B>Mark.........Beau Billingslea</B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Penny....Art Lafleur</B></div> <div> <B>Scott........Ricky Paul Goldin(Hyper Sapian: People From Another Star)</B></div> <div> <B>Deputy.......Paul McCrane (Fame, The Portrait, Strapped)</B></div> <div> <B>Rev. Meeker..Del Close</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: We don't know about you, but the idea of watching a blob movie didn't tickle our fancy. However, this film was generally quite well done and really evoked some suspense. This is a well done, expensive movie. There are light touches that don't take away at all from the suspense. A very strong point in the film is the camera character identification manipulation. The viewer develops an attachment to a character only to find him or her getting slimed. This is a strong point and marks a conscious if brief return to the drive-in movie's set em up and knock em down modus operandi, which predates the "disown them--knock 'em dowm" m.o. of Halloween and most since. Most modern horror works exactly oppossite: show they deserve to be killed and kill 'em. The schtick as Scott buys a condom as a priest comes up and blames it on his friend, only to find that his date's father sold the condom, is the true make them sweat and tremble horror of male teens. The other attempts at self-irony work well, for example, when the kids want to go see Jason. For the most part the special effects are well done. Once and for all it should be established that sticking one's head into a ventilator shaft while looking for a monster is the hallmark of the foolhardy doomed. </B></div> <div> <B>                </B></div> <div> <B>Plot Summary: Aberville. Nice Effect in the beginning as the town is deserted but only because everyone is at the high school football game. After the game we see a punk, Brian Flagg on his motorcycle who wipes out trying to do a jump as an old timer watches. Moss is the black garage mechanic. The old bum sees a meteor come in just over his head and land in the wood not far away. He runs over to investigate. The returnable bottle collector sees a gooey fluid in the meteor crater. He puts a stick into it and out comes a foamy blob of material on the stick. His fascination ends as it leaps on him. The football hero Paul comes to see Meg for the big date and finds to his horror that the father is the vendor who sold his friend the ribbed condom. Meanwhile, the punk watches as the old man tries to cut off his own hand. Next thing you know the old man stumbles into the street and is hit by Paul and his date. Paul and Brian Flagg (the punk) have a confrontation but then they all load into the car. The oldster is brought into the hospital but he is stuffed into a waiting room. As Paul watches something strange is happening to the old man. The doctor blathers on with a patient as the old man is consumed. When the doctor finally gets there he is half consumed. Next Paul is consumed as the girl clutches his hand. His arm pulls off. Some how they As Scott attempt to seduce his date (Vicky) the blob makes quick work of her while she sleeps in the car. Soon he too is consumed. The police try leaning on Brian but they can't pin anything on him. The girl tries to talk to Brian as he leaves the station but he wants nothing to do with such a cheerleader type. When she says he's just like everyone else in the town this gets his attention. Something is caught in the drain in the diner. The grill man George reaches his hand in and soon he's sucked down the drain. Brian and X escape into the freezer. Franny gets out into the street but stops to make a phone call. This turns out not to be a good idea. Brian and Meg escape while the blob is busy consuming Franny. The preacher finds a piece of the thing crystallized in the freezer. He pops it in a jar. Brian and Meg head out into the woods to find the sheriff. They see a group of what look like space creatures but they turn out to be a government biological containment team. Meadows theorizes that the dinosaurs were killed off by an extraterrestrial meteor. As the boys watch Jason the man in the projection room gets a little horror surprise all his own when he checks out the ductwork. The team takes Brian and X and locks them up as part of the quarantine. Brian still has a wrench and hops out. Meg is left in the van. The Jason movie turns into the Blob. Meg runs in to look for her brother Kevin as the now gigantic blob blob decimates the theatergoers. They are soon trapped in an alley but duck down into a manhole. Pseudopods grab at her hair but they get away. They had set bacteria into space and the conditions there had mutated it into a carnivorous experiment in biological warfare. They think that they can contain it. It is found that the thing followed them into the sewers. Brian overhears these facts and is not pleased. He is then caught and the chase is on to apprehend the "infected" civilian. Finally the cycle jumping he was practicing pays off. The containment team tries to close the thing off in the sewers. Meg and the boys soon meet up again with the thing which is now truly gigantic. Some containment people come in the nick of time and get swallowed up allowing Meg and Kevin to escape. Although Meadows tries to tap them in with the thing. They break out and after a confrontation, Meadows is desert. A charge down the sewer serves only to make it still larger. Meg holds it off with CO2 for a while which it surely does not enjoy. Brian shows up with a truck full of snow maker. Meg draws it to the CO2 tank in a last ditch effort to stop the thing.  </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>