SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Stephen Abell The only thing horrifying about this movie is that it got greenlighted, backed, and filmed: It's more horrendous than horrifying.I have never given a zero rating before as I try to find good in everything, though no matter how hard I tried I couldn't do it with this travesty of a movie.The story of The Blob's return is told in a series of skits and sketches, which are meant to be humorous and scary... Unfortunately, the writer Jack A Harris (who produced the film) and screenwriters Anthony Harris and Jack Woods evidently couldn't grasp either concept as the laughs are on the audience who paid good money to watch this, which is the only horrific idea related to the film. Not having read Richard Clair's story "A Chip Off The Old Blob!" (which is also a much better and funny title for a comedy horror movie) I cannot say if these traits stem from here.Then they give the directors hat to Larry "JR Ewing" Hagman. Though he'd directed five TV episodes this was his first full-length movie and it shows. It could also be the reason he never went back to directing for the big screen.Another shock was to see some big'ish names appearing in cameo roles... Robert Walker Jr, Carol Lynley, Shelley Berman, Cindy Williams, Burgess Meredith, Dick Van Patton, and even Sid HaigAll these names do not a good film make. Instead of watching this movie, go paint that bedroom you've been putting off and then grab a chair and watch that paint dry, you'll have a more entertaining and productive time.

gavin6942 A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers.I'm probably rating this film a little too highly, because let's be honest.... it's pretty bad. The acting is not good, the plot is all over the place. It doesn't hold a candle to the original or the 1980s remake. There is good reason this film has been forgotten by just about everyone.And yet, it is wildly entertaining in its badness. The scenes that run on for no reason... did we really need all the buildup to the hippie getting a haircut? No, but it was great just the same. I watched this by myself and enjoyed it, but I imagine a group of friends and some beer could make it even better.

jacobjohntaylor1 This not a good movie. This is a remake. The original 1958 version is good movie. And the second remake from 1988 is also a very good movie. But this is just disappointing. I have seen some great remakes. And have seen some pooh pooh remakes. And this is just pooh pooh remake. The ending awful. And the acting is awful. Unlike the 1958 version this is not scary at all. The best thing about this movie is that it is a precursor to the 1988 version. Beware a bad movie. It is a wast of time. This is also a wast of money. Do not see it. It is just a pooh pooh remake. There are a lot of remakes that are better then the original. But not this one.

thesar-2 (Yeah, this contains major spoilers. But, since this movie is older than me and I am older than most…people I know, then it's your bad for not seeing this Grindhouse movie by now…)When I was a kid, this scared the sh|t out of me. I'm talking: I was between 5-6 years old and it appeared on a Saturday morning TV Sci-Fi 12 noon (after the cartoons) program with the name "From Beyond…" or something like that.I invited my mother to watch this movie with me, which she normally didn't show interest, and she was disgusted. Later she told me – obviously being ignorant on who or what "the blob" was – that she thought it would be about a "blob" of smoke or something. Not the red goo the blob really is.To this day, roughly 32-33 years later, I have never forgotten Son of Blob, or Son of the Blob or as IMDb calls it: Beware! The Blob. (To me, it'll always be "Son of Blob" because that's how I remembered it three decades ago.) I haven't forgotten the fright it gave me, the ideas it brought up in my mind on how I would handle such a creature in real life or the nightmares of my daydreams it created.This viewing, as part of my "Last of my Triple Digit Reviews/Movies that Meant Something to my Childhood" series, made me realize only particular scenes, such as the entire opening of a fly, a kitten and two humans biting it, the car being engulfed, the bowling alley "hole" disaster and the final "?" scene, were implanted into my subconscious. The climax, the man with his foot propped up, led to many ideas in my little mind for many years.Oh, this movie's bad. Yeah, the filming, the dialogue, the separate tones and the special effects were all despicable. And that all said, this time, watching it late at night, I was scared all over again. Not because of the content, but because this, being the first time since I was a mere child, reminded me all what I viewed as an infant. Boy, I shouldn't have watched this late at night.I digress; this movie's supposed to be a sequel to the original 50s B-movie The Blob, but in reality, it's a remake. A red "single cell organism" is inadvertently set free and consumes any living flesh it makes contact with. In the set small town, few realize it until it's too late and less figure out its sole weakness.The ending had my young mind spinning into creativity. How would they get the frozen blob out of the bowling alley without it "waking up"? Or how would that man who last got attacked save his life…or leg? Or how would I ever forget the horror this brought to a 5-6-year-old for…the…rest…of…my…life?Overall, I granted this 1½/5 stars because of how bad it is. For me personally, it still scares me. Not enough to ever watch it again, unless I want to, again, recapture my childhood.And that's the way I see it. Cheers!