Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Foreverisacastironmess Now here's one rather unsung 80's classic that's quite dear to my heart, I had an absolute blast watching it many times as a kid, it was such a scary thrill ride, and I still feel pretty much the same these days. I think it's miles from being something that could be considered campy or a B-movie it's very slickly directed, I love this movie. It's such a solid little entertainer, I always find it so easy to get into. I like the spooky intro sequence that shows what appears to be a ghost town, foreshadowing how it nearly does end up, until you find out that everyone's at a football game. I love the small town atmosphere, I think that comes across really well. It has something of the feel of a 50's sci-fi film with more modern sensibilities and humour. And the 80's twist on the nature of the Blob is cool and really works, making it a government experiment in germ warfare gone out of control instead of an alien. For me it's the only version of the Blob worth a damn and I find it genuinely scary. The excellent tag-line "Terror has no shape" does have meaning to it, there is something extra nightmarish about a faceless gelatinous force that can get anywhere, sneak up on you, and that indiscriminately and ravenously swallows up any unfortunates it comes across and melts them down like acid to component matter that becomes more of its mass. It gets redder and redder throughout the movie as it grows larger and more powerful until it has all the townfolk trapped. The fantastic practical special effects are probably the real standout showpiece of this picture. It has a high kill rate, and the often surprising and brutal death scenes are stunning. It's a very ruthless horror movie, characters who you don't expect to, die horribly. Like the handsome guy who seems like he's going to be the hero until the Blob gets the drop on him in a creepy hospital, or a friendly waitress who's crushing death inside a phone box is a scene of abject terror, a good sheriff who's death is offscreen, and an honest-to-god kid! It even spits him back out for a second so you can admire the half-melted handiwork! The other ones that I can't resist mentioning is the scene that takes the sex equals death rule to the next level as well as to me feeling like a bit of a homage to John Carpenter's The Thing as the Blob explodes out of the sleeping girl as the guy feels her up, the cook who's forced down a tiny drain hole head-first, and also the poor goofy-looking f**k with the yoyo who ends up a wailing freakish horror stuck to the ceiling and the whole awesome theatre attack sequence that soon follows. Perhaps the Blob whipped up that loudmouth guy because it was just trying to watch the movie? These are the kind of special effects sequences that are very memorable, and I love that! They take a lot of everyday places and things and effectively make them disturbing. I love Shawnee Smith in this, who doesn't? She's so cool and natural as the cheerleader who loses her jock, saves the no-good local punk and the whole town! The chemistry between her and Kevin Dillon was terrific and you genuinely bought them as unlikely heroes. This movie is fantastic, it embodies a great deal of what I personally find endearing about 80's monster horror. It proves that you don't need a massive budget to make effective sci-fi horror. You just need a solid script, a cast with good chemistry, some ingenuity, and you can take a little and make it into a lot. Thank you kindly Blob, you engulfed and absorbed me with your charm!

cls0680 In a time when so many "horror" films had no story, no point, bad acting, and the same rehashed "slasher" villains AND rehashed party teen victims, The Blob was definitely a stand out GOOD horror movie.I'll be honest, I've never seen the old original, so I have no clue how similar or not they are. But I can compare them to similar movies of the 80's and this one is much smarter. There is an intriguing story to it, some decent acting, a couple of well-timed funny moments, thought-out characters, and the "gore" level mixed in with simple tasks we all do and take for granted make it a pretty fun watch. I never stick my hand in a sink drain without thinking of this movie! For the time, the effects were also not too bad. Some bad green screen here and there and a couple of wacky things that were probably scary at the time, but for the most part they were believable and scary, and definitely gross.The ending - or the finale anyway - is the worst part. I never really swallowed the solution as believable. Not the idea of the solution, but the execution of it.As far as 80's horror films go, this one is one to see.

coltonboswell195 okay so usually remakes are pretty bad or just so cliché its sickening,BUT this remake on the blob is a very successful horror movie in my opinion. First of all the special effects were great especially for an 80's horror movie. needless to say there is definitely plenty of gore also in this movie. The cast was decent enough, i feel like even though the acting was a little all over the place they still did good with what they had. And oh boy the blob looked very awesome!! especially once the blob got to the size of a building now that is terrifying......... The kills I thought were also done very well, my favorite was when the head CDC guy finally got a taste of his own medicine and got sucked into the sewer by the blob. People may rant how bad this movie is but if your a true horror fan this movie will hold a special place in your heart for all horror fanatics. I give 7/10 stars!

gwnightscream Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark, Del Close and Joe Seneca star in this 1988 sci-fi/horror remake of the 1958 film. This takes place in small town, Arborville that becomes terrorized by a lethal, slimy substance from space when it kills some of the residents. Dillon (Entourage) plays Brian, a rebel teen who tries to fight against it with help from classmate, Meg (Smith). DeMunn (The Hitcher) plays Sheriff, Herb, Clark (Cat's Eye) plays waitress, Fran, the late, Close (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) plays Reverend, Meeker and the late, Seneca (Crossroads) plays scientist, Meddows. This is a good 80's sci-fi/horror flick with a decent cast & good, grotesque effects. I recommend this.