The Blob Movie Review

We will leave it to sociologists to explain why the ‘80s were a fertile breeding ground for remakes of such beloved ‘50s sci-fi cult classics as The Fly, The Thing, Invaders from Mars, and The Blob, which is perhaps best remembered as the film that launched the career of Steve McQueen. But thanks to the advanced art of special effects, the massive glutinous monster is at last, the star. It's a meaner, more ravenous Blob. No longer content just to attack movie theatre projectionists (as in the original), it also slurps dishwashers down the sink and engulfs phone booths. It's probably a sign of the times that the Blob is not an outer-space organism, but a product of the military (and one may or may not read into the Blob's spreading amuck as an AIDS allegory). Beware Del Close, a legend of the Chicago school of improvisational comedy, as Reverend Meeker, whose climactic warnings of the end of the world are given extra urgency by those remnants of the Blob he keeps in a jar….

1988 (R) 92m/C Kevin Dillon, Candy Clark, Joe Seneca, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn, Del Close; D: Chuck Russell; W: Frank Darabont, Chuck Russell; C: Mark Irwin. VHS, Beta, LV COL