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Summary: My First Horror Movie Experience
Review: I haven't seen this movie on ANY TV since about 1985 and I remember when I saw it the first time in 1981 when I was in the 5th grade in school the following Monday I told the class during "show and tell" about several scenes including the "bowling alley" and nobody except the teacher listened but I enjoyed telling anyways! Elvira hosted the show on KCAL channel 9 in Los Angeles and they showed it a couple more times and I waited very long for it to be available somewhere.
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Summary: Beware! The Laughter! The Blob has Personality!
Review: Just like the other reviews, I too remember watching this on a Saturday afternoon matinee on cable access in or around 1983. This was the first Blob movie I had seen I remember it scaring the pants off of me. So when the advent of VCR's became a hip thing in the mid-80's, I sent myself on a quest to find this movie. Of course, nobody had it. And everybody that I asked about it looked at me like I had three heads. Although the movie never really went anywhere, I thought it was a good attempt to pick up where the original left off. A "What -if" if you will, "What if someone found the Blob and accidently unfroze it?" Enter Chester Hargis. After it unthaws, revitalizes itself via a curious fly, then absorbing the family kitten, and the wife of Chester sees it crawling up her legs and she's screaming in fear and pain, and then it's too late. Then the fun begins. My only major complaint after it was re-released last year was that for the price, it should have included commentary from any of the surviving cast members and there has to be some behind the scenes footage just like the re-release of the orignal Blob has in it. I'm sure Larry Hagman knows this was not his finest hour, but it's nothing to be ashamed of either. There are enough "Blob-Heads" like me out there that would have liked more insight on how this movie was made, finding out about the cast, etc... If you look close enough, in the ice rink when Bobby is climbing across the ropes above the rink to reach the breaker box, you see the Blob climbing up the opposite rope to try and stop him. When he releases the rope to foil its plan, the Blob becomes angry and it tries to pull the booth off the wall. Look to the background, where the Blob is covering the booth, in that scene it is clearly a sheet covered in silicone gel because it "waves" while its trying to eat his girlfriend and that annoying business owner. What made the movie scary is that you didn't always seethe monster. You knew it was there and I think a mental scare is better than actual reality scare in the movies. Knowing somebody is being devoured but not actually seeing them get devoured is much more frigtening to me. Think about it. Overall, I think this movie is really good. I agree that it is not an academy award winner, but I can't think of one horror flick that was. Come on, Larry! Get back in there and do a special edition "Beware! The Blob!", I'd buy it!
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Summary: Its got Randy Stonehill in it its gotta be good
Review: Randy Stonehill gets eaten by THE BLOB while singing to cindy williams.for those of you who dont know who Randy Stonehill is he is a pioneer in christian music and the greatest singer i've ever heard.the movie in general is just plain fun to watch
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Summary: The Blob 3:City Of Goo
Review: The Blob 3 is rubbish,it's about a group of people who see a comet land in their hometown and find out it's a red ball of goo that eats people.The first person you see die is an old lady who sees it crawl up her leg and then a dog who eats it and grown bigger. The dog terrorises the town and eats anything it sees. DO NOT SEE THIS FILM.
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Summary: Beware The Blob
Review: The original Blob movie scared the life out of me,but still I wanted to see more. Beware The Blob Son Of Blob is another SC-FI classic from
Larry Hagman,It's all about red ooze eating people.
I recommend this film.
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Summary: A lot of fun once you go "Behind the Scenes!"
Review: This camp horror schlock is a heck of a lot of fun to watch (think Saturday night drive in) once you learn that it was Larry Hagman's low budget "home movie" attempt at cashing in on the Blob-ularity of the original. All the celebs on board (Cindy Williams, gorgeous Carol Lynley, Dick Van Patten, Godfrey Cambridge, etc etc) are all appearing because they were Hagman's Malibu neighbors and he said, "Hey! Let's make a movie!" The rest is runny, red history!
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Summary: A B-Movie Classic!!!
Review: This is one of those Saturday matinee horror flicks I fondly remember from childhood days. It's been out of print forever, and it's great to see it finally "immortalized" on DVD. What's to like about _any_ sequel to THE BLOB? Simply put, it's much better than the (overrated?) original. More blob for your buck! Lots of familiar faces from '70s TV (including an unbilled Bud Cort of HAROLD & MAUDE fame), an amusing musical score, and plenty of action during the bowling alley finale. Is it Oscar material? Certainly not -- but it's good clean cheesy fun! Goes together well with an advocado sandwich and some brownies (see the movie and you'll understand). :)
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Summary: ANN'S CHILDHOOOD MEMORIES
Review: This is the first horror I've ever saw when I was in the 5th grade in 1981 on TV with Elvira hosting! I remember the following Monday during "show and tell" telling the class about the movie and the final scene at the bowling alley! I haven't seen the movie since about 1987 and waiting since then to make it on home video. I'm gonna put on my "gift wish" and hopefully I'll own all three "Blob" movies in my 400 plus home video collection!
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Summary: Watch the 1988 remake instead....
Review: Though advertised on the back of the box art as a "sequel" to the 1958 film The Blob, this film is in no way a sequel but esentually a remake. Beware! The Blob is as much a sequel to the original Blob as the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is to the original. There is no mention of the events of the original film what-so-ever. Now that we got that out of the way lets talk about Beware! The Blob. The premise of a 70's remake of the original sounds exciting, but sadly this film does not live up to expectations. First off Beware! The Blob is terribly shot and directed., which hence gives the film a very amaturish feel. Many of the pull back camera shots are shaky and there seems to be no flair in Larry Hageman's direction. The story also has its problems. First of all is how the Blob is brought into the story. Some man in the begining that is a geologist (though this character definitly does not fit the role( supposidly finds a "sample" his crew dug up in the ground and stores it in his freezer. Naturally it thaws and the "blob" is unleashed The problem is that no hwere in teh story is there talk of it being "alien" or "human made" like in the other two fersions of the film (One in 1958 and 1988). The blob is just there! The story also has many useless moments and senarios. Take the boy scout senerio for instance. There is no point to these scenes with the boy scouts outher than to fill up time. Also many of hte characters just stupidly throw themselvesat the blob. One cop shoots, try's to flee, falls, then is eaten. One guy even has the gale to drive his car into the blob even when he ovviously sees it from a far away distance. These characters drove me nuts!! Director Larry Hagman also doesn't know whether to treat this as a straight horror film or a spoof of the genre. Htere are many scenes that are scary and suspensful (such as when the blob covers a car with occumpents trapped inside) but there are also many scenes of shear campyness that throws the movie off balence. hte music score was also quit terrible and actually ruins what are supposed to be suspensful scenes. The special effects aen't too bad, especially for the time, but many of them are quite outdated. This film is also not aided by the numerous bad titles it is under. Beware! The Blob...come on. This was also released as Son of Blob (that was the title of it when I first saw it), which is actually worse than the title Beware! The Blob. If you liked the original Blob, you might want to tcheck this film out just for kicks by renting it or buying it real cheap. Otherwise your best bet is to go for the 1988 remake.
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Summary: Watch the 1988 remake instead....
Review: Though advertised on the back of the box art as a "sequel" to the 1958 film The Blob, this film is in no way a sequel but esentually a remake. Beware! The Blob is as much a sequel to the original Blob as the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is to the original. There is no mention of the events of the original film what-so-ever. Now that we got that out of the way lets talk about Beware! The Blob. The premise of a 70's remake of the original sounds exciting, but sadly this film does not live up to expectations. First off Beware! The Blob is terribly shot and directed., which hence gives the film a very amaturish feel. Many of the pull back camera shots are shaky and there seems to be no flair in Larry Hageman's direction. The story also has its problems. First of all is how the Blob is brought into the story. Some man in the begining that is a geologist (though this character definitly does not fit the role( supposidly finds a "sample" his crew dug up in the ground and stores it in his freezer. Naturally it thaws and the "blob" is unleashed The problem is that no hwere in teh story is there talk of it being "alien" or "human made" like in the other two fersions of the film (One in 1958 and 1988). The blob is just there! The story also has many useless moments and senarios. Take the boy scout senerio for instance. There is no point to these scenes with the boy scouts outher than to fill up time. Also many of hte characters just stupidly throw themselvesat the blob. One cop shoots, try's to flee, falls, then is eaten. One guy even has the gale to drive his car into the blob even when he ovviously sees it from a far away distance. These characters drove me nuts!! Director Larry Hagman also doesn't know whether to treat this as a straight horror film or a spoof of the genre. Htere are many scenes that are scary and suspensful (such as when the blob covers a car with occumpents trapped inside) but there are also many scenes of shear campyness that throws the movie off balence. hte music score was also quit terrible and actually ruins what are supposed to be suspensful scenes. The special effects aen't too bad, especially for the time, but many of them are quite outdated. This film is also not aided by the numerous bad titles it is under. Beware! The Blob...come on. This was also released as Son of Blob (that was the title of it when I first saw it), which is actually worse than the title Beware! The Blob. If you liked the original Blob, you might want to tcheck this film out just for kicks by renting it or buying it real cheap. Otherwise your best bet is to go for the 1988 remake.
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