 Thanks for checking out this movie review. This is for the 1988 film the blob. Yes It's a remake because the original blob was 1958 wait, let me look at my yep, 1958 notes say 1958. Yes I do a little bit of research for these anyway Just so people know if you have not seen the 1988 remake of the blob go see it highly recommend it Then come back and watch this because there will be spoilers That's how I'm doing things from now on its spoilers in these reviews for the older movies for movies like That have been out for like a year maybe or less I won't do spoilers, but everything else we're spoiling it. So anyway, I actually watched it through my There's a new blu-ray release for the blob. Look at the artwork by the way the artwork Look how good the artwork is So this was released by scream factory, which is a subsidiary of shout factory. It's just basically the horror portion of shout factory So they put this one together and it actually just came out in October So I got it probably like mid October hadn't watched it until today November 2nd and Yeah, it looks good. I've been looking for a good blu-ray for the blob I know there was like a Limited 500 release one that had been done not long ago that I wasn't able to get my hands on but I pre-ordered this one a Bunch of months ago maybe about six months ago or so and since I was within the first 500 people to do that I got a poster of this which is cool So I don't know I might put it up back here or something So there's a little something extra for people to look at when I'm doing these videos might do that So anyway, let's let's get down to it. Let's talk about the 1988 blob remake Which by the way when people Inevitably talk about remakes in horror and are there any good remakes? Like someone almost always ask that question see they're online or you know in person They're like are there are there really any good remakes are there and then people always step in Rightfully so and say yes, there are some very legit remakes And one of the ones that it's almost always cited is this one the 1988 blob alongside the thing obviously the thing John Carpenter's and I think I Hear an okay amount of time and I agree with it Alexander Ajah's remake of the Hills have eyes I think that's quite well done. Although the original is amazing too, but Anyway, so this one is directed by Chuck Russell who worked on the screenplay for and directed Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors, which is one of the better Nightmare on Elm Streets. I think everyone would agree Well, not everyone but a lot of people So the script for this was written by Chuck Russell and Frank Darabon. Yes, people know Frank Darabon's name He was also involved in Nightmare on Elm Street 3 doing the screenplay He did screenplay for the fly to he did the screenplay for the Shawshank redemption Obviously didn't come up with a story for that. That was a Stephen King novel also the green mile He did the screenplay for the mist. He did the screenplay for the 2001 and he's most well-known recently for starting the Walking Dead getting that whole thing going and I believe he was the Director on that for some years and then Nick Otero took over Actually, there may have been some people in between Darabon and Nick Otero, but those are just the ones I'm familiar with. I don't watch Walking Dead. Sorry. Not my thing So Kevin Dylan is the big name in this. Yes, Johnny drama for Monterage. That's how I know him best Well, other than the blob he was in the he was in platoon and also the doors movie So had a pretty good career and then Shawnee Smith is the other big name in this obviously most well-known For all these saw films that she was in as well as Armageddon But I like her most than this I actually did meet her earlier this year and she had I was talking to her about the blob I got her to sign like a still of her holding like the The military gun Sorry, I don't know guns not a gun person, but the military assault rifle holding that on the blob It's a pretty good picture. I got her to sign that and we were talking about it I was like, you know when you read this script Did you think that it could become the kind of the cult classic that it is today and I told her? I'm like, you know inevitably when people talk about remakes and horror They always bring up the blob because it is such a good remake and she was like, you know I loved the script. I thought the script was very good But as you know like it bombed in the box office and it did But she was she fully believed in the script. She thought it could be something great Obviously the studio thought so too because they gave it a 19 million dollar budget But sadly it flopped in the box office by only making 8.2 million So they lost about 11 million dollars on that which is pretty bad Which is probably why we didn't get a second one Which is a total shame because this is one of those instances where the movie was really good You just couldn't get people to the theater to see it and I think one of the big reasons for that is At any point if someone's like, hey, we're doing a remake of the blob and it's gonna be in the theater Will you go see it people are gonna be like no Because that villain that creature that big bad in the movie is not compelling It's it's kind of a stupid It is not stupid. It's a boring Villain to have in a film, especially when people think oh the last movie was 1958 so You know what are they gonna do with it and you think about it It's just like it's a blob of what looks like pink goo like what are you gonna do with that? Oh, it's just gonna lay on people but the smart thing was With this film they wrote in an aspect where it's kind of acidic for human beings So it'll like get on people and it can like start breaking them down and like pull them through things like the one scene Which I love where you see In the diner the guy get it where it grabs his face and then it starts like going over him And it literally pulls him into the drain I mean that's like terrifying stuff and it works really well And it makes for some really cool kills that they came up with in this film And there are a lot of like every kill pretty much in this is really well done and really cool And you wouldn't think that if someone was just like hey Let's go see this movie a remake of the blob you wouldn't think that they're gonna be kills like that You just really wouldn't you just think oh, it's gonna cover people and suffocate them or like carry them away That's pretty much it so for that reason I think that's why it flop so hard at in the theater because people didn't know that it was going to be good And they didn't know what the premise was really going to be like They just think of the blob and they're just like sounds boring. I'm not going to see that But it was so good that Thankfully it became a cult Film and is actually thought of as one of the best remakes So I mean warms my heart to see that it's doing well now because it's so well done But it sucks that you know, it was didn't do well in the box office So one thing I want to say real quick, you know Chuck Russell and Frank Darabont worked on the screenplay together for this and they Well, they had also worked on Nightmare on Elm Street three together they met originally in 1981 on the set of the movie hell night Which if anyone on here has shutter if anyone watching this has shutter hell nights on shutter at the moment I think it's kind of boring. There's there's some cool stuff about it. Like I kind of like it But I kind of don't like it It's kind of like slow and a little bit boring, but it's got Linda Blair in it And I think she puts in a pretty good performance So I think it's worth checking out once but they met on the set of that their production assistants and Worked together after it, which was cool The cast mostly slept during the day when they were doing this one because most of it shot at night If you've seen the movie, you know that Tony Gardner was the person who ended up hand handling all the special effects And what they did for the actual blob is apparently what I was reading is that it was a combination of silk that they combined with Methylcellulose Which what I where I was reading it. They said is a food additive, but I looked a little bit further into it It's not just a food additive It is used in food as kind of like a gels type substance to like and it's an emulsifier It like creates thickness it holds Ingredients together basically keeps them from separating so you can see how that was used with the silk Because then the soaks soaks also like kind of Easy to move and they actually ended up calling it a blob quilt on on set But it looks really good and the other thing that this methyl cellulose is used for I just thought was funny It's used for laxative for constipation It is also used for a personal lubricant i.e KY jelly so It's kind of funny because there's a lot of kind of like sexual undertones and like sexual themes in the film So like when people are getting nailed by the blob with this methyl cellulose in it They're kind of getting covered in KY jelly in a sense There's there's there's a little metaphor there in a way Unintended I know but you know I thought that was kind of funny The slow intro gives you a really good idea of like the town looks desolate when it's starting out But it's not it's kind of interesting But it gives you the idea that like everyone's at this you know football game this high school football game Which gives you an idea of how small the town is So it kind of makes the stakes like even higher When the blob shows up because it could easily wipe out the entire town You know and it's that kind of thing where they play around with the settings in horror of like small town You know nothing ever happens here exciting and then all of a sudden oh something terrible And it's easy then for the government to come out and try and control things because it's just some isolated small town And if anything is really happening they can shut it down and keep people from talking because it's not a huge city But anyway The first time you see Kevin Dylan in this it's like look at that hair. It's like this super power mullet Did like the hair looks thick it looks good But like it just takes you back to the 80s or just like yeah, that was a thing like people were doing mullets and Legitimately thinking it looked good I've seen people nowadays who still rock mullets, and I'm just like Like I want to like I want a glimpse into their head like I want to know what they're thinking When it comes to that I just don't get it. It wasn't a good thing then it's not now The introduction of a homeless guy and his dog in this like I understand that he's an important part of the story He is because he's the one that gets nailed with the blob first and he brings it into the town Because he was poking it with a stick Yeah, okay, I'll talk about that in a second, but It just hit me it's like his intro was really weird like it felt very forced and it's just kind of like that's super random because he's You know Matt Kevin Dillon's character is doing like trying to jump a Broken bridge with his motorcycle and then he you know beef sit and the homeless guys there to laugh at him And then just be like I'll pick up his beer can pour the beer out and collect that can for money turn in for money later and He just takes off it's so random, but I guess that's a they were like we have to introduce this guy somehow I'm sure there's a better way, but you know whatever so anyway like when he finds the meteor that comes in well meteor we know at the end that it was actually like a Man-made thing that was sent into space to kind of collect organisms It seemed like and then turn them into weapons somehow So he finds this and it's you could see the goo you can see the blob in this meteor And then he's obviously like you see it coming You're just like he's gonna poke it with a stick because that's a thing like especially in like the 80s and Backwards in horror if you find a weird thing in the woods, you're always gonna poke it with a stick like that's just the go-to It's like hey, there's the thing let's poke it with a stick, which it does make sense from a standpoint of You know you don't necessarily want to touch it because you don't know what it is But it's so it's funny in this case where like that's the situation. He's like I don't really know what that is I'm I'm poking with a stick so I don't get it on me Could be bad, but this thing just like jumps Which it does numerous times in the film and just starts going to town Makes his hand funky as as Kevin Dillon's character says and what is his I don't even remember what his character's name is Okay, I Didn't pay attention to names that well. Oh well. We all know who I'm talking about There's a shot when they first like when someone's like driving into town where it like shows like down the main street And it shows like their city hall that looks that looks exactly like a shot from the movie the stuff Which is from three years earlier that came out in 1985 And I swear I'm just like they had to shoot in the same location This has got to be the same location because it looks exactly like the moment in the movie the stuff Where that militia is coming into town and they are following like their cars coming in tell me What do you think put a comment down there if you've seen the stuff as well And you think that shot looks the same Go back and look I need to know The condom scene with the Reverend is pretty funny in my opinion That's a really good comedic moment where the guy's like, oh, I'm just getting these condoms Oh Reverend, how's it going? And he's just like oh these these condoms are for me It's and then I love the twist and my wife loved it too of later when the pharmacist who gives him the condoms Realizes, oh one of the guys who was there getting the condoms is taking my daughter out tonight It's this whole like fear of sex thing and that's one of the themes throughout this It's like this kind of commentary a little bit on the puritanical Society that we have where everyone's just like oh my god sex. Oh Don't talk about that. Oh, no, no, no, don't talk about sex Let's not have them movies or anything and if you notice like things get hot and heavy in this film a few times but it never gets to the sex and One of the biggest points that's made about this puritanical societal issue of being like oh sex is so bad And that's ridiculous is when the little kids are talking to their mom who are Meg's Shawnee Smith's character Meg her brothers. Oh, it's a brother and a friend and they They're talking about like oh, we want to go see this movie It's this they call it like chainsaw something It's supposed to be kind of like an ode to the Texas chainsaw massacre I think but it's like a slasher film They say and he's like there's a lot of killing and people get sliced up and they were like but there's no sex in it So there's nothing bad in the film and it's like this accepted thing that like the mom's just kind of like oh, yeah, like Right, there's no sex so there's nothing bad in the film So it's like making this point that like you can you can watch all this terrible violence and gore and that's Look that is just okay. Like that's normal, but like if they're sex. Oh my gosh, that is over the top and it's too much So I kind of like that that moment. They have in there for that reason I Think it's funny when the would-be rapist gets it from the the blob in his car when the woman's passed out Because he was making all these crazy drinks, which by the way Let's talk about how cool his drink setup was in the trunk of his car Like they did a good job designing that it looked pretty fun and cool But you do get the idea that this isn't the first time he's been doing this type of thing You know boozing up a woman making her pass out and then raping her so it's very good That he gets it when he you know and does her blasts and he sticks his hand in and then it's just like And the blobs gonna get you up because rape is bad We can all agree on that There's there's a commentary also in this about how bad health health care is these days and basically how The people involved in health care are just kind of like whatever like they don't treat treat situations seriously because they go into the into the Emergency room with the homeless guy with the blob portion on his hand and they're like we really need help and they're like freaking out and The receptionist thing is just like does he have health coverage? Oh, she says does he have blue cross and blue shield? And they're just like I don't know like he's got a problem And she's like we gotta fill out some paperwork and she's just totally like Nonchalant like could care less and then the doctors kind of that way too like when the blob starts basically killing the guy And the one dude's freaking out. I think his name was Brian when he he gets it in a pretty awesome way When he's like freaking out the doctors like I'm busy basically and then he's like oh fine I guess I better go see if there's an emergency So it makes the point of just like health care is ridiculous, too The scene. Oh, yeah, I already talked about the scene where the blob pulls the dude down the drain That's probably my favorite kill in this. I like that a lot The phone booth scene is also really awesome that comes not long after that one where The woman's like trapped in the phone booth and then the blobs like all around it And then you see like the body getting like brought up the side of the phone booth It looks so good like the practical effects in this are awesome And I kind of think that it's it's one of those situations where this movie was gonna live or die based on those practical Effects and the creativity of the kills and they really deliver on both those things. So It's it's good Someone from the government agency Sent to contain that blob would not be telling these random kids Hey, let me tell you all about all about what I'm doing here and what this is all about like no He'd be like get out of here. You're in the way And this is dangerous because obviously I'm in some like super containment suit and you're not like Beat it. He wouldn't stop and like explain everything to them. They're high school kids Like who cares and actually I even question like is Kevin Dillon's character a high school kid or is he out of high school? Or is he a high school dropout like I get the idea that he's a dropout because when they were originally showing it They're showing like the football game and everyone's there Well, I guess I don't know because the football game wouldn't have been happening during school time It just gave you the idea that he's like the screw around like dropout. I might be wrong. I don't know though. I Guess we don't actually seek school in session during the film Everyone wanted the dude in the theater to get it by the way The guy who wouldn't shut up during the movie and we all know those people we've all experienced those people at the theater So it's a very satisfying moment that they put in there where the blob comes down from the ceiling and just Pulls that guy right out. Hey, if that happened every time I was at a theater, I'd be pretty happy the idiot talking gets it Actually recently I haven't had too much too many of those situations But you always get it if you go to enough movies, you're gonna get those people who are just super rude will not shut up and It's terrible. So I love that part of the movie. I'm sure a lot of people out there. I appreciated it Is it me or does the blob sound like a squealing pig when it moves? Because I'm pretty sure that like when it's moving and it's like that kind of blob POV It was sounded like squealing pig noises. Interesting I wrote down that town sewage system is messed up now Like even before the blob busted through the asphalt and just like destroyed the ground and the sewage system like they threw Explosives down there and just destroyed it. So I'm not sure people be able to use the bathroom in that town at this point kind of crazy The change okay, so these are kind of like my my final thoughts on the film. It's a good film It's a lot of fun. I thought the acting was pretty well done. The music went really well. It's very you know, it's got a very 80s feel I really thought it worked well for that time period though directing was really well handled It looked really good. It looked really good and it was active. Well, it really comes together The change of the blob having that acidic prop property like I was saying that is huge with this It's huge it 100% changes This how sinister the blob can be because prior to that all you can do is have it suffocate people I mean, that's basically it which is kind of boring So the acidic portion of it gives you the ability to do cool practical effects things gives you the ability to Make it look gross as opposed to just like someone being in a vat of jello, you know, so that's awesome It makes fun of wacky religious prophecies, which I think is pretty cool Well, obviously with the Reverend who at the end has that little piece of the blob still alive So it gives you the idea. Oh, no We're gonna have another blob outbreak at some point and I wish they would by having another movie But that's not gonna happen. It's been a long time, but you know, maybe shutter Maybe shutter should try and get a blob to done But I really like that how they're just like oh these Basically movies like these idiot, you know wacky prophecy people like Think about it in real life. How many times has the world supposed to have ended and everyone's all these people were supposed to have been raptured So either nobody was worthy to be raptured or it's all a bunch of crap Which this movie kind of points out. It's like these nutjobs This movie points out that you could be messing with some bad stuff while pursuing scientific discovery Obviously, there's a whole slew of these types of movies throughout decades like every decade of horror almost like going way back where it's kind of here's a scientific discovery or a Path to trying to discover something scientifically and then things go wrong not just wrong but horribly wrong and the world may be totally destroyed It's a theme that I think works. Well, it's been mined a lot for content and I don't know I just feel like there's it's worked really well and there's more to be done with it It's just in my opinion never really gets old because you can just apply it to a different thing You know in this instance is space like trying to do stuff in space and trying to find like a biological weapon from space You know, there's so many iterations of it. So anyway, this is fun This is a fun movie super fun. It's not like the best movie ever made like there's some stuff that you're kind of like Oh, that's kind of dumb But it's like How are you not gonna like it? There's just so much fun to it So I'm gonna give it an honest rating like comparing it to all film ever made basically so five star system with half stars in play I'm gonna give this I'm gonna give it a three and a half I think it's appropriate to give it a three and a half if I was doing quarters. I would give it a 3.75 for sure but Yeah, I got to go three and a half because when you're comparing it to like all film Yeah, it's it's a good time I definitely recommend it and if you haven't seen it shame on you because it's like What 31 years old at this point? So Put it on top of your list go check it out and love it anyway Thanks for checking out this video really appreciate it Do me a quick favor hit that subscribe That's your way you can repay me for liking anything that I do takes you literally second and it's totally painless But it can mean a lot for me and my channel in the future. I don't make money or anything So I need that encouragement for people to subscribe But put some comments down there. Let's talk about the blob and until next time keep it brew