Stevieboy666 Remake of the cult movie that starred Steve McQueen, this is one of the best stand alone titles from the 1980's, arguably one of the best decades for cinematic horror. The special effects are awesome, on par with the likes of The Thing. Quite spectacular. It's a horror film but, without giving any spoilers, the line "Ribbed!" is hilarious, as funny as anything from the likes of American Pie. Highly recommended - and better than the original.

ivo-cobra8 The Blob (1988) is an 80's action horror classic remake from Steve McQueen version 1958 film. I love this film to death. It is one of my personal favorite horror movies. I was 10 years old and a kid when I saw the first time this film and I absolutely loved it. I saw some owner of the video store that was selling movies on VHS one of those films was this film from the 80's The Blob, I wish I could get this film on VHS before it was soled out, but my parents didn't give me the money, than the film disappeared of the air and I have never saw it or watch it. It was never on TV it took me 20 years to watch this movie, recently I found some guys who love this film and I order it on Blu-ray disc and I got it. I absolutely love movie's from the 80's and I love this flick to death it Is my favorite monster movie. I am, putting this flick right between Aliens and Deep Rising right between them as a monster movies. This is my second favorite Chuck Russell film the first one will be A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) that I absolutely love to death, this is the second film I love to death. I definitely appreciate what the original did but, yeah, the '88 Blob is certainly a feast for the eyes. I have always enjoyed this movie and I had such a fun watching it. It is fun, exciting and pure entertaining. Simon West want's to direct the remake of the Blob that is coming out I think this year which is a stupid dumb idea! I don't want to see another remake of this film so no!I love Shawnee Smith as a bad ass - tough cheerleader, she is so beautiful, gorgeous and sexy, I am completely in Love with her! I love her to death in this film. Shawnee Smith will always be Meg Penny for me, not Amanda Young from Saw! I don't care about Saw or the franchise none of those horror films are my favorite! I rather watch films from the 80's and the Blob is one of my favorite monster creature movies! I saw this flick as a kid. Shawnee Smith is gorgeous in this film she saved her younger brother, she tried to save a younger kid Eddie as well and when The Blob eats and swallows a younger kid in the sever she jumps in the water trying to saves him and she couldn't. She fires a machine gun on the Blob and say's "come on, you can do better than that!". I love the music score from Michael Hoenig and I love the song on the end of the title Brave New Love by Alien. You also have Paul McCrane in from RoboCop (1987) after seeing him in this film, I recognized him right away, it is Emil M. Antonowsky from RoboCop! The movie has likable characters, fast paced, a lot's of action, fun bits of humor, Paul Flagg (Kevin Dillon) escapes from those government guys, jumps over this little bridge and gives the middle finger when he jumps over the bridge on his motorcycle. I love this scene it was memorable scene I remember it. In the opening scene he crashed down the bridge but now he jumped over which was excellent. Fun bits of dialogue, the budget was used very well against great special effects, I have no problems with them, it is one of my favorites of all time.This film is only shot an hour and thirty-five minutes which is not that long, it is like is said pure entertainment, I grow up with this flick and I love it. I disagree with the reviewers who say the original is much better than this version. I think quite the opposite is true. The 80's "The Blob" along with the 80's "The Fly" are two of the few remakes that I think far surpass the originals. Sure, it's a schlocky 80's horror movie, but taken in that context, it's damn good!A great script, an excellent combination of FX to achieve the look of the Blob, and absolute horror and carnage... I love it! This is a horror movie with BALLS. Within the first half hour, (spoiler alert) they kill off the guy we're expecting to be the star! They kill little kids! They kill off innocents, characters we like and want to live!This movie takes no prisoners and pulls no punches. It takes the idea of the original, puts an interesting twist into the plot, injects it with good FX, good acting and a decent budget, and you have something far superior to the original. Just like "Little Shop of Horrors" -- The cheap and dated original can never hold up to the musical remake.This flick get's a 10 out of 10 by me for been my favorite sci-fi horror flick of all time.

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!

bowmanblue If you're thinking to yourself 'Should I watch the 1988 remake of The Blob?' then you've already thought too hard about the subject matter. The Blob is a film that you don't really mean to watch, you just find yourself doing so when you come in from the pub at nearly midnight and accidentally switch the TV on. Then you find you're already half way through and, despite not knowing everything about it, sit there glued to the end.I'm one of the few horror lovers who hasn't actually seen the original, so I can't compare it to that. However, I know a decent B-movie when I see one (if that isn't a contradiction in terms). The Blob, well, it's about a blob of pink goo that eats/absorbs people. Nuff said. If you like the sound of that, you'll probably love the film.Yes, the acting is hardly Oscar-worthy and people do some pretty daft things at times. But there are enough shocks, surprises and generally genre-breaking things to keep you laughing into your popcorn until the end of the movie. It's not over long and the effects/gore aren't bad for a B-movie in the eighties.If you can ignore the unfashionable hair and poor man's Morgan Freeman (if you've seen Stephen King's 'Dreamcatcher' you'll probably understand that reference) then you should love this.They don't make 'em like they used to (some may say that's a good thing, but not me!).