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The Blob (1988)
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris kick off the spooky season with 1988's The Blob, which has a new limited edition 4K steelbook release.
A remake of the 1958 Steve McQueen starring classic, the 1988 The Blob was directed by Chuck Russell and stars Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith. When a satellite carrying a biological experiment gone wrong crashes near the small town of Arborville, CA, the residents start to be devoured by the titular monster, which gets bigger with each victim it absorbs. Bad boy biker Brian (Dillon) and cheerleader Meg (Shawnee Smith) get thrown together by the Blob's rampage and have to survive both the monster and the government agents who have arrived to quarantine and contain the creature, with the entire town considered expendable. The guys talk about Kevin Dillon's "death-defying" motorcycle jump, the gruesome practical effects, the early death of a character that seems like a main character, and more.
You can watch The Blob on Paramount+ or Peacock. Next week, we're discussing Tim Burton's homage to Hammer Horror with Sleepy Hollow, which is getting a 25th anniversary 4K on October 8th.
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Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:03
Speaker
Welcome to the Everything Action Cast, the official podcast of EverythingAction.com.
00:00:18
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Everything Action Cast podcast for the week of September 30th, 2024.
Discussion on 'The Blob' 80s Version and Its Remake
00:00:24
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I'm Rio Zek. I'm your co-host, Chris. Yeah, and this week we're trying not to get absorbed by the blob.
00:00:31
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the 80s version of the blob, which got a fancy new ah limited edition steelbook 4K. I think it came out on 4K last year, but now that there's like a do ah new collector's edition fancy case steelbook, if you really want a collector's edition of it. um But yeah, the 1988 remake of the 1958 classic, that star of Steve McQueen.
Chuck Russell's Career and Film Style
00:00:54
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The 88 version stars Kevin Dylan and Shawnee Smith.
00:00:59
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And directed by Chuck Russell, who, if you look at his filmography, like he had a run there for a while from like late 80s to the 90s. His filmography was crazy, because he did ah Dream Warriors. They were in opportunity three. He did The Blob. They did The Mask.
00:01:21
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They did Eraser, and they did ah Bless the Child, which is like yeah i guess probably like like the outlier of like this run, but then 2002 with the Scorpion King.
00:01:34
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yeah like There's no rhyme and reason with his movies.
Frank Darrabont's Contribution and Success
00:01:39
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It's not like he had a style that was distinct, that it's like, oh, you got Chuck ah Russell. like You're going to expect a certain thing.
00:01:45
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it's like Every movie is different. Yeah. It's a completely different style and tone that you'd be surprised. It's like, wait, this guy did that. And this like, and it, I think like only like a handful of people he carries over between like, like some crew and cast. But yeah, it's, I blew my mind that this is the same guy that directed a eraser yeah and and the and the mask. Yeah. Yeah.
80s Horror Remakes: 'The Blob,' 'The Thing,' and 'The Fly'
00:02:14
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Like.
00:02:16
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they're not even like the same type of like funny like erasers action funny and then the mass is supposed to be like kid friendly funny and the other thing too about the blob is that he uh co-wrote the movie with none other than frank dara bots who you know obviously and wrote ah wrote this wrote this with ah Chuck Russell and then went on to the you know check the little movies like The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile and The Mist and helped develop The Walking Dead and tons of other things. But, you know, I kind of see his Walking Dead like inspiration.
Tonal Differences in 50s vs 80s Remakes
00:02:54
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Well, I wonder if this is where he met Jeffrey DeMund, who's like the sheriff in the blob because he that I feel like
00:03:03
Speaker
in this that like, they don't I think they had a friendship before this. Yeah. Well, I mean, because because obviously say Frank Darrabont's first movie directing wise was after this, like Shawshank. And then Frank Darrabont was in that and then Darrabont's been in every single Frank Darrabont thing, including obviously The Walking Dead.
00:03:24
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um But yeah, and then I also think about the Blob 2, the 80s version of Blob is it's in this kind of like holy trinity, I think of like, remakes of 50s movies that are like as good or like arguably better than their predecessors. Because you got this, the thing, and the fly are all like you know eight but around this time, like late 80s. And then they're all like all the 80s versions are like or like some of the most critically acclaimed, like pushing special effects, pushing like you know horror classics.
Remakes Surpassing Originals in Quality
00:03:57
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But they're all based on 50s movies that are also considered classics.
Plot and Character Analysis of 'The Blob'
00:04:04
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but and it's it's kind of like it's like that rare thing of like oh the remake is potentially better than the original one I mean definitely definitely for the I mean definitely the thing I mean the thing from their world is fun but like the thing like John Carper's the thing is just like it's standalone yeah it's like one of the greatest movies of all time so I feel like the blob though when you kind of have its star in the same vibe as as the original where small-town people and interact with a blob like creature but they really like fill in the background about the blob here yeah i feel like i feel like tonally like well i guess i mean the like the flaw like the vits of price fly compare or was it supposed to fly i think he was right yeah like that would compare like the uh
00:04:56
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You know, the name Cronenberg one is like, I was still i was just like, the tone, tonal wise, it's like totally different, like probably the most different is like thelo the blob at 50s and blob 80s. But I mean, to fly 50s and fly 80s is also like just like insanely different, like tonal wise and everything. True. I don't know. So it's like, well it took a while for this blob movie to be recognized as a good remake. Yeah.
Character Dynamics and Plot Twists
00:05:18
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Well, I think I think that it was the terrible. So like, I think honestly, the first act is pretty weak.
00:05:24
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But parts of the first act are like a different movie. Well, I think the main like mains sayy too that separates this one from the 50s one is like this one just like takes like like the blob is such a big like a like a scarier threat and the effects of the blob are like so much more like horrific and gruesome. Oh, yeah. I kind of forgot how slow the first blob is.
00:05:49
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and good You see this you're so blown away that this is just like 80s effects of like a tentacle monster Yeah, I mean that that's the that's the biggest like selling point of the of the 80s blob is just like all all the insane special effects and gore effects and the kills and People getting sucked like people, you know people getting sucked into like things they shouldn't be getting sucked into and dissolving and
00:06:21
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But yeah, for from the start, I do like, there's a lot of like, um like fake outs. And I like the fake out at the beginning where it's just like, we're like, the credits are going to just like seemingly abandoned town, you're just like, what is going on? And then you you find out, oh, it's because everyone did a football game.
00:06:38
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yeah's It's your your tear town there's just like papers flying gross like bullies are bored. its It's like billions are boarded up. It's like oh It's just like post up like this is up the wall. I'm already had this town or something It's like no, there's like ever just like the literally entire town is at this football game Pretty weird like I guess for like
00:07:03
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But these days when the hometown has a football game, all that does is cause problems, like in for traffic. It's never like, awesome. Like the community is coming together. Now it's like, where is everybody at the football game? Like what's going on? Like there's nothing else in this town. Well, I think there's like, there's a mention of like, um, like Fran, like the wait, the waitress at the diner, like you mentioned something about like, Oh, the town was been having like a hard time there. Now they have something with like,
00:07:30
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like, for like, cheer for or something, the football team. Oh, I kind of forgot that. Like, is it something that like, um, the biker guy did? Cause it seems like everyone in the town hates him. Kevin Dylan. Yeah. Yeah. The bad boy. Cause he just wants to jump a gorge. Try to jump, try to jump a gorge with this motorcycle. Um,
00:07:57
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And yeah, yeah he's he's done something in the past, because like the sheriff is like totally up to like, like the sheriff's just like, hey, he turned 18 in a couple weeks. that You know, no more juvie, you're going to real jail the next time.
00:08:16
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So yeah, so ke so Kevin Dale has been like up to some stuff, apparently.
Special Effects and Horror Tactics in 'The Blob'
00:08:23
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And then there's also ah like Paul,
00:08:27
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who is in the football team. And then obviously, Shawnee Smith, who is a cheerleader, which it's so weird to go back to like, you know, after so many years of saw with Shawnee Smith, just like go back, like she's here as like a normal teenage cheerleader girl. And not just like assistant, like trapmaker. Yeah, not getting caught in like reverse bear traps or yeah, putting people in the torture devices.
00:08:55
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Yeah I also get surprised when I watch
00:09:06
Speaker
Did you watch a lot of Becker? I maybe like an episode randomly but so which is twice but yeah I didn't watch it like regularly. You're missing out man. Uh, but it's so interesting as a like set up for this because it, it shows you the jock and the tea, the like puppy cheerleader and you're like, Oh, these are going to be the main hero. They're going to don't want to survive this whole thing. Well, they really, they really build up like a lot of like the, the but the, you know, the wacky characters of the town. They build up like, um, well, you, well you find out later, like, uh, shiny Smith, like Meg's.
00:09:41
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dad is the pharmacist. And then there's a whole scene with like Paul and his friend going to buy condoms at the pharmacy, at least like a wacky, wacky mix up later on. And then like the Reverend, he was also at the pharmacy and then you got like the can man who's like, who's the the the guy that finds the ah ah blob to start with. They call him the can man? Yeah, that's like his credit in like the ah the credits is like, yeah, the can man, because he collects cans.
00:10:11
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Not only fucks him, he like, brushes them with a handmade, like, oars foot pan.
00:10:18
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We're not gonna talk about that? I guess, I guess there's like, um, there wasn't like the redemption stuff yet, maybe? I don't know when that got introduced, but but he's probably just like, crushing him to- you get like a bull deer cyclic or something, that's how he makes his money, I guess.
00:10:37
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But yeah, so this whole kind of set up all these different characters in town. Also, the Sheriff, Jeffrey Demond, he asks out Fran at the diner, and then they're like, let's save this whole thing. So they're setting up all these different characters before the insanity of the blobs happens. Before the blob just rolls it down and destroys everyone. I do like that.
00:11:07
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it's introduction to the blob is very like I don't know like a slasher film like it starts with like the pain man getting on his hand and then instead of saying help or something he just immediately finds like ah like a witness so he can just try to chop his hand off oh yeah I don't understand why he waited until that like he's like okay now someone's gonna watch me do this Yeah, because because Kevin Dylan tried to jump his motorcycle over like this like destroyed bridge earlier. And he crashed. And then his motorcycle kind of like conked out on him. So he had to like go back to town, get tools. He had to borrow some tools from like the garage local garage. And hes in the middle of the night, he's like ah we're out working on his motorcycle. And then, yeah, the cam man runs through him. And the cam man has like the blob, like the the start start of the blob on his hand. And then he wrote like came like he tries to chop his own hand off, which the blob
00:12:03
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heels I think it just So yeah, so he can like remain on the host body or whatever it needs. to like it's It's like food source. And then he runs the military, gets hit by ah Paul and Meg who are on a date, which we yeah they had like the wacky mix of like, there's what's What's Paul's friend's name? ah Oh, Eddie. Eddie's by condoms, but then he's like pretend like, he runs the references, he's pretending to be like, oh, not by condoms, not enough for me, they're from Paul. So the pharmacy owner's just like, oh, that that like that kid is like on out of control, that boy's, and then like it's like, that's the that's who's taking out his daughter on a date, and he's just like, oh, shit. You want ribbed condoms for my daughter.
00:12:55
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I mean, it could be worse. It could be even the pharmacy. It's just like, can I get some, like, Mufflin? Which I do. I do. I do love. Like, ah so, like, Art Leflore is ah Tom, like, like a Chinese Miss dad. He's like a, you know, he's like a that guy extraordinaire. He's a classic dad.
00:13:14
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to to Like I love his line of just like there's like there's like this has one line when you like is it just always just like ribbed and then they're gonna see cuts Yeah, like that that's a whole different movie. ah Yeah, that's like let's go wacky. You like that's like a wacky comedy like I Don't mind that I that's why I like the break of it. And then you forget like, oh wait, this is a blob movie still not just some Team romance like but it could be there's some parts of it that just seem very charming. Mm-hmm But yeah, but they all, but but they all kind of like, so like Kevin Dylan and Shawn Smith, and then Paul, like Donovan Leach, they all kind of collide together because ah the Cayman runs the middle of the road and gets hit by Paul and Megan, their car. And then they go to the hospital and then things start going totally out of control because the blob eats the Cayman. I mean, like our first like super gruesome special effect is like the, like the lower part of the Cayman's body is just like eaten.
00:14:14
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But then it does the thing where it infiltrates the can man's mind because his eyes go white and he's all puffy. Yeah. So I didn't know that the blob was in him, but then it just seemed like it perfectly ate the low torso and then was left. Like it was just, was it full? I do like, um, so apparently I checked, like Chuck Russell and Victor Ahmad said their their idea was that the blob is like an inside out stomach.
00:14:42
Speaker
So like the acid like the acid's on the outside. And then that's why like like just the touch of it just like starts like dissolving whatever it's like it touches.
00:14:55
Speaker
I do like the horror about it. It's not just, OK, blah. It just absorbs you. It's like, oh, it visibly digests you. Now you have the effects to be a very weirdest thing. And it's not like instantaneous. It's not like you're just like, oh, you're dead. It consumes you and you're dead. You're inside the blob screaming and just dissolving you. Which is the other big fakeout, the second big fakeout of the movie, which is Paul, who you think is gonna be one of the main characters, gets just destroyed by the blob. The blob covers him up and totally just eats him and dissolves him.
00:15:40
Speaker
Yep. And it's so fast. You have no time to like, like, you don't even mourn him enough. Like it just sort of, there he goes. Yep. Now you just have to deal with the rest of the characters and they start getting kicked off. You know, like other people you think are going to be like, okay, well maybe who's the real hero? then And he's like, Oh, it's gonna be just shiny. She's gonna be doing it. And Kevin Dylan. Yeah, they're like, maybe it's like, they're a couple. now like Well, I don't know if they're gonna be a couple, but then they had that date. They, she's just telling him to like, um help her. And there is an awkward piece of writing that happens.
00:16:21
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where she does the freak out and then suddenly he just goes like, whoa, ho, hey, hey oh, I was just being the tough guy. You know, I'm, I'm, I'm actually really sensitive. I don't like, you know, like he was so accommodating to her as soon as she was loud.
00:16:36
Speaker
It just felt very like, all right, like that's the switch. Now, now he's like willing to help her because he got yelled at, but that then then later on he has another moment too, where, He's like, I don't want to do this. Yeah. and I look up for myself. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's right. I'm the bad boy. Loner. I forgot. Yeah. It is. where Well, it's kind of weird, too, because like he did. He did leave the hospital. So he he didn't actually. like Because it's like, hey, you're the only one that will believe me. Like you saw what was on that guy's hand. and But then it's like he only saw like a tiny like he only saw a tiny like hand sized blob. He didn't see Paul get devoured by like ah like a human sized blob.
00:17:15
Speaker
so he doesn't know so he it's like he doesn't he's not witness like he can't back you up and say like oh yeah this pink blob monster ate Paul dissolved him and what's he gonna do like sue the blob and then the cut and the cut the cops are like oh well obviously like Kevin Dylan did it like he's involved in this somehow like he but then it's like proof proof how I was able to do this I don't even know how human would do like dissolve and ah i it it's all of this is is his hand yeah Plus, like, he left earlier, so it wasn't like he was still there, and then suddenly that guy was, like, dead, you know? That's such a crazy, like, acid attack, if they're just like, alright, well, he was, died like, digested, it and then, okay, well, how did, like, how did he do it? How did Kevin, like, Dylan do this? Did he eat him? Was he a flyman?
00:18:10
Speaker
They just have like a giant like bottle of acid or like a giant barrel of acid.
00:18:21
Speaker
But yeah, but he me but yeah kevin hill so he agrees to help Shoy Smith, but then ah the but you know the blob rolls in the town and attacks the diner. And um which there's like one, I think probably the my my favorite kill is like the guy gets like sucked down the drain in the and like diner kitchen.
00:18:46
Speaker
really So about this movie, I saw this movie when I was way too young. It wasn't like a movie that was on like HBO and I happened to like catch it with my family. You know, it's on, you walk in the room and that plunger scene is definitely one of those like childhood things that just burns in your head because you'd ever seen anything like that. Yeah. And then just seeing a person just compact down a pipe is so like vivid that you've been watching this again. I was like, oh my god, it's a nightmare of just getting sucked down and then probably getting mushed down that like that guy was probably alive still for some point, but that's like into a pipe. Yeah, there's so many so many kills in this version of Bob where it's like,
00:19:32
Speaker
The blob is just like, the force of the blob is just sucking them into like a space that a human body should not be able to fit through. But it's like, it's just like smashing it through it. Dude, like sheer, like, like, like pure force. Like, yeah, shut forcing someone down the drain or like chugging someone through like ah a tiny window or like... Yeah, once it just latches on, physics doesn't matter. It's just gonna pull and somehow compact people in the weird places.
00:20:00
Speaker
Yeah, but yeah, that that drain, that drain thing is is
Character Survival Strategies
00:20:03
Speaker
it's insane. It's probably but probably the one of the best skills just of how like, because it it goes out, it's like, it's probably the longest skill too. i'm Just like, his like they guys getting like pulled on that drain for like quite a while and then like just like seeing like, you know, there's like an arm sticking out of there the in a way that an arm should never be. get of like And then like the legs are being pulled through. So yeah, just awesome, awesome, crazy kill.
00:20:31
Speaker
And obviously, like but like all this is all like practical to it because it's the 80s. you
00:20:39
Speaker
And then I also i do like to where so like Fran, who like works at the diner, like runs outside to like the phone booth. Um, and and then it gets like kind of like killed inside the phone. But then you see, there was a scene earlier where the sheriff is like, Oh, I gotta to check on the diner. And then, and then you don't, like, he doesn't show up to like, he just like, you should you see him in the blob already, like dead. Yeah. It, it, it quick cuts. And I didn't realize that that was him when I was like, yeah, you see his like hat dissolve face. So it's see Oh, sheriff's not helping.
00:21:14
Speaker
ah Yeah, and then like just like the the phone booth just explodes that, or the blob just explodes that phone booth and just like that that impact of that is insane. It's like a bomb goes off. But one part I couldn't figure out is that, can the blob digest that phone booth, but it really wanted to crack it in? like Does it know that it could probably eat through metal? I don't know. I don't think they 100% explain it. But honestly, I think the thing about the blob is that The more organic matter it eats, the bigger it gets. So it really wants to eat people and like like organic things so they can grow. like it will It's going to smash through phone booths and windows and buildings to like get to people. But I think it needs people and like other things to increase its size.
00:22:07
Speaker
And then we get to we get the crucial ah info in this the Diner Attack 2, where the blob doesn't like cold. because it it won't go in like the diner freezer, so Megan, Kevin, dile they're they're like brighter, like safe in the freezer.
00:22:24
Speaker
Yeah, the the freezer scene, I think, in the original doesn't happen until the end, right? Where they realize the cold. Yeah, that's that that's like it's like the end of like the movie, like like Steve McQueen and them are like, oh, it doesn't like cold. Fire extinguishers, we need like, yeah, we need like cold stuff to like stop it.
00:22:44
Speaker
But this one, they they start pretty early to establish that rule. But they don't even like use it to their advantage until the end. Even then, it's like, oh, that just happened to be like the right thing at the right time instead of like, OK, we need to get fire extinguishers. So I see the difference.
00:23:06
Speaker
ah But don't you think, also, ah Fran, who seemed to be like a genuinely nice character, who, you know, was great for a date, gave free pie, and then she died. Yes. Well, yeah, no, no one is safe. No one is safe for this movie for the blob. The blob does not care. No one is safe. But in terms of pacing that happened, all this happens where all these other characters they introduce are gone by me. like Yeah, they kill mark like, ah like half, the like more than half the characters they introduced in like the opening of like, this is kind of like, you know, like,
00:23:41
Speaker
tour of the town like just like stopping in the diner in the farmer's seat everything they're all everyone's half half of them are dead are already by the flop I'm surprised the dad is still alive you know yeah mm-hmm he should have been gone too based on how this movie's introducing things I'm glad he's not dead because like he was good actor and like the story beat would have been more sad but ah totally like you know they introduce basically other characters who you just don't care about you know mindless other military guys or um
00:24:17
Speaker
Well, we got we have mentioned like, I think I said it earlier, but it's actually like Scott, who was like my Paul's friend, who's like you find out it's just like an utter sleaze bag. Oh, yeah. Oh, if you going on if if if you could if you cant tell by him by
Military Involvement and Conspiracy Elements
00:24:30
Speaker
condoms. But like when he's on a date with Erica, I think in like one of her first like movie roles. But then ah like, yeah, he's like trying to like get her like super drunk. And then his the truck of his car is like he's turned it into like a bar.
00:24:47
Speaker
He's got like mixers and all kinds of like, he's got all kinds of different liquors in there and like, uh, perfect warm spot to put your liquors and fresh fruit. Yeah.
00:25:01
Speaker
And then like this whole thing, but the thing is he's on like make out peak of the town and it's such a weird spot too, because the blob during this time, like terrorize the town. And then for whatever reason went back to the mountains.
00:25:18
Speaker
and then and then like killed this girl, like got in her, killed her, waited to be groped and then killed, you know, like the blob in this one was just being a dick. Yeah. They they don't really, we don't really get an idea of like the blobs, like intelligence level. Cause that, that's like a, that's like a very like, yo, it's like a high intelligent move. Like I'm going to like pretend to be, I'm ah not going to strike it to like this guy that tries to like grow up this girl. all like I mean,
00:25:48
Speaker
The blob hitter's been waiting there all day, waiting for something to happen. He could just, yeah but like, yeah, the blob hitter's just, like, yeah, absorbed the bow with, but then it's this, yeah, this whole, like, fake out plot by the blob. Which has another awesome effect of, like, Eric and Linux, like, had just, like, getting, like, gi like so sucked with, sucked inside out, or, like, just, like, in, so it looks like a ah mask. And then Paul gets, like, ah Scott gets, like, eaten as well.
00:26:20
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and And then I think we like then like I think it's when the art like like after the diner after that like yeah we get like the army shows up. like The special whatever unit they are.
00:26:32
Speaker
the but The what the one guy said the like. Glad the but yeah the but like they're like they're like a biohazard like our army like special forces group.
00:26:48
Speaker
And then there's- Okay, so for special forces guys, none of their shits attack camo. They're all in like, you know, giant white spacesuits. Do not make it sound like it's a covert operation. Yeah. Well, I think I don't think they expected like an actual like creature. I think they expected like maybe like some sort of like, uh,
00:27:08
Speaker
Did you ever really read or like see the Andromeda strain, something Kraken book, where it's like the the germ the germ from like comes back on a satellite and then it's not a creature, it's just like ah ah it's a virus, but like it's like a space mutated virus? I think there were i think they're expecting like something like more like that, where it's like, well, we got to have these contamination suits so we don't get the virus infected by the virus. But it's like, oh, no, it's an actual creature.
00:27:40
Speaker
And I do like that, um, like the main, like the main guy, like Dr. Meadows, like seems like he's like super nice to start with. And then they're like, he turns with me like the most evil person in the movie. Yeah. He starts out that kind of like, okay, I'm doing this for the sake of like America science. But then it's like, Oh no, he is super, um, like corrupted, I guess.
00:28:04
Speaker
Well, like he's he wants like they they like you find out they want the block. They want the blob because they think they can use this like a weapon against the Russians like like to like drop to like drop the blob on like Russia, I guess. They'll just like all it. Yeah. So the crazy thing is like they're like, oh, this is great. We can use this as a weapon. It's like, well, that's if you can master the weapon. It's not like.
00:28:27
Speaker
this is like, this guy's plan was still pretty weird. Yeah. Oh, this is like a destructive force. And then even the guys in the team, like, yeah, based on its growth, like, it could still wipe us out. Yeah, the one the the the what one like, like, um like, ah sympathetic guy on like the government team is like,
00:28:44
Speaker
Uh, there's gotta be a, there's like, if we drop it on like Russia or drop it, like if we let this thing go, it's like, there's gonna be no worlds left. So it's the entire world. And Dr. Mendez is like, shut up. We're, it's a cut. We're at war. Yeah. I was like, what? It's like so dumb at that point. I understand. Okay. You wanted to make a weapon and control it, but then someone points out, Oh, we can't control it. And they're like, no, we can. And you know, like, that's it. Like,
00:29:12
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the The military guy that's in their crew should have stepped up and been like, all right, we're not going to do that. But it's crazy because it's not like.
00:29:26
Speaker
They were like the heads, you know, and then not talking to the rest of the staff. Everyone is there. Everyone's like in on it. But it seems like once that that doctor guy is gone, then they're all like, oh, we should be nice. We should like say help. Not like the town is it expendable anymore. but Yeah. Yeah. But even that line was like, what about the town? They're like, expendable. Oh, no. Yeah. Dr. Moses is this kind of guy that like if they had to like he would drop a new gun.
00:29:56
Speaker
the town and like that would kill the blob he would like you that kill everyone down yep this definitely would have been a Morgan Freeman role like he was in outbreak he was like Freeman in Dreamcatcher that's him remember like he was like the like evil got like government guy yep and he wanted to kill like all the people that found the alien yeah
00:30:28
Speaker
Well, there was an evil alien and a good alien in Dreamcatcher.
00:30:35
Speaker
But I think more people were just like, kill them all. We got to protect America from aliens.
Iconic Movie Theater Scene and Horror Impact
00:30:41
Speaker
I'm also thinking, did Frank Darabon also do Dreamcatcher? No. Frank Darabon did the good Stephen King adaptation. He had nothing to do with Dreamcatcher.
00:31:01
Speaker
But ah anyway, back to the blob. um So I think we definitely got to mention the movie theater scene, which is like, you know obviously, the 50s blob, that's like one probably the most memorable scene of the entire movie, is like the movie theater getting like ah like consumed by the blob. And then they ah yeah they recreate that 80s style for this blob, where it's way more gruesome, way more chaotic, way more crazy.
00:31:32
Speaker
The projectionist gets like sucked into like the air conditioning vents, because the blob like comes up up from the like through the vents, and that's hiked up, and and it comes through the ah projection booth into like the theater. And definitely, ah no no no ah epilepsy warnings in the 80s, because that scene where it's just like the like the theater like the screen screen light starts, the projection light starts strobing. It's just like, man.
00:31:58
Speaker
Good luck. Yeah, I definitely could have used a like flashing lights seizure warning for this one.
00:32:09
Speaker
I mean, it's awesome. and it looks It makes it look ah like it it adds even more like to the chaos and just like insanity of what's going on. But like even mine was like, wow, this is hurting my eyes so bad. It's just like strobe effect.
00:32:25
Speaker
Yeah, I love in the 80s. Good luck. We don't know enough about seizure lighting. so yeah want You want to find out until like Pokemon in like the 90s, remember what I said it was?
00:32:40
Speaker
but Yeah, yeah. so then I also love like the blob is like on the ceiling and just like grabbing people with like tentacles and just like pulling them up into the blob. and like There's like people like on the floor like getting like has their faces are like melted off. and
00:32:55
Speaker
Tons of puns of great crazy kills in that one. And then Shelly Smith finds like her little brother and her little brother's friend who snuck into like, which I i also, there's a fake like Jason movie inside this movie. was like things It's like the Toolbox Massacre or something.
00:33:17
Speaker
So you see like little little clips of it throughout the like like the middle part of the movie? Oh, yeah. the but like heger whatever they call this it's like it's like I think it's like tool the tool it's like the toolbox killer or toolbox massacre like it's just some sort of like and then but then yeah like the the killer has like hedge trimmers it's like it's it's the main weapon And there's like that asshole in the back just like, like, is like who like, I know all about horrible. I've seen he's either seen it before or he's like, just like pointing out how like a trophy that movie is. It's like, like, look at these, uh, these girls are gonna like get killed now because they're having sex or whatever. Like they're like, this the guy's gonna kill this guy. It's such a weird thing because he's like a grown like redneck heart. It's just like, what? Uh,
00:34:04
Speaker
I think that's the actual director. Is that Chuck Russell in a cameo? I think that's Chuck Russell, yeah. Because they say he's in the theater. I think that's him. He's the only one that you see a lot of camera time on. Yeah. And he's the first one that gets sucked by the blob when it flows into the theater. Technically, the projectionist was. Yeah. In the actual main theater area. Right, right. And you worked in a projection hall.
00:34:32
Speaker
or projections, like, right. So did you ever sticker, is there like a AC unit that built into the room like that? You could stick your whole head in. Well, the movie theater I worked at didn't have, we didn't have projectionists because it's all automatic. you you So it's just like, there's like a room above the, like, above the theaters that like one big, it's kinda like a ah second floor with just like the projectors and then you just like set, they just get like up digital files uploaded to them.
00:34:59
Speaker
Yeah, I
Climactic Confrontation and Resolution
00:35:00
Speaker
don't, I don't remember. but There definitely was like a, like a sort of like vent or anything. It's like, so you walk up the stairs and it's like, oh, here's all the projectors.
00:35:12
Speaker
So yeah, definitely, yeah, definitely not like an old school, like 80s projection booth. And then after the, ah the cast of the theater, like the we get like the sewer sequence which it's also really great like that's that's it's even more scary just like when you can't even see the blob like it's like in the water somewhere and you can't see it
00:35:38
Speaker
yeah at that point it becomes like a like um sewer monster that I think in the original one, the the blob never gets wet. Like I think the blob just is the slow moving treat dwelling sewer one. I don't remember if it's sequence. ever a sewer scene. No, I think it's pretty much stays above ground and it gets like gradually gets bigger and starts like consuming whole buildings and you know, I think we mentioned before like consumes a diner at the end and then it's like the entire building is covered with a blob.
00:36:10
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, this is blob definitely much more mobile, much more like aggressive, like it has like different forms where it can make like can make things out of its like body like tentacles and like a mouth kind of like later on, like it just like or like a ah giant like funnel.
00:36:28
Speaker
But yeah, that sort of sequence is great like because it's just like yeah it's it's it's probably the scariest part where it's like you can't see it. It could just like burst out the pull you into the water, which happens to like Meg's brother's friend who's like, oh, they killed like a what? Kevin. Like a 12 year old kid or whatever in this movie. And then and like harific like he just pops up like a zombie.
00:36:49
Speaker
Yep. Hardcore. That's another like nightmare scene as a kid that yeah um I remember how like, oh, kids aren't safe in these horror movies because you never really see like a young child get like attacked on until this. And it's been a while since we've seen this kind of like kind of brutal child dissolving yeah yeah um but i like that the blob is just remorseless like it's just oh i'll eat whatever but for some reason really want shawny smith and shawny smith's friends or meg penny or meg penny meg penny yeah yeah the penny just it's almost like a jaws um
00:37:32
Speaker
so like like jaws revenge where it's like fuck fixated on this one person like Yeah, it's like screw you I'm trying to just you gotta you gotta wave in the freezer. I'm gonna kill you.
00:37:46
Speaker
Oh Do you want to go in on the whole like ah how like Kevin Dylan found out about this military conspiracy. And they were just like, we have to kill that kid. yeah But then when they come into town, it's like, OK, well, we don't want to kill everyone yet. But like they're expendable, but they don't do anything besides trying to fuck with Kevin again. Well, the government's trying to make it seem like there's a virus there's like ah an airborne virus or something. and they're testing They're just testing everyone in town to make sure like they don't have the virus.
00:38:22
Speaker
and they're quarantined into town. But yeah, the whole, Kevin Dillon's whole thing is like insane where he jumped, so like they find, like the government finds Meg and Brian in the woods, and they look like then he's like, hey, we're the government, and then they put him in a van, and Kevin Dillon jumps out of the van midway, just on the road going to town, so he's just like, oh, I gotta go for myself, Meg, I'm out of here, like I don't trust the government, and it's like leaves.
00:38:52
Speaker
And then he goes but he yeah goes he goes back and like yeah the he all the like Cold War. where're We're going to use the blob as a weapon. like like I don't care about the town. The town is expendable. Here's here's all that. And then it's punching a guy out with one of the guys out because he gets caught. And then they're like, kill him. He's a witness. like And then I do i do appreciate the we get the like like you know the callback to the conclusion to the setup of him, that like where it's like,
00:39:22
Speaker
He has to attempt that bike jump again. This time he makes it. Yeah, because of the courage from bullet bullets. Bullets was the missing thing from his trick. Yeah, the threat of death. Even though there's already a kind of a threat of death because you're jumping over a ah like a ah I guess it's not that deep of a gorge. You find out after he makes it that it's not that bad. It's like a stream bed. It's not canyon or anything. It's like an evil jump. It's like, oh, if you fail, you might have to twist your ankle or broke your leg maybe or something. Yeah, because I was like the big ha-ha scene difference, that you think it's going to be some big amazing jump. And then when they cut across, you realize it's not as big. But every car that was following him falls in that ditch.
00:40:11
Speaker
Yeah. They all can't handle it. They all just like can't, don't want to do the job or can't handle the job. It's like, yeah, they crashed like the stitch. And then he, then he drives his motorcycle into the sewer, which that's, that's a giant this's a giant sewer to fit like a motorcycle. He drove into like a power plant sewer. Like it was pretty big, right? But what are the chances that sewer also leads into like the main town like vein?
00:40:42
Speaker
Yeah. Unless, do I just not understand sewer systems and it's like, no, they all like meet up in the heart of the town. And it's all, it's all, it's all that same size too. Like it's like, it's big enough the whole way with that. He drives the motorcycle all the way back in the town.
00:40:59
Speaker
But yeah, but he rescues Meg and then I do like a he does like a crazy like It's it's it's ah it's um it's not quite like that if you see like that like that You know like the ball like the most like a ball at like the carnival where the guy like rides around the edges You can go pretty quick to get like he does that a little bit like his because he has to ride up the side of the sewer like the round sewer tunnel to like get around the blob and then get them and then kind of immediately crash and Yeah, it makes it, but then they crashed and then like, they had to abandon the motorcycle. At least that part's realistic. It's not like he pretty did a perfect landing he yeah and yeah. Then they like, jump jump out the jump out the end of the tunnel or something.
00:41:42
Speaker
But then they ran into that guy, like the the one, like the one, like the voice of reason guy from the military who got like attacked by the blob. He's like the one survivor. Oh, Jenkins? Yeah.
00:41:53
Speaker
who also has and also like he's he's the science guy and also a foot soldier I guess so because you got a fucking bazooka which ah yeah I love what I love that the government like they see me just like they see them climbing out the mantle covers like seal it off and it's like this is just make sure they park a van on top of the mantle covers like you're you're doubly dead like Even if you, if you got climbed up to all this way, we were like, you can't climb up because we parked a van on top of it. But then they forgot that they sent a guy with a bazooka down there. So then Kevin Dylan, I guess they did. They, they blow. He blows up the van and in the manhole cover with the bazooka. Also he does that one handed. Yes. That is the, he's like, he's like, he's like, cause he's trying to like, like keep himself away from like the blast.
00:42:49
Speaker
like But he's like, so he's like holding a bazooka one-handed, shooting it up into the manhole cup. It's like, I don't know how much protection you're gonna get from like just like leaning away from the but like the explosion.
00:43:01
Speaker
i don't I don't know if that's like a, you can basically do that and not get the blowback downward. and Yeah, I don't know how much kick a bazooka has, but I'm sure it's probably, like you probably need to have both hands on it to like not break your arm or something. Unless it's one of those, well it's a lightweight bazooka.
00:43:19
Speaker
Yeah. You can extend. um And you're not supposed to like put on the ground because the air would definitely launch the launcher upward. But like the force, you're not supposed to like one handed. I don't know. oh It's like maybe an 80s bazooka was different back then. Well, even even like Arnold, like, you know, commando Arnold, like always for like bazookas with like two hands. That's like. You know, it's kind of a strong. Kevin Dylan. Yeah, ke Kevin Dylan can handle it one handed, but Arnold can't. And the movie is proving that he's secretly like a buff.
00:43:48
Speaker
you under all yeah Yeah His uh, he gets all his power from like his like luxurious hair He's like Kevin Dylan is rocking like Is that a bullet or is that like I guess it'd be like a bullet like an 80s bullet. It's not a It's not short on the side No, its it's it's it's all yeah, it's all long. I guess it's not really a bullet. But yeah not sure all
00:44:16
Speaker
I feel like the movie guy who was talking in the theater was mullet guy. Oh, yeah. But Kevin Dylan kept his hair feathered, so don't.
00:44:34
Speaker
But yeah, then Kevin Dylan, the spaceship blew up the main hole, and then they climb out, and then like Dr. Meadows is like totally like in full like psycho mode, and just like, kill him, kill him!
00:44:47
Speaker
and then he he gets eaten by the blob and then yeah then i think we should be like all the military guards are just like oh okay like he's dead like we'rere we're cool now it's as if they had a moment of we're free now yeah he's gone we're not under his like the the tyrannical reign of dr meadows anymore and then they try to blow the blob with like a satchel charge and like grenades and like uh all kinds of different things and just like makes the blob angry gun fire down a tube yeah and then
00:45:19
Speaker
I don't know like it seems like they should have brought a flamethrower or something like they should know something about the blob but they are really just winging it well they don't and the government has no idea that that seems to have no idea about the cold like that yeah they're trying to use like bombs and flamethrowers and grenades and like what was the base of like the virus because Yeah, because they said they sent something that it was like some sort of bacteria they sent up into ah in a satellite. And then it got mutated from space radiation. It came back down, and then that's the blob. But yeah, we know't we we don't really we don't really get an idea of like what the like what bacteria it was. or
00:46:03
Speaker
ah but
00:46:05
Speaker
yeah I that up because just like in evolution, Do you remember that movie? Yep. Heat makes things worse. Like they didn't know that. So they're just guessing that with this, which I did appreciate about evolution. They're like, OK, fire was an accelerant. And then the virus or whatever was evolving, eat it on that. But this is like opposites. You know, it's weird that not enough like blob esque monsters. Weakness is is cold.
00:46:43
Speaker
you know It's the first movie I think, and still, it's only like a monster that the cold defeats it or temporarily does something to it. Yeah, cause they cause they find out yeah fire extinguishers can like hold it off for a little bit. But then, well, luckily, there is a truck, like a snow, I guess it's for like a ski resort.
00:47:06
Speaker
Um, a snowmaking truck is in town, which, you know, lucky for them, that's like full of like, was it, was it like liquid nitrogen or something in it?
00:47:17
Speaker
So that's, that's like the big, that's like the big, um, like the thing that gets out the blob, which, you know, shiny Smith just goes full on like Rambo at the end. And like, she's like, she's the one that like is like, she picks up a machine gun, picks up like assassin charge.
00:47:33
Speaker
Like, she's she's like got the plan to blow up this snow-making truck and kill the blob with it.
00:47:42
Speaker
I like how she's so badass about that. Then her dismount is completely ruined. Yes, it's so good. Yeah, like she's yeah she's on top of the truck fighting a machine gun, looking at a badass, so that she's got the massage charge primed. Even then, she has a she has a like a one-liner. Mm-hmm. Yep. I think that's what it was. but just like Was it like was it like ah like a cold pun or something? I forgot. And then she just turns, like, left and falls off the truck. Her foot is stuck, yeah.
00:48:16
Speaker
It does take, ke it gives something for Kevin Dillon to do, like, runs it up and gets her off. It's like, I'm the hero. He should have been, like, a loner quotes. I remember himself.
00:48:29
Speaker
Or he looks around and goes, I don't have my bike. I don't know what to do. Yeah. Yeah, I'm used to stuff my motorcycle.
00:48:40
Speaker
But yeah, they they managed to get clear. They bolt the truck. ah it It causes like the entire town to get covered in snow. somehow, I guess, because it's still making truck. And then and the blob turns into crystals, which I think we we got a hit of that earlier. Like part of the blog got frozen by like the freezer or like the first thing or something. they was I think it was in the freezer because the Reverend like finds like he goes into the diner after like everyone got like left after the attack and he finds the little pieces of the blob and puts in like a jar. But yeah, the blob is like turned into like
00:49:17
Speaker
these like crystals and then they're going to store it in the town's ice house. And that's the only solution. I mean, you sort of like not going to dump it anywhere and I can like, it's like, well, just put it in like the town's ice house. Hopefully it'll never unfreeze ever again. This town will never have a power outage or something. Yeah.
00:49:40
Speaker
You don't don't like dumping down a hole or like, you know, putting it like ship it to like Antarctica or like It's like, yeah, we're going to keep it like where we keep the towns like frozen fish or like the towns like, like, uh, ice supply. Yeah.
Film's Aftermath and Sequel Potential
00:49:55
Speaker
Um, yeah, at least in the original, they like fly it to the Arctic to drop it. I think so. Yeah. But here they're just like, but then, but then there was a sequel to the blob. We were in the blob. So obviously that plant didn't work out in the original. I didn't, I didn't see more of the blob.
00:50:14
Speaker
No one talks about it, at least. I know. Have you seen it? I've never seen it, no. See? Forgot that that happened. And it's crazy because this movie is also done by like one of the guys from the original and its sequel.
00:50:34
Speaker
Like Jack something. Jack Harris. Yep. He produced all three. Well, I think we we're in the blob is more of like a definitely more into like the comedy part of it. but So it's more like a a wacky like horror comedy. Oh, that's why. That's why no one talks about it. Yeah. I mean, the original, i the original blob is like the fifties is like, it's, it's goofy now because it's from the fifties. So as the like B movie like cheesy charm. But I don't think I don't think at times like intentionally trying to be like a, you know, wacky comedy.
00:51:12
Speaker
But I think that yeah, be aware of the blog was like, like, we like, we're a cop, like, it's, it's, the blog was crazy now. Like the blog was, it's, it's a, it's a wacky, like, uh, uh, like goofy. It's not horror anymore. It'd be funny if a blog and a third movie in the series and it downgrade it and the blog helped like a little girl, like reunite with her father or something stupid.
00:51:40
Speaker
Okay. And then what do you, what do you think of the, like the, uh, the stinger of this movie? Oh, I liked it. I liked how the Reverend, you know, he was trying to find signs and he kind of did. And you don't know what's going to happen next to him. Um, and you know, it's like the cycle starts again, but it's, it could be, you know, I like that it, even though it's like, Oh, you expect the Reverend to just open that jar and shit's going to happen.
00:52:10
Speaker
I don't know. It seemed like he's going to be making bank. It's like he learned to be a marketing guy to, um, keep showing people the jar, I guess, whenever they feel like asking. Oh yeah. He's, he's, he's, he's now like a like revival 10 doomsday like preacher, like prophesizing about like the, the apocalypse. Yeah. Which I guess if you got, if you got set in fire, I guess you that would change your outlook at things.
00:52:38
Speaker
We should be able to imagine, like, yeah he got like, he got like supers on a fire. like Because like the guy with the fire, like the guy with the flamethrower like exploded, then like he got like caught and like the yeah fire as well. It's like too, too crazy, like, ah like burning studs to this movie. Yeah, that's another thing about this movie does really well that I always appreciate it. The practical effects still hold up the fact that they have like a set that that
00:53:08
Speaker
I mean, it's like a crazy set because the town is like double the space that a normal street would look like. But it makes for great action pieces. Same thing with the sewer. Yeah.
Legacy and Influence of 'The Blob'
00:53:20
Speaker
But the reason I bring it up is because if you just edit some of the dialogue and some of the other parts of this, this would have been a more like popular movie for the masses of people who are probably used to Like, you know, like it's 1988, the standard of horror movies are just slasher movies. So to have a creature feature that is in the right vibe of an 80s thing, but I feel like the soundtrack was missing, right? Like all this blob needed was like some poppy 80s song playing in the background. Well, it's got that the credit song is like a crazy, like 80s, like rock song.
00:53:57
Speaker
I argue that the credit songs aren't the same as in-universe music. You know, like, there should be some person with, like, Kevin had headphones on. His Walkman should have been, like, opened and then, like, you could have heard, like, the soundtrack from his headphones or something. But I say that because this movie has, like, it wants to be cheesy, but then at some points it wants it takes us itself, like, serious.
00:54:23
Speaker
but sitting a man on fire who like honestly did nothing wrong all he did was like talk to some kid in a pharmacy he found some pieces of purple things in the freezer he didn't know what it was yet and then he was set on fire so for him to be like he's not quite a villain right like at the end he just sort of has these these pieces Well, the only thing it's weird is like, I feel like, I feel like his like apocalyptic, like preaching, like, like, like i like that comes out a little bit out of nowhere. Cause like and in in the, in the Farsi, he kind of just seemed like a normal, like small town Reverend. And then, but and then then when like when he sees like the blob, he sees like the, like, uh, you know, then try to blow it up. He's like, it's the apocalypse. It's the end of days. Like, ah, even that's what snaps.
00:55:18
Speaker
It'd be funny if you like, ate that piece of crystal. And that's what makes him kind of go crazy.
00:55:28
Speaker
Yeah, think I think they would probably like, just like, yeah, it was just like, eat him by, you know, I'm fond of certainly eating him, like he dissolves from the inside. Because the blob would just be like, burst out of his stomach or something. Oh, you weren't supposed to do that.
00:55:46
Speaker
sure think when did oh I was i trying to think when the stuff came out, because that was like was like a couple years before the blog came out. Like 1990? Well, that that was like it was 85, the stuff. What was it? Yeah. So I wonder if people were just like, oh, this is like this is like a ripoff of the stuff.
00:56:07
Speaker
I was just trying to see like what competition there was, too, for like ah August of 88 when this week came out. And it was like ah like coming to America, Dream Master, ah Die Hard, Cocktail, Young Guns, Midnight Run,
00:56:31
Speaker
Bull Durham. So there was a quite a lot of competition in the you know late summer, 88. So that's probably why I didn't do well financially. Yeah.
00:56:44
Speaker
and i think um I think I saw this at like a sleepover on like DVD or VHS like years later, like after my initial scenes at five, I think later on, like high school, I saw this again with friends. And it's like, oh yeah, like people kind of forgot this came out, you know, I think because of like, I think Joe Blow really deep dive in this blob and then I think Red Letter Media did one. Well, st i mean yeah it's definitely become a ct like a cult classic. like People have like really appreciate
Comparison to Other Horror Remakes and Trends
00:57:16
Speaker
it now. That's why we have like yo like the 4K that came out, like the limited edition collector's edition 4K came out this week, and then there's like other collector's editions. I think it's ah the lesser of the three, but like it's definitely you know brought up in the same conversation as like the thing and the fly, where it's like these like
00:57:38
Speaker
remaking these 50s movies with like eighty cutting edge 80s special effects and making them more gruesome and serious and modern. Right.
00:57:55
Speaker
What do you think about like
00:58:00
Speaker
I think was it like we're in the error of fifth of this was a 50s movie remain in the 80s so now it would be an 80s remake happening about now around the same way of an 80s thing it would be like maybe it's 30 years like it was 30 years from like the original blobs of this blob so you have to go 30 years back from now Yeah, it'll be 88 like like 94 would be like 94 is 30 years. Oh shit. yeah Okay. I'm just all parking the range. Which I mean, but i mean which I think we're definitely in the like, do you like, you know, mining the nineties for this nostalgia? Cause we're, it's usually always like 30 years from the time that you're like in currently.
00:58:48
Speaker
It's why the 2010s was all about 80s nostalgia, and now we're in the 2020s, so now it's 90s nostalgia. Right. And then the 80s was all about 50s nostalgia. That's why they went back to the future. They went back to the 50s, and they were looking back to the 50s to see what they could remake. The 90s had a bunch of like, did they have a bunch of 60s TV show remakes and stuff?
00:59:19
Speaker
Yeah, that kind of stopped. though I think after that chips movie, there hasn't been another one like that. Well, that was that. I mean, that that was just so weird that that should. They missed it. They missed the toll, like the entire frame of that one. I think it more like, you know, we had like Wild Wild West, which is like, you know, a remake of the 60s show that like I think was it like Maverick was like a 60s show and then like. ah um
00:59:47
Speaker
Like Beverly Hillbillies. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Well, okay. that Those are TV shows. I'm thinking about like monster movies, but there hasn't been like an original ease. Well, okay. To be fair, we can, they can always remake the like sleepover massacre, like three or whatever that one was. Well, I mean, we're so like, we're getting like, uh, I still know, and I know what you did last summer, like.
01:00:14
Speaker
like reboot full so that then it's like that that's like that there's like 90s horror and then i mean we got this we had to scream ah sequels that just came out recently so we're definitely horror wise you know we're definitely like looking back and like there's like starting to be like these like 90s like revivals
01:00:38
Speaker
But then, but it's weird because like most of the 90s, like horror movies were like remakes of like older movies anyway. So it's like you're remaking a remake because it was like, that it was like all, but it was like the haunting of Hill House. had Like, uh, I guess that was like the 2002. Cause like, it was like my buddy Valentine and like, uh,
01:01:00
Speaker
Was it like, there was like a new prom night? Like, there was like a, like, like, like, like Christmas, all like, like, there was like 2000, early 2000s, like, remakes.
01:01:14
Speaker
I don't know. It's, we could definitely tie it for like a, a new blob. Get a CG blob going. Yeah. See if, if like.
01:01:27
Speaker
If they do do it modern day, would it but it be something that the blob would still be just as intimidating, or are we still oh no, the blob got into a car, now it's driving. You know, like something so... You can transform it could like transformed like a person, and then like the person turns pink, and then like, yeah.
01:01:58
Speaker
Because I think that's another thing about this monster is that even though it's more scary looking, it still follows the same rule of the classic creature. It can only do this. It moves randomly. It slithers around. It's still purple slash hot pink.
01:02:20
Speaker
I'm wondering if they do a modern update of it. And it's surprising that there's only like three official movies. Yeah, the two 50s ones and then this one.
01:02:35
Speaker
But yeah, that's that's the that's the blob, ah the 80s version. Definitely, if you haven't seen it in a while, you go back and check it out. because it's got like ah definitely yeah Especially special effects definitely hold up, because like ah they're they're fantastic. um And then yeah some fun some fun performances, some fun kills. then check out Check out the original two, because the original one has like obviously like a lot of charm.
01:02:57
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Steven Queen's in it. It's got that 50s B-movie stuff going on. So yeah, can't go wrong with either version of the blog for this ah spooky season.
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And speaking of spooky season, we're doing all horror movies all month for the podcast. Next week, we're going to be talking about ah Sleepy Hollow, the temperate movie, because that's I think it's ah that's getting a 4K release for the first time. um So we'll dive into that.
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ah all the Headless Horsemen action next week. And we got a whole we got a bunch of other horror movies we were talking about. And we're also doing spooky songs for our every Monday for musical montage. We're doing like everything action theater on Thursdays. We're going to have a horror movie up that you watch on the site. So um I'm sure our commentary this month will also be some sort of spooky movie. So anything Halloween horror movie related is is happening this month on the site.
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along with all of our usual ah features and reviews and all that stuff.
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So yes, I think that was interesting to speak and progress time, Zach, and we will see you next time. For more from Everything Action, head to www.everythingaction.com. You can also find us on Facebook at facebook dot.com slash everything dot.action and follow us on X at EVaction. We're also on Instagram and threads at everything.action.
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