Product: The Blob (1988)
Rating: 4.0
Great remake of a classic thriller.
The remake of The Blob is a high octane monster movie packed with attacks and effects, for the first forty-five minutes or so. Then it slows down a little and settles into the typical monster on the loose with the teenagers saving the world plot that make those drive-in schlock fests of the fifties so much nostalgic fun.Once again a meteorite slams into earth and from within it slithers a blob of protoplasm that absorbs any flesh it comes in contact with. As the blob grows it becomes more and more aggressive in its attacks, each a show stopper, until it's oozing down main street USA, the populace running for their lives. Can it be stopped?Writer/director Chuck Russell (who co-wrote this with The Shawshank Redemption's Frank Darabont) is an obvious fan of fifties horror, this movie being one on 80s cinema steroids. While he doesn't neglect the characters, developing most of them enough to care about whether or not they are engulfed or narrowly escape the horrible fate of being an evening snack for the overgrown amoeba, the individual attack scenes are the highlights. Well worth the purchase price, or at least a rental. Recommended.