Product: The Blob (1988)
Rating: 5.0
A smart entertaining remake
The Blob was an entertaining, yet eventually campy classic. The limited tools for special effects dampered the original but the story and idea was there. Flash forward nearly 30 years later and the folks in hollywood decide to take another crack at it. The result is an entertaining, frightening horror film that feeds to a certain extent on the strength of special effects, but also claustrophobia as well.The story is that a meteorite has crashed landed on earth near a small town. An organizm on the metorite gets loose and attaches itself to a bum passing through. As it slowly eats him it begins to grow and as it grows it starts to eat, preferably people. Eventually it comes down to (you'll love this) a cheerleader and a local rebel to stop it.The reason this movie is great is for numerouse reasons. First the movie realizes that it is campy, and uses it to it's advantage. It also takes pop culture of that time (1980's) and pokes fun at it. Case in point is that Slasher films were big then, so what do they do? They make a scene with a crowded audience watching a really bad slasher film featuring a gardener in a hockey mask using a motorized Hedge Trimmer.The one other area I like about this is the feeling that no one is safe as is demonstrated when a young boy gets absorbed and dissolved by the blob.I can't praise this movie enough. Definetly worth checking out if you want a fun campy classic horror film.