There was a segment out of Creepshow 2 where four people find themselves stranded on a raft in a lake surrounded by a blob creature. It always struck me as a possible pseudo-sequel, and it's actually quite terrifying.
I love that episode! Scared me as a kid...thought it was funny when the last survivor made it to shore..panting...says "I beat you!"...then blob comes at him as a wave. Hilarious 😂
13:30 Is what makes the blob so terrifying to me. You'll be dissolved and digested by it and you'll still be alive, conscious and in excruciating pain well into the process.
Death by Blob is still High in my Scary metre. I mean the stuff literally digests you while you are still alive and screaming, a lot worse than drowning and burning alive *Shivers*
Yeah, I'd rather deal w/ a Slasher than the Blob. The Blob scared me more because of how horrific the death was and that it could hide anywhere and you really can't get away from it since it can go anywhere.
Normies Everywhere Granted, the pain is absurdly high but a """""lucky""""" person can die faster If fire is inhaled as it burns the lungs and Shock comes for a violent, violent death. A corrosive material such as the blob works like fire, consuming and chemically burning flesh but it is slower and I don't think the nerves get destroyed, unlike with flames. Good point tho. Can't say Burning alive is any better.
The first time that I watched this movie and saw the melting kid pop out of the water, his face distorted in a way that matched the agony within his scream, I thought to myself, "Okay, this movie has OFFICIALLY taken its gloves OFF!"
crashbanroblox videos random gotta love horror films for killing off little kids. Because in real life they be dead. Or a bad ass with a gun lol XD. Like fat kid from Monster Squad.
XxItalianVampPrinces You wanna know something? To give the remake blob its reddish color, the crew used several mixtures of the same stuff Burger King uses to make their strawberry milkshakes.
The 2017 movie, Life, looks and feels like another Blob movie; except its in outer space. The best part, in my opinion, is that Ryan Reynolds's character, Rory Adams, is the first to die.
thing is this, remakes of 1950s films in the 80s worked great. but remakes of 80s films now dosent work. reason i think is cause most of the remakes in the 80s were of films that were not all that good in the 50's or ones that could have been alot better. hence why the dircetors choose to do them, and thay made them great. now there trying remake great films from the 80s and great remakes from the 80s that just cant be toped. thay should be looking at fims from the 80s or 90s now that werent all that great and trying make them better. if that makes any sence...
Some other remakes that I DO like ( a rarity ) - Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1978 ), Nosferatu The Vampire ( 1979 ), The Thing ( 1982 ), Cat People ( 1982 ), and Scarface ( 1983 ), but THOSE are OLDER ones and have nothing to do with this shitty current Hollywood remake TREND ( which I hate ).
1988's The Blob is one of the horror movies that got me interested in the genre., I was blown out of my socks when I first watched it. The concept, bravado and effects combined do deliver. Thanks for the loads of info and insights on that movie and the original!
In the fifties, special effects were pretty good, then they evolved to the really great sfx of the 80's. Unfortunately, we have devolved with the onset of cg, which is pretty cheesy, IMHO. ( I make a big exception here with "Eight Legged Freaks", a perennial favorite of mine)!
"potential date rape victim / successful blob victim" THAT, Minty, is why i subscribe. also, i've seen the 88 remake a dozen times and never noticed the connections to Stephen King's "universe." good stuff, pal. thanks!!!
I don't like seeing kids killed ruthlessly in movies most of the time but this movie is my exception, kind of gives a more realistic sense considering the villain is just a giant blob of acidic gelatin that will eat everything that is alive
yes, and the fact that they didn`t just show the blob taking him away, they show him half melted trying to get help justo be dragged in the water to be digested... whoa that will NEVER pass censorship nowdays...
Or in Toxic Avenger when those asshole teens hit a kid riding his bike and then they run over his head. And lets not forget what was probably the first child killed on the big screen: Alexander Kitner.(Jeffery Voorhees) The movie Jaws.
It was important for the history to have him eaten alive, it shows real terror, that was when my obsession with being eaten alive. Nothing intrigues me more than being the prey,
So catching this video in 2021 - I graduated from Phoenixville High in 77 so The Blob is high on my list of P-ville trivia. I was there a few years ago, the Colonial still shows movies (although the original lobby has been expanded to include the old bank building next door). Blob Fest is still a thing in August (pre-Covid - who knows now?) and the theater has been refurbed and maintained as a historical building. Seldom known fact, the original Downingtown Diner (from Downingtown, PA) was chosen as the film location over the Phoenixville diner known as the Vale-Rio, because the Val sat on a the then major Route 23. The state did not want to close the road for filming purposes. A couple of other notables for the P-ville area: The Happening (Shyamalan film) was partially filmed there, and Hall & Oates album, "Abandoned Luncheonette" was photographed about 6-7 miles outside of P-ville on Route 23. Thanks for the review Minty!
The blob would not do well in Northern Canada. Poor thing would freeze. Lol. I was 10 when the remake came out. Scared me a lot. No jello for me after that. Haha. Love your videos Minty.
ItBurns WhenIPEE Not all of us man. I'm 14 years old and I love movies like these because they got real looking stuff and the balls to do some messed up stuff.The Thing 1982 is one of my favorite movies!
I have the movie novelization which makes it even creepier. The book actually has parts where you get to hear the thoughts the blob is having. This also goes much further into why it behaves in certain ways. For example, the Can Man was old and frail. He didn’t give the blob much nutrient value. So the blob lays a trap to catch Paul. Even after he starts to consume Paul, he is still too weak try and consume Meg as well. The blob is actually trying to exit the window when Meg comes in.
I had the pleasure of getting to watch the remake of the movie being made in my hometown of Abbeville, La. I watched them rig up a lot of the stunts used in the movie. I got to see the how the actors would do their lines over and over again until they did it to the directors satisfaction. They would pull people out of the crowd to play as extras for the movie sometimes. It was a wonderful thing to watch.
Chris McWilliams well I still find it wrong for a kid to die "that way" I'd rather be in a world with Jason, Freddy Kruger' micheal Myers etc then be in a world with the blob
Great video dude. I have a fond memory of laying in my dads bed with him and watching The Blob. I think it was the original, I was like 6 or 7. But I just remember being terrified, because it seemed unstoppable. If it got a hold of you, you're done. This was the first movie to make me feel hopelessness. Just a brainless mass, that you can't really control, or manipulate, or figure out its motivation. You've made my day Minty, thanks!
Thanks dude. Really glad my video had made your day more fun :). My introduction to the Blob was seeing the VHS cover for the remake at my video store when I was kid (the same image I use in this video for the countdown) and I found it so terrifying. This scared looking man being consumed by what looks like a giant brain with him holding his arm out desperately trying to get out. Stuff of nightmares :)
The old man at 20-25, he was in " Them" the movie about the giant ants ( one of my all time favorites) , he was in the mental ward, and occasionally see the ants going into the sewers of LA. When talking to James Arness, he's the one that said; " Make me a sergeant, charge the booz..."
Heck... Carpenter had a lunatic kill a little girl on screen in "Assault on Precinct 13" in 1976 and in Halloween 3: Season the Witch in 1982 a Kids face literally melted away. Also Jaws killed a kid (even pretty graphic for it being PG rated)
Great Review Minty! The remake holds a special place in my heart. And I have to agree about the kids. After that scene makes you think that not even the main characters are safe and that the Blob doesn’t care, it’s going to kill everyone! If they do a remake I hope they keep to practical effects with cgi when needed.
That's it. I'm not eating Jell-o ever again. The remake has lot of the best deaths ever seen in films. No matter how many times I see them, they make my skin crawl.
Acid was flung on the critter in the original film. No go, it just sucked it up. And freezing DIDN'T kill it; just made it dormant. Again, 1st movie; they dropped it into the arctic, after attacking it with mucho CO2 extinguishers. "Beware the Blob", it was found up there and brought back. It thawed out, and we're off again
They tried acid, fire, bullets,pretty sure it passed through god only knows how much radioactive waste passing through the sewers. Sub-zero temperatures are pretty much the only thing that stands any reasonable chance of stopping it
1988 Blob filmed in my home town. there was mountains of blob rock all over the place during filming. Managed to grab a bunch, but was lost over time. some people still have some so if I come across some Id gladly send it to you.
Fun fact. The 80s remake was actually filmed in my home town, way down in Louisiana. My father got to watch the filming during the final scenes. He actually has a bucket full of those crystals from the end scene.
There's a pretty cool mini documentary called Blob Town by James Rolfe(The Angry Video Game Nerd/Cinemasacre) about the event, might be of interest to you
This has to be one of my FAVORITE movies as a kid. I love the horror aspects, but you really felt bad for the people also. Downloading now! Can't wait to rewatch it :D
Think this what made 80s movies unique, a ton of original ideas and great remakes. As a kid in the 80s, I really enjoyed so many classics when they first came out. Difficult to be entertained today by an hour of cgi fireworks, I always imagine cgi movies as actors alone in a green room pretending to see things like they on mushrooms lol
5:50 = Not so much for originality . . . when 20+ years earlier, H. P. Lovecraft wrote "The Colour Out of Space" - wherein, not a liquid / semi-solid life-form, but an energy creature of expanding influence from outer space hurtles to Earth, consuming and absorbing, mutating Nature and allotted no mercy.
"That guy from The Walking Dead" is legendary actor Jeffrey DeMunn; he was also in such amazing films as The Green Mile, The Hitcher, The Mist, The Shawshank Redemption and Phenomenon, as well as a personal favourite of mine (which served as mu introduction to him as an actor), the TV movie The Haunted, in which he & his family are beset by some nasty poltergeist-like shenanigans. There are a couple of watchable copies of The Haunted on TH-cam, and I highly recommend you find one & give it a look-see 😃👍🏻
Because when I think of a child being melted by a blob creature, I think of the Final Countdown. Actually, with all of the names you mentioned, one you forgot was Michael Kenworthy. I didn't recognize it at first but that's him as one of the kids, and he was the protagonist in Return of the Living Dead Part 2, you know, the one with the Michael Jackson zombie that gets electrocuted.
William Lowery "Git..that..Damn..Screwdriver...out...of my head!!!!" "It's not my fault!We were out of type O!"...."Come to the hospital".."hold on, gimme that! My boy, who is the president?" "Harry Truman"..." we're not going to the hospital".....nope,never saw this film...nope
A couple of interesting things; there are actually two versions of the scene where the annoying little kid gets killed, with one (the one you showed) being far more graphic while the other is more of a suspense, jump-scare quick shot. In either case, I pretty much hated that character from the moment he shower up on screen, and personally I think its great pay-off when horror movies actually kill characters like that. Also, the kid who plays her brother also stars in Return of the Living Dead Part II, which if you haven't seen I highly recommend for the comedic value alone right along with Return of the Living Dead; both were done primarily by John Russo and were the birth (so far as I know) of the entire genre cliché of zombies eating brains.
I was 8 when the remake came out. The sink scene had me shook there was no chance you'd get me looking down the sink drain after seeing that guy get sucked into one
Always hated that the remake didn't get a chance to follow up on that ending set up for another movie. Would've loved to have seen something done with that. Come to think of it, it's not too late, with everything going on in the world today I could see them doing it now.
The remake blew me away when the kid got killed. I had to emphasize the fact movies never show kids get killed like that to my sister when we first watched it
Very cool Minty ! You usually mention the stars of the Movie ( other than the Monster ) I think Kevin Dillon did a fairly decent job portraying a teen anti-hero.
Watched your Christine video, and TH-cam knew I was watching this next, recommended it. However, 1983, 17, if my math is correct, filmed in 2000? 😉😂 But seriously, loved both of them, thank you, Minty! 👍😊
And side note, I knew about Son of the Blob, not watched it yet, but the Blu Ray box set I got has all 3. If not for that, wouldn't have known until today.
the blob remake in 88 was filmed in my hometown of abbeville,louisiana.we allways said we had no mountains so why is there a secene where the main characters,stand on a mountain with trees below looking over the town.in actuality we dont have that here.lol still have pictures of me in the phone booth,and also have the pieces of the blob still to this day :) i was in elemntry scholl like i think first or 2nd grade.the main street,the cafe,and the town hall are all my actual hometown. wow just awesome.even the escape from the movies,it was the back alley connected to the bank,and also the actual old movie place next door
Not only are kids in movies irritating, they're god damned invincible. Most of the time if there's a kid or kids in a movie you can just toss all suspense out the window because nowadays kids are practically gods in movies. They'll either magically solve the problem or they'll be a plot point in of them-self and exist only to forward another character. It's even worse when they try be the main bad guy.
Choatemister guessing youvd never seen friday the 13th...or Nightmare on Elm street...or Scream...or IT...or Jeepers Creepers...or any scary movie towards teens. Kids are fritter food.
Movies that kills kid characters off on screen before "The Blob 88" - Jaws, Halloween III:Season of the Witch, Night of the Living Dead, Amittyville II:The Possession, The Omen III had mass bay killing.
80's blob is freaking terrifying. like, seriously a scary movie despite the premise sounds silly on paper. original is kind of lame tho. Hey can you tell me where you got the image from 5:55 (the one you use on the number screens)?
All three Blob movies end with a question mark. Also the year before Creepshow2 came out and one of the stories is titled 'The Raft'. A blob like creature that eats five or six dumb teens who don't pay attention to the 'DO NOT SWIM!" sign.
Rare instance of the remake kicking the original's proverbial ASS. Another bonus Stephen King connection you missed: The evil military guy (Joe Seneca) is the same actor that held Drew Barrymore's 'Charlie' character captive in 'Firestarter'.
Awesome video Minty! I have always enjoyed these movies. Only thing I can add is that Bill Moseley from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 fame also makes an appearance. He is the soldier in the sewer that tells Meg to try and scream. First time I noticed that I was like "Dang! There is Chop Top!"
I feel like that opening with the cat is popular during the 70's: many movies would start with some completely unrelated footage while the title credits roll
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There was a segment out of Creepshow 2 where four people find themselves stranded on a raft in a lake surrounded by a blob creature. It always struck me as a possible pseudo-sequel, and it's actually quite terrifying.
The Raft is the best story in the book Skeleton Crew.
I couldn't agree more o liked that one to actress Paige Hannah appeared in that episode she is the reallife sister of actress Daryl Hannah
I love that episode!
Scared me as a kid...thought it was funny when the last survivor made it to shore..panting...says "I beat you!"...then blob comes at him as a wave. Hilarious 😂
Also Creepshow 1 where Stephen Kings character Jody turns into a planet it has the same concept as the blob lol
Me and my sister always called it "the oil slick"
13:30 Is what makes the blob so terrifying to me. You'll be dissolved and digested by it and you'll still be alive, conscious and in excruciating pain well into the process.
You Kratos know it.
There is a fetish about it called vore
I love how they had balls to kill a kid so gruesomely. What a shame this movie wasn't bigger in the box office.
Death by Blob is still High in my Scary metre. I mean the stuff literally digests you while you are still alive and screaming, a lot worse than drowning and burning alive *Shivers*
Yeah, I'd rather deal w/ a Slasher than the Blob. The Blob scared me more because of how horrific the death was and that it could hide anywhere and you really can't get away from it since it can go anywhere.
GTdba There are people that are into that lol.
Normies Everywhere Granted, the pain is absurdly high but a """""lucky""""" person can die faster If fire is inhaled as it burns the lungs and Shock comes for a violent, violent death. A corrosive material such as the blob works like fire, consuming and chemically burning flesh but it is slower and I don't think the nerves get destroyed, unlike with flames.
Good point tho. Can't say Burning alive is any better.
undeadcookie 456 Ugh don't mention that. Can't see the fancy in getting eaten and Vore stuff but hey, whatever floats their boat...
Have I just been kinkshamed
The kids death looks like the robocop badguys death scene as well after the toxic waste gets him. The 80s were the best.
Yea if a movie killed a kid today all the SJWs will be going into meltdown lol
"Planet Terror" kills a kid (very obvious death) but he still went there
Minty Comedic Arts i know. By the way can you do a video on the phantasms. Series. The tall man is such an underrated. Character.
"Ahh, Get off of me, man!!" "Ahhhhooo uhahhhoo"
They did that in Aliens vs Predator Requiem. An entire room full of babies got eaten.
it took 30 years to make a new blob, and its been 31 years later- maybe that preacher needs to unleash gods will upon us in 2019
He did. That's how 2020 came to be.
@@GODCONVOYPRIME that blob mutated into a virus !
The preacher did unleash gods will in the form of covid-19 with a little help, from the chinese.
They made another one in 1972 , before the one in 1988
@Natural Creature the 1988 blob sucked big time
The kid's death in the remake always scared the shit out of me, main reason, I was the same age when I watched it!
The first time that I watched this movie and saw the melting kid pop out of the water, his face distorted in a way that matched the agony within his scream, I thought to myself, "Okay, this movie has OFFICIALLY taken its gloves OFF!"
me too.
Daniel The Wolf Saaaaaame.
I don't like children's death in horror movies.
Wasn't it also a kid that got halfway melted in the cinema at 11:21 ?
This movie has balls killing a kid. I love this movie, thank god it was not remade to CGI crap frest movie.
Minty Comedic Arts If he's in it. It could be good, bad, or so bad it's good. We have to wait & see what happens.
Minty Comedic Arts Samuel Jackson would just ruin it
Hey Minty, if you where 17 you would have been born in 2000, but the Blob came out in 1958
crashbanroblox videos random gotta love horror films for killing off little kids. Because in real life they be dead. Or a bad ass with a gun lol XD. Like fat kid from Monster Squad.
A kid got killed in the movie Alligator. Kid gets eaten when his older brothers push him in a swimming pool the giant alligator is resting in.
The original Blob looks like melty strawberry jelly and the 80s version looks like bubble gum with tumors growing inside of it.
XxItalianVampPrinces You wanna know something? To give the remake blob its reddish color, the crew used several mixtures of the same stuff Burger King uses to make their strawberry milkshakes.
Reapermaskhybrid Eeeeeewww. Good thing I don't get shakes from Burger King.
XxItalianVampPrinces Yeah. Also, this is the video where I found out about that fact about the Blob's color: th-cam.com/video/mSqN8X1vRjY/w-d-xo.html
Multo bene
I thought it looks like cranberry jelly.
The 2017 movie, Life, looks and feels like another Blob movie; except its in outer space.
The best part, in my opinion, is that Ryan Reynolds's character, Rory Adams, is the first to die.
One of few times a horror remake didnt suck or was at least enjoyable.
@Frizzurd I've wanted to do a remake of Them! since I was about 12. Maybe now is a good time to write a script...
thing is this, remakes of 1950s films in the 80s worked great. but remakes of 80s films now dosent work. reason i think is cause most of the remakes in the 80s were of films that were not all that good in the 50's or ones that could have been alot better. hence why the dircetors choose to do them, and thay made them great. now there trying remake great films from the 80s and great remakes from the 80s that just cant be toped. thay should be looking at fims from the 80s or 90s now that werent all that great and trying make them better. if that makes any sence...
No, it's because dumb kids like you can only appreciate a movie if it has glossy production values and overdone special effects.
Some other remakes that I DO like ( a rarity ) - Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1978 ), Nosferatu The Vampire ( 1979 ), The Thing ( 1982 ), Cat People ( 1982 ), and Scarface ( 1983 ), but THOSE are OLDER ones and have nothing to do with this shitty current Hollywood remake TREND ( which I hate ).
I loved the original and the remake.
1988's The Blob is one of the horror movies that got me interested in the genre., I was blown out of my socks when I first watched it. The concept, bravado and effects combined do deliver. Thanks for the loads of info and insights on that movie and the original!
Nothing stops the Blob!!! LOL X-Men videogame reference.
The Blob '88 didn't fuck around.
Jup. No hentai comments. Weird.
Guernicaman straight up
the 1988 film also left us with Shawnee smith's hotness
Then she will go into the Saw franchise a Amanda
Indeed
She was hot as fuck in Summer School.
Sullivan R. 😒
@bigbadb10 stfu
Disturbing to think we are as far removed from the (still feels fairly modern) 80s version as they were from the 50s version.
firekind1980 i was thinking that to
In the fifties, special effects were pretty good, then they evolved to the really great sfx of the 80's. Unfortunately, we have devolved with the onset of cg, which is pretty cheesy, IMHO. ( I make a big exception here with "Eight Legged Freaks", a perennial favorite of mine)!
They was me when it came out. I feel old.
I think we're cultural still closer to the 80s than then was to the 50s. The seismic shift of the 60s is when things changed.
And even further. Lol both decades seems like far away fairytale worlds at this point.
"potential date rape victim / successful blob victim" THAT, Minty, is why i subscribe. also, i've seen the 88 remake a dozen times and never noticed the connections to Stephen King's "universe." good stuff, pal. thanks!!!
I don't like seeing kids killed ruthlessly in movies most of the time but this movie is my exception, kind of gives a more realistic sense considering the villain is just a giant blob of acidic gelatin that will eat everything that is alive
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Honestly I think it's better in a horror movie like this that they kill off a child. It shows that no one is safe.
yes, and the fact that they didn`t just show the blob taking him away, they show him half melted trying to get help justo be dragged in the water to be digested... whoa that will NEVER pass censorship nowdays...
Or in Toxic Avenger when those asshole teens hit a kid riding his bike and then they run over his head. And lets not forget what was probably the first child killed on the big screen: Alexander Kitner.(Jeffery Voorhees) The movie Jaws.
It was important for the history to have him eaten alive, it shows real terror, that was when my obsession with being eaten alive. Nothing intrigues me more than being the prey,
So catching this video in 2021 - I graduated from Phoenixville High in 77 so The Blob is high on my list of P-ville trivia. I was there a few years ago, the Colonial still shows movies (although the original lobby has been expanded to include the old bank building next door). Blob Fest is still a thing in August (pre-Covid - who knows now?) and the theater has been refurbed and maintained as a historical building. Seldom known fact, the original Downingtown Diner (from Downingtown, PA) was chosen as the film location over the Phoenixville diner known as the Vale-Rio, because the Val sat on a the then major Route 23. The state did not want to close the road for filming purposes. A couple of other notables for the P-ville area: The Happening (Shyamalan film) was partially filmed there, and Hall & Oates album, "Abandoned Luncheonette" was photographed about 6-7 miles outside of P-ville on Route 23. Thanks for the review Minty!
The blob would not do well in Northern Canada. Poor thing would freeze. Lol. I was 10 when the remake came out. Scared me a lot. No jello for me after that. Haha. Love your videos Minty.
@Charles Lee Ray lolololololololllllllll
Happy 40th birthday then!
That's why they dropped it off in the North Pole in the movie
I'm in Canada as well
And I was in Jr. High when I seen the remake
Poor thing?! Crikey...
I actually live near the diner from the blob in Downingtown PA. They still sell t-shirts and stuff.
Funny how this generation makes fun of old horror based on how corny it was but the blob is an exception. If this happened i'd be fucking terrified.
ItBurns WhenIPEE Not all of us man. I'm 14 years old and I love movies like these because they got real looking stuff and the balls to do some messed up stuff.The Thing 1982 is one of my favorite movies!
Saw this movie when it first came out in the theatre . . . still one of my favorite remakes ever.
I have a thing you could checkout its called creep show 2 which has a short story called the raft and it has blob like characteristics.
awe397 that part was awesome. Especially the final kill.
that is the creepiest story in the movie, remember how it burped at the end
Yes, The Raft segment in Creepshow 2 and The Blob always reminds me of each other.
@@rolandfuller7930 yeah!
Good movie. I can't remember the name but it was a movie about some kids that were trapped on a beach I know Sunday under the sand eating them
I have the movie novelization which makes it even creepier. The book actually has parts where you get to hear the thoughts the blob is having. This also goes much further into why it behaves in certain ways. For example, the Can Man was old and frail. He didn’t give the blob much nutrient value. So the blob lays a trap to catch Paul. Even after he starts to consume Paul, he is still too weak try and consume Meg as well. The blob is actually trying to exit the window when Meg comes in.
Hear lol you're reading a book not watching it
@@tshelby5212Awww, somebody is illiterate
I'm getting my wife, who is a dedicated Stephen King fan, a copy of this for Christmas, thanks man! [She somehow never saw the movies]
In Jaws, the shark also did not discriminate when preying on people, as his second victim was also a kid
Oh man, Nicholas Cage would've been the icing on top of the blob cake 👌🏽
I know jusr imagine him and his weird face going against the blob :D
Minty Comedic Arts lol!!! 😂 man, this needs to happen!
Minty Comedic Arts 10 amazing facts about the thing
What about Kevin Bacon?
Brother Malachai dear god make it a footloose sequel
I had the pleasure of getting to watch the remake of the movie being made in my hometown of Abbeville, La. I watched them rig up a lot of the stunts used in the movie. I got to see the how the actors would do their lines over and over again until they did it to the directors satisfaction. They would pull people out of the crowd to play as extras for the movie sometimes. It was a wonderful thing to watch.
They kill a kid in the reboot Que the final countdown from Europe
and he's right, the kid was an annoying little shit who had it coming. :)
Yay! my favourite song for many years!
Chris McWilliams i think the only kids who deserve to die from the blob are kids who kill other people
It's not about deserve, it's about need. :)
Chris McWilliams well I still find it wrong for a kid to die "that way" I'd rather be in a world with Jason, Freddy Kruger' micheal Myers etc then be in a world with the blob
My grandma bought me The Blob remake for my birthday when I was 8 years old thinking it was the original. Thanks grandma. XD
Great video dude. I have a fond memory of laying in my dads bed with him and watching The Blob. I think it was the original, I was like 6 or 7. But I just remember being terrified, because it seemed unstoppable. If it got a hold of you, you're done. This was the first movie to make me feel hopelessness. Just a brainless mass, that you can't really control, or manipulate, or figure out its motivation. You've made my day Minty, thanks!
Thanks dude. Really glad my video had made your day more fun :). My introduction to the Blob was seeing the VHS cover for the remake at my video store when I was kid (the same image I use in this video for the countdown) and I found it so terrifying. This scared looking man being consumed by what looks like a giant brain with him holding his arm out desperately trying to get out. Stuff of nightmares :)
I know this video is 3 years old but I’m on a Minty binge. Love the letterman jacket!! Honestly I would have taken you for 16 😁
The old man at 20-25, he was in " Them" the movie about the giant ants ( one of my all time favorites) , he was in the mental ward, and occasionally see the ants going into the sewers of LA. When talking to James Arness, he's the one that said; " Make me a sergeant, charge the booz..."
14:37 - 14:43
Jack Nance: He's dead. Melted like plastic.
One of the rare cases where the remake is actually better than the original.
The blob is one of my favorite villains. Doesn't care, just kills and gets bigger. Awesome.
The 80's version scared the sh*t outta me when I was a kid
I'm with you on the kid thing. Feast was another film that didn't hold children as sacred.
goblinb I loved that scene
i'm surprised this movie got away without being hit with an X-rating, due to the excessive graphic violence. kudos to the filmmakers
Heck... Carpenter had a lunatic kill a little girl on screen in "Assault on Precinct 13" in 1976 and in Halloween 3: Season the Witch in 1982 a Kids face literally melted away. Also Jaws killed a kid (even pretty graphic for it being PG rated)
@@millenial_in_the_middle oh yeah, the mask demo scene in Halloween III! Who could forget that! I'd love to do that as a Halloween costume!
Great Review Minty! The remake holds a special place in my heart. And I have to agree about the kids. After that scene makes you think that not even the main characters are safe and that the Blob doesn’t care, it’s going to kill everyone! If they do a remake I hope they keep to practical effects with cgi when needed.
I really love your video content, please don't stop doing what you do- 👍👍👍.
That's it. I'm not eating Jell-o ever again.
The remake has lot of the best deaths ever seen in films. No matter how many times I see them, they make my skin crawl.
Check out "Gookum!" an old 1953 Wally Wood comic in Mad when it was still a comic book. Might find the Jell-o comment relevant...
how to kill the blob.
1. Freeze it.
2. dizolve it with acid.
Radiation might kill it
Acid was flung on the critter in the original film. No go, it just sucked it up. And freezing DIDN'T kill it; just made it dormant. Again, 1st movie; they dropped it into the arctic, after attacking it with mucho CO2 extinguishers. "Beware the Blob", it was found up there and brought back. It thawed out, and we're off again
Pretty sure we would launch that into space and into the sun. Ya try to survive that.
@@TheCaptainSplatter this works only, as long as it is rather small. Even our largest rockets are somewhat limited, regarding payload.
They tried acid, fire, bullets,pretty sure it passed through god only knows how much radioactive waste passing through the sewers.
Sub-zero temperatures are pretty much the only thing that stands any reasonable chance of stopping it
First Minty comedic arts video that got me into your channel. Great film. Firm favourite with me and mine. Thanks Minty.
1988 Blob filmed in my home town. there was mountains of blob rock all over the place during filming. Managed to grab a bunch, but was lost over time. some people still have some so if I come across some Id gladly send it to you.
With Zombies the trailer would say, "Walk, don't run....its easy to survive"
Jw Nj it depends on what kind of Zombie lol. You got ones that run also
Then I guess we should change it to, "RUN!, FUCKING RUN! GET A FUCKING CAR!"
Jw N
What about ROTLD zombies? Those motherfuckers are speedier than Usain Bolt
the blob would eat zombies
Oh my GLOB!!!!
This is one of my favorite horror movies of the 80s. 😁
Fun fact. The 80s remake was actually filmed in my home town, way down in Louisiana. My father got to watch the filming during the final scenes. He actually has a bucket full of those crystals from the end scene.
I so want to go to Blob Fest :P :D
Me too :)
There's a pretty cool mini documentary called Blob Town by James Rolfe(The Angry Video Game Nerd/Cinemasacre) about the event, might be of interest to you
+Minty Comedic Arts do GRIZZLY 1976
You should. It’s fun. It’s July 12-14 this year. It’s about 30 West of Philadelphia.
Ikr
When I watched this as a kid I never ate jello for 8 months
This has to be one of my FAVORITE movies as a kid. I love the horror aspects, but you really felt bad for the people also. Downloading now! Can't wait to rewatch it :D
Think this what made 80s movies unique, a ton of original ideas and great remakes. As a kid in the 80s, I really enjoyed so many classics when they first came out. Difficult to be entertained today by an hour of cgi fireworks, I always imagine cgi movies as actors alone in a green room pretending to see things like they on mushrooms lol
5:50 = Not so much for originality . . . when 20+ years earlier, H. P. Lovecraft wrote "The Colour Out of Space" - wherein, not a liquid / semi-solid life-form, but an energy creature of expanding influence from outer space hurtles to Earth, consuming and absorbing, mutating Nature and allotted no mercy.
This movie and THE STUFF needs to come with a warning for Ice Cream and Yogurt and Jell O fans.
Sammy Lane i have the stuff on vhs its one of my favorites!
I am so full of Mtn dew that it would probably kill the stuff.
Had to track down the sequel after watching this! It was great cheesy fun! Wouldn’t have found it without you. Cheers!
Another favorite of mine from the 80s Minty always hits the mark, keep them coming.
"That guy from The Walking Dead" is legendary actor Jeffrey DeMunn; he was also in such amazing films as The Green Mile, The Hitcher, The Mist, The Shawshank Redemption and Phenomenon, as well as a personal favourite of mine (which served as mu introduction to him as an actor), the TV movie The Haunted, in which he & his family are beset by some nasty poltergeist-like shenanigans.
There are a couple of watchable copies of The Haunted on TH-cam, and I highly recommend you find one & give it a look-see 😃👍🏻
Yep, Frank Darabont has is actors “List” he uses in his productions.
the blob 1988. another movie i seen at the theaters as a young kid.
Me too! I was 4 n my foster parents took me to go see it ;)
Awesome,cool,neat,wicked,sick,Thanks Minty,I love these movies!Cheers!
Because when I think of a child being melted by a blob creature, I think of the Final Countdown.
Actually, with all of the names you mentioned, one you forgot was Michael Kenworthy. I didn't recognize it at first but that's him as one of the kids, and he was the protagonist in Return of the Living Dead Part 2, you know, the one with the Michael Jackson zombie that gets electrocuted.
The background music for the kid getting killed was very close to being 'We're not gunna take it" lol
William Lowery "Git..that..Damn..Screwdriver...out...of my head!!!!" "It's not my fault!We were out of type O!"...."Come to the hospital".."hold on, gimme that! My boy, who is the president?" "Harry Truman"..." we're not going to the hospital".....nope,never saw this film...nope
A little boy gets killed by dogs in Where Have All the People Gone and one of the teacher's students gets killed in Mimic 2
LOL I DIDNT SEE THIS COMMENT TIL JUST NOW! I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED. LOVE ROTLD P:2
A couple of interesting things; there are actually two versions of the scene where the annoying little kid gets killed, with one (the one you showed) being far more graphic while the other is more of a suspense, jump-scare quick shot. In either case, I pretty much hated that character from the moment he shower up on screen, and personally I think its great pay-off when horror movies actually kill characters like that. Also, the kid who plays her brother also stars in Return of the Living Dead Part II, which if you haven't seen I highly recommend for the comedic value alone right along with Return of the Living Dead; both were done primarily by John Russo and were the birth (so far as I know) of the entire genre cliché of zombies eating brains.
I wouldn't want to see him shower, either.
The sheriff from the blob and guy from walking dead is also in the mist. Im pretty sure he dies in the car in that fantastically depressing end scene.
Nitsuj Rekoob You are correct
Nitsuj Rekoob Jeffery DeMunn is Frank Darabont's fave actor. He's in as The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Majestic too.
This is one of the BEST, most underratedly awesome horror films of all time.
So glad you did a vid on one of my favorite horror remakes!! Thanks Minty.
Minty. You need to do a video on Night breed!! Please
I was always amused by the original cover of The Stand. It's like Luke Skywalker VS Evil Crow Man.
Mote of Lobross
It resembles Middle Ages imagery.
Really interesting tidbits here on the history of the original! The Blobfest in Phoenixville is cool. Thanks, Minty, great vid!
Oh yeah, when I first saw The Blob 88', the kid getting killed stunned me completely. "But kids don't die in movies!"
Kids don't die in movies, --- remember Jaws?😎
That's a hedge trimmer in Parody Jason's hands, not a chainsaw.
"wait a second, hockey season ended months ago"
@@oddballssherman3785 did it really aw man :(
Do a video on Jigsaw next! I would really enjoy that!
Damn it! now I have that one song in my head.
"The Final Countdown" :P
Beware of the blob beware of the blob it leeps and creeps and slides on the DIRTY F#CKING FLOOR AND IS COVERED WITH DOG CRAP BABY VOMIT AND PEE
Just posting to remind you of the song and get it stuck again. 😛
@@jc.1191 😂😂😂 Damn it!
Good job Minty. Your spearimint and menthol effervescence is quite refreshing.
I was 8 when the remake came out. The sink scene had me shook there was no chance you'd get me looking down the sink drain after seeing that guy get sucked into one
🤣 Damn
Always hated that the remake didn't get a chance to follow up on that ending set up for another movie. Would've loved to have seen something done with that. Come to think of it, it's not too late, with everything going on in the world today I could see them doing it now.
Yea the world is very turbulent at the moment and Meeker could be of the perspective that humanity is the disease and the blob is the cure
The remake blew me away when the kid got killed. I had to emphasize the fact movies never show kids get killed like that to my sister when we first watched it
Very cool Minty ! You usually mention the stars of the Movie ( other than the Monster ) I think Kevin Dillon did a fairly decent job portraying a teen anti-hero.
I fully agree with you on child actors.
I want to thank you I Have wanted to know what the original Blob was made of I really enjoy your videos 😀
Glad to be of service my friend :)
Watched your Christine video, and TH-cam knew I was watching this next, recommended it. However, 1983, 17, if my math is correct, filmed in 2000? 😉😂 But seriously, loved both of them, thank you, Minty! 👍😊
And side note, I knew about Son of the Blob, not watched it yet, but the Blu Ray box set I got has all 3. If not for that, wouldn't have known until today.
Hahaha clever guess. I am not 17 lol :)
the blob remake in 88 was filmed in my hometown of abbeville,louisiana.we allways said we had no mountains so why is there a secene where the main characters,stand on a mountain with trees below looking over the town.in actuality we dont have that here.lol still have pictures of me in the phone booth,and also have the pieces of the blob still to this day :) i was in elemntry scholl like i think first or 2nd grade.the main street,the cafe,and the town hall are all my actual hometown. wow just awesome.even the escape from the movies,it was the back alley connected to the bank,and also the actual old movie place next door
JTuniverse.net I’m from abbeville too but I was only 1yrs. We have pictures but I dnt remember it lol
Not only are kids in movies irritating, they're god damned invincible. Most of the time if there's a kid or kids in a movie you can just toss all suspense out the window because nowadays kids are practically gods in movies. They'll either magically solve the problem or they'll be a plot point in of them-self and exist only to forward another character. It's even worse when they try be the main bad guy.
Choatemister guessing youvd never seen friday the 13th...or Nightmare on Elm street...or Scream...or IT...or Jeepers Creepers...or any scary movie towards teens. Kids are fritter food.
Teens and kids are NOT treated the same, anything under 13 is a no-no to kill in a movie
You've must have never seen The Devils Backbone, The Orphanage, or Pans Labyrinth.
Or the Bad Seed.
Also Dinocroc, The Feast, Dinotopia suprisingly (the series, if i recal correctly) and some more, where i just don't recal the title.
Movies that kills kid characters off on screen before "The Blob 88" - Jaws, Halloween III:Season of the Witch, Night of the Living Dead, Amittyville II:The Possession, The Omen III had mass bay killing.
Great remake. Remember seing the trailer to this as a kid and freaked me out.
I love this version. Watching that woman get crushed to death in the telephone booth while the sheriff’s body is outside always sticks in my mind.
80's blob is freaking terrifying. like, seriously a scary movie despite the premise sounds silly on paper. original is kind of lame tho.
Hey can you tell me where you got the image from 5:55 (the one you use on the number screens)?
That image was The Blobs (1988) theatrical poster here in Australia. I just edited it to get rid of the writting
yeah it is
Love the 80s version !!! 👍 😎
A great remake!!! The effects were amazing in the 1988 version
Loved this movie...still unnerving. The way it eats away/digests people is reminiscent of The Raft from Creepshow 2.
That's an electric hedge trimmer not a chainsaw FYI
Which makes it even more hillarious!
Saw that to.
You can kill with that to but.. a little less bad ass
a sequel was indicated at the end of the remake as the preacher had some blob chunks in a jar when the woman asks about the end of the world coming
The original title sound track song was the BEST thing about the 1958 movie
All three Blob movies end with a question mark. Also the year before Creepshow2 came out and one of the stories is titled 'The Raft'. A blob like creature that eats five or six dumb teens who don't pay attention to the 'DO NOT SWIM!" sign.
i watch the 80s version like 10 times a year it's something about the style or maybe because I saw it with my granny when I was a kid at the theatre
Important question, did that dog die? 9:30
Herald of Misfortune Boomer Will Live. As for that doggo, not sure about that!
Its best to not think of it :( ...1 like = 1 prayer to save this dog
Old Yeller was bullshit and fuck that family
Andy Blackchurch I know the dog that the guy had its a Yorkshire terrier and it’s the same breed as the dog that I had :c
No the dog didn't die, the dog ran off, see blob moving in meteor .
Rare instance of the remake kicking the original's proverbial ASS.
Another bonus Stephen King connection you missed: The evil military guy (Joe Seneca) is the same actor that held Drew Barrymore's 'Charlie' character captive in 'Firestarter'.
wrong actor!!! the black actor who held Drew's character captive, was Moses Gunn
Awesome video Minty! I have always enjoyed these movies. Only thing I can add is that Bill Moseley from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 fame also makes an appearance. He is the soldier in the sewer that tells Meg to try and scream. First time I noticed that I was like "Dang! There is Chop Top!"
GREAT VIDEO.. these movies are classics
I feel like that opening with the cat is popular during the 70's: many movies would start with some completely unrelated footage while the title credits roll
I KNEW you were a teenager !!!
That explains Sooooo much about your channel.
(Really, a good look at these classic movies)
This was a pretty scary, nasty movie.....great breakdown Minty.