The Blob (1988)
People love to complain about remakes, myself include, but that's because they are rarely as awesome as The Blob.
Football player Paul, asks cheerleader Meg out on a date. juvenile delinquent Brian fucks his motorcycle up trying to jump over a broken bridge. Unnamed hobo investigates a giant meteorite crash, discovering a gelatinous alien predator. When unnamed hobo steals Brian's ax to cut his Blob infected hand off, he runs into the road and is hit by Paul, and Meg, out on their date. This leads to everyone going to the hospital, where the hobo melts, and Paule is eaten by the Blob in front of Meg. The Police blame this on Brian, because of his delinquency.
Got all that? It doesn't matter, because what makes The Blob great is it's mix of 80's teen movie conventions and it's insanely grotesque special effects. It's like Ferris Bueller's Day Off seen through the lens of an EC Horror Comic. Everything is candy coloured gore. The creature itself is one of the greatest movie monsters I've ever seen. Special effects guy Tony Gardner totally out did himself. Six years later Director Chuck Russell helped usher in the age of CGI with his next film The Mask, but here it's all glorious latex, and camera tricks.
This flopped when it was first released, which was real shame, both because it continues to be underrated, and because we were all denied the fantastic sequel that is set up at the end. By all means, watch this movie.
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