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The Blob

Cast

Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn View All

Crew

Frank Darabont (Screenplay), Chuck Russell (Screenplay), Chuck Russell (Director) View All

Release: Aug. 5th, 1988

Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes

Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government agents try to cover up the evidence and confine the creature.

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Used Future
It's left to Brian and Meg to save the day before the blob eats everything in sight, a task aided by their discovery that it doesn't like the cold.

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Iroquois
It doesn't offer much in the way of serious scares, though - you're kind of aware that you're watching a film with an ultimately silly premise, but the filmmakers don't seem quite that aware, no matter what kind of jokes they make (such as having the blob infiltrate a movie theatre full of people wa....