The original Blob, starring a young Steve McQueen, was an honestly scary, inventive horror film. What makes this film terrifying isn't simply the idea of being digested by a space creature. This creature's only drive is hunger, and cannot be reasoned with, bargained with, or destroyed(it is frozen, but not dead).
Oddly, Beware! The Blob!, the horrible sequel directed by JR Ewing himself, Larry Hagman, has none of this horror. What's horrible, you ask? Well, the ethnic stereotyping, poor acting, and strange soundtrack, for starters. What really threw me was the injection of COMEDY. There are poorly conceived, overacting comic foils. What disturbed me the most was the comic blunders followed quite succinctly by THEIR GRUESOME DEATHS!!!
I recommend this film for its sheer lack of tact, as well as for watching really goofy death scenes(like the death of a guy in a gorilla suit who drives INTO the blob...) .
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