Tag: The Blob

The 1988 THE BLOB Remake Screens Midnights This Weekend at The Moolah


“The organism is growing at a geometric rate. By all accounts, it’s at least a thousand times its original mass.”


THE BLOB (1988) screens Midnights this weekend (October 12th and 13th) at The Moolah Theater and Lounge (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108) as part of  Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Nite Grindhouse film series.

Most remakes of old movies, especially horror or science fiction movies, are pointless affairs that fail either to capture the spirit of the original or to add anything new to the basic premise. Occasionally, a smart filmmaker will come along and actually improve upon the original.

This was the case with David Cronenberg’s remake of THE FLY (1986) and also Chuck Russell’s 1988 remake of the 1958 “classic” THE BLOB, which managed both to capture the giddy drive-in feel of the original and improve upon it, especially in terms of special effects. Savvy enough to quote from the highlights of the original and clever enough to stand on its own, THE BLOB pits the small town of Arborville against a man-eating blob from outer space that threatens to devour the entire community. Well directed by Russell, THE BLOB was a fast-paced, frightening, revolting, and witty, delivering the goods that come with the genre while developing characters and themes at the same time. If you’ve never seen it, don’t miss your chance this weekend at The Moolah!

The Facebook invite for Friday night can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/2183463138566638


The Facebook invite for Saturday night can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/2685527505005640/

THE PSYCHOTRONIC PRE-SHOW STARTS AROUND 11:30P WITH THE FILM STARTING AT MIDNIGHT.


The Moolah Theatre & Lounge serves alcohol until 2:30AM! Feel free to show up early and stay late to have some drinks and get friendly with the amazing Moolah staff.

THE BLOB Screens August 3rd at Schlafly Bottleworks – ‘Strange Brew’

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“It creeps and leaps and glides and slides across the floor. Right through the door. And all around the wall. A splotch, a blotch. Be careful of the Blob!”

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THE BLOB screens Wednesday, August 3rd at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143) as part of Webster University’s Award-Winning Strange BrewFilm Series. The screening is Sponsored by Planet Score Records

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THE BLOB is chiefly remembered now for launching Steve McQueen’s career. Soon after the release of this film, he was offered the role of Josh Randall on the hit TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive, and super-stardom was only a few years away. Here, billed as “Steven” McQueen, he leads a pack of teenagers who are determined to stop the Blob from devouring their small town. The main problem is that the authorities (i.e. the local police) refuse to believe their story about a “monster” killing people and think it’s all a “gag.” Hatched from a meteor, the Blob itself (with the help of about $100 worth of Special Effects) is a magnified slab of Jell-O that looks like it’s been left over from yesterday’s desert menu. As the film progresses, it gets bigger and bigger and is soon eating up whole buildings. The 28-year-old McQueen, who’s supposed to be a teenager himself in the movie, is smart enough to figure out that this evil hunk of space glob can’t stand low temperatures. In no time, everyone in town is bombarding it with CO-2 Fire Extinguishers and putting it into the deep freeze. The best scene in the film is when the Blob attacks the downtown theater during a midnight showing of DAUGHTER OF HORROR and the panicking and screaming (actually smiling and laughing) crowd comes running out into the street.

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THE BLOB was distributed by Paramount Pictures who quite rightly figured it would be a smash hit with teenagers and it certainly was all of that.. Also in the cast is Aneta Corsaut who later had a long career in television with co-starring roles on the “Andy Griffith Show” and “Matlock.” McQueen, one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars of the 1960s and 1970s, died at the age of 50 in 1980. He was a one-of-a-kind actor who marched to his own beat, to say the least. Broke at the time, McQueen settled for a $3000 flat fee to str in THE BLOB although he was also offered 10% of the gross profits in lieu of any upfront money. Late in his career, McQueen was asked about having any regrets and answered “I should have taken the offer for 10% of THE BLOB”

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So beware of THE BLOB (and Burt Bacharach’s opening theme tune- which you will not be able to get out of your head!) when it screens Wednesday, August 3rd at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143) as part of their Strange Brew film series . The movie starts at 8pm and admission is $5. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed beer.

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A Facebook invite for this event can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/251554671895007/

 

 

Rob Zombie Next Remaking ‘The Blob’

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The one-time heavy metaller and now director of white trash-filled horror movies is, once again, going back to the remake well.  According to Variety, Rob Zombie will write, direct and produce a remake of the 1958 horror classic, ‘The Blob.’

My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing — that’s the first thing I want to change.  That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now.

Zombie’s words make us wonder if his next film will feature an all-CG creation, and, if that’s the case, it probably won’t be much scarier than the original.

Zombie will be producing with Genre Co.’s Richard Saperstein, a former Dimension Films president who developed a relationship with Zombie.  According to Sapersteing, they have a budget of around $30 million and the film will absolutely be an R-rated film.

Says Zombie about the idea to make the film:

I’d been looking to break out of the horror genre, and this really is a science fiction movie about a thing from outer space.  I intend to make it scary, and the great thing is I have the freedom once again to take it in any crazy direction I want to.

Production is set to begin in the Spring.  Of course, for anyone who has been following Zombie’s directorial career, this still leaves his long-time gestating project ‘Tyrannosaurus Rex’ waiting in the wings.  Last we heard, he planned to open ‘Halloween II,’ release a new album this Fall, begin a musical tour through the Winter and early Spring, and begin work on ‘T Rex’ sometime first or second quarter 2010.  The news of his remaking ‘The Blob’ seems to another sidestep along the path of ‘Tyrannosaurus Rex’s production.