October 12, 2025 • 49 mins
In this episode the crew sat down to discuss The Blob (1958) & Beware! The Blob (1972)!
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October 12, 2025
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
No, check that bit out man the internet.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Let's see those first wrote something new about us with
a stupid ass flick.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Something you want to add to this briefing, Captain Hillar, No, sir,
just a.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Little anxious to get up there and whoope, tea's ass.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
That's all all right.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
Look there's only one return, okay, and it ain't of
the King.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's of the Jedi.
Speaker 6 (00:22):
That man is playing. Gallagher thought we wouldn't notice, but
we did. I'm running this money part now, Frank. It's time,
and I want to know what the food you're doing
with my time?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Would you like to know more?
Speaker 7 (00:41):
Every one of you watching this screen, look out, because soon,
very soon, the most horrifying monster menace ever conceived, we'll
be oozing into this theater. Two teenagers see it first,
like a falling star from outer space. An old man
finds it, touches it, and this is the shocking result.
(01:02):
Then on, there's no stopping the blob as it spreads
from town to town.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
A blob is.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Back in a horrifying new Adventure, and you are there, stitled, stunned,
terrified as the blood red creature rolls over and eats everything.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And it's bad we're going to burn the place down.
I can't take any chances. Beware the blob.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Hey, guys, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
You are listening to this week in geek dot Nets
Future Imperfect Spooky Edition.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
I am one of your hosts tonight.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I am Mike the Birdman, another no good teenager, you
might say, but I'm joined by my compatriot, the other
King of the road over here from the lovely place
of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
HeLEX the producer. And you know what, I'll say this
before we move forward. We could be teenagers based on
how they used to cast people in the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
I know it's so weird. And of course, from the
lands of Lansing, Michigan, the duo from Earth Versus Soup
we bring.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'm Aaron, I'm Darlene.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
And guys, yes, we are here continuing our month long
of Halloween focus programming. You've heard stuff from Twig Sunday Funnies,
you've heard stuff from Loose Cannon, and now you're hearing
more here on Future IMPERFUC. Last time we talked about
Night of the Living Dead nineteen sixty eight to nineteen
(02:37):
ninety and this was something that Alex and Aaron had
pitched to me, and I was like, you know what,
I've never seen the original. I didn't know this sequel existed. Alex,
what the fuck are we talking about tonight?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Well, I'm going to apologize ahead of time because none
of us had seen the sequel to The Blob, so
we had no idea what we were in for. I
had seen The Blob one, oh, probably on VHS, you know,
twenty five thirty years ago as a kid, and I
was like, oh, that's pretty good. I remember it being
pretty good, but I hadn't seen it since then. And
(03:10):
you know, initially we were throwing back and forth should
we do the Blob and the eighty nine Blob? And
I knew Aaron wasn't a fan.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I know you like it, Mike, but I thought, there's
another Blob movie. I know there's another Blob movie. Let's
look it up. And then sure enough it had a
recent release where it was remastered as best they could,
I guess, and I said, okay, so let's do Blob
and Beware of the Blob also known as Blob two
or Blob Return. It's one of those movies that had
a bunch of different names, and you know, I thought, Okay,
(03:38):
you know, well, we'll watch this and I'll watch The
Blob first, and I guess we could sort of start,
probably with uh, I guess we should start with the
Blob one and maybe where anybody else had heard of it.
I'll just start because I'm already talking. I have heard
of the movie referenced in so many things, even as
a kid. You know, I'm the baby of the group here, right,
(03:59):
So I'm I'm a kid in the early nineties, but
I remember this as being one of those horror movies
that would pop up on like Saturday Night Mattinees on TV,
or occasionally it was on VHS. I think I, of
all things, borrowed this on VHS from the library in
the in the early nineties, and that was my experience
(04:20):
with it. And I don't remember seeing it again until
the late nineties when I started getting into other types
of movies and I was like, oh, yeah, this was
like Steve McQueen's Big, you know, Big Break. I remember
wanting to go back and watch it after having seen
like The Magnificent Seven and Great Escape and all of
his you know, greatest hits, and I remember even as
a kid, thinking he doesn't look like a teenager, No,
(04:43):
like it looks like he's in his late thirties. Yeah,
it was like he kind of always looked forty for
like his entire career. So, you know, that's my experience
with it. I don't know about you guys.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
For me, I had heard of the original from nineteen
fifty eight for quite some time, but it really wasn't
until I started getting into my older years I started
actively seeking this stuff out. The first time I'd actually
ever seen anything from the Blob proper, the one from
nineteen fifty eight, was actually when I started getting onto YouTube.
(05:16):
So James Rawl, friend of the show The Angry Nintendo
Nerd at that time, they were the Angry Video Game
Nerd now started he did a thing where he went
to the place where they shot the theater sequence for
this movie. And it turns out the theater or that
town particularly has like a Blob festival, like every couple
(05:36):
of years or every.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Year or something. They always show the movie.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
They do like a bunch of like like a classic
car show, like all sorts of things that you know,
any small town that's famous for this type of thing
would and I was like, Okay, this is kind of neat.
I've never seen this before, and I was always super
curious how they did the special effects. But I was
more familiar with the nineteen eighty eight remake, which is
sort of one of my gateway horror movies when I
(06:02):
was a kid because it was always on Cinemax and HBO.
It played a lot in those early cable and satellite
days for me, so I was super familiar with that.
The original, like I said, I'd never seen up until recently,
I'd only knew it by reputation and by people doing
(06:24):
vlogs and sort of little short specials on it. So
having to see this for the show was actually kind
of a treat for me because the version that I watched,
I was able to track down a Criterion collection copy
of this, and I was super surprised how well the
colors popped, how good a transfer this is. And the
(06:45):
one thing I just want to mention before I throw
it to Aaron and Darlene is there's a scene right
near the very beginning. In fact, it's like the opening
couple of minutes here Stephen McQueen's talking to his date
Janey or Jane in the car and the lightest hitting
Steve McQueen in such a way I thought we were
supposed to see stars behind his head as he's talking
(07:06):
to his date. And I was watching this with Liam
and I'm like, oh, look, it's so clear you can
see the stars. Like, no, Mike, that's just his stray hair.
And I was like, oh wow, this is really sharp.
So this is easily one of the best restorations I've
seen on like high definition. I was like, holy crap,
this is whoa awesome. So yeah, that was my first experience.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
With the Blob.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
For us, we kind of both grew up watching The Blob.
It's one of those movies that we've we've both seen
many many times growing up, Me on like you know,
the Saturday Morning you know WGN type creature features Darlene,
same kind of.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
Thing, military boredom, military watching it, and we.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
We actually recovered it for episode seventy of Earth Versus
Soup as one of our classics because this is pretty
well regarded. The original is pretty well regarded in a
lot of ways, and we we both thought that as well,
didn't we. Oh yeah, Okay.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
The festival is called Blobfest.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
And it is in July. Yeah, and where is it?
Where is it?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
It's in like.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Phoenixville.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania is where it is. Yeah, a lot most
of the movie was filmed in Pennsylvania and most of
the places I guess are still around in one way,
shape or form.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
I mean, see, had I thought to, had I known
when this happened, I would have looked up and seen
what happened this past July. So if, like any of
our listeners went this past July, kind of cool for
you us though, to write in and tell us so
the back so we can keep gott.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Net not insanely far from us. If we were to
ever do like if plans, yeah, plan ourselves like a
horror movie trip, we could probably make a few stops
and see some of the movies that were filmed up there.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
Yeah, it's just it looks like the registration starts in April, so.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Okay, that would make it for next year. Yeah, something
to look into.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, and in today's money, the budget would be about
two point six million dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Which is less than what the original Terror Fire was
made for. So this would look.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Really good today all things considered.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Because I was thinking like I looked at you a
one hundred and some odd thousand US in nineteen fifty eight,
You're right, yeah, a couple of million even then, that's
still I don't know, was that considered a low budget
for horror movie? Like I think a lot of movies
back then were about one hundred thousand, right.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I mean I'm seeing like two hundred and forty
thousand dollars budget, but like to me, that's still sort
of mid range on budget, mid to high but not
like super high are a lot more.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Yeah, it's definitely a cut above in terms of filming
and quality, and like Mike said, even the colorization, because
you know, not not every film, most horror films were
still black and white in the fifties, right, So the
fact that probably half of their budget would have been
for the color photography because yeah, like at that time
(10:25):
it still wasn't the standard, right, and they had only
they had only started filming in widescreen two only a
couple of years earlier than that, as like for like
every major picture, so this would have been like pretty contemporary,
Like this would have been a pretty eye popping movie
for the time too.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Oh we made a lot too.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And that's for Yeah, so if you that would be
like like today when we have I don't know, you know,
a modern horror franchise. You know that they run like
ten movies at a time or more now like like uh,
Final Destination or Saw on that where you know, they
have a fairly modest budget of you know, four or
five million, and then they have a runaway success with
(11:06):
like a hundred million in box office. That's sort of
the equivalent to back then. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, And if you did not know, there is actually
portions of the original Blob that are still in existence.
I don't know where, but I have seen pictures of
it in like a clear container.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
That's really careful. Gotta be careful then with it exactly.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
One of the things I found out again while doing
some research for this. The opening theme song is certainly
a vibe. It's like this weird rockabilly surfer jam that
was written by Bert Bakarak.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, I was like, what.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Did not expect it?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Like this happy go lucky you know song to go
with this, you know, body absorbing a meta of death
from space.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
It was honestly really good effect for the time. Oh yeah,
Like it didn't just look like somebody stuck a bunch
of bubblegum in somebody's hand, like it they they did
something with like petroleum jelly or something. It actually looked
kind of realistic, especially in an era where everything was
very hokey looking.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah it's silicone. It's just yeah, ye silicon.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yeah's it's it's silicone. Red food dye balloons were used
at certain points. I think they used a food thickening agent.
I know they did that on The Blob nineteen eighty eight.
They used a chemical that was used the thickened milkshakes
so much so it turned off the director from milkshakes
for decades. I think they used something remarkably similar here.
(12:51):
I don't think jello was used. I know that was
used in Beware the Blob, and it was like, one
of the coolest things that I love about this is
the Blob gets more and more defined in red from
absorbing the blood of its victims, and I was like
that that's really kind of cool. Just again, from a
(13:12):
continuity standpoint, you can see how this thing grows and
evolves and just it's really quite something. And the fact
that this was all done practical outside of the few
points of animation that show up when the blob envelops
the diner at the end of the movie, which again
very very cool sequence.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, should should be basic plot because I think a
lot of people listening would have heard of the blobber
through other, you know, popular media, whether it be like
I don't know, Simpson's references or different things alti osmosis. Basically, yeah,
the basic plot is meteorite comes down in a field
(13:54):
somewhere off in the distance. The teenager is going to
try to make out with his new girlfriend on their date,
and a farmer finds the media, touches it. Blob comes out,
infects him. He looks like he's burning, he's got a
burnt hand or something. Good teenagers decide to go and
help him out, save the day, bring him to a doctor.
(14:16):
Doctor goes to look at it. Doctor and nurse get absorbed,
and nobody believes teenagers because you know, rambunctious teens. Teens
they're liars and hooligans and what are they doing out
at night? What are you doing at with my daughter?
That sort of stuff, you know, classic stuff, And then
the town goes into a hysteria. But then the teenagers
have to band together with the adults. They have to
(14:36):
put aside their differences and save the day. And you know,
they find out that it's actually it can't stand the cold,
so they have to use fire extinguishers in lieu of
anything else, so CO two to freeze it and they
can sort of get away and save it. And then
the end the military is going to send I guess
(14:57):
specialists to contain it and send it and drop it
into the Arctic so it can't hurt anybody while they
study it. You know, that's the long story shorts. You know,
for people out there, it is obviously worth watching. It's
a classic, but you know that's the basic plot. And then,
oh sorry, Alex. One thing, one thing.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Until I kind of mentioned about this for a movie
out of the nineteen fifties, it's remarkably watchable today, not
just because it is a classic, because it is so
iconic to the era.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
It's really well paced.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
You're not bored, and that's something for me with watching
older movies, and I don't like to admit this. My
attention span for stuff can be really frigging low. But
for this I was constantly engaged. Likable character. Sure you
can't name all of them, but good chemistry and everyone's
genuinely trying. Yes, this is Steve m McQueen's breakout role,
(15:50):
his first role, but he's likable enough. Everybody around them
is genuinely likable.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
It's just you.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
He was twenty eight playing a seven teen year old.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Yeah, I remember saying to Liam, like, wow, people in
the fifties look way different.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I mean, it's you know what, we make fun of it,
but like, I'm pretty sure that that what's his name,
Luke Perry was like thirty playing seventeen in nine of
two one zero in the nineties, right, so.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Yeah, exactly, so our Rangers were in like the mid
twenties too.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
That's only a thing that changed in like the last
i'd say fifteen twenty years. They actually started casting teenagers
as teenagers.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And we should say that like Steve McQueen actually considered
this one of his favorite movies that he had been in.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I guess, yeah, he looked, he looked like he was
having fun, and he's not somebody who always looked like
he was having fun in a movie unless he was
allowed to ride a motorcycle.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, and I loved this movie, right, No, yes.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Absolutely, yeah to me, Like the special effects we said,
are great, especially for the era. Like I would say,
they were very creative in the shots that they chose
and how they handled especially only showing the blob when
they had to, you know, you know, less is more.
And the two things that come out of this for
(17:18):
me that I remember the most are nobody trusting the teenagers,
but then you know, slowly coming to trust them, and
the idea that everybody that was distrustful of each other
ended up working together at the end and saving the day.
And it was in a sort of believable manner, especially
for the time that they had to tell that story.
And then the other part was the effect shot that
(17:39):
they did when they're in the diner and it's engulfed.
When they switched to the miniature, it actually looked pretty
darn good. And I could see myself if I was,
you know, a teenager in the nineteen fifties going to
see this, it would have looked very real compared to
what else had been done before at that time.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
For sure, the special effects really were top notch for
the time.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
I was also kind of surprised, and I don't know
whether this was intentional when they're using the fire extinguishers
on the door to keep this thing at bay. The
fire extinguishers are shooting CO two. There's like they're suffocating
as they're getting rescued because you put so much CO
two in the air, you're pushing away oxygen. So they're like, hey,
(18:21):
this isn't going so well. But you know, eventually they
get a hold of the town's weeping. And that's a
nice attention to science. I was really yeah, appreciative of.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Also, one thing there's what caught me off guard is
I forgot that that CO two fire extinguishers were still
a fairly new thing that they the reason that they
call for do you have any CO two extinguishers? And
they're listing the other types that they have that were
in use before that became the standard. So it's like
(18:50):
they're in a small town that might not have the
newest tech, like we take for granted. You know that
basically every you know, every apartment building has two two.
So where do they have to go. They have to
go to the school, which was the only place that
would have been you know, funded enough to have modern extinguishers.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah, I mean because because water extinguishers like that you
would pump up and then spray were a much bigger deal,
and at least with the the what you were talking
about with the CO two extinguishers when they were in
the diner, it's not that it's pushing away oxygen. It's
actually the same kind of problem that they were having
(19:25):
on Apollo thirteen.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Yes, say they're getting that toxicity or what.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
CO two toxicity because the blob has effectively sealed them in.
So when you start increasing CO two, you can get
CO two poisoning, you can start getting kind of loopy
and drowsy. But there's more than enough oxygen there. It's
just that, you know, the CO two is too much
of a partial pressure hyper partial pressure.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Actually that was invented in nineteen twenty four, real CO
two by extinguisher by Walter Giddy. Funny.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, but it just wasn't widespread at the time. I mean,
we even see in the nineteen sixties people continuing, at
least in the movies that we we do for for
a suit, we still see water pressure fire extinguishers and
use even into the sixties.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I'd imagine a lot of that would be like, you know,
small towns and government buildings would probably have the new stuff,
but like a small town wouldn't necessarily just have it
for every especially if like it looks like that town
that they're at is more of like fire reserve, because
you remember, like when the alarms are going off, the
old men are grabbing their their reserve gear. They're like
(20:37):
volunteer gear to go in and and battle it. So
it's not like they it doesn't look like they had
more than like one engine, and you know, once they're out,
they're out.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
But yeah, I mean, like overall, it is a amazing
little movie. It does not overstay its welcome, weird and intro,
don't let it throw you now.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
No.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
One thing that I did like about this is eventually
at the end of the movie, al she had mentioned
they were able to successfully trap the blob and they
transport it to the Arctic where scientists can study it
and it could presumably never hurt anybody again.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
And I was going to have a remake in twenty
fifty the.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Arctic melts, the blob attacks, That's see, that's what I
think I was going with this because at the end
they said, unless something melts the ice, they're like, we're fine.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
And I was thinking, as we're chatting before in our
private group chat I was like, it's about time for
a remake. It's been you know, thirty some odd years.
If they do it now, you could just make the movie,
you know, using modern tech, modern ideas, and it could
be that nobody believes the blob is here because they
think everything is a deep fake video from people filled
(21:51):
me with their phones. Look at it's like, oh, that's misinformation,
that's fake news. That's that's fake. And then the blob
slowly takes over and it could keep growing because the
has become too warm to stop it.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Yeah, then what do you do.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Like the idea I had for like a sequel for
this was it gets dropped off in the Arctic. Same
thing happens at the end of the movie now because
it was because it was thrown onto an iceberg or
like a glacier or something. That glacier breaks off and
starts floating southward. Now, in my remake, I would put
(22:27):
the thing in Antarctica, so it breaks off and floats
towards one of the lower countries down there, be it
like South America, Africa or whatever.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
The blob in Australia would be a good movie.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Yeah, So as it lands on Australian shores it starts
or wherever. Actually I would set it in South America.
And here's why, because the Blob is essentially a movie
about climate change when you really think about it. So
what I thought is if it lands in South America,
the blob starts devouring pieces of the rainforest. So people
(23:03):
when they go to an area they see a lot
of stuff's been devoured and deforested. They're like, oh, oh wow,
I wonder what's causing this, and nobody believes it.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
You haven't land in like Argentina or Venezuela, like one
of the ones a little farther south, and then people
don't believe it, like some you know, cattle go missing
or whatever, and they don't think it's a big deal.
And then Brazil starts to report that something weird is
happening with like the methane levels in near the you know,
methane levels and oxygen levels have lowered, you in the forest,
(23:35):
and people initially think that it's just deforestation, but then
when they send helicopter over, it's like whole swaths of
land or missing, yeah, and all the animals are gone
and it's like traveling up the river.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
See, this would be a fucking amazing sequel.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Now, honestly surprised nobody has jumped on to do this
yet because I can't imagine the Blob rights would be
that expensive.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
And again we're about ripe for a remake now.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
So yeah, ultimately, guys, I think the Blob nineteen fifty
eight classic. Please go out and watch it. I know
there's a Criterion collection. I'm pretty sure you can stream
it almost everywhere.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, not very much.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
But let's get into the sequel. You tried to warn
me apologize. I didn't believe you.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Happy, I'm happy I suggested it, and also deeply, deeply
sorry because I think I was the first one of
us to watch it with, and I watch it with
Darlene uh, and I tried to warn both of you.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Stocking bad.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
This movie was tried to put comedy into it.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Miserably.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
The only part that was actually funny was how much
Miller highlight there was in.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
That bill and the bathtub. Yeah, it's just it's just
that's our, that's our Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yeah, well, well it's like we got the message from you.
He's saying, oh, dear listen. I went, oh no, And
then I watched it. I was going to watch it
the next night, and I was like, no, I couldn't sleep.
I had to watch it after you mentioned it, and
I'm watching it and I we will probably go to
two into details about the plot because it's mostly nonsensical.
Maybe just be where the Blob from nineteen Yes, yes,
(25:24):
Beware the Blob also known as Son of Blob, Blob
two and Blob returns. That's how you know it's Bob. Yeah,
let's how you know. It's got a million bad names.
It's got to be terrible. So this is one of
those movies made during I guess the transitionary period after
the old Hollywood system had given up on a lot
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of stuff and then you had a lot of these
independent films coming up with in weird financing. Who knows
if this was financed from some country who could have
financed it, or some millionaire whatever. This is a lot
of these movies happened in the seventies, and this is
sort of like a nineteen sixties hippie movie, but blended
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with the comedy that you sort of saw like a
couple of years later pop up with like the National
Lampoon SCTV, like that era Animal House, kind of era
of comedy or Kentucky Fried movie that sort of stuff.
But this was like a couple of years before that,
so it's sort of like an in between phase of
films of different styles, and it really doesn't know what
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it wants to be. But the basic plot is the
Blob gets out. Somebody was in the art how they
connected to somebody was in the Arctic, and they took
a canister from the government.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yea home again.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Yeah, he took it from home and and it thaws
out because his wife doesn't want it in their freezer,
and the Blob comes back, goes on a Mayhem's free
It's basically a rehashing of the same plot from the
first movie, only there's random hippies. Burgess Meredith as a
home bum hippie.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Yeah, the voice of Brainy Smurf is at the party
for some reason from the Smurfs, in case.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
You didn't know.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
There's a bunch of random stuff happens here. They did
update a few of the of the tropes and a
few of the little bits from it, for you know,
dealing with the cold. By the nineteen seventies, things like
air conditioning and cars it's more common, So that's one
of the ways that they escape. It ends up at
an ice rink and like that. There they were a
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little bit cleveral given that with how they were figuring out,
they kept the continuity of it being afraid of the
cold and not being able to handle it. But you
have like strange police officers grandstanding and making.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
You also got the cock and ass the farm.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, everything is in it's It's really weird because that's
where Larry Hagman is. Because remember Larry Hagman is the
director and actually has a part in this. You might
know him from such things as I Dream of Genie.
He is Major Nelson from I Dream of Genie, Dallant
and Dallas.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
You know, like when I think of Okay, we all
know the question was who shot Jr? Right, Well, I
think we have the answer as to why they shot
it was for directing this movie.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
And evidently Hagman has a cameo in the remake. He's
the crazy Preacher. Really yeah, I was like.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Reilly and yeah, I must have had some connection. I'm
going to I think he owns part of the ip.
Like the fact that the fact that he directed it.
It looks like they had the original producer one of
the original script screenwriters work on it. Like for him
to be a part of this, the way it came
about and everything, something tells me he just must have
been a very big fan of the original Yeah, yeah,
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and had the opportunity to, you know, produce and direct this.
Because you know other people in here that you would
have seen as they would have recognize as like Cindy Williams,
you know from Laverna Shirley. You know a lot of
these people are like slightly pre fame, and then there's
a lot of people here that were like a lot
of character actors, character actors from like sixties and seventies TV.
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I'd say you could sort of like recognize people, but
not necessarily pinpoint who they are, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
It felt like they were casting from variety shows. And
I don't mean that to throw shade, but there is
one actor. It's he plays the scout Master, Dick van
something or other, Yeah, Dick Van Patten, And I'm watching
him as the scout Master. But what tipped me off
was not what he looked like. It was what he
sounded like. Because I had my head turned. I was
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talking to my friend Liam, and I was like like, is.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
That the fucking dad from Spaceballs?
Speaker 5 (29:57):
And I turned my head and I'm like, holy shit,
it's him. It was so weird, like this movie is
so tonally all over the place. In fact, I was
typing to you guys as as I was watching this,
and I was like, if you kill the fucking cat,
I swear a fucking dog.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yeah no, no, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I was telegraphed hard, hard. It was so blatant what
they were going to do with the cat that I
was like, Darlene, when when it looks like it, I'm
just gonna skip ahead thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
We know what's going to happen the movie. The movie
opens with the weirdest hippie like like LSD trip music
montage of a cat just going around and meowing, and
I went.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Oh, oh no mustard seed, Oh.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, yeah yeah, and it's so adorable and.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
So I oh sorry, sorry. So then as the blob
kills the cat, which luckily it's not directly on screen
because I wouldn't have put it past them in the
early seventies to just do that, but they you know,
you sort of see it being yanked out, you see,
and it's obviously at that point of stuffed animal like
like they they weren't so cruel as to like actually
quickly grab a real cat and do that, because I
(31:09):
would have been very angry. Well yes, sorry, yes, And
when it happens, I sent the message over to you, Aaron,
I went a cat and You're like yes, and I went,
oh what am I in for?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Noan?
Speaker 5 (31:31):
So oh yeah, like so earlier this year, I wrote
on letterbox because that's my thing. Now, thanks, Dave, I
wrote this is my review of Beware of the Blob.
Don't worry, it's not that long. I'm like this intro. Seriously,
did this conversation happen?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Stit? We need an intro?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
I can do.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Something, sure, just do it. Thirty minutes later, Bob, this
is your cat. Look you said something. You didn't specify
what This seems more like an sn L sketch. It
killed the cat. Fuck all the way off? Why is
she wearing a Freddy Krueger sweater?
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Holy shit?
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Less than twenty minutes in and I'm beyond words annoyed.
The blob is one the mood slam from Ghostbusters too,
the bathtub scene. Oh my god, I fucking hate this.
And then finally this is madness committed to film en
so so we.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Made as well. There is a bunch of random like
the best way to describe it as just random hippie
garbage that they throw in, uh, which you know, it's
not like the nicest way to say it. I can't
really describe anything else other than it just random hippie garbage.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
But I think we can all agree that the bathtub
scene was the most pleasant surprise entreat I've ever seen
in one of these terrible movies.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Art, your unadult rated art.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yes, it was the colors absolute. There's a dog, he's
slipper that gets eaten by the.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
Blob and the black and white telephone with the black and.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
White the tiling and then look like the salmon colored
wall tiles. The man is wearing a fez, butt ass naked,
and for one frame you can see shaft and head.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Yes, speaking, I miss he's speaking speaking of Russian. And
then I looked at his face and I went, it
looks like Mike Myers when he's in his fat bastard suit.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
And he hurls the the freaking telephone through the window
and then is running butt ass naked down down the road.
And did you notice that in every single scene that
he is left in the movie, like he's at the
police station, he is still butt ass naked and every
cop is staring at his junk.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Yes, yes, I saw all that, and all I thought was, like,
you know, I mentioned like muddy Python, but even more so,
this felt like you could have taken you know, because
they always put it to like weird musically, they put
it to like silly music. In this, you could have
taken the bathroom scene and splice it into the shining
(34:21):
when he's going and having all the flashes of like
you know, the different rooms when he's going in, and
you would have believed it. You would have been like, yeah,
that's just part of the shining. Just just a naked
Russian with a fez.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
And taking a bubble bath while like screaming and Russian
and throwing a boon you with curtains that don't match exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
You could have spliced that in where he goes and
sees the guy on the wallr suit with the person
in bed, or or sees like the naked lady in
the bath, and you would have been like, yeah, that's normal,
but it's part of the shining. Like what was that
crazy ass Stanley Kubrick looking thing thrown into this movie
for no.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Reason, like it was.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
It was a amazing It was so good that we
watched it four times. We actually went back and watched
We could not believe how wild that like minute of
scene was, that setting was just it's every time we
watched it we saw some new detail that was like
(35:20):
somebody either purposely thought out every single aspect of this shot,
like Larry Hagman had like a moment of clarity of
like pure artistic clarity.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
Are you sure it's not the cemontographer.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
I'd like to believe one of two things. One I'd
like to believe that that it was maybe originally a
film for a different movie, but no. The part I
would actually like to believe is I want to believe
that he had this scene in his head, he filmed it,
and then designed the rest of the movie to be
a blob movie around it.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I mean, it is possible.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
One of the things that weirds me out about this,
and this is what little film school I remember, is
there's a lot of really random Dutch tilt angles in
this movie, which kind of throws me off.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Things that I read a little Batman's sixty six going on.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Yeah, it's so sure, it's so distracting.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
And then randomly, a priest in a wheelchair gets thrown
into the blob. He tries to use his crucifix to
throw the blob away, it doesn't work. Random okay. So
they're in their old trucker whatever, and this girl is horrified.
She saw the blob eat her friend Chester at one point,
(36:44):
so she's all freaked out. But for some reason, they
go to a party with a guy in a gorilla suit,
because reasons, and she's still having a bad time, and
then she suddenly gets all horny for this dude who
looks like he's a reject from the Partridge family. So
the thing is defeated by air conditioning, which is fine,
and it's it's just the movie's so wildly inconsistent.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
There's one thing that could have been cool.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
So gorilla suits that's a sentence, is driving a dune
buggy that's a sentence and drives into the blob and
skids into it. This sequence could have been really cool
turned out to be really fucking dumb. But how they
kill this thing, like you mentioned, is they go to
this hockey rink and they're able to use the cooling
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systems to freeze this thing. And eventually the news crew
shows up and this, as you mentioned, this grand standing
sheriff is like, well, we defeated this amazingly wonderful, beautiful creature.
And they're standing on top of the quote unquote corpse
of the blob and they have these giant lighting kits,
which I've used one of these lighten kits before, and
(37:53):
those lighting kits are hot ash shit, and the blob
starts to reanimate, and then the movie just fucking ends.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
This movie made so little sense to me, I can't
honestly tell you. And I watched it.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
I actually paid attention because I was so in awe
of what the fuck am I watching. I can't name
a single character outside of Chester. I know there was
a cat, naked German guy with a fez who was
randomly a shiner, Russian naked Russian guy who was randomly
a shriner. And I was like, I don't know what
(38:27):
I watched, but I remember scenes and the guy who
owned the bowling alley was a real prick who, if
this movie was made today, would have been played by
Xander Berkley.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Don't know why, but that's who it would have been.
And yeah, this was so weird.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
Now I decided to try to go down the rabbit
hole for this because I'm thinking this movie is so bad.
I cannot be the only one who's heard about this.
So it turns out, as we're watching this, Liam turns
to me and says, Mike, did you you know I
tried to show you this back in two thousand and
like eleven. I was like, excuse me, and he did,
(39:07):
but I didn't. Clearly we didn't watch it, but this
movie tried to invade my life once. Now it's succeeded,
thank you for that. But as I was digging around
on YouTube, this movie has almost never been covered, like
there's nobody.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Talking about it.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
And for such a I consider the Blob an interesting ipiece,
so much so it's been remade. It's a classic, as
we've all kind of decided here, but there's almost nobody
talking about it. And I really thought the Burt Bacherax
song from the first one would have had people doing covers.
I sent you, guys, the best one, and I use
(39:45):
that word in quotation marks that I could find on YouTube.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
That is a vibe, and I don't know, it's so weird.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Like, I'm honestly surprised there's not more reverence for the sequel,
only because it is so bad sh boofy.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
For some reason, I would have thought in like the
eighties or nineties at some point, like the Misfits or
somebody would have done a cover.
Speaker 6 (40:09):
In the same year.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Yeah, like or maybe I mean this one. Hell, like
the guys from Ice nine Kills cover everything. Why didn't
they do something.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Other weird little fact factorys Like the main character played
by Robert Walker. He's one of those guys that did
appear in a bazillion TV shows in this in the
fifty sixty seventies, that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
The lead actress in it, I couldn't I've seen her before,
but I couldn't pinpoint it. I realized that's Chris Pine's mom. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Gwyn Gilford. Wow, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Actually, I think Darlene and I came to the conclusion
that she was actually the best best actor actress in
the movie, Like it actually seemed as those she were trying, yeah,
currently acting with her eyes.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
And this the second best would be Robert Walker because
he's he put in a serviceable performance as the lead.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
But she was here the family guy.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
Uh, if you were considering the main character looking like
the party family guy, maybe yeah, I would have I
would have said he looked a little more like a
Duke's of Hazard kind of guy.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
But uh yeah, she like and Mike, you might where
you might have seen her before. Is she was a
Master's of the Universe?
Speaker 6 (41:26):
Was she evil Lynn?
Speaker 3 (41:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (41:28):
No, no, that's me. That's Meg Foster. Who is she?
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (41:33):
Who is she? I think she plays a teacher or something.
Speaker 8 (41:36):
Oh cool?
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Yeah, no, no, no, I believe me. She's She's not
Meg Foster. You would know Meg Foster. She's still got
those witchy crazy eyes.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
You know Robert Walker Junior from being the uh Charlie
from the original series of Star.
Speaker 4 (41:53):
Trek, Like, okay, yeah, he's one of those guys. He
really did appear in a ton of TV shows back
in this sixties and seventies.
Speaker 5 (42:01):
Okay, So I guess as we begin to wrap this up,
where do we fall and Beware the Blob? Is it
worth watching for a laugh?
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Once?
Speaker 4 (42:11):
I almost say, like, if you can do a triple again,
I know that the remake from the eighties isn't for
everybody because of maybe the gore factor. But if you
haven't seen any I would almost say you could make
a marathon of it because they're not long movies.
Speaker 6 (42:26):
Yeah, they're all pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
They're like all of them, I think are under ninety minutes.
So you could do a triple feature. You know, have
some friends over for an afternoon, if you can do
a barbecue or something, and you could watch all three.
Each one is distinctly different, and you know there are
aspects you're probably gonna like of each. There's gonna be
(42:48):
much less to like about Where the Blob except for
the weirdness. Maybe if depending on the country, the state
wherever you live, if cannabis is legal where you are,
this is.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
A can for that movie.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
Yeah, indulge, Yeah, that's imbiben whatever. You must drink out
of a flower vase like Chester.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
Yeah, I see basically.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
After Canna Miller High Life into the flower Vase. I
laughed hard this this second, like Yeah, to Wear the Blob.
There are moments in this while while I will fully
admit this is not a good movie, I truly laughed
at some parts of this movie.
Speaker 8 (43:34):
See the Miller Highlight thing, like I said, needed to
be ten times higher than it was. In other words,
when he goes to take it out, there's cases but
pon cases upon cases in the alley way when they
cream into it.
Speaker 4 (43:51):
Oh you know what, you know how they should have
been saved. They should highlight. They should have been saved
by dumping, uh, backing up a beer truck filled with
refrigerated cans onto it.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, with just just tossing pressurized eggs of
Miller High Life onto it, and like it gets so
drunk that it just sort of dissolves.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Don't worry, we're gonna trick it. And they could have Actually,
that's how they should have ended. It's trying to escape
the ice rink and then they entice it onto into
the back of a truck. Only once it's inside the truck,
they close the door and really they realize it's a
refrigerated beer truck. And yeah, that's how they should have
ended the movie, because that's clearly who sponsored it.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
This champagne of beers saves the day. Man. It's yeah,
there are aspects of it that I thought were really fun.
It's not a great no, it isn't a great fild
at all.
Speaker 8 (44:45):
But but it goes between that that hippie that that
on one side of this town is the hippie commune
and on the other side is that cock gas.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
The cock and ass farm with the bums and yeah.
Speaker 8 (45:06):
And then you've got this this guy that steals steals
boy Scouts.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, that I have a theory about Dick
van Patten. See, we never got into this. If you
watched this movie, all of the boy Scouts that are
with Dick van Patten's character all have different den numbers
on their sleeves. There's none of them. He's sweeping them up,
napping cub Scouts from across the country, and.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
There's there's a movie right there.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
That's my theory.
Speaker 4 (45:38):
That's my theory. But I mean it's you know what
it feels like my conclusion, Michael is, to me, this
feels like almost like it was a student script, student
film from the people that would go on to make
the National Lampoon's movies.
Speaker 5 (45:55):
Yeah, there's a weird vibe of humor through this. Like
the horror elements don't really work at times. I mean,
there are moments where it could be amazing, like one
of the one of my favorite kills in this is
the barber shop.
Speaker 6 (46:09):
That could have been absolutely oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
It was.
Speaker 4 (46:14):
It was hampered by the fact that it was rated
PG in the seventies.
Speaker 5 (46:19):
Yeah, and the fact that the barber says to you, oh,
you've grown a lot, and he's like, yeah, I do.
I'm thinking I don't want my barber to say that
to me. Ever, under any circumstance. It's mildly uncomfortable. But yeah, like, honestly,
things your.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Grandma can say to you, but you don't want your barber.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
To say exactly. It's but yeah, like this would be
a really interesting triple feature.
Speaker 5 (46:43):
Like again, if you watch the remake by Chuck Russell,
there's a very good Scream Factory disc of this.
Speaker 6 (46:49):
There are multiple releases for the Blob Beware.
Speaker 5 (46:51):
The Blob, as you mentioned, just has a fairly new
restore and scan that you can check out.
Speaker 6 (46:57):
Is it worth owning? Well, if you got one and.
Speaker 4 (46:59):
Two if you're a big fan of seventies horror, Quino
Video has it on Blu Ray. Outside of that, this
is one that won't be hurt if you seek out
like a YouTube copied watch.
Speaker 6 (47:10):
Exactly it is perfectly acceptable. We're giving you permission.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
So next time here on Future Imperfect, We're probably gonna
cover yet another sci fi horror movie. As we continue
the month of October, I know we got lots of
stuff from me and Dave and JT coming up. I'm
sure me and Kennill have some stuff. Will probably even
have a couple of Halloween rams, which I think might
be a lot of fun as well. And yeah, so
(47:36):
make sure you check out our other content here on
this week, and make sure you are checking out Earth
Versus Soup with Aaron and Darlene. They have a lot
of cool stuff coming up for the rest of this
month and pretty much into the far flung future where
we will be mad maxing each other, So keep listening.
Me and Alex will be doing the regular show because
as the month of October continues, we are getting closer
(47:57):
to holiday Gift Guide and that means insanity between now
and the end of the year. So we got lots
of good stuff coming up. You'll have the regular news show.
I know, me and Enrique and James Rolf should be
getting something together, uh towards the end of the month,
so and that should be releasing in and around Halloween,
depending on how the.
Speaker 6 (48:16):
Release schedule goes. And yeah, that's all I really have
from me. So from the great city of Lansley, Michigan,
we have been.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
I'm Aaron and I'm Darlene.
Speaker 8 (48:26):
Good evening.
Speaker 5 (48:27):
And from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Alex the Producer, and I've
been Mike the bird Man saying, beware the blob. We'll
catch you guys next time, right here on this weekend
geek dot Net.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
Beware of the blob. It creeps and.
Speaker 8 (48:46):
Slides, and all around the wall a sponge, a blunch.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Be careful of the bob. Beware of the blob.
Speaker 6 (48:56):
It creeps.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
One shall stand, one shall fall.
Speaker 6 (49:02):
Why throw away your life so recklessly?
Speaker 3 (49:05):
That's a question you should ask yourself, Megatron.
Speaker 6 (49:09):
We came, we saw, we kicked itself. That's right, mister
p buddy.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Why did you Man game over? Man Game Over?
Speaker 6 (49:17):
You don't understand?
Speaker 7 (49:17):
I do.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
I understood that reference mission successful shutting down
No, check that bit out man the internet.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Let's see those first wrote something new about us with
a stupid ass flick.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Something you want to add to this briefing, Captain Hillar, No, sir,
just a.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Little anxious to get up there and whoope, tea's ass.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
That's all all right.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
Look there's only one return, okay, and it ain't of
the King.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's of the Jedi.
Speaker 6 (00:22):
That man is playing. Gallagher thought we wouldn't notice, but
we did. I'm running this money part now, Frank. It's time,
and I want to know what the food you're doing
with my time?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Would you like to know more?
Speaker 7 (00:41):
Every one of you watching this screen, look out, because soon,
very soon, the most horrifying monster menace ever conceived, we'll
be oozing into this theater. Two teenagers see it first,
like a falling star from outer space. An old man
finds it, touches it, and this is the shocking result.
(01:02):
Then on, there's no stopping the blob as it spreads
from town to town.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
A blob is.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Back in a horrifying new Adventure, and you are there, stitled, stunned,
terrified as the blood red creature rolls over and eats everything.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And it's bad we're going to burn the place down.
I can't take any chances. Beware the blob.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Hey, guys, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
You are listening to this week in geek dot Nets
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Speaker 6 (01:41):
I am one of your hosts tonight.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I am Mike the Birdman, another no good teenager, you
might say, but I'm joined by my compatriot, the other
King of the road over here from the lovely place
of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
HeLEX the producer. And you know what, I'll say this
before we move forward. We could be teenagers based on
how they used to cast people in the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
I know it's so weird. And of course, from the
lands of Lansing, Michigan, the duo from Earth Versus Soup
we bring.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'm Aaron, I'm Darlene.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
And guys, yes, we are here continuing our month long
of Halloween focus programming. You've heard stuff from Twig Sunday Funnies,
you've heard stuff from Loose Cannon, and now you're hearing
more here on Future IMPERFUC. Last time we talked about
Night of the Living Dead nineteen sixty eight to nineteen
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ninety and this was something that Alex and Aaron had
pitched to me, and I was like, you know what,
I've never seen the original. I didn't know this sequel existed. Alex,
what the fuck are we talking about tonight?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Well, I'm going to apologize ahead of time because none
of us had seen the sequel to The Blob, so
we had no idea what we were in for. I
had seen The Blob one, oh, probably on VHS, you know,
twenty five thirty years ago as a kid, and I
was like, oh, that's pretty good. I remember it being
pretty good, but I hadn't seen it since then. And
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you know, initially we were throwing back and forth should
we do the Blob and the eighty nine Blob? And
I knew Aaron wasn't a fan.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I know you like it, Mike, but I thought, there's
another Blob movie. I know there's another Blob movie. Let's
look it up. And then sure enough it had a
recent release where it was remastered as best they could,
I guess, and I said, okay, so let's do Blob
and Beware of the Blob also known as Blob two
or Blob Return. It's one of those movies that had
a bunch of different names, and you know, I thought, Okay,
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you know, well, we'll watch this and I'll watch The
Blob first, and I guess we could sort of start,
probably with uh, I guess we should start with the
Blob one and maybe where anybody else had heard of it.
I'll just start because I'm already talking. I have heard
of the movie referenced in so many things, even as
a kid. You know, I'm the baby of the group here, right,
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So I'm I'm a kid in the early nineties, but
I remember this as being one of those horror movies
that would pop up on like Saturday Night Mattinees on TV,
or occasionally it was on VHS. I think I, of
all things, borrowed this on VHS from the library in
the in the early nineties, and that was my experience
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with it. And I don't remember seeing it again until
the late nineties when I started getting into other types
of movies and I was like, oh, yeah, this was
like Steve McQueen's Big, you know, Big Break. I remember
wanting to go back and watch it after having seen
like The Magnificent Seven and Great Escape and all of
his you know, greatest hits, and I remember even as
a kid, thinking he doesn't look like a teenager, No,
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like it looks like he's in his late thirties. Yeah,
it was like he kind of always looked forty for
like his entire career. So, you know, that's my experience
with it. I don't know about you guys.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
For me, I had heard of the original from nineteen
fifty eight for quite some time, but it really wasn't
until I started getting into my older years I started
actively seeking this stuff out. The first time I'd actually
ever seen anything from the Blob proper, the one from
nineteen fifty eight, was actually when I started getting onto YouTube.
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So James Rawl, friend of the show The Angry Nintendo
Nerd at that time, they were the Angry Video Game
Nerd now started he did a thing where he went
to the place where they shot the theater sequence for
this movie. And it turns out the theater or that
town particularly has like a Blob festival, like every couple
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of years or every.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Year or something. They always show the movie.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
They do like a bunch of like like a classic
car show, like all sorts of things that you know,
any small town that's famous for this type of thing
would and I was like, Okay, this is kind of neat.
I've never seen this before, and I was always super
curious how they did the special effects. But I was
more familiar with the nineteen eighty eight remake, which is
sort of one of my gateway horror movies when I
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was a kid because it was always on Cinemax and HBO.
It played a lot in those early cable and satellite
days for me, so I was super familiar with that.
The original, like I said, I'd never seen up until recently,
I'd only knew it by reputation and by people doing
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vlogs and sort of little short specials on it. So
having to see this for the show was actually kind
of a treat for me because the version that I watched,
I was able to track down a Criterion collection copy
of this, and I was super surprised how well the
colors popped, how good a transfer this is. And the
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one thing I just want to mention before I throw
it to Aaron and Darlene is there's a scene right
near the very beginning. In fact, it's like the opening
couple of minutes here Stephen McQueen's talking to his date
Janey or Jane in the car and the lightest hitting
Steve McQueen in such a way I thought we were
supposed to see stars behind his head as he's talking
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to his date. And I was watching this with Liam
and I'm like, oh, look, it's so clear you can
see the stars. Like, no, Mike, that's just his stray hair.
And I was like, oh wow, this is really sharp.
So this is easily one of the best restorations I've
seen on like high definition. I was like, holy crap,
this is whoa awesome. So yeah, that was my first experience.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
With the Blob.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
For us, we kind of both grew up watching The Blob.
It's one of those movies that we've we've both seen
many many times growing up, Me on like you know,
the Saturday Morning you know WGN type creature features Darlene,
same kind of.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
Thing, military boredom, military watching it, and we.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
We actually recovered it for episode seventy of Earth Versus
Soup as one of our classics because this is pretty
well regarded. The original is pretty well regarded in a
lot of ways, and we we both thought that as well,
didn't we. Oh yeah, Okay.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
The festival is called Blobfest.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
And it is in July. Yeah, and where is it?
Where is it?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
It's in like.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Phoenixville.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania is where it is. Yeah, a lot most
of the movie was filmed in Pennsylvania and most of
the places I guess are still around in one way,
shape or form.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
I mean, see, had I thought to, had I known
when this happened, I would have looked up and seen
what happened this past July. So if, like any of
our listeners went this past July, kind of cool for
you us though, to write in and tell us so
the back so we can keep gott.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Net not insanely far from us. If we were to
ever do like if plans, yeah, plan ourselves like a
horror movie trip, we could probably make a few stops
and see some of the movies that were filmed up there.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
Yeah, it's just it looks like the registration starts in April, so.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Okay, that would make it for next year. Yeah, something
to look into.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, and in today's money, the budget would be about
two point six million dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Which is less than what the original Terror Fire was
made for. So this would look.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Really good today all things considered.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Because I was thinking like I looked at you a
one hundred and some odd thousand US in nineteen fifty eight,
You're right, yeah, a couple of million even then, that's
still I don't know, was that considered a low budget
for horror movie? Like I think a lot of movies
back then were about one hundred thousand, right.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I mean I'm seeing like two hundred and forty
thousand dollars budget, but like to me, that's still sort
of mid range on budget, mid to high but not
like super high are a lot more.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Yeah, it's definitely a cut above in terms of filming
and quality, and like Mike said, even the colorization, because
you know, not not every film, most horror films were
still black and white in the fifties, right, So the
fact that probably half of their budget would have been
for the color photography because yeah, like at that time
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it still wasn't the standard, right, and they had only
they had only started filming in widescreen two only a
couple of years earlier than that, as like for like
every major picture, so this would have been like pretty contemporary,
Like this would have been a pretty eye popping movie
for the time too.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Oh we made a lot too.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And that's for Yeah, so if you that would be
like like today when we have I don't know, you know,
a modern horror franchise. You know that they run like
ten movies at a time or more now like like uh,
Final Destination or Saw on that where you know, they
have a fairly modest budget of you know, four or
five million, and then they have a runaway success with
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like a hundred million in box office. That's sort of
the equivalent to back then. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, And if you did not know, there is actually
portions of the original Blob that are still in existence.
I don't know where, but I have seen pictures of
it in like a clear container.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
That's really careful. Gotta be careful then with it exactly.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
One of the things I found out again while doing
some research for this. The opening theme song is certainly
a vibe. It's like this weird rockabilly surfer jam that
was written by Bert Bakarak.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, I was like, what.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Did not expect it?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Like this happy go lucky you know song to go
with this, you know, body absorbing a meta of death
from space.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
It was honestly really good effect for the time. Oh yeah,
Like it didn't just look like somebody stuck a bunch
of bubblegum in somebody's hand, like it they they did
something with like petroleum jelly or something. It actually looked
kind of realistic, especially in an era where everything was
very hokey looking.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah it's silicone. It's just yeah, ye silicon.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yeah's it's it's silicone. Red food dye balloons were used
at certain points. I think they used a food thickening agent.
I know they did that on The Blob nineteen eighty eight.
They used a chemical that was used the thickened milkshakes
so much so it turned off the director from milkshakes
for decades. I think they used something remarkably similar here.
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I don't think jello was used. I know that was
used in Beware the Blob, and it was like, one
of the coolest things that I love about this is
the Blob gets more and more defined in red from
absorbing the blood of its victims, and I was like
that that's really kind of cool. Just again, from a
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continuity standpoint, you can see how this thing grows and
evolves and just it's really quite something. And the fact
that this was all done practical outside of the few
points of animation that show up when the blob envelops
the diner at the end of the movie, which again
very very cool sequence.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, should should be basic plot because I think a
lot of people listening would have heard of the blobber
through other, you know, popular media, whether it be like
I don't know, Simpson's references or different things alti osmosis. Basically, yeah,
the basic plot is meteorite comes down in a field
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somewhere off in the distance. The teenager is going to
try to make out with his new girlfriend on their date,
and a farmer finds the media, touches it. Blob comes out,
infects him. He looks like he's burning, he's got a
burnt hand or something. Good teenagers decide to go and
help him out, save the day, bring him to a doctor.
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Doctor goes to look at it. Doctor and nurse get absorbed,
and nobody believes teenagers because you know, rambunctious teens. Teens
they're liars and hooligans and what are they doing out
at night? What are you doing at with my daughter?
That sort of stuff, you know, classic stuff, And then
the town goes into a hysteria. But then the teenagers
have to band together with the adults. They have to
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put aside their differences and save the day. And you know,
they find out that it's actually it can't stand the cold,
so they have to use fire extinguishers in lieu of
anything else, so CO two to freeze it and they
can sort of get away and save it. And then
the end the military is going to send I guess
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specialists to contain it and send it and drop it
into the Arctic so it can't hurt anybody while they
study it. You know, that's the long story shorts. You know,
for people out there, it is obviously worth watching. It's
a classic, but you know that's the basic plot. And then,
oh sorry, Alex. One thing, one thing.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Until I kind of mentioned about this for a movie
out of the nineteen fifties, it's remarkably watchable today, not
just because it is a classic, because it is so
iconic to the era.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
It's really well paced.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
You're not bored, and that's something for me with watching
older movies, and I don't like to admit this. My
attention span for stuff can be really frigging low. But
for this I was constantly engaged. Likable character. Sure you
can't name all of them, but good chemistry and everyone's
genuinely trying. Yes, this is Steve m McQueen's breakout role,
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his first role, but he's likable enough. Everybody around them
is genuinely likable.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
It's just you.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
He was twenty eight playing a seven teen year old.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Yeah, I remember saying to Liam, like, wow, people in
the fifties look way different.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I mean, it's you know what, we make fun of it,
but like, I'm pretty sure that that what's his name,
Luke Perry was like thirty playing seventeen in nine of
two one zero in the nineties, right, so.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Yeah, exactly, so our Rangers were in like the mid
twenties too.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
That's only a thing that changed in like the last
i'd say fifteen twenty years. They actually started casting teenagers
as teenagers.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And we should say that like Steve McQueen actually considered
this one of his favorite movies that he had been in.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I guess, yeah, he looked, he looked like he was
having fun, and he's not somebody who always looked like
he was having fun in a movie unless he was
allowed to ride a motorcycle.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, and I loved this movie, right, No, yes.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Absolutely, yeah to me, Like the special effects we said,
are great, especially for the era. Like I would say,
they were very creative in the shots that they chose
and how they handled especially only showing the blob when
they had to, you know, you know, less is more.
And the two things that come out of this for
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me that I remember the most are nobody trusting the teenagers,
but then you know, slowly coming to trust them, and
the idea that everybody that was distrustful of each other
ended up working together at the end and saving the day.
And it was in a sort of believable manner, especially
for the time that they had to tell that story.
And then the other part was the effect shot that
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they did when they're in the diner and it's engulfed.
When they switched to the miniature, it actually looked pretty
darn good. And I could see myself if I was,
you know, a teenager in the nineteen fifties going to
see this, it would have looked very real compared to
what else had been done before at that time.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
For sure, the special effects really were top notch for
the time.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
I was also kind of surprised, and I don't know
whether this was intentional when they're using the fire extinguishers
on the door to keep this thing at bay. The
fire extinguishers are shooting CO two. There's like they're suffocating
as they're getting rescued because you put so much CO
two in the air, you're pushing away oxygen. So they're like, hey,
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this isn't going so well. But you know, eventually they
get a hold of the town's weeping. And that's a
nice attention to science. I was really yeah, appreciative of.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Also, one thing there's what caught me off guard is
I forgot that that CO two fire extinguishers were still
a fairly new thing that they the reason that they
call for do you have any CO two extinguishers? And
they're listing the other types that they have that were
in use before that became the standard. So it's like
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they're in a small town that might not have the
newest tech, like we take for granted. You know that
basically every you know, every apartment building has two two.
So where do they have to go. They have to
go to the school, which was the only place that
would have been you know, funded enough to have modern extinguishers.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah, I mean because because water extinguishers like that you
would pump up and then spray were a much bigger deal,
and at least with the the what you were talking
about with the CO two extinguishers when they were in
the diner, it's not that it's pushing away oxygen. It's
actually the same kind of problem that they were having
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on Apollo thirteen.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Yes, say they're getting that toxicity or what.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
CO two toxicity because the blob has effectively sealed them in.
So when you start increasing CO two, you can get
CO two poisoning, you can start getting kind of loopy
and drowsy. But there's more than enough oxygen there. It's
just that, you know, the CO two is too much
of a partial pressure hyper partial pressure.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Actually that was invented in nineteen twenty four, real CO
two by extinguisher by Walter Giddy. Funny.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, but it just wasn't widespread at the time. I mean,
we even see in the nineteen sixties people continuing, at
least in the movies that we we do for for
a suit, we still see water pressure fire extinguishers and
use even into the sixties.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I'd imagine a lot of that would be like, you know,
small towns and government buildings would probably have the new stuff,
but like a small town wouldn't necessarily just have it
for every especially if like it looks like that town
that they're at is more of like fire reserve, because
you remember, like when the alarms are going off, the
old men are grabbing their their reserve gear. They're like
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volunteer gear to go in and and battle it. So
it's not like they it doesn't look like they had
more than like one engine, and you know, once they're out,
they're out.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
But yeah, I mean, like overall, it is a amazing
little movie. It does not overstay its welcome, weird and intro,
don't let it throw you now.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
No.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
One thing that I did like about this is eventually
at the end of the movie, al she had mentioned
they were able to successfully trap the blob and they
transport it to the Arctic where scientists can study it
and it could presumably never hurt anybody again.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
And I was going to have a remake in twenty
fifty the.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Arctic melts, the blob attacks, That's see, that's what I
think I was going with this because at the end
they said, unless something melts the ice, they're like, we're fine.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
And I was thinking, as we're chatting before in our
private group chat I was like, it's about time for
a remake. It's been you know, thirty some odd years.
If they do it now, you could just make the movie,
you know, using modern tech, modern ideas, and it could
be that nobody believes the blob is here because they
think everything is a deep fake video from people filled
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me with their phones. Look at it's like, oh, that's misinformation,
that's fake news. That's that's fake. And then the blob
slowly takes over and it could keep growing because the
has become too warm to stop it.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Yeah, then what do you do.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Like the idea I had for like a sequel for
this was it gets dropped off in the Arctic. Same
thing happens at the end of the movie now because
it was because it was thrown onto an iceberg or
like a glacier or something. That glacier breaks off and
starts floating southward. Now, in my remake, I would put
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the thing in Antarctica, so it breaks off and floats
towards one of the lower countries down there, be it
like South America, Africa or whatever.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
The blob in Australia would be a good movie.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Yeah, So as it lands on Australian shores it starts
or wherever. Actually I would set it in South America.
And here's why, because the Blob is essentially a movie
about climate change when you really think about it. So
what I thought is if it lands in South America,
the blob starts devouring pieces of the rainforest. So people
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when they go to an area they see a lot
of stuff's been devoured and deforested. They're like, oh, oh wow,
I wonder what's causing this, and nobody believes it.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
You haven't land in like Argentina or Venezuela, like one
of the ones a little farther south, and then people
don't believe it, like some you know, cattle go missing
or whatever, and they don't think it's a big deal.
And then Brazil starts to report that something weird is
happening with like the methane levels in near the you know,
methane levels and oxygen levels have lowered, you in the forest,
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and people initially think that it's just deforestation, but then
when they send helicopter over, it's like whole swaths of
land or missing, yeah, and all the animals are gone
and it's like traveling up the river.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
See, this would be a fucking amazing sequel.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Now, honestly surprised nobody has jumped on to do this
yet because I can't imagine the Blob rights would be
that expensive.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
And again we're about ripe for a remake now.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
So yeah, ultimately, guys, I think the Blob nineteen fifty
eight classic. Please go out and watch it. I know
there's a Criterion collection. I'm pretty sure you can stream
it almost everywhere.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, not very much.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
But let's get into the sequel. You tried to warn
me apologize. I didn't believe you.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Happy, I'm happy I suggested it, and also deeply, deeply
sorry because I think I was the first one of
us to watch it with, and I watch it with
Darlene uh, and I tried to warn both of you.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Stocking bad.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
This movie was tried to put comedy into it.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Miserably.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
The only part that was actually funny was how much
Miller highlight there was in.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
That bill and the bathtub. Yeah, it's just it's just
that's our, that's our Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yeah, well, well it's like we got the message from you.
He's saying, oh, dear listen. I went, oh no, And
then I watched it. I was going to watch it
the next night, and I was like, no, I couldn't sleep.
I had to watch it after you mentioned it, and
I'm watching it and I we will probably go to
two into details about the plot because it's mostly nonsensical.
Maybe just be where the Blob from nineteen Yes, yes,
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Beware the Blob also known as Son of Blob, Blob
two and Blob returns. That's how you know it's Bob. Yeah,
let's how you know. It's got a million bad names.
It's got to be terrible. So this is one of
those movies made during I guess the transitionary period after
the old Hollywood system had given up on a lot
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of stuff and then you had a lot of these
independent films coming up with in weird financing. Who knows
if this was financed from some country who could have
financed it, or some millionaire whatever. This is a lot
of these movies happened in the seventies, and this is
sort of like a nineteen sixties hippie movie, but blended
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with the comedy that you sort of saw like a
couple of years later pop up with like the National
Lampoon SCTV, like that era Animal House, kind of era
of comedy or Kentucky Fried movie that sort of stuff.
But this was like a couple of years before that,
so it's sort of like an in between phase of
films of different styles, and it really doesn't know what
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it wants to be. But the basic plot is the
Blob gets out. Somebody was in the art how they
connected to somebody was in the Arctic, and they took
a canister from the government.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yea home again.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Yeah, he took it from home and and it thaws
out because his wife doesn't want it in their freezer,
and the Blob comes back, goes on a Mayhem's free
It's basically a rehashing of the same plot from the
first movie, only there's random hippies. Burgess Meredith as a
home bum hippie.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Yeah, the voice of Brainy Smurf is at the party
for some reason from the Smurfs, in case.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
You didn't know.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
There's a bunch of random stuff happens here. They did
update a few of the of the tropes and a
few of the little bits from it, for you know,
dealing with the cold. By the nineteen seventies, things like
air conditioning and cars it's more common, So that's one
of the ways that they escape. It ends up at
an ice rink and like that. There they were a
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little bit cleveral given that with how they were figuring out,
they kept the continuity of it being afraid of the
cold and not being able to handle it. But you
have like strange police officers grandstanding and making.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
You also got the cock and ass the farm.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, everything is in it's It's really weird because that's
where Larry Hagman is. Because remember Larry Hagman is the
director and actually has a part in this. You might
know him from such things as I Dream of Genie.
He is Major Nelson from I Dream of Genie, Dallant
and Dallas.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
You know, like when I think of Okay, we all
know the question was who shot Jr? Right, Well, I
think we have the answer as to why they shot
it was for directing this movie.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
And evidently Hagman has a cameo in the remake. He's
the crazy Preacher. Really yeah, I was like.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Reilly and yeah, I must have had some connection. I'm
going to I think he owns part of the ip.
Like the fact that the fact that he directed it.
It looks like they had the original producer one of
the original script screenwriters work on it. Like for him
to be a part of this, the way it came
about and everything, something tells me he just must have
been a very big fan of the original Yeah, yeah,
(28:56):
and had the opportunity to, you know, produce and direct this.
Because you know other people in here that you would
have seen as they would have recognize as like Cindy Williams,
you know from Laverna Shirley. You know a lot of
these people are like slightly pre fame, and then there's
a lot of people here that were like a lot
of character actors, character actors from like sixties and seventies TV.
(29:19):
I'd say you could sort of like recognize people, but
not necessarily pinpoint who they are, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
It felt like they were casting from variety shows. And
I don't mean that to throw shade, but there is
one actor. It's he plays the scout Master, Dick van
something or other, Yeah, Dick Van Patten, And I'm watching
him as the scout Master. But what tipped me off
was not what he looked like. It was what he
sounded like. Because I had my head turned. I was
(29:49):
talking to my friend Liam, and I was like like, is.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
That the fucking dad from Spaceballs?
Speaker 5 (29:57):
And I turned my head and I'm like, holy shit,
it's him. It was so weird, like this movie is
so tonally all over the place. In fact, I was
typing to you guys as as I was watching this,
and I was like, if you kill the fucking cat,
I swear a fucking dog.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yeah no, no, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I was telegraphed hard, hard. It was so blatant what
they were going to do with the cat that I
was like, Darlene, when when it looks like it, I'm
just gonna skip ahead thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
We know what's going to happen the movie. The movie
opens with the weirdest hippie like like LSD trip music
montage of a cat just going around and meowing, and
I went.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Oh, oh no mustard seed, Oh.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, yeah yeah, and it's so adorable and.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
So I oh sorry, sorry. So then as the blob
kills the cat, which luckily it's not directly on screen
because I wouldn't have put it past them in the
early seventies to just do that, but they you know,
you sort of see it being yanked out, you see,
and it's obviously at that point of stuffed animal like
like they they weren't so cruel as to like actually
quickly grab a real cat and do that, because I
(31:09):
would have been very angry. Well yes, sorry, yes, And
when it happens, I sent the message over to you, Aaron,
I went a cat and You're like yes, and I went,
oh what am I in for?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Noan?
Speaker 5 (31:31):
So oh yeah, like so earlier this year, I wrote
on letterbox because that's my thing. Now, thanks, Dave, I
wrote this is my review of Beware of the Blob.
Don't worry, it's not that long. I'm like this intro. Seriously,
did this conversation happen?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Stit? We need an intro?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
I can do.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Something, sure, just do it. Thirty minutes later, Bob, this
is your cat. Look you said something. You didn't specify
what This seems more like an sn L sketch. It
killed the cat. Fuck all the way off? Why is
she wearing a Freddy Krueger sweater?
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Holy shit?
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Less than twenty minutes in and I'm beyond words annoyed.
The blob is one the mood slam from Ghostbusters too,
the bathtub scene. Oh my god, I fucking hate this.
And then finally this is madness committed to film en
so so we.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Made as well. There is a bunch of random like
the best way to describe it as just random hippie
garbage that they throw in, uh, which you know, it's
not like the nicest way to say it. I can't
really describe anything else other than it just random hippie garbage.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
But I think we can all agree that the bathtub
scene was the most pleasant surprise entreat I've ever seen
in one of these terrible movies.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Art, your unadult rated art.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yes, it was the colors absolute. There's a dog, he's
slipper that gets eaten by the.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
Blob and the black and white telephone with the black and.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
White the tiling and then look like the salmon colored
wall tiles. The man is wearing a fez, butt ass naked,
and for one frame you can see shaft and head.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Yes, speaking, I miss he's speaking speaking of Russian. And
then I looked at his face and I went, it
looks like Mike Myers when he's in his fat bastard suit.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
And he hurls the the freaking telephone through the window
and then is running butt ass naked down down the road.
And did you notice that in every single scene that
he is left in the movie, like he's at the
police station, he is still butt ass naked and every
cop is staring at his junk.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Yes, yes, I saw all that, and all I thought was, like,
you know, I mentioned like muddy Python, but even more so,
this felt like you could have taken you know, because
they always put it to like weird musically, they put
it to like silly music. In this, you could have
taken the bathroom scene and splice it into the shining
(34:21):
when he's going and having all the flashes of like
you know, the different rooms when he's going in, and
you would have believed it. You would have been like, yeah,
that's just part of the shining. Just just a naked
Russian with a fez.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
And taking a bubble bath while like screaming and Russian
and throwing a boon you with curtains that don't match exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
You could have spliced that in where he goes and
sees the guy on the wallr suit with the person
in bed, or or sees like the naked lady in
the bath, and you would have been like, yeah, that's normal,
but it's part of the shining. Like what was that
crazy ass Stanley Kubrick looking thing thrown into this movie
for no.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Reason, like it was.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
It was a amazing It was so good that we
watched it four times. We actually went back and watched
We could not believe how wild that like minute of
scene was, that setting was just it's every time we
watched it we saw some new detail that was like
(35:20):
somebody either purposely thought out every single aspect of this shot,
like Larry Hagman had like a moment of clarity of
like pure artistic clarity.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
Are you sure it's not the cemontographer.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
I'd like to believe one of two things. One I'd
like to believe that that it was maybe originally a
film for a different movie, but no. The part I
would actually like to believe is I want to believe
that he had this scene in his head, he filmed it,
and then designed the rest of the movie to be
a blob movie around it.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I mean, it is possible.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
One of the things that weirds me out about this,
and this is what little film school I remember, is
there's a lot of really random Dutch tilt angles in
this movie, which kind of throws me off.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Things that I read a little Batman's sixty six going on.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Yeah, it's so sure, it's so distracting.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
And then randomly, a priest in a wheelchair gets thrown
into the blob. He tries to use his crucifix to
throw the blob away, it doesn't work. Random okay. So
they're in their old trucker whatever, and this girl is horrified.
She saw the blob eat her friend Chester at one point,
(36:44):
so she's all freaked out. But for some reason, they
go to a party with a guy in a gorilla suit,
because reasons, and she's still having a bad time, and
then she suddenly gets all horny for this dude who
looks like he's a reject from the Partridge family. So
the thing is defeated by air conditioning, which is fine,
and it's it's just the movie's so wildly inconsistent.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
There's one thing that could have been cool.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
So gorilla suits that's a sentence, is driving a dune
buggy that's a sentence and drives into the blob and
skids into it. This sequence could have been really cool
turned out to be really fucking dumb. But how they
kill this thing, like you mentioned, is they go to
this hockey rink and they're able to use the cooling
(37:32):
systems to freeze this thing. And eventually the news crew
shows up and this, as you mentioned, this grand standing
sheriff is like, well, we defeated this amazingly wonderful, beautiful creature.
And they're standing on top of the quote unquote corpse
of the blob and they have these giant lighting kits,
which I've used one of these lighten kits before, and
(37:53):
those lighting kits are hot ash shit, and the blob
starts to reanimate, and then the movie just fucking ends.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
This movie made so little sense to me, I can't
honestly tell you. And I watched it.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
I actually paid attention because I was so in awe
of what the fuck am I watching. I can't name
a single character outside of Chester. I know there was
a cat, naked German guy with a fez who was
randomly a shiner, Russian naked Russian guy who was randomly
a shriner. And I was like, I don't know what
(38:27):
I watched, but I remember scenes and the guy who
owned the bowling alley was a real prick who, if
this movie was made today, would have been played by
Xander Berkley.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Don't know why, but that's who it would have been.
And yeah, this was so weird.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
Now I decided to try to go down the rabbit
hole for this because I'm thinking this movie is so bad.
I cannot be the only one who's heard about this.
So it turns out, as we're watching this, Liam turns
to me and says, Mike, did you you know I
tried to show you this back in two thousand and
like eleven. I was like, excuse me, and he did,
(39:07):
but I didn't. Clearly we didn't watch it, but this
movie tried to invade my life once. Now it's succeeded,
thank you for that. But as I was digging around
on YouTube, this movie has almost never been covered, like
there's nobody.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Talking about it.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
And for such a I consider the Blob an interesting ipiece,
so much so it's been remade. It's a classic, as
we've all kind of decided here, but there's almost nobody
talking about it. And I really thought the Burt Bacherax
song from the first one would have had people doing covers.
I sent you, guys, the best one, and I use
(39:45):
that word in quotation marks that I could find on YouTube.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
That is a vibe, and I don't know, it's so weird.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Like, I'm honestly surprised there's not more reverence for the sequel,
only because it is so bad sh boofy.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
For some reason, I would have thought in like the
eighties or nineties at some point, like the Misfits or
somebody would have done a cover.
Speaker 6 (40:09):
In the same year.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Yeah, like or maybe I mean this one. Hell, like
the guys from Ice nine Kills cover everything. Why didn't
they do something.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Other weird little fact factorys Like the main character played
by Robert Walker. He's one of those guys that did
appear in a bazillion TV shows in this in the
fifty sixty seventies, that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
The lead actress in it, I couldn't I've seen her before,
but I couldn't pinpoint it. I realized that's Chris Pine's mom. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Gwyn Gilford. Wow, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Actually, I think Darlene and I came to the conclusion
that she was actually the best best actor actress in
the movie, Like it actually seemed as those she were trying, yeah,
currently acting with her eyes.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
And this the second best would be Robert Walker because
he's he put in a serviceable performance as the lead.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
But she was here the family guy.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
Uh, if you were considering the main character looking like
the party family guy, maybe yeah, I would have I
would have said he looked a little more like a
Duke's of Hazard kind of guy.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
But uh yeah, she like and Mike, you might where
you might have seen her before. Is she was a
Master's of the Universe?
Speaker 6 (41:26):
Was she evil Lynn?
Speaker 3 (41:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (41:28):
No, no, that's me. That's Meg Foster. Who is she?
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (41:33):
Who is she? I think she plays a teacher or something.
Speaker 8 (41:36):
Oh cool?
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Yeah, no, no, no, I believe me. She's She's not
Meg Foster. You would know Meg Foster. She's still got
those witchy crazy eyes.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
You know Robert Walker Junior from being the uh Charlie
from the original series of Star.
Speaker 4 (41:53):
Trek, Like, okay, yeah, he's one of those guys. He
really did appear in a ton of TV shows back
in this sixties and seventies.
Speaker 5 (42:01):
Okay, So I guess as we begin to wrap this up,
where do we fall and Beware the Blob? Is it
worth watching for a laugh?
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Once?
Speaker 4 (42:11):
I almost say, like, if you can do a triple again,
I know that the remake from the eighties isn't for
everybody because of maybe the gore factor. But if you
haven't seen any I would almost say you could make
a marathon of it because they're not long movies.
Speaker 6 (42:26):
Yeah, they're all pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
They're like all of them, I think are under ninety minutes.
So you could do a triple feature. You know, have
some friends over for an afternoon, if you can do
a barbecue or something, and you could watch all three.
Each one is distinctly different, and you know there are
aspects you're probably gonna like of each. There's gonna be
(42:48):
much less to like about Where the Blob except for
the weirdness. Maybe if depending on the country, the state
wherever you live, if cannabis is legal where you are,
this is.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
A can for that movie.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
Yeah, indulge, Yeah, that's imbiben whatever. You must drink out
of a flower vase like Chester.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
Yeah, I see basically.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
After Canna Miller High Life into the flower Vase. I
laughed hard this this second, like Yeah, to Wear the Blob.
There are moments in this while while I will fully
admit this is not a good movie, I truly laughed
at some parts of this movie.
Speaker 8 (43:34):
See the Miller Highlight thing, like I said, needed to
be ten times higher than it was. In other words,
when he goes to take it out, there's cases but
pon cases upon cases in the alley way when they
cream into it.
Speaker 4 (43:51):
Oh you know what, you know how they should have
been saved. They should highlight. They should have been saved
by dumping, uh, backing up a beer truck filled with
refrigerated cans onto it.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, with just just tossing pressurized eggs of
Miller High Life onto it, and like it gets so
drunk that it just sort of dissolves.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Don't worry, we're gonna trick it. And they could have Actually,
that's how they should have ended. It's trying to escape
the ice rink and then they entice it onto into
the back of a truck. Only once it's inside the truck,
they close the door and really they realize it's a
refrigerated beer truck. And yeah, that's how they should have
ended the movie, because that's clearly who sponsored it.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
This champagne of beers saves the day. Man. It's yeah,
there are aspects of it that I thought were really fun.
It's not a great no, it isn't a great fild
at all.
Speaker 8 (44:45):
But but it goes between that that hippie that that
on one side of this town is the hippie commune
and on the other side is that cock gas.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
The cock and ass farm with the bums and yeah.
Speaker 8 (45:06):
And then you've got this this guy that steals steals
boy Scouts.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, that I have a theory about Dick
van Patten. See, we never got into this. If you
watched this movie, all of the boy Scouts that are
with Dick van Patten's character all have different den numbers
on their sleeves. There's none of them. He's sweeping them up,
napping cub Scouts from across the country, and.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
There's there's a movie right there.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
That's my theory.
Speaker 4 (45:38):
That's my theory. But I mean it's you know what
it feels like my conclusion, Michael is, to me, this
feels like almost like it was a student script, student
film from the people that would go on to make
the National Lampoon's movies.
Speaker 5 (45:55):
Yeah, there's a weird vibe of humor through this. Like
the horror elements don't really work at times. I mean,
there are moments where it could be amazing, like one
of the one of my favorite kills in this is
the barber shop.
Speaker 6 (46:09):
That could have been absolutely oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
It was.
Speaker 4 (46:14):
It was hampered by the fact that it was rated
PG in the seventies.
Speaker 5 (46:19):
Yeah, and the fact that the barber says to you, oh,
you've grown a lot, and he's like, yeah, I do.
I'm thinking I don't want my barber to say that
to me. Ever, under any circumstance. It's mildly uncomfortable. But yeah, like, honestly,
things your.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Grandma can say to you, but you don't want your barber.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
To say exactly. It's but yeah, like this would be
a really interesting triple feature.
Speaker 5 (46:43):
Like again, if you watch the remake by Chuck Russell,
there's a very good Scream Factory disc of this.
Speaker 6 (46:49):
There are multiple releases for the Blob Beware.
Speaker 5 (46:51):
The Blob, as you mentioned, just has a fairly new
restore and scan that you can check out.
Speaker 6 (46:57):
Is it worth owning? Well, if you got one and.
Speaker 4 (46:59):
Two if you're a big fan of seventies horror, Quino
Video has it on Blu Ray. Outside of that, this
is one that won't be hurt if you seek out
like a YouTube copied watch.
Speaker 6 (47:10):
Exactly it is perfectly acceptable. We're giving you permission.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
So next time here on Future Imperfect, We're probably gonna
cover yet another sci fi horror movie. As we continue
the month of October, I know we got lots of
stuff from me and Dave and JT coming up. I'm
sure me and Kennill have some stuff. Will probably even
have a couple of Halloween rams, which I think might
be a lot of fun as well. And yeah, so
(47:36):
make sure you check out our other content here on
this week, and make sure you are checking out Earth
Versus Soup with Aaron and Darlene. They have a lot
of cool stuff coming up for the rest of this
month and pretty much into the far flung future where
we will be mad maxing each other, So keep listening.
Me and Alex will be doing the regular show because
as the month of October continues, we are getting closer
(47:57):
to holiday Gift Guide and that means insanity between now
and the end of the year. So we got lots
of good stuff coming up. You'll have the regular news show.
I know, me and Enrique and James Rolf should be
getting something together, uh towards the end of the month,
so and that should be releasing in and around Halloween,
depending on how the.
Speaker 6 (48:16):
Release schedule goes. And yeah, that's all I really have
from me. So from the great city of Lansley, Michigan,
we have been.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
I'm Aaron and I'm Darlene.
Speaker 8 (48:26):
Good evening.
Speaker 5 (48:27):
And from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Alex the Producer, and I've
been Mike the bird Man saying, beware the blob. We'll
catch you guys next time, right here on this weekend
geek dot Net.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
Beware of the blob. It creeps and.
Speaker 8 (48:46):
Slides, and all around the wall a sponge, a blunch.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Be careful of the bob. Beware of the blob.
Speaker 6 (48:56):
It creeps.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
One shall stand, one shall fall.
Speaker 6 (49:02):
Why throw away your life so recklessly?
Speaker 3 (49:05):
That's a question you should ask yourself, Megatron.
Speaker 6 (49:09):
We came, we saw, we kicked itself. That's right, mister
p buddy.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Why did you Man game over? Man Game Over?
Speaker 6 (49:17):
You don't understand?
Speaker 7 (49:17):
I do.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
I understood that reference mission successful shutting down
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