![]() ![]() Anyone Can Die: The reason the film uses a Decoy Protagonist is to make the audience feel that anyone can die.Anti-Hero: Flagg is a delinquent, but helps save the day in the end.Antagonist Title: The eponymous Blob is of course the monster that tries to devour everyone.It even seems to understand firearms, purposely sabotaging a flamethrower at one point. It also actively grabs at its prey with extendable pseudopods rather than just passively rolling over them. We frequently see it hide from and ambush its prey rather than mindlessly ooze toward its next victim. It's now apparently aware that it must take its victims by surprise. Adaptational Intelligence: The advanced creature effects in this version allow the Blob to use more complex tactics in the way it hunts.Meg is an outright horror Action Girl by the film's end, and Brian kicks the asses of some of the government hazmat suit agents, and to top it off, they're the ones who singlehandedly stop the Blob's rampage. ![]() Meg and Brian, especially the former, are far more active than Jane or Steve from the original film.While in the original film, the Blob was completely immobilized by fire extinguishers alone, here they only succeed in temporarily warding it off, and it takes an explosion of liquid nitrogen to finally put it down. Not only is it much faster and more intelligent than before, it's also much tougher. Instead of being an alien life-form which arrived via a meteor, the Blob is a biological weapon created by the American military during the Cold War which was ejected into space in a satellite, mutated in the depths of space, and crashed back down to Earth. Adaptational Backstory Change: Ever so slightly, facilitating a minor plot twist not present in the original.Actionized Adaptation: This time, the climactic finale with The Blob is far more action-packed, featuring gunfire and explosions.The "sewers" are actually an aqueduct system built to prevent flooding from the mountains. The sewers being so absurdly spacious is actually explained in an easy-to-miss bit of dialogue. Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: It's wide enough for a bike to go through.'80s Hair: Brian sports an extravagant mullet in addition to a single stud earring.Meeker (Del Close) has kept a few crystals in a jar and begins preaching about a day of judgment soon at hand. But meanwhile, the town's local minister Rev. The town is saved, and they plan to gather the Blob crystals to keep frozen before day breaks. Meg sets an explosive charge on the truck and detonates it, freezing the Blob into a pile of crystals. Brian arrives with a snow maker truck and crashes it into the blob. Meg realizes that cold is the Blob's weakness, and she helps a group of townsfolk barricade themselves in the town hall using fire extinguishers. The Blob rampages through the street, killing dozens of fleeing townsfolk. The Blob kills Meddows and emerges onto the city street, now colossal in size and seemingly unstoppable. They flee into the sewers, where Brian arrives just in time to save them, but Meddows tries to kill them to prevent the truth from leaking. Meg is forced to rescue her little brother from a cinema that is attacked by the Blob. The Blob continues to attack more and more townsfolk as the government agents begin quarantining the population. The officials place their top priority on recovering the Blob for use as a weapon all lives in town are of secondary importance. Meddows (Joe Seneca), admit that the Blob is an unexpected result of a government experiment. Meg tries to convince Sheriff Geller ( Jeffrey DeMunn) and other locals of the danger, but nobody believes her and they instead want to pin the recent trouble on Brian.Ĭircumstances seem to improve when government officials begin swarming the area, fully aware of the danger and ready to combat the threat. They take the bum to a hospital, where the Blob consumes him as well as Paul and then breaks free to ooze amok via the town's sewer system. The afflicted bum soon crosses paths with three local teens: jock Paul (Donovan Leitch), cheerleader Meg ( Shawnee Smith), and bad boy Brian ( Kevin Dillon). A blob of slime from the crater attaches itself to the hobo and quickly begins consuming him. It is a remake of the 1958 film of the same name.Ī meteorite crashes into the forest outside the small mountain town of Arborville, California, where it is discovered by a local hobo. The Blob is a 1988 Sci-Fi Horror film directed by Chuck Russell, who co-wrote the screenplay with Frank Darabont. ![]()
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