Beware! The Blob (1972)

This movie is so bad that it's funny. Actually, it's intended to be a comedy, unlike the original 1958 Blob that we all have come to laugh at anyway. After all, the cast this time includes comedians Shelly Berman and Godfrey Cambridge. Robert Walker Jr (I wonder if his mother Jennifer Jones ever saw this one) and Gwynne Gilford (mother of actor Chris Pine -  I wonder if he saw this) run all over town trying to warn people about the "giant, one-celled animal", only to be dismissed by all the local authorities who think they're just stoned hippies.

The original 1958 Blob ends with the menace being disposed of in the North Pole, and in this film, he's brought back from the region in a canister by an oil pipeline layer. Kudos to the writers who at least tried to link the two films, but for the rest of the movie, it just feels like everyone's improvising, like one Saturday Night Live sketch after the other. Almost everyone plays a hippie in the movie, including Carol Lynley and Cindy Williams. There's a hippie-trashing hobo Burgess Meredith, who gets sucked alive by the giant jello mold. That scene was pretty funny. The best scene has to be where Godfrey Cambridge is attacked by the Blob just after he watches the original Blob movie on TV with Steve McQueen. Directed by actor Larry Hagman, who also appears.


I just love this trailer. Note: When Godfrey Cambridge says, "Ahh. The Blob!!" - that's not in the movie...this was cut footage of him watching the 1958 movie on TV, but retained in the trailer. "Rated GP - All Ages Admitted". lol

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