2023 did not lack for good-to-great original horror movies.
You can’t hate a year that gave us “When Evil Lurks,” “Skinamarink,” “Talk to Me” and “M3GAN” (among several others).
So who cares if Hollywood persists in remaking horror classics, even if it’s already been remade (and remade well)?Irvin Yeaworth’s 1958 “The Blob” is hardly a sacred text.
It’s an effective monster movie that gets surprisingly decent mileage out of its gelatinous, slow-moving creature.
Yeaworth tries the viewer’s patience by trying to shoehorn in a rebellious teen storyline (which was the rage at the time thanks to hit films like “Rebel Without a Cause“), though who could blame him with first-time leading man Steve McQueen doing the rebelling? All that matters is that he sticks the landing with a fun, movie-theater-set finale.
The awful 1972 sequel, “Beware! The Blob,” is notable for being the only feature directed by Larry Hagman, who would later…
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