Tag: The Blob
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Hellraiser Director David Bruckner To Remake Another Horror Classic, The Blob
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…
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Is ‘The Blob’ Based on a True Story?
The 1950s was, arguably, the Golden Age of cinematic mutated monsters, thanks to a perfect storm of post-World War II anxieties surrounding the deadly power of nuclear weapons, mistrust in the intentions of science, and the advent of the Cold War and its offspring, the Space Race. The films during the period are indicative of…
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What Would Rob Zombie’s ‘The Blob’ Remake Have Looked Like?
The 2000s were a time when Hollywood was remaking just about every movie in existence, but one we unfortunately never got is Rob Zombie’s re-imagining of The Blob. The original classic is a prime example of a great ’50s monster movie, with teens running around, trying to make their town aware of an oncoming threat.…
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‘The Blob’ Gets 4K Uhd Collector’s Edition From Scream Factory
The 80s were full of unique horror films that have had a lasting impact on pop culture. However, one of the best remakes to come out of that decade was The Blob directed by Charles Russell. The 1988 monster movie pushed the boundaries of practical special effects work at the time to its limit. Now,…
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The Terrifying ‘True’ Story That Inspired The Blob
In 1958, director Irvin Yeaworth and writers Kay Linaker and Theodore Simonson unleashed “The Blob” upon the world. In it, a mysterious, gelatinous, corrosive, amoeboidal material seeps out of a meteorite that has crash landed onto earth. The unknown sludge slowly begins to consume everything in its path, growing stronger and larger with each envelopment.…
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Lost Boys Remake In The Works With It And Quiet Place Stars
One thing about Hollywood I could never stomach: all the damn remakes. Okay, so that’s not totally true, but it was too good of an opportunity to rephrase that great line from “The Lost Boys” in a story about a pending remake of that very movie.Truth is that there’s a surprisingly solid trend of strong genre remakes.…
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‘Demonic’ Review: Director Neill Blomkamp Gets Lost in District Anodyne
Back in the ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s, what we used to call monster movies had simple concepts and catchy, explicit titles that mirrored them. “Dracula.” “The Werewolf.” “King Kong.” “Mothra vs. Godzilla.” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” “Creature from the Black Lagoon.” “The Blob.” When you watch a movie like “Demonic,” you only wish…
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Mark Duplass on Breaking Into Hollywood, Filming on iPhones, and the Best Advice for Young Filmmakers [Interview]
Mark and Jay Duplass have collaborated on shorts, feature films, television, and, by their account, some cheap childhood remakes of The Blob. (They just threw a beanbag down the stairs.) But they’ve crossed into an entirely new medium with their latest effort: a book, called Like Brothers. Like Brothers is part memoir, part practical filmmaking…