Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Leofwine_draca I watched this film on Amazon Prime in a fine-looking high definition print, so it's a pity that the quality of the film itself wasn't any better. BEWARE! THE BLOB is a sequel to the 1950s monster movie classic that took 13 years to get made and after watching you'll wish they hadn't bothered. This movie was bizarrely directed by future DALLAS star Larry Hagman who also has a cameo as one of three tramps alongside stand-up comedian Del Close (who would go on to play the priest in the BLOB remake) and Burgess Meredith.The film itself is quite well mounted and the special effects are a step up from those in the original film, although certainly nowhere near as good as in the 1988 remake. What fails is the script, which goes for a jokey, comic approach through. To say that the humour is forced is an understatement, and the viewer has to wade through endless exaggerated performances in order to get to the fun monster attack scenes. They should have just played it straight and allowed the viewer to find their own laughs as in the original movie. The end result is more of a cult item than anything else.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Beware! Of the Blob, 1972. ('Son of Blob') A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers.*Special Stars- Robert Walker, Gwynne Gilford, Godfrey Cambridge, Carol Lindley, Shelley Berman, Richard Stahl, Larry Hagman, Richard Webb.*Theme- Some sequel are equal or better than the original if extra effort is exercised in production.*Trivia/location/goofs- Color. Film updated sequel to the 1953 Steve McQueen 'The Blob' movie. The enormous success of The Blob (1958) led producer Jack H. Harris to try to do a sequel, but the project had been shelved for many years. Larry Hagman, who owned the beach house next door to Harris, mentioned that he had never seen the original The Blob (1958). Harris showed Hagman his personal 16mm print of the film. Hagman showed such interest in doing a sequel that Harris resurrected the project. Hagman wound up directing this sequel and doing a small role in it as well. *Emotion- A good sci-fi sequel to the original film premise. The film with its updated special effects, great make-up and good casting make this film very watchable. This film's plot involving the proposed Alaskan pipeline of the time was clever and watchable. Very good comedic situations due to Larry Hagman's great comedic sense of humor. See it. *Based on- Outer Space alien and meteor fears.

thesar-2 (Yeah, this contains major spoilers. But, since this movie is older than me and I am older than most…people I know, then it's your bad for not seeing this Grindhouse movie by now…)When I was a kid, this scared the sh|t out of me. I'm talking: I was between 5-6 years old and it appeared on a Saturday morning TV Sci-Fi 12 noon (after the cartoons) program with the name "From Beyond…" or something like that.I invited my mother to watch this movie with me, which she normally didn't show interest, and she was disgusted. Later she told me – obviously being ignorant on who or what "the blob" was – that she thought it would be about a "blob" of smoke or something. Not the red goo the blob really is.To this day, roughly 32-33 years later, I have never forgotten Son of Blob, or Son of the Blob or as IMDb calls it: Beware! The Blob. (To me, it'll always be "Son of Blob" because that's how I remembered it three decades ago.) I haven't forgotten the fright it gave me, the ideas it brought up in my mind on how I would handle such a creature in real life or the nightmares of my daydreams it created.This viewing, as part of my "Last of my Triple Digit Reviews/Movies that Meant Something to my Childhood" series, made me realize only particular scenes, such as the entire opening of a fly, a kitten and two humans biting it, the car being engulfed, the bowling alley "hole" disaster and the final "?" scene, were implanted into my subconscious. The climax, the man with his foot propped up, led to many ideas in my little mind for many years.Oh, this movie's bad. Yeah, the filming, the dialogue, the separate tones and the special effects were all despicable. And that all said, this time, watching it late at night, I was scared all over again. Not because of the content, but because this, being the first time since I was a mere child, reminded me all what I viewed as an infant. Boy, I shouldn't have watched this late at night.I digress; this movie's supposed to be a sequel to the original 50s B-movie The Blob, but in reality, it's a remake. A red "single cell organism" is inadvertently set free and consumes any living flesh it makes contact with. In the set small town, few realize it until it's too late and less figure out its sole weakness.The ending had my young mind spinning into creativity. How would they get the frozen blob out of the bowling alley without it "waking up"? Or how would that man who last got attacked save his life…or leg? Or how would I ever forget the horror this brought to a 5-6-year-old for…the…rest…of…my…life?Overall, I granted this 1½/5 stars because of how bad it is. For me personally, it still scares me. Not enough to ever watch it again, unless I want to, again, recapture my childhood.And that's the way I see it. Cheers!

tavm There were plenty of funny and somewhat scary moments in perhaps the first hour of Beware! The Blob like the beginning scenes with Godfrey Cambridge, Marlene Clark, and a cute, white, furry kitten. That between Cindy Williams and Randy Stonehill discussing how good their music is while smoking pot before a cop confronts them and that creature shows up. A hilarious one between Shelley Berman who doesn't consider himself a barber but an artist and his customer, John Houser, whose long hair certainly needs Berman's treatment. And another funny one concerning Tiger Joe Marsh who plays a Turk who's forced to streak naked (a '70s trend) down the streets after that creature invades his bathtub. Oh, and one more with director Larry Hagman, almost unrecognizable with beard, as a bum encountering him. But after that, I lost my patience especially whenever Richard Stahl showed up constantly complaining about some teens played by Robert Walker, Jr. and his girlfriend Gwynne Gilford whenever they usually accidentally caused some beverages either to fall from his car or they smash them up because of some other thing he keeps them from doing. I wouldn't have missed him if he had been killed. This wasn't as enjoyable as two other grade-Z horror films, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter and Dracula vs. Frankenstein, I recently saw. So on that note, Beware! The Blob is worth one look and none more than that. P.S. I just found out Tiger Joe Marsh was born and died in my birthtown of Chicago, Ill.