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Year: 1988 Production: Palisades California / TriStar Director: Chuck Russell Starring: Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch, Del Close Screenwriter: Chuck Russell, Frank Darabont Novelization (1988) by David Bischoff 95 minutes; Color
This remake, which nowhere credits its 1958 predecessor, follows the original story quite closely. Proficient and exciting, with good and expensive state-of-the-art horror special effects (imploding faces, a man sucked down a plughole) and a spunky heroine (Smith), it is nonetheless rigidly formulaic. All the main changes (the Blob is now the result of a US Government experiment in biological warfare) are derived from other films, notably The Crazies (1973). Distance may have lent too much charm to the original; this has none at all. |
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