![]() ![]() Dillon isn’t bad here, but is distractingly like his brother, without the same innate charisma, while the script plays a nice trick on us by putting Leitch so much to the forefront. Kevin Dillon, who plays the rebellious biker kid who becomes the movie’s hero, is the brother of Matt Dillon, while Donovan Leitch (the nice kid whose date with cheerleader Shawnee Smith is interrupted when people start getting melted) is the brother of Ione Skye, and son of the musician Donovan. There is some interesting casting here, in that two of the leads are siblings of bigger stars. The script and characters are entertaining enough, but merely a framework on which to hang the effects. Chuck Russell (who came to this from Nightmare on Elm Street 3, and would go on to The Mask, among others) doesn’t attempt to make anything more of the monster, he simply dumps it in a sleepy town and lets chaos and splattery effects ensue. The Blob isn’t, I would suggest, the most inspiring of monsters: it’s a pile of jelly with no appreciable consciousness or goal, it merely rolls ever onward, consuming people and using them to grow, a process that fast becomes exponential. ![]() Tvtropes we need to go deeper movie#30 years after Steve McQueen made his screen debut in the original version, this take on The Blob seems to be trying to do for that movie what John Carpenter did for The Thing. Horror fans, and I count myself as guilty as any of them, are given to complaining about relentless remakes, but it’s worth remembering that they were never exactly thin on the ground. I hope you’ll find it interesting following as I dig further into a genre I’ve always loved, and maybe find some hidden gems along the way yourselves. On Halloween itself, as ever, I’m planning an all day marathon of some of my favourite horror films. From September 15th until October 30th, I’ll be watching at least one new to me horror film every day, and providing collections of capsule reviews week by week. ![]()
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