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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
How sweet is The Stuff? So, so sweet! Killer trendy yoghurt? God bless the ‘80s. And I’m not even an admirer of this movie in an ironic way. It’s a B-movie with some real social commentary underneath it all. Sure, it’s a Michael Moriarty-led film about a killer dessert, but there’s an undeniable environmental and consumer commentary going on.
Hell, just watch this awesome fake commercial from the movie featuring Abe Vigoda and the actual Where’s The Beef lady to see how much the movie takes the piss out of commercial advertisement.
One of my favorite parts of the movie is SNL’s Garrett Morris’ Chocolate Chip Charlie (I shit you not, that’s his character’s name) and today’s pic features him. If you haven’t seen the movie, you may want to avoid for spoilers, but it is awwweeesssooommmeeee.
This is another one courtesy of the good folks in the Practical Effects Group. Click to enlargen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes pic is gonna freak you out.
-Eric Vespe
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Uh... The Stuff. First sentence, second paragraph.
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"The Stuff" is the title of the film. For a while, it was surprisingly hard to find on VHS/DVD. I saw it once a long time ago on a mid-afternoon, KCOP Channel 13 (here in Southern California) showing. Was intriguing to a kid like me back then. ;)
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Made me hate marshmallow and yogurt for a while.
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Jan 16, 2012 11:24:05 PM CST
Garrett Morris' character was a send-up on Famous Amos Cookies --
by moosemalloy
-- remember those?
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I ask myself that everytime I read a Quint article, haha.
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It's nice to be reminded that mass consumption demands the decoration and dressing-up of STUFF to become unnaturally appealing.
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Just watched the trailer, oh what 80's memories.
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It creeped me out for some reason. I loved that movie.
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Classic classic 80's awesomeness. I fucking adored movies like The Stuff, Terrorvision, Return Of The Living Dead & Night of the Creeps.
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Classic
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of The Stuff. Saw this way back when at the drive-in in California. That and Megaforce, lol. Classic 80's cheese!
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And yet, there it is. The Stuff. And I really was looking forward to having a pleasant sleep tonight. At least the guy's Ghostbusters shirt is cool.
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and its worth a watch. White fluff from the ground becomes a dessert that kills.
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looks a lot like Eddie Van Halen to me. - Other than that, I've never heard of this movie, either, but I like Michael Moriarty and Garrett Morris, so I'll seek it out, now. - Thanks, Quint.
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Wasn't this one of Larry Cohen's highest budgets he ever got his mitts on?
Haven't seen this since the 80s. Not as good as the mighty Q THE WINGED SERPENT (what is?), but still great fun.
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I pass by locations for this movie a few times a week.The scene where chocolate chip Charlie jumps Mo was filmed on main street Accord..in upstate Ny..My friends mothers store was used for the post office and a dude i used to hang with has his house in the background on that street while they are fighting!
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But I do remember seeing it at my local video store when I was younger. I should give it a watch.
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I've seen it, but I also seem to recall the trailer for this was on every VHS horror movie I rented back in the day.
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Where they could/would put 40 year olds in movies as leads. Now every lead is god looking mid 20's and suffers the fools around them.
This movie while not perfect took chances and had true grit. What made it so creepy is how close it nailed consumer society. -
I really wanna talk about that movie for some reason lately...
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On second thought they would seriously screw it up and miss the point.
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...as an episode of "Seinfeld.". Only there, the killer yogurt clogged your arteries and gave NYers high cholesterol
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It has the dumbest plot, but it scared the shit out of me. I also tried to watch Slither.
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Jan 17, 2012 7:47:31 AM CST
Why was the one-armed drummer from Def Leppard working as an FX tech in the 80's?
by has_snyder_been_fired_from_superman_yet
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I saw this ages ago. I only saw it once. It was cheese. I thought it was okay.
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Jan 17, 2012 7:50:26 AM CST
By the way, this is available instantly on Netflix.
by grammaton cleric binks
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Shoot it Black, Shoot it Blue, Report to the Commissioner, Bang the Drum Slowly, The Last Detail, Who'll Stop the Rain, Q...Yeah, he had a full-blow meltdown later in life, but the man has a sterling early body of work.
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"The Stuff" is available through instant streaming on Netflix also. I just watched it again a couple weeks ago. Classic 80's cheese! I love the beginning of this movie. A guy finds "The Stuff" bubbling out of the ground, sticks his fingers in it and starts eating it trying to figure out what it is. Because that's what you do when you find something bubbling out of the ground.
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not forget the remake of The Blob.
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Jan 17, 2012 8:22:10 AM CST
wow - the stuff........I've actually never seen this
by fat_rancor_keeper
gonna check it out now.
I love movies like this from the 80's era which I missed as a kid. -
The 80s remake had one of the best killings in a horror movie,the kitchen sink scene,imagine now how many cooler and a lot more viscelar killings you can direct with a CGI BLOB.
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getting sucked down a little kitchen drain. Seriously. Let's think...
Maybe a guy is at the ATM and the Blob is inside and sucks him through the slot where you slide your card. -
They can make more elaborate deaths with CGI(maybe), but they still won't look as real as the kills in Blob '88. It's one of the most underrated horror movies around; hopefully one day it will get the respect it deserves.
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I think those in the know (people who like horror and know that good horror is where you find it) consider The Blob a bit of a modern classic in horror.
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. . . and even better, It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive.
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well we wont know until they make a new one with CGI.
How to top the kitchen sink death? well here are some ideas:
The blob has a very small size,maybe the size of a cell and someone eats it accidentally while eating his cornflakes or his pizza.Then the blob starts eating him from inside out while growing bigger.Use cgi or practical to depict a very gruesome death: his eyes,teeth,ears and buttcheeks and nose are sucked and small blob tentacles emerge from the remaing skull holes,his whole body hemorrhages non-stop,the skin of his body melts,his belly is cut open and his guts fall down but then are quickly sucked inside his body and eaten by the blob,the flesh from his arms are eaten away and remain only the bones,eventually his whole body is consumed and turned into a big gelatine mass.you get the picture.
Another idea is to make a bit fun of the FnF movies.some kid with his car is having a race with some other guy.but his car stops in the middle of the roard,the kid checks the engine and he finds nothing,then he hear a sound from the car's exhaust pipe,he goes to the pipe to the check and then the blob grabs his face from inside the pipe and sucks him in like the kitchen sink scene.
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Some guy is covered in The Blob and he's kind of staggering down a road and then Clarence Boddicker hits him with his car and he explodes sending little Bloblettes all over the place.
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Three guys are fishing and the Blob suddenly leaps out of the ocean onto the back of their boat and the grizzled sea captain slides down the deck into the Blob. -
some guy is real cold and goes to the closet to get the extra blanket and as he pulls it up to his chin all snuggly and warm in bed he feels a burning sensation all over his knees, shins and pecs. Yup, the Blob was the blanket.
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Jan 17, 2012 10:56:16 AM CST
Ah, brings back childhood memories. Another film I wouldn't mind them remaking
by danielnocharismacraig
I enjoyed it as a youth, but it was never an untouchable horror flick like Friday the 13th and Nightmare On Elm Street were. The greatest piece Roger Ebert ever wrote was something along the lines of why can't hollywood remake the movies that had potential, but for some reason never panned out instead of trying to recreate the feeling and atmosphere of those old classics. The Stuff is one of those I would be ok rebooting. I have no problem with that.
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I used to hang out there and browse all the VHS covers, looking for something I could convince her to let me take home and watch. I never bothered with horror movies for the most part, because my best friend would wind up getting them eventually and I'd see them there. I used to see the box for "The Stuff" and be creeped out by it, big time. Never did wind up watching it.
It's hard to believe that video stores just really don't exist anymore. Wow. -
Oh, hold on. I got this.
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Sorry, I have to comment here that I'm happy to see some '88 Blob love.
Kevin Dillon, Joe Seneca (remember this guy from "Crossroads" with Ralph Macchio - did anybody see that movie besides musicians/guitar players? or has the Brittany Spears movie "Crossroads"erased it from cinema history?) and, of course, the epic hotness of Shawnee Smith.
The Blob would be a great example of a taut, take no prisoners, throwback to the great horror and science-fiction movies of the past. Effective, satisfying, and entertaining. About as good as B-movie horror gets I think.
My only issue is the blob origin compared to the original but that's a very minor quibble...it's a still a fantastic horror film in my view.
And, obviously, any film that has Shawnee Smith standing on top of an overturned snow-making truck while firing a machine gun simply has to be freakin awesome.
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It's not such a stupid name in context.
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and I want it NOW.
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pretty good B movie
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