#80s movie monsters

The Blob


I found the 1988 iteration of this classic monster story particularly horrifying as a kid. Back in the days before IMDB, it wasn’t a rare thing for kids to happen upon classics like this on VHS and gleefully dive into the unexpected and wildly age-inappropriate bloodbaths within. So good.

And it really didn’t get much scarier than a thing made from god-knows-what roaming around a small town because of ?? doing ?!!! to unsuspecting victims. For a kid knowing next-to-nothing about the world anyway, a story that deprives you of much needed information that could later save your life from the exact thing being explained is incredibly scarring, especially when that thing can know where you are in your house and pull you into its digestive mass through a slop sink drain pipe.

*shudder*

I love Halloween…


- Andrew