| Beware! The Blob | |
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| Directed by | Larry Hagman |
| Screenplay by | Anthony Harris Jack Woods |
| Story by | Richard Clair Jack H. Harris |
| Produced by | Anthony Harris |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Al Hamm |
| Edited by | Tony de Zarraga |
| Music by | Mort Garson |
Production companies | Jack H. Harris Enterprises, Inc. |
| Distributed by | Jack H. Harris Enterprises Inc. |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $150,000 (estimated) |
Beware! The Blob (also known asBeware the Blob,Son of Blob,The Blob II orThe Blob Returns) is a 1972 Americanindependentscience fiction comedyhorror film directed byLarry Hagman. It is a sequel toThe Blob (1958). The screenplay was penned by Anthony Harris and Jack Woods III, based on a story byJack H. Harris and Richard Clair. The film originally earned a PG rating from theMPAA, though it is now unrated.[1] It is the second film inThe Blob film series.
Picking up fifteen years after the events ofThe Blob, an oil pipeline engineer named Chester returns to his suburbanLos Angeles home from theNorth Pole, bringing with him a metal container holding a small sample of a mysterious frozen substance uncovered by a bulldozer on a job site. Not aware that the substance is a piece of the Blob from the original 1958 incident in Pennsylvania, Chester stores the substance in his home freezer prior to taking it to the laboratory to be analyzed. His wife Marianne accidentally lets it thaw when she takes the container out of the freezer and forgets about it, re-animating the Blob. It eats a fly, a kitten, Marianne, and then Chester.
Lisa, Chester and Marianne's friend, walks in to see Chester being consumed by the Blob. She escapes, but cannot get anyone to believe her, not even her boyfriend Bobby. The rapidly growing creature quietly preys upon the town, absorbing multiple people. Lisa and Bobby find themselves trapped in Bobby's truck, with the creature attempting to find a way inside. While panicking, the truck's air conditioning is accidentally switched on and the Blob retreats because of its vulnerability to cold.
After consuming dozens more people, the now-massive Blob moves on to an ice skating rink under renovation. It is finally stopped when Bobby activates the rink's ice mechanism, freezing it. While the frozen Blob is filmed by a television crew, one of the crew's lights is positioned on the ground, melting a small portion of it, which oozes toward the sheriff and envelops his feet as he is speaking on camera to a nationwide television audience.
AsSon of Blob together withThe Blob, the film was released on DVD by Umbrella Entertainment in September 2011. The DVD is compatible with all region codes.[2]Beware! The Blob was transferred to HD in its correct 1.85 ratio and released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber on September 20, 2016.[3]
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Film historians Kim R. Holston and Tom Winchester considered the film was "... Now viewed as a relic of mid- to late-hippiedom ... overall, there's some tension, and some nods to the predecessor."[4]
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