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2 Scenes I remember, was this the movie?

posted 18 years ago by bleudie
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This may be long, please bear with me. When I was about 3 or 4 years old (I was born in '75, so we're talking about '79 or '80) there was a show in Indiana called Sammy Terry (with Bob Carter being Sammy). I believe it was a local thing. Anyway, I stayed up late and watched this show and he played a movie with a blob-like thing in it, and I do believe it was red. I don't think I ever really knew the exact name of the movie, I just always called it "The Blob". It gave me nightmares for years, to this day I cannot have any body part hanging over the side of the bed at night. Anyway, I would like to see it again to see what it was that scared me so much, besides my young age. I have since watched the original "The Blob" from 1958 and also the remake from 1988. Obviously it was not the remake, but it was not the original either. There are 2 scenes that I seem to remember, keep in mind this was about 26 years ago, though.

--A woman takes something out of the freezer that she believes to be a steak and sets it out on the counter to thaw. The cat also thinks it is a steak and jumps up on the counter, only to be eaten by the 'steak'.

--A man seems to be sitting on the couch or in a chair with a TV tray eating something and watching TV. I think there's a shot from outside the screen door, where this 'blob' thing comes in and apparently eats the guy.

If anyone that has seen this movie recalls scenes remotely similar to the ones I've described, please let me know. I would love to find it and probably laugh myself silly at my age now. I have checked out Sammy Terry websites for info on movies he played, but nothing is ringing a bell.

[–] hershel1959 18 years ago

I certainly remember those two scenes...its been about twenty years since I've seen this film but I remember it as being fairly entertaining...especially for
all the cameos .. Mr. Hagman must have invited all his friends to stop by and
join in...

[–] bleudie 18 years ago

Cool, thank you for confirming that for me. Now I just need to find somewhere to rent it and see what the heck I was so scared of-when I was 3, that is!

Sandy Cheeks: Don't you have to go be stupid somewhere else?
Patrick: Not until four.

[–] Avenger69 18 years ago

A few of the details are different, but the scenes you mention are definitely from "Beware! The Blob!"

[–] bleudie 18 years ago

That's funny, for being such a cheesy '70's movie, I never really expected to get one response, let alone two! LOL. Surprised I guess by the fact that that many people actually came to this board! Thank you, though, Avenger, I do appreciate it. Haven't had the time yet to find it and check it out, but I will.

Sandy Cheeks: Don't you have to go be stupid somewhere else?
Patrick: Not until four.

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[–] kwheeley 18 years ago

Bleudie,

I'm late on this thread but wanted to throw in my 2¢. By this time, you now know that "Beware! The Blob" was the movie from your childhood. I had a very similar memory about watching this movie (and the original...which my sister used to scare the crap out of me...long story there)and getting scared. Funny thing is, for the longest time, I couldn't have either my hands or feet hanging down either!

I picked this movie up for $5 at a Fred Meyer in Oregon. I've sinced moved to Texas and I've seen it for sale at Wal-Mart and Target, especially around Halloween when they're trying to sell cheap horror movies.

If you haven't already rented or bought it, check them out! It'll be good for you, mostly for laughing at yourself for being scared of some red jello eating people!

Another movie that scared me when I was a kid was called "Island of Terror". I remember having trouble sleeping in my own room for several nights after watching it!

[–] fizgig_76 18 years ago

OMG! My 2 elder sisters used to TORMENT me with threatening to make me watch it! LMAO! I remember crying ( iwas 4) when the cat got eaten (i had several cats) and then being mad at the lady for leaving out something that said :Top Secret: Keep Refridgerated on it that i was glad when she got eaten! Remember being scared the whole movie, but also liking it when stupod people got devoured: like the lady who goes up to it asking "what is it?" (i think it was on a car at that point not sure, haven't seen the movie in, like 25-26 yrs!) and the hero and heroine are like "NOOOO!, Get away from it!" and she doesn't listen and the blob "jumps at her and eats her! LOL! even then I was a sick puppy. When the 88 remake came out I actually liked it (though it to scared me, but in a fun way) and I need to but this version so that I can laugh at myself for being afraid of it all those years ago.

[–] shtickcoma 18 years ago

bleudie,

I too was born in 1975 and watched this film at a young age. Man did it scare the $hit out of me!!! Didn't the blob eat a cop in a sewer? I need to get this on DVD.

What did you all think of the 1988 remake?

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[–] bleudie 18 years ago

Yes, it scared the $hit out of me too, lol!! I don't remember the cop in the sewer part, just the parts I listed above. But I'm sure it's possible. I haven't found it anywhere yet, but if I do, I'll post back here.

I hated the remake of The Blob. I thought it pretty much sucked, lol. Maybe because I was older and it just didn't scare me like Beware the Blob did. I never saw the original Blob until I was in high school, so it didn't scare me either.

Sandy Cheeks: Don't you have to go be stupid somewhere else?
Patrick: Not until four.

[–] onetoughguy920 18 years ago

YES! this movie was wacko when i saw it, i pretended that my playdoh was the blob and id eat my lego guys!! however the 1988 version has the one where the guys gets eating in the sewer.

1988 - Key scenes ill always remember
-The homeless person who tries to chop off his wrist
-the hospital scene where the blob falls on him
-the car scene where the guy cops the field and gets eaten when the blob is inside of her
-when the guy gets sucked down the drain <-- personal favorite
-the girl who gets eaten while in the telephone booth
-danny glover gets sucked in by the tentacle and it goes into his spacesuit and eat them from the inside in the manhole
-drops from the airconditioning and kills the movie theatre manager while its still eating the projector guy
-the idiot cop dies in a backbend by getting sucked through the bookshelf
-priest who keeps a piece of the living blob...no sequel with him in it, we have been misled!

[–] GroovyDoom 18 years ago

There was a "cop eaten in sewer" scene in "Beware! The Blob", too. Cindy Williams (Shirley from "Laverne & Shirley") and Randy Stonehill (Christian guitarist) are in a sewer pipe getting high on pot and singing a song about cocaine when a cop finds them doing drugs and threatens to arrest them. The blob then oozes down behind the policeman and "gets" him, presumably eating all three of them.

[–] EHiggins51 17 years ago

Yes...I think it's immediately after that scene that the Blob keeps making its way through the plumbing and comes up into the sink in the barber shop. Then the barber is in the middle of shampooing that hippie dude with about 10 pounds of hair and lowers his head back into the sink without looking, and the Blob gets both of them.

[–] fudrom 16 years ago

I took remember this movie scaring the crap out of me, saw it on tv at my mom's friend's house. I was no older than 5 at the time and some of it still sticks with me. The guy in the recliner just sitting there screaming and the poor kitten (I love cats) gets eaten. I never understood why the blob was in that freezer to start with. For me at that time, it was one of the horrifying films ever. Of course now that I'm 35, I would probably laugh my butt off (I'd hope!).

[–] wj-n3 16 years ago

Am I the only one wondering what the parents of pre-teen children were thinking letting their offspring watch gory horror movies? I'm old and wrinkled and love a good violent movie but I'm in no hurry to introduce my grandkids to movie violence. There's too much of the real stuff out there already.

[–] PopperTheKungFu-Dragon 8 years ago

This more a spoof than a horror and there's nothing gory in this unless you count the naked fat guy.

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[–] fizgig_76 16 years ago

I bought the dvd a few months ago, and yes it does it a cop and two drug using hippies in the sewer. One of the hippies is the actress from laverne and shirly, not penny marshall but the other one, cindy williams? Anyway i have had a great time laughing at this movie! To think I was so scared of it as a kid! LOL! This scene was so unintentionally funny cuz the cops buddy wlaks out scant seconds before the blob decends on his parnter, can only be a few dozen yards away, and yet somehow doesn't hear 3 ppl SCREAMING in a vast echoey sewer! LOL! classic! This part must have been the inpiration for the 88 remake sewer scene. Oh, and the 88 version got the idea of it ozzing up out of a sink from this one too. There is a scene where a barber is washing a hippy dudes hair and doesn't notice the blob SLOWLY filling up the sink and puts the dude's head into it! LOL!

[–] david-pop 16 years ago

I watched this as a kid on the late night movie. I don't remember being scared but I did enjoy it. I found it for sale on Amazon.com on DVD. My 5 and a half year old watched and wasn't scared either. It's a great movie to just take your mind off of everything

[–] michaeldukey2000 14 years ago

I was older when I saw this movie so it never scared me.Me and my buddies enjoyed it though because it was obviously made for and by stoners. Hagman certainly was during this period and Del close would take anything laying around.

[–] loaloaloa 17 years ago

Christ - seems like we share a traumatic childhood experience. I saw it in 1983 - I was 10 - at a friends birthday party and I vividly remember those scenes. Especially the one with the guy watching TV. I was shaking afterward and had trouble sleeping for a long time. All windows and door securely fastened of course and absolutely no careless placement of body parts. For years. This is the only movie that's ever affected my like this.

[–] bleudie 17 years ago

I think it's the only movie that ever affected me this way too. Kinda funny, but then again, not really very funny, lol. I remember for several years after that, making my dad stay in my bedroom with me until I fell asleep because I was so scared to be in there by myself. I look for this movie everytime I go to the used video store, still haven't found it yet.

Sandy Cheeks: Don't you have to go be stupid somewhere else?
Patrick: Not until four.

[–] Megavader 17 years ago

I remember watching this as a kid on Big Chuck and Little John, and it also went by the title at that time "Son of Blob" here in Cleveland ,OH.

[–] Sparrow777 17 years ago

I think we should form a support group, LOL. I was born in '73 and those were the 2 scenes I remember also, and also scared the crap out of me. I would go into my parents room almost every night for weeks after, crying and wanting to sleep in their bed. I have never seen the movie again. And I don't think I ever want to! Ha!

[–] Adirondack 17 years ago

We should form a support group for people who were afraid to place any body part carelessly because of a movie. This movie did it to me as well as the killer bee movies. I used to dream that they made a nest under my bed!

I'll always remember the black guy who probably sat down on the Blob. I thought it might have gotten his nuts first and as a guy myself, I wondered how horrible that might've felt!

I really think this movie creeped me out worse than the original, despite the humorous scenes.

[–] atomicpunk40 15 years ago

When I was a child (early 70's) I saw the original Blob one Sunday afternoon and it scared the hell outta me like I had never been scared before. "Beware" came out shortly afterward and my parents absolutely refuse to allow me to even see the T.V. spots for it. I was frightend of the Blob for years even to the point of absurbidty. Example: I remember seeing Cindy Williams in one of those old Celebrity All-Stars games on TV one night (this is 1978) and she was in the bicycle race contest. She won and as the reporter was interviewing her and congradulating her he said "Weren't you in Beware the Blob? to which she answered yeah. "You were eaten in that film? and she answered "Yes I was eaten. I was in the sewer when I got eaten". He thanked her and then the show broke for an commercial break. That was enough to make me set my nerves on end.

Flash forward to 1981. My family was on summer vacation and we were in our hotel room in Georgia while on the way to our destination. The rest of my family was asleep and I stayed up. On the Saturday Creature Movie (which came on right after Fantasy Island) was Beware the Blob. So I stayed up to watch it. The one scene that stood out in my mind more than anything else was the scene where the Russian guy is taking a hot bath and the Blob comes oozing under his door. He takes his telephone and smashes it through his batroom window and the next scene we see him running naked down the street in a panic. A cop stops him and asks for his I.D. By the end of the scene I was laughing hard and it was a miracle that the rest of my family didn't wake up and tell me to shut up. Go figure... the movie monster that terrified me as child now made laugh my ass off! And what's more they used this exact same gag - minus the Blob - in Porky's and Porky's 2- The Next Day when Peewee is running down the street naked and is pulled over by the cops.

I have all three Blob movies on DVD (origial, sequel, and remake) and this scene still cracks me up.
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[–] yonhope 12 years ago

I used to watch Sammy Terry in 1974 and 1975. My family wrote him letters each week about his terrible movies and his spider, George. We always signed our letters The Paoli Pimple. He would read one of our letters about every week or two. He was great. Beware The Blob fails in most of its scenes except for the brilliant barber shop routine with Shelly Berman and a young hippie type guy. They are incredibly funny. The problem with the rest of the movie is the overacting frenzy style.

[–] Dr Wily 8 years ago

I believe Sammy Terry was entirely local. I remember seeing Sammy Terry in the early 1980's on over the air TV. It was an Indiana station we were able to pick up in Owensboro, KY. While I never saw Beware! The Blob on Sammy Terry, I did see the original The Blob on there. Other movies I do remember seeing on Sammy Terry were The Flesh Eaters, Gog, The Eye Creatures, and a Gamera movie that I don't remember which one it was.