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The 1988 remake of ''Film/TheBlob1958''. Directed by Creator/ChuckRussell, improved special effects allowed for far gorier deaths than the original.
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The 1988 remake of ''Film/TheBlob1958''.the 1958's ''Film/{{The Blob|1958}}''. Directed by Creator/ChuckRussell, improved special effects allowed for far gorier deaths than the original.
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** Special mention goes to the guy who won't stop talking in the theater and is rude towards Kevin when he asks him to be quiet and quit ruining the movie. When Kevin tells him for the last time to be quiet, it looks as though the guy might hit him, until he got snatched up by the Blob.
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* AdultFear: The cheerleader Meg Penny learns from her parents that her brother Kevin and his friend are missing while the town is under quarantine, thinking they snuck out to see a slasher movie. What makes this terrifying was the fact that Meg's little brother is now in danger of being eaten by the titular monster now getting bigger by eating anyone that gets too close. She arrives to find the theatre is in a state of panic with Kevin and his friend desperately trying to use the emergency exit and while she does save them, they wind up having to evade the Blob in the sewer. The Blob follows them down there and [[spoiler:Kevin's friend then gets pulled underwater. Meg tries to save him only to later see him rise up from the water half-eaten; imagine dying by drowning and being eaten/dissolved alive ''at the same time'']]. What makes this all the more horrifying was the fact [[spoiler:Kevin's friend has an older brother that let them both into the movie and we saw his mother ''hoping he was going to come home safe''. At least Meg and her brother survived...]]]
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* AdultFear: The cheerleader Meg Penny learns from her parents that her brother Kevin and his friend are missing while the town is under quarantine, thinking they snuck out to see a slasher movie. What makes this terrifying was the fact that Meg's little brother is now in danger of being eaten by the titular monster now getting bigger by eating anyone that gets too close. She arrives to find the theatre is in a state of panic with Kevin and his friend desperately trying to use the emergency exit and while she does save them, they wind up having to evade the Blob in the sewer. The Blob follows them down there and [[spoiler:Kevin's friend then gets pulled underwater. Meg tries to save him only to later see him rise up from the water half-eaten; imagine dying by drowning and being eaten/dissolved alive ''at the same time'']]. What makes this all the more horrifying was the fact [[spoiler:Kevin's friend has an older brother that let them both into the movie movie, whose fate is never revealed, and we saw his mother ''hoping he was going to come home safe''. At least Meg and her brother survived...]]]
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* OrifaceInvasion: The girl who got drunk by the JerkJock didnt have any visible damage or even scream, leading to some ideas of how it got inside her.
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->''"Scream now, while you can still breathe."''
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* AnyoneCanDie: In this version, many major characters are killed by the monster.
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* {{Gorn}}: Oh yes. Have we mentioned how many of the deaths are horrifically gruesome already?
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* ForTheEvulz: This version of the blob has enough mental capacity to be sadistic, as it chooses to toy or prolong the death of it's prey when it would be more pragmatic to JustEatHim.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Subverted. After a failed attempt to blow up the Blob by dropping some bombs down the sewer, Hargis is about to be crushed and consumed by the Blob. He pulls the pins from his grenades, but the Blob eats him anyway. To add insult to injury, we briefly see two flashes inside of the Blob that don't do any lasting damage.]]
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Subverted. After [[spoiler:After a failed attempt to blow up the Blob by dropping some bombs down the sewer, Hargis is about to be crushed and consumed by the Blob. He pulls the pins from his grenades, but grenades just as the Blob eats him anyway. To add insult to injury, we briefly falls on him. We see two flashes inside of the Blob that don't do any lasting damage.as the grenades explode. Since Hargis had seen the Blob take victims already, this was the lesser of gruesome fates.]]
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Subverted. After a failed attempt to blow up the Blob by dropping some bombs down the sewer, Hargis is about to be crushed and consumed by the Blob. He pulls the pins from his grenades, but the Blob eats him anyway. We briefly see two flashes inside of the Blob, making it clear that it did nothing to it.]]
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* FoldSpindleMutilation: The sheriff is yanked backwards between the shelves of a bookcase by the Blob, with enough force to bend him in half.
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* AdultFear: The cheerleader Meg Penny learns from her parents that her brother Kevin and his friend are missing while the town is under quarantine, thinking they snuck out to see a slasher movie. What makes this terrifying was the fact that Meg's little brother is now in danger of being eaten by the titular monster now getting bigger by eating anyone that gets too close. She arrives to find the theatre is in a state of panic with Kevin and his friend desperately trying to use the emergency exit and while she does save them, they wind up having to evade the Blob in the sewer. The Blob follows them down there and [[spoiler:Kevin's friend then gets pulled underwater. Meg tries to save him only to later see him rise up from the water half-eaten; imagine dying by drowning and being eaten/dissolved alive ''at the same time'']]. What makes this all the more horrifying was the fact [[spoiler:Kevin's friend has an older brother that let them both into the movie and we saw his mother ''hoping he was going to come home safe''. At least Meg and her brother survived...]] [[spoiler:The guilt the kid's older brother is going to feel for the rest of his life knowing that his little brother would still be alive if he hadn't helped him sneak into the movie.]]
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* AdultFear: The cheerleader Meg Penny learns from her parents that her brother Kevin and his friend are missing while the town is under quarantine, thinking they snuck out to see a slasher movie. What makes this terrifying was the fact that Meg's little brother is now in danger of being eaten by the titular monster now getting bigger by eating anyone that gets too close. She arrives to find the theatre is in a state of panic with Kevin and his friend desperately trying to use the emergency exit and while she does save them, they wind up having to evade the Blob in the sewer. The Blob follows them down there and [[spoiler:Kevin's friend then gets pulled underwater. Meg tries to save him only to later see him rise up from the water half-eaten; imagine dying by drowning and being eaten/dissolved alive ''at the same time'']]. What makes this all the more horrifying was the fact [[spoiler:Kevin's friend has an older brother that let them both into the movie and we saw his mother ''hoping he was going to come home safe''. At least Meg and her brother survived...]] [[spoiler:The guilt the kid's older brother is going to feel for the rest of his life knowing that his little brother would still be alive if he hadn't helped him sneak into the movie.]]]]]
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** Special mention goes to the guy who won't stop talking in the theater and is rude towards Kevin when he asks him to be quiet and quit ruining the movie. Definitely an occasion to cheer for he blob!
* {{Badass}}: Brian, Meg. Also Colonel Hargis, who [[spoiler: elects to remove the grenade pins before getting munched so that [[TakingYouWithMe he can kill the Blob.]] Unfortunately, it doesn't work.]]
* BattleCouple: During the climax, Meg and Brian.
* {{Badass}}: Brian, Meg. Also Colonel Hargis, who [[spoiler: elects to remove the grenade pins before getting munched so that [[TakingYouWithMe he can kill the Blob.]] Unfortunately, it doesn't work.]]
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* BlobMonster: TropeMaker. The Blob is an amorphous monster that devours its prey to add them to its own biomass.
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* ConspicuousCG: Several scenes showing the enlarged Blob, notably the "man gets swatted like a bug" shot.
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* CeilingCorpse: A man walks into a projection room and a yo-yo falls down from above. He looks up, and sees the projectionist is stuck to the ceiling, half dissolved by the blob.
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* GhostTown: Subverted in the opening scenes, which show the small town's streets empty and apparently deserted ... because everyone's at the high school football game.
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* BerserkButton: While the Blob is nigh indestructable any type of attempt at hurting it seems to make it mad and go after whatever is shooting at it. Flagg said it best when the explosion didn't work.
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* BerserkButton: While the Blob is nigh indestructable any type of attempt at hurting it seems to make it mad and go after whatever is shooting at it. Flagg said it best when the explosion didn't work.
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** Anthony, Eddie's older brother. He survives, but nobody tells him about [[spoiler:his brother's horrifying death]]. One wonders what he's going to tell his parents.
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* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: ''Horribly averted.'' The heroine rescues her child brother and his friend. Right before they climb out of the sewer, the friend is pulled underwater screaming. Moments later, he pops out of the water again. Half melted. ''Still screaming.'']]
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* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: ''Horribly averted.'' The heroine rescues her child brother and his friend. Right before they climb out of the sewer, the friend is pulled underwater screaming. Moments later, he pops out of the water again. Half melted. ''Still screaming.'']]'' Played straight with the brother making it to the end.]]
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* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Oh yes''. The deaths are not only more graphic, but come more as a shock, it's victims extending to children and [[spoiler: the supposed jock protagonist]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: After a case of MistakenForPervert thanks to his friend Scott, Paul vows, "Scott Jeske is gonna die." A few scenes later...
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* JerkJock: Scott, who progresses from lying to a preacher and a pharmacist that the condoms he's buying are actually for his buddy Paul (making Paul have a really, really awful first meeting with the pharmacist, who is his date's father, when he goes to pick her up) to getting his date drunk so he can date rape her. It's almost a KarmicDeath when the Blob devours him.
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* JerkJock: Scott, Scott Jeske, who progresses from lying to a preacher Reverend Meeker and a pharmacist that the condoms he's buying are actually for his buddy Paul (making Paul have a really, really awful first meeting with the pharmacist, who is his date's father, when he goes to pick her up) to getting his date drunk so he can date rape her. It's almost a KarmicDeath when the Blob devours him.
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* MatchCut: When the (initially small) blob from the meteor first envelops and begins slurping up the Can Man's arm, we cut to Kevin slurping up some Jell-O for dessert at home.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: After a not terribly amusing joke at his expense that leads Paul to be initially mistaken for a pervert by Meg's dad, Paul vows, "Scott Jeske is gonna die." A few scenes later...
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* BrickJoke: "[[ItMakesSenseInContext Ribbed...!]]"
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: A couple of examples.
** The doctor. He didn't hear Paul and Meg's screaming and come running? Ditto the nurse.
** Anthony, Eddie's older brother. He survives, but nobody tells him about [[spoiler:his brother's horrifying death]]. One wonders what he's going to tell his parents.
** The doctor. He didn't hear Paul and Meg's screaming and come running? Ditto the nurse.
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* FridgeHorror: At the end of the film, Anthony doesn't realize [[spoiler:his little brother Eddie]] is dead. The last time he saw [[spoiler:Eddie]], he was escaping into the sewer with Meg and Kevin. What is Meg going to tell him?
* GivingThemTheStrip: One of the boys gets his jacket caught in a door with the Blob on the other side. Meg struggles with the jacket's stuck zipper until she can get him out of it.
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* FridgeHorror: At the end of the film, Anthony doesn't realize [[spoiler:his little brother Eddie]] is dead. The last time he saw [[spoiler:Eddie]], he was escaping into the sewer with Meg and Kevin. What is Meg going to tell him?
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* TheEndOrIsIt: After the Blob is beaten, a piece of the Blob is shown to be in the possession of the fundamentalist and unhinged town preacher, who declares that he will one day use it to launch the Apocalypse when "the Lord gives me a sign".
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* CombatTentacles: Part of what makes this Blob much more dangerous; it's not only faster in general, but it can shoot out pseudopods to grab prey from afar rather than having to flow over the top of them.
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** Just like in the original film, the Blob makes an attack on a crowded theatre after devouring the projectionist.
** There's a scene which hearkens back to the '70s sequel, in which The Blob slinks up through the sewer lines into a sink and pulls a hapless victim literally down the drain.
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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: It's wide enough for a bike to go through. The sewers being so absurdly spacious is actually explained in an easy-to-miss bit of dialogue. The "sewers" are actually an aqueduct system built to prevent flooding from the mountains.
* AdultFear: The cheerleader Meg Penny learns from her parents that her brother Kevin and his friend are missing while the town is under quarantine, thinking they snuck out to see a slasher movie. What makes this terrifying was the fact that Meg's little brother is now in danger of being eaten by the titular monster now getting bigger by eating anyone that gets too close. She arrives to find the theatre is in a state of panic with Kevin and his friend desperately trying to use the emergency exit and while she does save them, they wind up having to evade the Blob in the sewer. The Blob follows them down there and [[spoiler:Kevin's friend then gets pulled underwater. Meg tries to save him only to later see him rise up from the water half-eaten; imagine dying by drowning and being eaten/dissolved alive ''at the same time'']]. What makes this all the more horrifying was the fact [[spoiler:Kevin's friend has an older brother that let them both into the movie and we saw his mother ''hoping he was going to come home safe''. At least Meg and her brother survived...]] [[spoiler:The guilt the kid's older brother is going to feel for the rest of his life knowing that his little brother would still be alive if he hadn't helped him sneak into the movie.]]
* AntagonistTitle: The eponymous Blob is of course the monster that tries to devour everyone.
%%* AntiHero: Flagg
* AnyoneCanDie: In this version, this cannot be more true.
* AssholeVictim: A few, especially [[spoiler: Dr. Meddows]].
* {{Badass}}: Brian, Meg. Also Colonel Hargis, who [[spoiler: elects to remove the grenade pins before getting munched so that [[TakingYouWithMe he can kill the Blob.]] Unfortunately, it doesn't work.]]
* BattleCouple: During the climax, Meg and Brian.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Subverted. After a failed attempt to blow up the Blob by dropping some bombs down the sewer, Hargis is about to be crushed and consumed by the Blob. He pulls the pins from his grenades, but the Blob eats him anyway. We briefly see two flashes inside of the Blob, making it clear that it did nothing to it.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Meddows, who created the Blob and is responsible for its rampage, using it to test its power.]]
* BlobMonster: TropeMaker. The Blob is an amorphous monster that devours its prey to add them to its own biomass.
* BloodierAndGorier: Thanks to the improved special effect by the time. The deaths were considerably more gruesome, because we see some of the victims dissolve on-screen.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Inverted. The movie is implied to be set in California, with the Sheriff mentioning shipping the remains of a Blob victim to Sacramento for testing, but was filmed in Louisiana.
* CameFromTheSky: How The Blob got to earth. [[spoiler:Subverted when it's revealed to have been shot into orbit by human scientists in the first place.]]
* ConspicuousCG: Several scenes showing the enlarged Blob, notably the "man gets swatted like a bug" shot.
* DateRapeAverted: The girl in question doesn't have a choice, because the boy got her drunk first. But there's beautiful poetic justice because when the slimy boy goes to get his hands in her bra, he finds only the Blob, which had gotten into and consumed most of her insides already, leaving it gelatinously filling her empty flesh sack. Eww. However, though the would-be-rapist gets a nice comeuppance, the girl is still just as dead.
* DeathBySex: A guy gets his date drunk on alcohol so she'll pass out. The Blob gets to her, sucking her innards out, while he's mixing another batch. When he sees she's passed out, he goes in for the DateRape, only to discover there's nothing there but the Blob.
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Paul Taylor is the likeable jock dating the heroine Meg while Brian Flagg is a James Dean-like anti-authority dude with more than a few run-ins with the authority. Then Paul gets munched on by the blob and Flagg takes over the Hero role.]]
* DisconnectedByDeath: [[spoiler: The waitress is chased into a phone booth and absorbed. Along with the entire booth.]]
* DroolHello: Just before The Blob kills [[spoiler: DecoyProtagonist Paul.]]
* TheEndOrIsIt: After the Blob is beaten, a piece of the Blob is shown to be in the possession of the fundamentalist and unhinged town preacher, who declares that he will one day use it to launch the Apocalypse when "the Lord gives me a sign".
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath; Much of the scenes show that being dissolved by the blob even partially doesn't kill you instantly. Shown horrifically when the yoyo-playing projectionist is seen still trying to move even after the back of his head and body is dissolved already.
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Dr. Meddows comes across as friendly and helpful at first glance, but we see soon later who he truly is.]]
* GivingThemTheStrip: One of the boys gets his jacket caught in a door with the Blob on the other side. Meg struggles with the jacket's stuck zipper until she can get him out of it.
* GovernmentConspiracy: [[spoiler:In this film this is the source of the Blob.]]
* GreyGoo: Averted, unlike the original movie. The Blob is [[spoiler: the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project.]] It acts less like mindless spreading GreyGoo and more like a malicious, semi-intelligent monster.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After Dr. Meddows' death, the other soldiers, several of whom were already on the fence of sacrificing the entire town to capture the Blob, quickly change their plan to try and destroy it and save the town instead.]]
* HockeyMaskAndChainsaw: In a movie shown in a theater.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Dr. Meddows, the BigBad of the film responsible for creating the Blob, is eaten by his own experiment.]]
* ImmuneToBullets: The Blob is immune to this and pretty much any other physical weaponry.
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: ''Horribly averted.'' The heroine rescues her child brother and his friend. Right before they climb out of the sewer, the friend is pulled underwater screaming. Moments later, he pops out of the water again. Half melted. ''Still screaming.'']]
* ItCanThink: The titular creature, instead of mindlessly oozing everywhere chooses [[spoiler:ambush tactics like a predator instead. The JerkJock was killed when the blob consumes his date from the inside out and waits until he moves in before it reveals itself and kills him.]] Another example is when it attacks a flamethrower-wielding soldier and blocks the end of his flamethrower, causing the fuel tank to explode and kill him.
* JerkJock: Scott, who progresses from lying to a preacher and a pharmacist that the condoms he's buying are actually for his buddy Paul (making Paul have a really, really awful first meeting with the pharmacist, who is his date's father, when he goes to pick her up) to getting his date drunk so he can date rape her. It's almost a KarmicDeath when the Blob devours him.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Dr Meddows, who is snatched and devoured right after ordering his squad to execute Flagg.]]
* KillItWithIce: The Blob can be defeated by exposure to subzero temperatures, which can eventually freeze it completely solid.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: The scientist Dr. Meddows, who wants to control the Blob so that he can create a weapon that can put US Military ahead of Russian Military. All patriotic and stuff but then he deems the town expendable.]]
* MexicanStandoff: [[spoiler: Before the final fight with the Blob, Brian gets into one with Meddows, his men and Deputy Briggs. During this time, he reveals Meddows's true nature, and the distracted Meddows gets killed.]]
* MythologyGag: There's a scene which hearkens back to the '70s sequel, in which The Blob slinks up through the sewer lines into a sink and pulls a hapless victim literally down the drain.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: The blob completely absorbs its victims, flesh, cloth and bones. Whether it’s transforming the victim into it like in the original or dissolving them, like in the remake.
* NoisyNature: A sewer rat squeaks ''very'' loudly as it floats past the characters on a broken piece of board.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Averted. The Blob is [[spoiler:the accidental result of a secret government germ warfare project]], and shows several signs of intelligence. It seems to enjoy stalking its food and even lays traps for them.
* {{Novelization}}: A rather decent one by David Bischoff (who also wrote the {{Novelization}} for ''[[Film/{{Gremlins}} Gremlins 2]]''). The book not only contains elements from the original script, including different character names (such as Meddows being called Bruno Trimble), it even has some scenes told from the blob's point of view. Somehow.
* PoliceAreUseless: Subverted. Sheriff Geller comes across as quite reasonable... [[spoiler: but unfortunately is one of the Blob's early victims, leaving his churlish deputy, Briggs, in charge. Who ''also'' comes around in the end and dies trying to help.]]
* RedShirtArmy: The soldiers accompanying the scientists are useless, though their poorer performance compared to the main characters when fighting the Blob might be attributed to the heavy NBC gear they are wearing.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Reverend Meeker has kept a small sample of the Blob at the end.]]
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: See SealedEvilInACan above.]]
* TerrorAtMakeOutPoint: This trope is [[PlayingWithATrope played with]]. The JerkJock has driven to a secluded spot and [[DateRape gotten his date drunk so he can have his way with her]]. He looks away for a minute, then begins to unbutton her blouse. When he reaches in, the Blob, who has eaten the girl from the far side, out of his immediate view, grabs him and consumes him.
* TookALevelInBadass: Meg starts the movie as a happy, innocent cheerleader living an obviously sheltered lifestyle. During the climax, we see her [[spoiler:climbing atop a crashed snowmaker truck, firing an M16 full auto against the titular monster while screaming at it, and then setting up a satchel charge to blow up the trucks liquid nitrogen tanks and take the creature with it.]]
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The 1988 remake of ''Film/TheBlob1958''. Directed by Creator/ChuckRussell, improved special effects allowed for far gorier deaths than the original.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: It's wide enough for a bike to go through. The sewers being so absurdly spacious is actually explained in an easy-to-miss bit of dialogue. The "sewers" are actually an aqueduct system built to prevent flooding from the mountains.
* AdultFear: The cheerleader Meg Penny learns from her parents that her brother Kevin and his friend are missing while the town is under quarantine, thinking they snuck out to see a slasher movie. What makes this terrifying was the fact that Meg's little brother is now in danger of being eaten by the titular monster now getting bigger by eating anyone that gets too close. She arrives to find the theatre is in a state of panic with Kevin and his friend desperately trying to use the emergency exit and while she does save them, they wind up having to evade the Blob in the sewer. The Blob follows them down there and [[spoiler:Kevin's friend then gets pulled underwater. Meg tries to save him only to later see him rise up from the water half-eaten; imagine dying by drowning and being eaten/dissolved alive ''at the same time'']]. What makes this all the more horrifying was the fact [[spoiler:Kevin's friend has an older brother that let them both into the movie and we saw his mother ''hoping he was going to come home safe''. At least Meg and her brother survived...]] [[spoiler:The guilt the kid's older brother is going to feel for the rest of his life knowing that his little brother would still be alive if he hadn't helped him sneak into the movie.]]
* AntagonistTitle: The eponymous Blob is of course the monster that tries to devour everyone.
%%* AntiHero: Flagg
* AnyoneCanDie: In this version, this cannot be more true.
* AssholeVictim: A few, especially [[spoiler: Dr. Meddows]].
* {{Badass}}: Brian, Meg. Also Colonel Hargis, who [[spoiler: elects to remove the grenade pins before getting munched so that [[TakingYouWithMe he can kill the Blob.]] Unfortunately, it doesn't work.]]
* BattleCouple: During the climax, Meg and Brian.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Subverted. After a failed attempt to blow up the Blob by dropping some bombs down the sewer, Hargis is about to be crushed and consumed by the Blob. He pulls the pins from his grenades, but the Blob eats him anyway. We briefly see two flashes inside of the Blob, making it clear that it did nothing to it.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Meddows, who created the Blob and is responsible for its rampage, using it to test its power.]]
* BlobMonster: TropeMaker. The Blob is an amorphous monster that devours its prey to add them to its own biomass.
* BloodierAndGorier: Thanks to the improved special effect by the time. The deaths were considerably more gruesome, because we see some of the victims dissolve on-screen.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Inverted. The movie is implied to be set in California, with the Sheriff mentioning shipping the remains of a Blob victim to Sacramento for testing, but was filmed in Louisiana.
* CameFromTheSky: How The Blob got to earth. [[spoiler:Subverted when it's revealed to have been shot into orbit by human scientists in the first place.]]
* ConspicuousCG: Several scenes showing the enlarged Blob, notably the "man gets swatted like a bug" shot.
* DateRapeAverted: The girl in question doesn't have a choice, because the boy got her drunk first. But there's beautiful poetic justice because when the slimy boy goes to get his hands in her bra, he finds only the Blob, which had gotten into and consumed most of her insides already, leaving it gelatinously filling her empty flesh sack. Eww. However, though the would-be-rapist gets a nice comeuppance, the girl is still just as dead.
* DeathBySex: A guy gets his date drunk on alcohol so she'll pass out. The Blob gets to her, sucking her innards out, while he's mixing another batch. When he sees she's passed out, he goes in for the DateRape, only to discover there's nothing there but the Blob.
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Paul Taylor is the likeable jock dating the heroine Meg while Brian Flagg is a James Dean-like anti-authority dude with more than a few run-ins with the authority. Then Paul gets munched on by the blob and Flagg takes over the Hero role.]]
* DisconnectedByDeath: [[spoiler: The waitress is chased into a phone booth and absorbed. Along with the entire booth.]]
* DroolHello: Just before The Blob kills [[spoiler: DecoyProtagonist Paul.]]
* TheEndOrIsIt: After the Blob is beaten, a piece of the Blob is shown to be in the possession of the fundamentalist and unhinged town preacher, who declares that he will one day use it to launch the Apocalypse when "the Lord gives me a sign".
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath; Much of the scenes show that being dissolved by the blob even partially doesn't kill you instantly. Shown horrifically when the yoyo-playing projectionist is seen still trying to move even after the back of his head and body is dissolved already.
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Dr. Meddows comes across as friendly and helpful at first glance, but we see soon later who he truly is.]]
* GivingThemTheStrip: One of the boys gets his jacket caught in a door with the Blob on the other side. Meg struggles with the jacket's stuck zipper until she can get him out of it.
* GovernmentConspiracy: [[spoiler:In this film this is the source of the Blob.]]
* GreyGoo: Averted, unlike the original movie. The Blob is [[spoiler: the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project.]] It acts less like mindless spreading GreyGoo and more like a malicious, semi-intelligent monster.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After Dr. Meddows' death, the other soldiers, several of whom were already on the fence of sacrificing the entire town to capture the Blob, quickly change their plan to try and destroy it and save the town instead.]]
* HockeyMaskAndChainsaw: In a movie shown in a theater.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Dr. Meddows, the BigBad of the film responsible for creating the Blob, is eaten by his own experiment.]]
* ImmuneToBullets: The Blob is immune to this and pretty much any other physical weaponry.
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: ''Horribly averted.'' The heroine rescues her child brother and his friend. Right before they climb out of the sewer, the friend is pulled underwater screaming. Moments later, he pops out of the water again. Half melted. ''Still screaming.'']]
* ItCanThink: The titular creature, instead of mindlessly oozing everywhere chooses [[spoiler:ambush tactics like a predator instead. The JerkJock was killed when the blob consumes his date from the inside out and waits until he moves in before it reveals itself and kills him.]] Another example is when it attacks a flamethrower-wielding soldier and blocks the end of his flamethrower, causing the fuel tank to explode and kill him.
* JerkJock: Scott, who progresses from lying to a preacher and a pharmacist that the condoms he's buying are actually for his buddy Paul (making Paul have a really, really awful first meeting with the pharmacist, who is his date's father, when he goes to pick her up) to getting his date drunk so he can date rape her. It's almost a KarmicDeath when the Blob devours him.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Dr Meddows, who is snatched and devoured right after ordering his squad to execute Flagg.]]
* KillItWithIce: The Blob can be defeated by exposure to subzero temperatures, which can eventually freeze it completely solid.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: The scientist Dr. Meddows, who wants to control the Blob so that he can create a weapon that can put US Military ahead of Russian Military. All patriotic and stuff but then he deems the town expendable.]]
* MexicanStandoff: [[spoiler: Before the final fight with the Blob, Brian gets into one with Meddows, his men and Deputy Briggs. During this time, he reveals Meddows's true nature, and the distracted Meddows gets killed.]]
* MythologyGag: There's a scene which hearkens back to the '70s sequel, in which The Blob slinks up through the sewer lines into a sink and pulls a hapless victim literally down the drain.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: The blob completely absorbs its victims, flesh, cloth and bones. Whether it’s transforming the victim into it like in the original or dissolving them, like in the remake.
* NoisyNature: A sewer rat squeaks ''very'' loudly as it floats past the characters on a broken piece of board.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Averted. The Blob is [[spoiler:the accidental result of a secret government germ warfare project]], and shows several signs of intelligence. It seems to enjoy stalking its food and even lays traps for them.
* {{Novelization}}: A rather decent one by David Bischoff (who also wrote the {{Novelization}} for ''[[Film/{{Gremlins}} Gremlins 2]]''). The book not only contains elements from the original script, including different character names (such as Meddows being called Bruno Trimble), it even has some scenes told from the blob's point of view. Somehow.
* PoliceAreUseless: Subverted. Sheriff Geller comes across as quite reasonable... [[spoiler: but unfortunately is one of the Blob's early victims, leaving his churlish deputy, Briggs, in charge. Who ''also'' comes around in the end and dies trying to help.]]
* RedShirtArmy: The soldiers accompanying the scientists are useless, though their poorer performance compared to the main characters when fighting the Blob might be attributed to the heavy NBC gear they are wearing.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Reverend Meeker has kept a small sample of the Blob at the end.]]
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: See SealedEvilInACan above.]]
* TerrorAtMakeOutPoint: This trope is [[PlayingWithATrope played with]]. The JerkJock has driven to a secluded spot and [[DateRape gotten his date drunk so he can have his way with her]]. He looks away for a minute, then begins to unbutton her blouse. When he reaches in, the Blob, who has eaten the girl from the far side, out of his immediate view, grabs him and consumes him.
* TookALevelInBadass: Meg starts the movie as a happy, innocent cheerleader living an obviously sheltered lifestyle. During the climax, we see her [[spoiler:climbing atop a crashed snowmaker truck, firing an M16 full auto against the titular monster while screaming at it, and then setting up a satchel charge to blow up the trucks liquid nitrogen tanks and take the creature with it.]]
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