This is the famous “movie that J.R. shot,” a sequel to The Blob with a little more gore and a little less acting skills. That makes it a natural to be on Glib Flicks! In case you lived under a rock for 60 years, the blob is a jello like monster from outer space that eats stuff and gets bigger. With that out of the way, let’s turn to IMDB for a summary, this time courtesy of Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
The oil pipeline worker Chester Hargis brings a small container with a frozen specimen of the Blob from the North Pole to be analyzed by his company. He leaves in the freezer of his house, but his wife Mariane forgets the container on the kitchen sink, defrosting the Blob that eats a fly, the cat Samuel and Mariane. When it grows and while eating Chester, the youngster Lisa Clark sees and drives to the house of her boyfriend Bobby Hartford seeking help. Sheriff Jones does not believe in her and says that she is high. But soon the creature grows and eats several people, including a police officer, two youngsters, a barber, his client Sheriff Jones and his officers believe there is a hysteria, but when the Blob invades a bowling, they see how serious the problem is.
So why is this movie such a mess? And why is it called “the movie J.R. shot?” I intended to have a great writeup, but to say I am short on time is an understatement. The upshot is that Larry Hagman (J.R. on Dallas) owned the property next to producer Chad Harris, and both of them liked martinis. IMDB tells the tale, with less alcohol and amusement than I would have:
The enormous success of The Blob (1958) led producer Jack H. Harris to try to do a sequel. Richard Clair had already written a script titled “A Chip Off the Old Blob,” but the project had been shelved for many years. In late-1970, Harris’ son, Anthony Harris, who had just graduated from USC and was working with a music publishing company, expressed interest in working with his father. Looking for a project, they both agreed on the “Blob” sequel. Larry Hagman, who owned the beach house next door to Harris, mentioned that he had never seen the original The Blob (1958). Harris showed Hagman his personal 16mm print of the film, and he showed such interest, Hagman told Harris he would be able to assemble his friends for the cast, as he felt everyone wanted to be “Blobbed”… but only on the condition he would direct the picture.
As you would expect, Larry turned the film into a giant party for his friends, they pretty much ignored the script and ad-libbed a sizable portion of the movie. Voila! “Son of Blob, the movie that J.R. Shot” was born!
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week, we get weird with Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls. Yes, you read that right. And it’s a new movie, too!
“ad-libbed a sizable portion of the movie”
So that’s why the subtitles barely work.
After all this time you would think somebody would do a new subtitle track.
It’s unusually bad. It someone said “see” and the subtitles read “si”.
Larry Hagman’s friends did the subtitle track after three martinis.
Actually the subtitles on Tubi are good. But this is a recent clean-up of the original.
Mine is from a blu-ray. Tubi version might be better. This is not so good for a 1080.
Also, if anyone doesn’t want to use Tubi, it’s on archive.org
lol I only had to search for “Beware”
*presses play*
I’m going to queue this up for later viewing.
BlobFest is in July this year.
Thanks RJ!
Blobfest is supposedly really cool.
I actually have never gone.
You get to run screaming from the actual theater in Phoenixville where that shot was made.
Remember, never use white toilet paper during deer season.
This guy I knew died Sunday, and I just learned one of my best friends father died a little while ago.
Sorry.
This has been a tough month in that regard.
Sorry to hear it.
Oh no poor kitty 😿
The Blob? or Triggleypuff.
Choose your destroyer.
Didn’t that guy just ram a Tesla in his mobility scooter yesterday?
I think you’re right. They were probably filming the next Marvel flop-buster.
“flop-buster”
I loled.
At some point, are the studios going to run out of money? It seems like one 9 figure catastrophe after another.
That’s a good question, Mr. Dean. It’s talked about a lot on the yootoob, Nerdrotic, Drinker, Film Threat, etc.
The other question is can theaters survive? How do they make money when nobody goes to see something barf-tastic like the live action Snow White?
Larry Hag man as ‘Young Hobo’.
Perfect.
Ugh hippies.
The Charlie X hippie is wearing an… interesting… belt.
Just think, all those people are friends of Larry Hagman.
Speaking of, did Larry hire the mellotron guy who plays at the mall to write the soundtrack? Jeez.
Was Larry Hagman anything before Dallas?!
Parts of the soundtrack are… interesting.
I Dream of Jeannie.
I think I heard a Moog modular.
Oh jeez of course.
I just hope the hippies get eaten soon. They are even more obnoxious than real hippies.
Dick van Patton? Scoutmaster Adleson. Figures, he’s dealing with kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNA2j6j1xtw
Angry Drill SGT vs Signal Security FAIL
Now that’s some 70’s gay.
Cliff’s Notes point:
“The Blob” represents communism.
Fuckin’ commies.
I also have a vivid memory of the fly being consumed by the blob.
Then why is it killing these gays and hippies?
They are no longer of use in the Great Struggle.
The Revolution eats it’s own.
This cast is awesome.
inorite?
Holy crap that WAS Burgess Meredith. I thought I was imagining things.
I’m sure I watched this back in the late 70’s or early 80’s on the local channel after the soaps and before the local 6:00 news.
Also there was a blob remake in the 80’s starting a young Kevin Dillon. The blob was faster and more aggressive, I seem to remember a skating rink to refreeze it. That could also be me remembering the original blob from the 60’s
Yeah I remember the 80s one from multiple repeats in the early (for me) cable days.
Yes. The remake was great.
Huh, never saw the remake, only the 50’s one.
One moment…
The trailer, from 1988:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vq0our4mceQ
Ok, thanks, I got to check that out.
(Not that I saw the trailer. YouTube is being an asshole today. Nothing works.)
Yep, check it.
It’s good.
Maybe not Thing-level improvement on the original but… improvement none the less.
Draft up! I can’t seem to set my preferred featured image, but otherwise, I think it’s all there.
It’s the lighter of the two I have going.
“While playing ball, I put a professional baseball player in the ER. I was 10-years-old. He shouldn’t have soft-tossed me like that.”
If the featured image belongs to you, when you go to select it you scroll to the end of the filter for dates and select “mine” and it will filter in just your images. I know. Go figure.
I think the pic I tried to upload is too big, one way or another.
Thanks for taking the time to get this out, one way or another, as well. I hope your new stately manor becomes more stately with every moment you can settle it. Soon, I trust, you’ll actually be able to settle down and enjoy it fully.
Yes, just right now it is endless furniture construction, junk removal, warranty requests, and trying to catch up on work. There is no free time, at all. I rebelled tonight and refused to keep assembling furniture. I attended this instead.
Ah. Try this to fix huge image problems:
https://www.img2go.com/compress-image
That also lets you change to jpg or png, should you have a troublesome image format.
My former father in law went to Blobfest. He loved it.
X-Files is showing a cancer-man episode.
Goddamn I want a cigarette.
Marlboro reds FTW!
/ I smoked Camel filters
“OTF, which backs Tor, Let’s Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts”
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/otf_tor_lets_encrypt_funding_lawsuit/
Valuable privacy services for some IMHO but I always thought they were independently funded somehow and they’re suing to resecure the funds (fuck you, you don’t deserve to steal my money). Another thing: are government funded anonymizing services really anonymous? If you’re using TOR for the various things TOR’s often used for be careful.
Sean is late.
🤨
Yay! Friday!
🥞☕️🌞
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF0HhrwIwp0
🎶🎶
So? It’s just another workday.
Friday is not just another work day. Friday is “Funk and Soul Friday” at The Hyperbole Design and Construction and many people feel this is the best music all week.
So lots of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Lionel Richie?
Crank up the P-Funk and Ohio Players!
I’m taking PTO today.
And yet you’re up at this hour, Ted’S.? That’s dedication! Or something.
@Ted – I do hope it’s for something enjoyable and that you can have a nice long weekend. I do realize this is not always the case, but from the limited context, I’m being optimistic.
I’ve become a morning person.
My original plan was to do my taxes today, but I got them done last weekend.
I’m doing laundry, too.
Company-wide “wellness day” (‘vid leftover which we all like).
Normally that’d mean sleeping in but the hound has needs and my wife is travelling for work.
Ah, well. By the dog’s standards, this is a pretty late start.
Good morning, Sean, U, Teh Hype, and Stinky!
Morning.
Fewer catastrophes so far today, despite sleeping with the lights on. Here’s hoping for an uneventful day.
You?
I have to leave a little early to pick up coffee and carbs for yet another meeting of outsiders at our building, but after that, it should be quiet (assuming payroll has posted on schedule. Haven’t checked my account yet.) Here’s to no more catastrophes!
coffee cake?
Donuts, bagels, and TimBits. I wonder – have tariffs hit Tim Horton’s?
Doesn’t Hortons own Burger King or something like that?
*checks internet*
RBI Owns both Burger King and Tim Horton’s so I wasn’t far off. And it is Canukistani as I recalled.
I don’t know how much of their US supply chain is cross-border and how much simply piggybacks on the old BK system.
https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2025/03/28/beto-orourke-voter-id-laws-texas-n2410585
lol! Beto is back! 🤣😂🖕
We all know Beto’s a leftist asshole, the big question is how does one get paid for writing articles that consist almost wholly of compiled snarky tweets?
As long as they find entertaining snark, I am okay with the curator getting paid for the effort.
Now if it were taxpayer dollars funding the snark curation, that’d be a different matter.
“Declassified CIA Document Claims Ark Of The Covenant Was Located”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/declassified-cia-document-claims-ark-covenant-was-located
Revealed using the airtight method of…remote viewing? Are you kidding me!? Money well spent 1980s CIA.
Top. Men.
Apparently, Trump had a replica made of the one in the movie.
Which . . . Alright, that’s actually pretty awesome. Although how he got Melania to agree to have it around the house, I have no idea.
Mornin’.
It’s time to head to the gym.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
Morning all. Another long weekend of furniture construction ahead. Will it ever end?
Unless you’ve gone into the business of selling furniture, I assume you will eventually fill up your available property and decline to move to a larger space to assemble more.
You are correct.
It’s been a long damn week- trapped in the barren, desolate wasteland known as NW Ohio. At a landfill.
The natives, while skittish, initially seemed kind enough- but I had to remain on my guard.
They speak an almost unintelligible tongue- borderline Michigander.
I’m anxious to get home, shower (thoroughly), and me a heapin’ helpin’ of some Jugsy.
2-scoops, as it were.
Isn’t all of Ohio a barren wasteland?
It’s flat, not barren.
I have seen barren, and it was not Ohio.
First break at work. Started the day with a foolish mistake. I only plan on the day improving. The thunderstorm may keep folk away. The thick dog did yesterday.
Hope your days all go well.
You have an obese dog?
The chonkiest.
Coming from you, Tres, that question is disturbing.