Beware! The Blob

1972 Directed by Larry Hagman

It's loose again eating everyone!

A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers.

Robert Walker Jr. Gwynne Gilford Richard Stahl Richard Webb Shelley Berman Larry Hagman Carol Lynley Godfrey Cambridge Marlene Clark Rockne Tarkington Burgess Meredith Dick Van Patten Gerrit Graham Cindy Williams J.J. Johnston Danny Goldman Del Close Patrick McAllister

Alternative Titles

The Blob 2 - Beware! The Blob, Cuidado con la masa, Son of Blob

horror science fiction comedy

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Popular reviews

Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ½ 3

Beware! of this horrid film!
I want to blame its awfulness on a low budget but clearly it's a result of hardcore drug use!
If this had been re-enacted with stick figures it would have been a tremendous improvement!
Review by Geoffrey Broomer 4

Elderly wrestlers in the nude. Burgess Meredith as lush. Will Godfrey Cambridge sit in it? Larry Hagman's sole feature effort behind the director's chair is a scattershot of victims just waiting for our killer slime. The various effects used to create the glowing red goop rivals garish sets and costuming - a film as distinctly 70s as it is out of touch. I could never shake the feeling I was watching a Halloween special of The Electric Company. Some of the slime set-ups are effective, and I am positive this traumatized me in youth - as an adult, however, its more of a curiosity piece. It is very difficult to picture this as having any relation to the McQueen classic. As it stands, BEWARE's main contribution to the Blob mythos is setting the stage for Del Close to appear in the 80s version.
A splotch, a blotch, October Horror
Review by Jeff ★½ 17

Presumably this was supposed to be a comedy punctuated with elements of horror. But it's not funny, nor horrific. It's one of those loosely made movies from the 70's where everything seems made up as they went along. In fact, much of the dialogue was clearly ad-libbed. (Sample line: "You broke my 49 cent thing! I really liked that thing.")
Some of the blob effects are fun, but on average they actually look worse than the 1958 version. The climax had what I think were meant to be forced perspective tricks, but were really just pieces of the blob placed right in front of the camera, slightly out of focus.
There is a half-assed attempt at a storyline with a…
Review by Jim Dooley ½ 5

Okay, I’d been warned that this was not a good movie. But, hey, it’s on the Criterion Channel! How bad can it be?

Well ...

I can honestly say that I have just watched the worst theatrically released movie I have ever seen. I have seen Monster Kid movies shot in the 1960’s at home with a silent 8mm camera that were better than this. I’m not exaggerating.

To detail the faults would create the longest review I’ve ever written for Letterboxd, and I’m not going to do that. Let me just go with the Top Four highlights:

* Larry Hagman must have been vying for the title of Worst Director of…
Review by laird ★★★★ 4

This movie is special. And not just because it was directed by J.R. from DALLAS. It manages to be a horror-comedy without resorting to exaggerated camp or self-reference. It really is just a comedy movie that also has a killer blob in it. Or maybe it's a killer blob movie that has a comedy in it? Either way, hippies are the butt of many jokes, the blob looks great, and there's a guy in an ape suit, so I'm walking away a satisfied customer every time. Is any other horror franchise as consistently good as THE BLOB, BEWARE! THE BLOB and the 80s remake of THE BLOB?
Review by brifilms ★★★★★ 1

Cinema bizarro at its best. Every shot is so baffling and hillarious and it’s improved on the original in every way. This is just a trip in the best possible way and I fucking adored it. Such a masterpiece man. Wow.
If you need any motivation to watch it-
Cute cat
Jelly
Avocado sandwiches
Gorilla suit man (Beef from phantom of the paradise)
49 cent things!
Sculpting hair.
What more do you people want?
Review by Kim ★★★★ 1

Music by Mort Garson. I found this to be on the whole enjoyable in spite of violating a sacred and unspoken rule: never kill the best character first!
Review by Feck ★★★★ 1

All I can say about this film is that there was a guy dressed like a gorilla who really got what was coming to him.
Review by #1 Bratz Fan ★★★½

Brilliant opening credits sequence of a kitten walking through a field. Why don’t more movies start like that? The rest of the movie may not hold up to that intro (especially since the kitten is almost immediately blobbed), but it’s very likable, silly, and fun. Most of the dialogue was improvised, and you can definitely tell. There are a lot of scenes that are more like sketches and don’t even seem to fit, like a bizarre scene in a hair salon. But it kinda does fit the loose early-70s vibe in a really great way. This is perfectly of its time, the same way the original is perfectly 50s and the remake is perfectly 80s. It’s fun! And it is one of four horror movies that have appearances from both a cat and from Burgess Meredith. The only one I didn’t watch on this day was Magic (1978).
Review by MichaelEternity ★

Hooptober 3.0
Shoddy sequel to the endearing 1958 drive-in classic, directed for some reason by Larry Hagman (and unsuccessfully advertised as "the film J.R. shot!", a desperate pun but easily the cleverest thing associated with this movie). Supposedly there's comedy or satire or something extra like that buried somewhere in this dung heap, but what you're likely to remember is scene after interminable scene of random characters going about their daily lives for like 10 straight minutes at a time before the score stings and the blob inches it way into the shot somewhere in the background, eventually consuming somebody (off-screen, of course, to avoid the risk of showing us anything cool). For most of its appearances, the blob looks…
Review by The Great Owl ★★★

Everybody's favorite amorphous jelly-like alien mass has returned to wreak deadly havoc, this time in a small community where an oil pipeline employee has brought a mysterious sample back home from a job in the Arctic region. When the sample is accidentally unfrozen, the creature proceeds to devour every living thing in its path, including a kitten, the oil worker (Godfrey Cambridge) and his wife (Marlene Clark), a police officer (Sid Haig), two hippies (Cindy Williams and Randy Stonehill), three stoned drifters (Larry Hagman, Burgess Meredith and Del Close), two hard-partying kids (Carol Lynley and Gerrit Graham), a Scoutmaster (Dick Van Patten), and countless other townspeople. As the shapeless monster oozes toward a crowded bowling alley, it is up to…
Review by DopeAssGhost ★★½

BEWARE! THE BLOB (1972)
"A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers."
Holy hippie-dom!!
Don't believe the lie; this isn't a sequel to the original The Blob (1958). It's marketed as a sequel, it starts off feeling like something of a sequel, but features an anachronism early on in which a character is watching the Steve McQueen B-horror movie classic on the television. Nope, what we got here is more along the lines of a reboot before The Blob (1988) came along in the late 1980's. A reboot featuring killer pinkish-red goo, hippies and bowlers…

Recent reviews

Review by Larissa Frehley ★★★

So silly and slow, but it's fun, a tipical movies from 70's.
Review by Cinemassacre_

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IyqDEMjcTQ&feature=emb_logo
Review by leandrino ½

One of the worst film I’ve ever seen. The only thing slightly watchable is the very last scene.
Review by mubles ★★★½

“Wut” - last line of the film
This is such a bizarre movie. Imagine a world where Larry hangman directed more feature films.
Review by duanedrake ★★½

There is a pretty decent quarter of a film in there somewhere.
Review by Jade ★★★

This is the worst of the blob movies, but its still a fun watch. Especially considering the original movie exists as a movie in this, so you have to give it some wiggle room. It's the weirdly out of tune comic relief you need between the original, which is fantastic, and the remake, which is fantastic. I've never drank Miller, but I feel like some people ought to crack one or ten open and let it fly.
To remember: yellow tie, monkey man, sandwiches, and hating hippies.
Wade's Review: 5/10. It was pretty fun, but it felt like it dragged a lot after the first half
Review by Samantha Wendel

"A Chip Off the Old Blob".
Review by Brendan Steere ★½

Yikes, dawg.
Review by KingAki ★★

It's hard to rate this film since the director and the actors were having fun, and some of them look like they're actually high during the film. Unfortunately, Hagman encouraged everyone to ignore the script and improv most of their lines, so we have lots of inane repetitious dialogue. A waste of Cindy Williams, Del Close, Gerrit Graham, Carol Lynley, Dick Van Patten, and the great Burgess Meredith.
Review by AlexFleek ★½

The movie that JR shot!
Review by botbotb ★½

Well...I watched it. It’s certainly funny, entertaining, and I don’t regrets watching it. It felt like watching a train crash. Everything goes wrong. Supposedly the actors were both high and improving the majority of their dialogue. This makes perfect sense to me, since the entire movie is just completely inept. I feel terrible for all parties involved. Worth watching, but don't go in expecting anything even close to good.
Review by CaptainMM ★★

Silly sequel to 1950s cult classic features more intergalactic gelatin terrorizing the residents of small town. Goofy and unpretentious film is willing to poke fun at itself. Burgess Meredith and director Larry Hagman have bizarre cameos as drunk hippies who fall victim to the creature.