The Stuff (1985)
Directed by Larry Cohen
Written by Larry Cohen
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Miners discover a creamy white goo bubbling up from the earth. They taste it and decide to sell it to the public as the Stuff.
A rival company hires and industrial spy to figure out what's in the Stuff. He teams up with a journalist and a young boy who went beserk on the Stuff at a supermarket. They have seen the Stuff move on its own. Occasionally they are joined by Garret Morris, who plays Chocolate Chip Charlie, a celebrity martial artist.
They soon find out that the Stuff eats the person from the inside and they leave the empty shell of the human behind.
The Stuff is a silly, low budget Blob-inspired movie. Although in some ways it is better than the Blob. The way it's not better than the Blob is the effects. I'm not a big fan of obvious green screen effects, which there are several in this. Those scenes are just not pulled off right. The scenes where the Stuff is bubbling up or coming after them are usually good, unless there is green screens involved.
Garrett Morris is hilarious as Chocolate Chip Charlie. Paul Sorvino is great as the racist colonel who is reluctant to let Morris on his radio station because of his race. The overall concept of not knowing where your food comes from, but eating it anyway (and then it eating you) is great. If the effects didn't take away from the movie at a few points and if the end wasn't so abrupt I would have given this a 10.
8.5/10
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