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The Thing
Why this pick
Like The Blob, it turns an isolated community into a pressure cooker as a shape-shifting organism makes bodily vulnerability and distrust equally terrifying.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1988 1h 35m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
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Slither
Why this pick
Its small-town outbreak, practical creature mayhem, acidic humour and escalating siege energy closely echo the 1988 film’s gleeful monster-movie spirit.
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The Fly
Why this pick
A meticulous 1980s practical-effects horror landmark that shares The Blob’s visceral transformation terror, while grounding its grotesque spectacle in an increasingly tragic relationship.
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Night of the Creeps
Why this pick
This brisk, knowingly pulpy campus invasion pairs slug-like extraterrestrial horror with the same lively 1980s genre affection and physical creature effects.
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The Faculty
Why this pick
High-school outsiders confront a spreading alien threat in a fast, colourful, effects-driven horror ride with a similarly youthful ensemble and paranoid small-community stakes.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A meteorite crashes near Arbeville, Colorado. An elderly transient discovers, within the sphere, a massive slime mold-like substance that adheres to his hand. Three high school students, Brian, Meg and Paul, take him to a hospital. After Brian leaves, Paul witnesses the lower half of the transient melting from exposure to the Blob. As he calls for help, the Blob drops on top of him. Meg arrives to see Paul being devoured by the growing Blob. While she tries freeing him, his arm dissolves off, Meg is thrown against a wall and knocked unconscious, and the Blob fully dissolves Paul and oozes out of the hospital.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kevin Dillon
Brian Flagg
Del Close
Reverend Meeker
Sharon Spelman
Mrs. Penny
Ricky Paull Goldin
Scott Jeske
Teddy Vincent
Sally Jeffers
Clayton Landey
George Ruit
Julie McCullough
Susie
Jamison Newlander
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