‘It’s loose again eating everyone!’
Beware! The Blob is a 1972 sequel to the science fiction horror film The Blob. The film was directed by Larry Hagman from a screenplay by Anthony Harris and Jack Woods III, based on a story by Jack H. Harris and Richard Clair. Also released as Son of Blob
In 1982, the film was released on VHS with the tagline “The film that J.R. shot!” in an attempt to capitalise on Larry Hagman’s Dallas fame.
Dean Cundey, who would later go on to be a cinematographer on such films as Halloween, The Thing and Jurassic Park, worked on Beware! The Blob as one of the three special effects technicians (alongside supervisor Tim Baar and Conrad Rothmann) responsible for creating the blob effects.
Plot:
An oil pipeline layer named Chester (Godfrey Cambridge) returns to his suburban Los Angeles home from the North Pole, bringing with him a small sample of a mysterious frozen substance uncovered by a bulldozer on a job site.
Before taking the blob to a lab to be analysed, he places the storage container with the substance in his freezer, but he and his wife accidentally let it thaw, releasing “the Blob”. It starts by eating a fly, then a kitten, Chester’s wife, and then Chester himself (while he is watching a television broadcast of the film The Blob).
Lisa (Gwynne Gilford), a friend, walks in to see Chester being devoured by the Blob. She escapes, but cannot get anyone to believe her, not even her boyfriend Bobby (Robert Walker, Jr.).
Meanwhile, the rapidly growing creature quietly preys upon the town. Some of its victims include a police officer and two hippies (Cindy Williams and Randy Stonehill) in a storm drain, a barber (Shelley Berman) and his client, transients (played by director Hagman, Burgess Meredith and Del Close), a Scout Master (Dick Van Patten), a farm-full of chickens, and (off camera) a bar full of people…
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Cast and characters:
Robert Walker as Bobby Hartford
Gwynne Gilford as Lisa Clark
Richard Stahl as Edward Fazio
Richard Webb as Sheriff Jones
Marlene Clark as Mariane Hargis
Gerrit Graham as Joe, Ape-Suited
J.J. Johnston as Deputy Kelly Davis
Dick Van Patten as Scoutmaster Adleman
Tiger Joe Marsh as Naked Turk Soviet Dong
Fred Smoot as Mike Pinsetter Repairman
Randy Stonehill as Randy Guitar player, singer
Cindy Williams as Hippie
Preston Hagman as Preston, a Boy Scout
Larry Norman as Blonde Teenager
Bill Coontz as Bowling Alley Manager
Shelley Berman as Hair Stylist
Godfrey Cambridge as Chester Hargis
Larry Hagman as Hobo
Carol Lynley as Leslie
Burgess Meredith as Hobo
Conrad Rothmann as Fireman
Danny Goldman as Bearded Teenager
Rockne Tarkington as Deputy Williams
Sid Haig as Deputy Ted Sims
Del Close as Hobo
John Houser as Hair Stylist’s Customer
Robert N. Goodman as Henry – Security Guard
Patrick McAllister as Al – Repairman’s Assistant
Byron Keith as Bowling Customer
Margie Adleman as Party Guest with Joe
