New incarnation of SciFi classic

JustDave said:
Just after seeing the film way back when, I had the realization that the blob was spookier to me when it was small and able to hide before jumping out and grabbing you. When it got as big as a house, it killed more people of course, but the jump scare factor wasn't there, anymore.
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Unless you were eating dinner in that 'trailer cafe' at the end of the movie. If you had been, you would have seen the 'Blob' quickly cover up the cafe' and then start squeezing in the windows and doors looking for dinner...of course that's where they accidently figured out how to stop the BLOB...
 

Some of the old Dracula movies and Frankenstein movies were really good and scary. It is hard to tie down a best old Dracula movie for me as many stick in my mind. On Frankenstein I recall a scene from one movie, I don't recall the name of the movie, but I recall where the newly made monster got up in the lab and staggers over to the camera. His face was covered with bandages, as he approached the camera he reached up and suddenly ripped his bandages off of his face in one quick pull, exposing his face! That scene scarred the heck out of me, and it is stuck in my mind as one of my best movie scares...
 
I didn't like the new WotW.

Did you know this film was scheduled for release just before the covid lockdown? Back in 2021. They didn't release it because people weren't supposed to go to theaters.

I think they should have kept this film in lockdown. Just my opinion.

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JustDave said:
Just after seeing the film way back when, I had the realization that the blob was spookier to me when it was small and able to hide before jumping out and grabbing you. When it got as big as a house, it killed more people of course, but the jump scare factor wasn't there, anymore.
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I saw it when it came out in 1958. I remember thinking that there was no way the growing blob could ever be stopped. So it was a relief when they found the solution...:). I felt the same way in The War of the Worlds (1953). Of course I imagine that's what the writers wanted you to think.

It was probably Steve McQueen's breakout role. You could tell from his screen presence and charisma that he was going to be a star.
 
The old Mummy movies were scarier than hell without gratuitous violence.

You've got the Mummy, one arm wrapped against his body, dragging one leg behind him BUT he can  always catch a perfectly hale person trying to escape through the sand, a tomb, the swamp, etc. Always.

Mummy catches up, reaches out for the victim and the camera just shows a little thrashing, some blurry action, the vegetation shifting but no blood-and-guts, no exploding heads, no one being rendered limb-from-limb.

He's dead. That's it. But it's terrifying. Implied violence beats seeing it.....
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Some of the old Dracula movies and Frankenstein movies were really good and scary. It is hard to tie down a best old Dracula movie for me as many stick in my mind. On Frankenstein I recall a scene from one movie, I don't recall the name of the movie, but I recall where the newly made monster got up in the lab and staggers over to the camera. His face was covered with bandages, as he approached the camera he reached up and suddenly ripped his bandages off of his face in one quick pull, exposing his face! That scene scarred the heck out of me, and it is stuck in my mind as one of my best movie scares...
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I agree. The old ones were the best. I would watch them as a kid and then I couldnt sleep. :D
Hated the Abbot and Costello ones.
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Some of the old Dracula movies and Frankenstein movies were really good and scary. It is hard to tie down a best old Dracula movie for me as many stick in my mind. On Frankenstein I recall a scene from one movie, I don't recall the name of the movie, but I recall where the newly made monster got up in the lab and staggers over to the camera. His face was covered with bandages, as he approached the camera he reached up and suddenly ripped his bandages off of his face in one quick pull, exposing his face! That scene scarred the heck out of me, and it is stuck in my mind as one of my best movie scares...
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I agree! The early ones were well written and well acted. Bela Lugosi in specific was scary as hell. He was a fine actor who had honed his craft in his native Hungary. It's a shame he got so type cast in horror movies.

I can't recall which Frankenstein movie you're referring to. But in the scene you described, I'll bet a dollar to a dime it was inspired by a similar scene in the great silent film, The Phantom of the Opera (1925), when Christine tears off Lon Chaney's mask to reveal a horrible face. Very shocking, even today!
 

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