3/5 Beware the sequel
  by Richard Fichera (Boston area)
For diehard SciFi fans only. I saw "The Blob" when it was new, fresh and really scary. Loved the re-make, but never saw this sequel to the original. Kind of a period hoot, but those with serious expectations for plot, character or good production values will be disappointed. Fun to watch, see the very period costumes, and marvel at how much of a movie you can make with so little in the way of cast, sets, talent, and special effects. A must-see for blob fans, a pass for others.

Reeaders need to understand that my standards for these kinds of movies are very permissive - I also like "Caltiki the Immortal Monster", "X the Unknown" and "Night of the Blood Beast", all alternative blobby kind of monster flicks of questionable cinematic value.

Now that I've seen it, it will probably languish in obscurity until one of my descendents unearths it from wherever old DVDs end up.

5/5 Son of Blob = Fun!!!!!
  by spider04drwho (Villa Rica, GA)
I remember seeing this movie "Son of Blob" on t.v., when I was a kid. Not "Son of the Blob", or even "Beware! The Blob!", which is the dvd release. As a child, when I stayed up late to watch this movie, as did it's predascessor(I'm sure I spelled that wrong?) "The Blob", I was scared for many, many years after that, really! The other day, I get my vhs copy of this in the mail, and I remember the kitty part, so normally I watch my movies while holding my kitty cat. For some reason I was afraid for what Cutie {my kitty's name} would see, so I put him in another room for about the first 20 minutes. The one sad part of this movie is Samuel the cute little kitty getting Blobbed. Poor little guy.

After that part, I get Cutie, my kitty cat and hold him throughout the rest of the movie. I think my kitty hated this movie, cause after over 3 years of holding him during any movie I'd watch, he wouldn't be still, and cried, er more like mewed througuout the whole thing. Going back to the movie, even though The Blob, er or the Son'o Blob still {at least for me, anyways} still seems to manage it's creep-factor, I tried to figure out why I was ever scared of something so dang goofy?!!! Really, well the first Blob was scary enough, and so was this one, the first time I saw it, but the other day, I was laughing at some of it!!!

The Blob in the first one, seemed to be all the same substance. In Son'o Blob, you can most definetly tell many substances for a lot of the Blob scenes were of very different materials. My. Larry Hagman had to be on something when he did this, I mean c'mon. This movie's just wayyy too out there, you know.

If you like a movie that's a little scary and A LOT of fun, you seriously need to see this movie, dvd, vhs, whatever. I want to mention that even though I uploaded the 2 pictures of this movie "Son of Blob", my vhs copy box is surely very, very, very different. I Googled the name, searched for hours, and no luck finding an online picture. I broke my digi camera the other week, so as soon as I get another one, I'll post my copy on here.

Son'o Blob - get it! Awesome and scary and hillarious, all at the same time!!!!! Thanks Larry for a super-cool film!!!!!

1/5 1 star out of 4
  by One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:

An awful movie whose terrible production values preclude a "so bad it's good" effect, Beware! The Blob! has nothing going for it whatsoever and should be avoided by any and all potential watchers.

4/5 A Cheesy,Yet Fun,Spoof Of The Blob
  by Silky Greensleeves (Northeast,Ohio USA)
This film is the underrated spoof(sequel?)to the 1959 cult classic"The Blob".The film is very cheesy,and not even remotely scary,but it has good laughs and heart.Infamously known as"The Film JR Shot"(This was Larry Hagman's Directing Debut),this film features A group of hippies,and assorted old balls,trying to escape the hilarious, fury,of A gooey,ball, of red jell-o.Sure it's silly,and extremely far fetched,but A great cast including actors(Robert Walker Jr,Carol Lynley,Burgess Meredith,Cindy Williams,Danny Goldman,Gerrit Graham,and Larry Hagman),Comedians(Shelly Berman,Godfrey Cambridge,Richard Stahl and Dick Van Patten),and Jesus Rock Musicians(Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill),make this film An enjoyable,low budget,comedy spoof.Sure it's not on the same level as"The Blob"1959 ,or it's 1988 remake,but it's still funny and A lot of fun.Classic drive in cheesiness on DVD.

2/5 Pure comic gold.
  by Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
Beware! The Blob (Larry Hagman, 1972)

I was jaded very, very early. I used to boast to my grade-school pals that I could eat ham sandwiches while watching The Exorcist. (Remember, kiddies, when I was in grade school, The Exorcist was still in theaters.) Movies just don't scare me. With, that is, a few notable, and mostly entirely unjustifiable, exceptions. Beware! The Blob is one of those. I didn't sleep voluntarily for months after I first saw this movie on the Friday late-night creature feature. To this day, I have no idea what it was that scared the tar out of me so badly thirty years ago. Now it's a whole other story; Dick van Patten's acting is a large part of it, to be sure.

The story: a geologist (Godfrey Cambridge, best remembered these days as Gravedigger Jones) brings back a sample from above the arctic circle (funny, I thought they took the beast the other way in the Steve McQueen movie...). Through various bits of forgetfulness, the sample is left to thaw on the counter, and the blob gets out to wreak havoc on another small town. Lisa Clark (Satan's School for Girls' Gwynne Gilford) stops in to see Chester just as the blob is devouring him, having already finished off his family, and goes screaming to her boyfriend Bobby (Easy Rider's Robert Walker) and the cops, neither of whom believe there's a big one-celled eating machine on the loose until, of course, it's entirely too late.

Now, I will start off by saying that, yes, this is an entirely awful movie. Technically, there is not a single redeeming quality about it. The acting sucks. The directing sucks. The lighting sucks. The special effects suck. The sets suck, which is pretty impressive given the number of location shots. The entire movie sucks, well and truly. But that is part of its considerable charm, for it pushes through the envelope of suck and achieves that cheesy greatness that so few films manage. Dick van Patten's obsessive Scoutmaster is pure comic gold. A couple of hobos who end up being lunchmeat for the blob are played by (director) Larry Hagman and an uncredited Burgess Meredith. Carol Lynley, Shelley Berman, Bud Cort, Byron Keith, Randy Stonehill (yes, that Randy Stonehill, playing a pot-crazed free-love-type guitarist), Gerrit Graham... it's as much fun playing spot-the-cameo as it is trying to figure out how badly the next scene is going to mangle the fifties monster-movie tropes it never even attempts to break out of.

I grant you, you have to have a certain special sense of humor to really grasp the greatness of Beware! The Blob. If, however, you recognize Night of the Lepus as the timeless piece of filmmaking it truly is, then I cannot recommend Beware! The Blob highly enough for your refined palate. An absolute keeper. **