Baffling and barely competent, "Beware! The Blob" (aka "Son of Blob") is the belated low-budget sequel to the 1958 Steve McQueen classic that nobody asked for. Directed in an off-the-cuff nature by first-time director Larry Hagman (aka J.R. of "Dallas" fame), the titular ooze makes its way across a small town after being unwittingly unleashed by a careless oil-worker. Corny, hokey and -- as it would turn out -- mostly improvised, it would prove to be Hagman's final film. Watching it today, it is all too obvious why. Within the first five minutes, a ridiculous and slightly meandering tone is set that unfortunately plagues the film until its end. Granted, the film does generate a bit of incidental fun and good humor ("Can I have my lighter back? Can I have my lighter back?") as it plods along, but even the most generous of viewers may have trouble making it to the finish line. The film is low, low (almost no) budget, and the cast is mostly made up of other familiar TV faces/friends of the director. No one appears to be taking the whole thing seriously, which gives the audience permission to do the same. Problem is, you won't have even a fraction of the fun watching this as the cast and crew had making it. On the upside, the blob's effects are (mostly) convincing. Nobody -- neither kitten not cool-cat hippies -- is safe from the amorphous antagonist, and you may be surprised to find that cinematographer Dean Cundey ("Halloween," "Jurassic Park") had a hand in the special effects. Sometimes it appears as if the slimy scoundrel really is covering cars and coming out of sinks, and sometimes it just looks like strawberry jelly smeared across somebody's face. Lower your expectations and maybe, just maybe, you can have some fun with "Beware! The Blob." Otherwise, just give the original or the 1988 remake a go instead.

I never understood why this movie gets trashed. For the time that it was made, I don't see this as being a bad movie. This was the first "Blob" movie I watched. I knew about the original, but I saw this one first on a Saturday afternoon movie as a kid and was fascinated by the idea of it. Monsters, most of them, had faces, arms, legs, and mouth to eat you. Most of them could be killed. The Blob can absorb you when it touches you and it only be frozen. And it still isn't dead. The original idea can't touch the blood and gore movies today. Most monster movies today are about psychopaths like, Jigsaw. He would be a 21st century monster. The difference is, you can reason with Jigsaw. The idea of the Blob can never be reasoned with.I've read online that the producers ignored the written script and improvised most of it. Being that it was 1971 during production, it would say its safe to presume that most of the cast was high during the process but given their scenes, they did a good job. I would be very interested in reading the original script and to this day with instant news, the script hasn't been posted yet. WHY? I would love to see what was so different about it and is the version that is seen today better than the script. If the writers have that copy, please post it!! Really! Who's going to laugh? Remembering the movie from when I was a kid to watching it today on DVD, I am quite surprised it wasn't cleaned up a little better. Specifically the scene where the BLOB is covering the road and Gerrit Graham's character drives up on it in his dune buggy and slams into it. I remember seeing it more clearly on TV than what I saw on DVD. Everything is digitally transferred today. Why not this one? I, along with other reviews written, will also confess that Beware! The Blob scared me as a kid. Watching it again made me wonder why. Maybe because of the zoom-in quick facials of Lisa witnessing Chester screaming for his life. I am surprised that he wasn't already dead by the time Lisa arrived. It seemed like it absorbed his wife faster than when it became bigger after absorbing her than it did when Chester sat on it. But, I guess that's the fun of a 70's horror movie. Most scenes didn't seem to make too much sense for movies that were made at that time. I also thought the effect of the barber's arms turning to jello was clever. It also seemed like there were certain shots that the producers wanted for a really good effect. The bowling alley scene was great! In my opinion, it was well shot. From the two mechanics, getting absorbed, to the manager and security guard being pulled into was frightening to me. I truly believe that a scene where you don't see the person getting eaten or hacked up leaves much to the imagination to make it scarier. That was the charm of the Blob movies. The 1988 remake didn't quite capture that, albeit it wasn't a bad movie either.When the Blob turns its sights (if it has eyes) to the ice rink, again here is a scene where the producers had to improvise. You can clearly see that a big red balloon was inflated when it covers the door entry and the man trying to get through is assumingly eaten. Even when Bobby is climbing the rope to turn on the pipe freezing system, when the monster gets angry and tries to pull the DJ booth from the wall, you can tell there was a sheet covered in silicone waving. For all of its campiness, it was a great movie.I never did quite get the whole "Plan B" scenario to the sheriff. I also read that someone remembers seeing a scene where Dick Van Patten's character is seen on screen getting attacked from another version of the film that was played on TV. I would be curious to see this. I'm sure you don't literally see the scoutmaster getting attacked, because with the exception of a few key scenes in the film, no one is really scene getting attacked by the BLOB. Just lots of screams.Recently, a trailer finally surfaced. If that surfaced, where are the deleted scenes and where is the commentaries? That's my only real gripe when it came out on DVD. It was released to appease the genre and most of the actors, including Larry Hagman, laugh this movie off. Why? This was not a bad movie. I know some of the actors are dead, and the "Sheriff" committed suicide, but someone i.e. Lisa and Bobby, should have done a commentary track. It is still a fun to watch movie. I just watched it again and I'm sure in a few weeks I'll watch it again.Well, I do hope that one day a better version of this DVD will be released and one of the actors or Larry Hagman himself, will come forward and discuss scene by scene what was going on during filming and if anybody has the original script, please upload it.

Beware! The Blob (1972) 1/2 (out of 4) THE BLOB is without question one of the best sci-fi flicks from the 50s; a decade that was overflowing with such films but most of them were mindless junk. It took fourteen years but a sequel finally came and what anyone was thinking is beyond me as this is without a doubt one of the worst sequels ever made. A man returns home from Alaska with a container saying "keep frozen" and of course our frozen blob friend is inside. The man leaves it out, the blob thaws and it then goes on a killing spree. That's pretty much all the "plot" this film has and it's a real head scratcher when it comes time to try and figure out what the hell is going on with this thing and what the point was. Judging by this one film there's no question that Hagman wasn't meant for the directors chair as this is also one of the ugliest movies I've ever seen. Just take a look at the scenes as they're sloppily edited and even worse is the zoom shots or badly framed shots. At times it appears like they're just pointing the camera and picking up whatever happens to cross the screen. Another big problem is that there's really no plot but instead just quick vignettes. It really seems like a handful of short films thrown together to make a feature. One plot has a hairdresser hating the hippie that comes in for a buzz. We have a boy scout leader who can't shut his mouth. We have homeless people drinking and fussing about life. We do get a "hip" couple as in the first film but both are deadly dull and add nothing to the movie. The most shocking thing about this film are the familiar faces who appear including Hagman, Burgess Meredith, Sid Haig, Dick Van Patten and Cindy Williams among others. There's certainly no scares to be found here and the attempt at humor misses the mark badly. After Hagman became popular on DALLAS and after the famous "who shot J.R." episode, the producer's of this thing wisely re-released the film as "The Film J.R. Shot" and one only wishes that the brains behind that had tried using some when this film was shooting.

36/100. I am presuming this was not meant to be taken seriously, I am certainly hoping that is the case. The cast is peppered with both well known and unknown stars, the budget was clearly not very big, and at times it is fun in a campy sort of way, such as the barber scene, but overall the film doesn't really work whether as a serious film or as a parody. It tries too hard to be campy and it comes off as overkill. Especially the score, it is way over the top. I am surprised that Larry Hagman directed this, I guess he was trying to capitalize on his success with the television series "Dallas". Godfrey Cambridge is a plus for the film, he is rather good.