A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers.I'm probably rating this film a little too highly, because let's be honest.... it's pretty bad. The acting is not good, the plot is all over the place. It doesn't hold a candle to the original or the 1980s remake. There is good reason this film has been forgotten by just about everyone.And yet, it is wildly entertaining in its badness. The scenes that run on for no reason... did we really need all the buildup to the hippie getting a haircut? No, but it was great just the same. I watched this by myself and enjoyed it, but I imagine a group of friends and some beer could make it even better.

Utterly wacky, cheerfully moronic comedy sequel to a straight faced sci-fi favorite. Legendary actor Larry Hagman directs for the first and only time, for his neighbor Jack H. Harris, who'd produced the original "Blob" and had been trying for years to get a sequel made. Hagman packed the cast with friends and neighbors, leading to the impressive lineup of familiar faces.Robert Walker Jr. and Gwynne Gilford play our sincere heroes in this story of a chunk of the Blob being transported back from the Arctic by a geologist (Godfrey Cambridge). Very soon, it's able to thaw out, and return to what it does best.The body count is pretty good in this movie, which is occasionally funny but often tiresome. Some scenes don't seem directed so much as improvised. Some of the performances here are somewhat serious, while others are flat out silly. The special effects are variable, and Hagman does let the action eventually erupt into an entertaining feeling of chaos. The tone is established early thanks to the goofy music score composed by Mort Garson. Whatever the movie lacks in technical slickness, it makes up for that to a degree with its loose and fairly good natured quality.The cast also includes Richard Stahl, Richard Webb, Carol Lynley, Marlene Clark, Gerrit Graham, J.J. Johnston, Rockne Tarkington, Dick Van Patten, Del Close (who also turned up in the 1988 "Blob" remake), and Cindy Williams, with cameos for Shelley Berman, Cambridge, and Hagman himself (who plays the young hobo). Sid Haig and Burgess Meredith appear unbilled.Admittedly, a rather crudely made movie, but just the fact that it exists is pretty amusing. It does have some value as a curio.Future cinematographer Dean Cundey was the camera operator for the animal sequences.Five out of 10.

*Spoiler/plot- Beware! Of the Blob, 1972. ('Son of Blob') A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers.*Special Stars- Robert Walker, Gwynne Gilford, Godfrey Cambridge, Carol Lindley, Shelley Berman, Richard Stahl, Larry Hagman, Richard Webb.*Theme- Some sequel are equal or better than the original if extra effort is exercised in production.*Trivia/location/goofs- Color. Film updated sequel to the 1953 Steve McQueen 'The Blob' movie. The enormous success of The Blob (1958) led producer Jack H. Harris to try to do a sequel, but the project had been shelved for many years. Larry Hagman, who owned the beach house next door to Harris, mentioned that he had never seen the original The Blob (1958). Harris showed Hagman his personal 16mm print of the film. Hagman showed such interest in doing a sequel that Harris resurrected the project. Hagman wound up directing this sequel and doing a small role in it as well. *Emotion- A good sci-fi sequel to the original film premise. The film with its updated special effects, great make-up and good casting make this film very watchable. This film's plot involving the proposed Alaskan pipeline of the time was clever and watchable. Very good comedic situations due to Larry Hagman's great comedic sense of humor. See it. *Based on- Outer Space alien and meteor fears.

(Yeah, this contains major spoilers. But, since this movie is older than me and I am older than most…people I know, then it's your bad for not seeing this Grindhouse movie by now…)When I was a kid, this scared the sh|t out of me. I'm talking: I was between 5-6 years old and it appeared on a Saturday morning TV Sci-Fi 12 noon (after the cartoons) program with the name "From Beyond…" or something like that.I invited my mother to watch this movie with me, which she normally didn't show interest, and she was disgusted. Later she told me – obviously being ignorant on who or what "the blob" was – that she thought it would be about a "blob" of smoke or something. Not the red goo the blob really is.To this day, roughly 32-33 years later, I have never forgotten Son of Blob, or Son of the Blob or as IMDb calls it: Beware! The Blob. (To me, it'll always be "Son of Blob" because that's how I remembered it three decades ago.) I haven't forgotten the fright it gave me, the ideas it brought up in my mind on how I would handle such a creature in real life or the nightmares of my daydreams it created.This viewing, as part of my "Last of my Triple Digit Reviews/Movies that Meant Something to my Childhood" series, made me realize only particular scenes, such as the entire opening of a fly, a kitten and two humans biting it, the car being engulfed, the bowling alley "hole" disaster and the final "?" scene, were implanted into my subconscious. The climax, the man with his foot propped up, led to many ideas in my little mind for many years.Oh, this movie's bad. Yeah, the filming, the dialogue, the separate tones and the special effects were all despicable. And that all said, this time, watching it late at night, I was scared all over again. Not because of the content, but because this, being the first time since I was a mere child, reminded me all what I viewed as an infant. Boy, I shouldn't have watched this late at night.I digress; this movie's supposed to be a sequel to the original 50s B-movie The Blob, but in reality, it's a remake. A red "single cell organism" is inadvertently set free and consumes any living flesh it makes contact with. In the set small town, few realize it until it's too late and less figure out its sole weakness.The ending had my young mind spinning into creativity. How would they get the frozen blob out of the bowling alley without it "waking up"? Or how would that man who last got attacked save his life…or leg? Or how would I ever forget the horror this brought to a 5-6-year-old for…the…rest…of…my…life?Overall, I granted this 1½/5 stars because of how bad it is. For me personally, it still scares me. Not enough to ever watch it again, unless I want to, again, recapture my childhood.And that's the way I see it. Cheers!