The Stuff is a horror comedy movie in the same vain with The Blob but much more funny and cheesy.THE STUFF came out of nowhere became the world most favorite dessert everybody love it although where or how it made such a mystery so a food company hire a industrial spies known as David 'Mo' Rutherford played our main character.David is a very likable guy and the ways he take advantage of others is so awesome.I really can watch this movie with him alone and probably never get bored when THE STUFF not around.In the end it open for a sequel but sadly never been made.I will make sure check out other Larry Cohen movie Q from 1982 that also starring Michael Moriarty soon

The Stuff is strictly tongue in cheek. Everything in this movie was done for a purpose. From it's bad acting, to the playful script and many cuckoo characters...all of this works to the film's advantage. The Stuff is another great movie for the Halloween season. Another thing...The Stuff looks so damn deliciously good and creamy. I would eat it in a heartbeat. F**k being invaded by it's evilness! It looks so damn tasty!

I go to a lot of horror conventions and have seen Larry Cohen, the director, around at a few. Being in the online horror communities, I see a lot of indie horror fans praising the work of Cohen. Until now, the only of his films I have seen is IT'S ALIVE, which is good, but in no way mind-blowing. I've heard that this might be his best movie, but if that is the case, then I don't think I need to see anymore.This movie is almost a joke. It's as bad as any movie that is mocked on MST3K and worse than the typical Syfy garbage that's pumped out each week on a low budget. Anyone giving this crapfest 10 stars on this site has clearly lost their mind. Are you telling me this is as good as the classics of horror? I don't even know where to begin with tearing this piece of Stuff apart. Forget low budget and bad effects. I, actually, low bad special effects, especially 80s cheese. I have seen more than my share of bad 80s horror, so it's not the budget or the amateur acting that's skewing my view of this in any way.We begin with a man who finds some ooze bubbling out of the earth and decides "hell, I might as well eat it" because that's what we all think when we find white goo coming up from the ground in an industrial factory, right? Fast forward and it's the next big dessert sensation, so big in fact that the ice cream industry needs to bring it down, so they hire the most annoying industrial spy ever. Michael Moriarty develops this character into something that I'm not sure is supposed to be satire, but is more than ridiculous as a main hero. Along we way, we meet a child played by the worst young actor you'll ever see. He realizes that The Stuff is evil and after not being able to convince his family, goes on a rampage, destroying a store that seems to have this stuff stocked in every aisle possible, eventually being brought down by 3 grown men who need all their strength to hold down a 12 year old boy. We enter a fashion shoot with the worst 80s theme song you'll ever hear and the ugliest fashion models you'll ever see. Moriarty (our spy) barges in and tells everyone to shut it down. For no reason that makes any sense, they listen to him. He develops a relationship with the marketing director, who doesn't mind that he just shut down her job, has a change of heart in minutes and they fall in love after about a ten minute relationship.The movie now brings us to a town where this stuff was first tested and we meet Chocolate Chip Charlie (or something like that) played by Garrett Morris (one of the forgotten SNL alum), who is just as strange as any other character in this movie. He's the former owner of some dessert emporium that was brought down by The Stuff, so naturally he's taking things into his own hands by carrying out his own investigation. He's also some sort of karate expert, though it's never clear whether this is meant to be serious or some joke that falls flat.What Cohen could have developed is the movie that starts to play out, a movie about an American public consumed by consumption and blinded by corporate marketing. This could have been a decent movie about our obsession with product, but that's not enough. Instead, we find that the "stuffies" who are addicted to this stuff have to stop our heroes from ending their addictive substance, so we get zombies who attack by throwing up a stream of the stuff at people before falling apart. The spew is completely unnecessary, though. The movie has already established that the ooze can move on its' own like an obvious ripoff of THE BLOB, so there is no need for it to be consumed first, or for people to vomit it at out heroes. The movie can't even stick to its' own logic.Eventually, we get to Paul Sorvino as some sort of Donald Trump in a military suit, bent on stopping "commies", a man with his own private castle and militia, along with a radio network for spouting his propaganda. He comes along for the ride to help our gang of heroes put a stop to The Stuff once and for all.This may have some allure for people who might have seen it as a kid, though I think even 8 year old me would have thought this movie stunk. If you are a fan of schlock like BAD TASTE then it also might hold some draw for you. I don't think this movie was done with any sort of wink and a nod, though, and that makes it far worse. I think that Cohen actually tried to create a good movie here and what's left is some bad joke, full of bad acting, bad effects and a bad plot. Honestly, PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE is a better film than this.

I don't know about you, but if I saw a sticky white substance oozing out of the ground, the last thing I'd do would be to scoop some up with my hand and give it a taste, but that's precisely what the workman who discovers it does in Larry Cohen's B-movie horror The Stuff; before long, the surprisingly delicious goop has been approved by the FDA and is being marketed as a dessert—not a wise decision since The Stuff is actually a living organism that takes control of those who become addicted to its irresistible flavour.A tongue-in-cheek sci-fi/horror that takes wry swipes at greedy corporations and consumerism, whilst also acting as a metaphor for drug addiction, Larry Cohen's The Stuff boasts a level of intelligence rarely found in trashy B-movie monster films. This satirical content and social commentary, combined with the patently silly premise and some impressive special visual and gore effects (considering the low budget) makes for a pretty enjoyable little flick, one that has achieved quite the cult following, although I reckon I would have liked it more if the characters had been just a little less irritating...Michael Moriarty's ex-FBI industrial spy David 'Mo' Rutherford is an unlikable jerk with an annoying accent; his girlfriend Nicole (Andrea Marcovicci) is a talentless hack and yet has somehow made it to the top of the ladder in advertising (her TV ads are really bad, even for the 80s); token kid Jason (Scott Bloom) is a brat and seemingly bereft of brain cells (who the hell hides inside a tanker trailer?); 'Chocolate Chip' Charlie (Garrett Morris) is a bitter loud-mouthed failure; and the less said about Colonel Malcolm Grommett Spears (Paul Sorvino), the better. In short, it's a raft of characters I would have been only to happy to see consumed from the inside by a hostile organism masquerading as yogurt. Sadly, only 'Chocolate Chip' gets his just desserts.