{"id":6105,"date":"2026-02-28T20:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:56:15","slug":"the-blob-by-chuck-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/02\/28\/the-blob-by-chuck-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Blob<\/em> by Chuck Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 Entertainingly gory with nifty practical effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Solid dramatic and narrative upgrade to Yeaworth Jr.\u2019s 1958 <em>The Blob<\/em> plus generous doses of humor.<\/p>\n<p>\u274c Inexhaustible as-you-know-Bobs, unsatireable tough-talk, and one of the most shamelessest rip-offs of Scott\u2019s 1979 <em>Alien<\/em>, from verbatim script lines to suspense shots to camera angles to scene setups.<\/p>\n<p>Extra kudos for the (nicely foreshadowed) motorbike jump escape as an homage to Steve McQueen (1958\u2019s <em>The Blob<\/em>\u2018s lead).<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Blob_(1988_film)\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>The Blob<\/em><\/a> by Chuck Russell, 1988.<br \/>\nWatched at the Metropol theater on February 27, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/02\/28\/the-blob-by-chuck-russell\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to The Blob by Chuck Russell\"><p>\ud83c\udfac Aesthetically, the Blob wouldn\u2019t have been conspicuous in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6373,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions\/6373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}