Blu-ray Review – Beware! The Blob

I've seen my share of horror movies over the years, but few of them have decided to open with a montage of kitten play in a field to backdrop the main titles. Losing any hope for threat right away, 1972's "Beware! The Blob" establishes a goofball tone from the start, finding director Larry Hagman refusing to take the picture seriously, trying to deliver a more lighthearted chiller that still delivers plenty of the oozing titular menace. The approach doesn't work for "Beware! The Blob," which emerges as a painfully slack continuation (following the 1958 cult classic) without frights or laughs, representing more of an experiment from Hagman, who may have been trying to make history's most meandering sequel. Save for a few amusing attack sequences, he's largely successful, managing to transform a surefire premise of gooey doom into a tremendous test of patience. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com