The Blob (1988) - Death in the Sewer Scene (6/10) | Movieclips

The Blob - Death in the Sewer: The Blob hunts Meg (Shawnee Smith) in the sewer.

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FILM DESCRIPTION:
In a tiny California town, high school students Brian (Kevin Dillon), Meg (Shawnee Smith) and Paul (Donovan Leitch) discover a strange, gelatinous substance that melts the flesh of any living creatures in its path. The deadly substance gets into the town's sewer system, where it begins growing uncontrollably, occasionally emerging to feast on unsuspecting townspeople. A military clean-up crew is sent to eliminate the menace, but it may end up doing more harm than good.

CREDITS:
TM & © Sony (1988)
Cast: Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith
Director: Chuck Russell

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[toondrake]

What really adds to the the blob’s unsettling aura in this movie is how it is actually an intelligent entity that can think, make traps, and “taunt” its prey. It also makes horrendous pig squealing, which adds to the chill factor.

[danwilliams]

It's not the fact that they kill a kid...it's the fact that they show him resurfacing half melted AND STILL REACHING OUT AND SCREAMING FOR HELP

[BoundariesMaintained]

There’s a story behind this. The child actor who was taken by the Blob had an annoying stage mother, and she kept pressing the director for her son to be in more scenes in the film. She kept annoying him so much that the director finally gave her her wish. He gave the boy more scenes and wrote him out of the film in the most gruesome way possible.

[michaelnutt]

Pennywise: *Brutally kills kid in sewer*

Blob: “First time?”

[beardedgreek]

Meg had the best survivor instincts in this movie, she constantly was adapting to what was happening and suggesting ideas in a split second that ended up keeping people alive. What a trooper.

EDIT: *goes after kid grabbed by the Blob* oh, well maybe not infallible but still..

[CrniWuk]

When you consider how rare it is for movies to kill children even more so showing some details this is kinda special.

[jesussotelo]

Studio: Does the kid have to die?
Screen Writer: Yes its part of the plot.
Studios: Ok but dont kill the kid on screen.
Scree writer: Fine.
Studio: WTF I told you not to kill the kid on screen!!!
Screen Writer: What?!?, technically he was still alive in the last shot.

[The_Real_Devil]

That's a proper horror movie: where the kids don't get an immortality pass.

[animefan]

1:09 I love how this thing instead of trying to ensnare her with its tentacles or absorb her out right it just formed a mouth just to sadistically taunt her

[VampireFan-rfkb]

For a horror movie (remake) in 1988, this movie sure did broke a lot of rules and even had a lot of guts the filmmakers could do that couldn't normally pass in ordinary horror movies...

[theusher]

When asked about this particular scene, the director said, "well, I felt that if there really was a blob, he wouldn't be too particular about who he ate, so if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, you were on the menu." Makes sense to me 😆

[UnclePhil]

Very few movies have ever traumatized me as a kid, The Blob, Especially this scene has terrified me for 18 years

[TheAmazingSpiderman]

Jason Voorhees: Ok, that's messed up.
The Blob: I don't care.

[nekozimo]

The fact they show the kid half digested/melted screaming and reaching out for help makes this a gppd horror movie where nobody gets any mercy and its all about surviving or dying

[theily]

Childhood Me: They’re not gonna kill a kid even in a horror movie. Kids are meant to be invincible.
This Movie: Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a film of wealth and…taste.

[wd]

Man, that's rare- a horror movie not only willing to kill off kids, not only willing to do it on-screen, but willing to show it as a painful and slow death.

[ElectricShark]

As a kid, this was horrifying. As an adult, Eddie's death is still disturbing as ever.
That's a sign of a good horror film.

I love that the older sister fought to save her brother's friend even if she was unsuccessful.
This character clearly was not a passive damsel in distress. She tried to protect whoever she could.

[Yhinzo]

00:45 That scene traumatized me when I was a kid, man. Even know that I'm in my 20's

[smokemypiper]

One of the many reasons why the 80s horror movies were disturbing. Even if they are unrealistic and silly or even comical. The forgotten trauma that scenes like this caused me as a kid is revived and experienced all over again

[mechajason]

It’s not the fact that the blob kills a kid that has me upset over this movie. It’s the fact that the creature regurgitated Eddie on purpose, and then re-sucked him in in a way to taunt Meg, that you failed to protect him and look what I’m doing to him.

When the blob shows intelligence, you deserve to be afraid