Beware The Blob (alternately titled as Beware the Blob, Son of Blob, Son of the Blob or The Blob Returns) is a 1972 (copyright 1971) sequel to horror science-fiction film The Blob.
The film was directed by Larry Hagman. The screenplay was penned by Anthony Harris and Jack Woods III, based on a story by Jack H. Harris and Richard Clair. The film originally earned a PG rating from the MPAA, though it is now unrated.
Plot[]
Picking up fifteen years after the events of the first movie, The Blob, an oil pipeline layer named Chester (Godfrey Cambridge) returns to his suburban Los Angeles home from the North Pole, bringing with him a small sample of a mysterious frozen substance uncovered by a bulldozer on a job site. The original release began with the scene of the bulldozer's encounter with the frozen Blob in the Arctic. Without this scene there is no explanation of Chester's job on the pipeline, or of what is in his container, or where did he obtain his sample from. Prior to taking the substance to a laboratory to be analyzed, he places the storage container with the substance in his freezer, but he and his wife Marianne (Marlene Clark) accidentally let it thaw, creating a second Blob. It starts by eating a fly, then a kitten, then Marianne, and then, in an intentional anachronism by the film makers, while Chester is watching a television broadcast of the film The Blob, it eats him, too.
Cast[]
- Robert Walker as Bobby Hartford
- Gwynne Gilford as Lisa Clark
- Richard Stahl as Edward Fazio
- Richard Webb as Sheriff Jones
- Marlene Clark as Mariane Hargis
- Gerrit Graham as Joe, Ape-Suited
- J. J. Johnston as Deputy Kelly Davis
- Dick Van Patten as Scoutmaster Adleman
- Tiger Joe Marsh as Naked Turk
- Fred Smoot as Mike, Pinsetter Repairman
- Randy Stonehill as Randy Guitar player, singer
- Cindy Williams as Randy's Girlfriend
- Preston Hagman as Preston, a Boy Scout
- Larry Norman as Blonde Teenager
- Bill Coontz as Bowling Alley Manager
- Shelley Berman as Hair Artist
- Godfrey Cambridge as Chester Hargis
- Larry Hagman as Young Hobo
- Carol Lynley as Leslie
- Burgess Meredith as Old Hobo
- Conrad Rothmann as Fireman
- Danny Goldman as Bearded Teenager
- Rockne Tarkington as Deputy Williams
- Tim Baar as Deputy Ted Sims
- Del Close as Hobo Wearing Eyepatch
- John Houser as Hair Stylist's Customer
- Robert N. Goodman as Henry Security Guard
- Patrick McAllister as Al Repairman's Assistant
- Byron Keith as Bowling Customer
- Margie Adleman as Party Guest with Joe
- Sid Haig as Deputy Zed
