This week, we go a bit more mainstream with the 1988 update/remake of the Blob, written by Frank Darabont and directed by Chuck Russell. Despite the large budget, this is still a relatively (and surprisingly) subversive film, defying our expectations and twisting the original film's story into a middle finger to the Reagan Administration's military muscle flexing. A gelatinous mass makes a surprisingly frightening villain, aided by some of the best practical special effects of all time. On this episode: nefarious government bureaucrats, motorcycle chases, industrial snow machine repair, hand-melting, face-melting, body-melting, an apocalyptic reverend, ribbed condoms, the horrors of clogged drains, phonebooth claustrophobia, sewer chases, and possible inspiration by Jackie Kong's the Being!