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On The Cult Section this week, dessert eats you! When a mysterious ice-cream-like substance is found to be irresistably delicious, it's rushed to market where an ignorant and all-too-eager public greedily devours it with a fervor that's out of this world (or...within it?) in Larry Cohen's 1985 tongue-in-cheek takedown of consumerism and fad culture, "THE STUFF," starring Michael Moriarty, Scott Bloom and Andrea Marcovicci. This is a truly wild one that likely flew under the radar of many moviegoers, but what it lacks in budget it more that makes up for in style, craft, and ambition, as well as a slew of cameos from screen legends like Garrett Morris, Danny Aiello and Paul Sorvino. Join the Seths as they follow corporate spy "Moe" Rutherford and a ragtag band of misfit anti-stuffies through a labyrinth of boat-bound boardrooms, hastily-assembled factories, flaming hotel rooms and libertarian militia-run radio stations in a quest to avert global dessert-based disaster. You won't be able to get enough of...The Stuff.
By Seth Chatfield, Seth BlakeOn The Cult Section this week, dessert eats you! When a mysterious ice-cream-like substance is found to be irresistably delicious, it's rushed to market where an ignorant and all-too-eager public greedily devours it with a fervor that's out of this world (or...within it?) in Larry Cohen's 1985 tongue-in-cheek takedown of consumerism and fad culture, "THE STUFF," starring Michael Moriarty, Scott Bloom and Andrea Marcovicci. This is a truly wild one that likely flew under the radar of many moviegoers, but what it lacks in budget it more that makes up for in style, craft, and ambition, as well as a slew of cameos from screen legends like Garrett Morris, Danny Aiello and Paul Sorvino. Join the Seths as they follow corporate spy "Moe" Rutherford and a ragtag band of misfit anti-stuffies through a labyrinth of boat-bound boardrooms, hastily-assembled factories, flaming hotel rooms and libertarian militia-run radio stations in a quest to avert global dessert-based disaster. You won't be able to get enough of...The Stuff.