{"id":35361,"date":"2015-11-20T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T17:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=35361"},"modified":"2024-06-22T20:41:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T03:41:21","slug":"stuff-the-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=35361","title":{"rendered":"Stuff, The (1985)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s gonna kill you&#8230; It&#8217;s gonna kill you all!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Poster-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Poster-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Poster-90x128.jpg 90w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Poster-720x1024.jpg 720w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Poster.jpg 1523w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn industrial spy (Michael Moriarty) joins forces with an advertising executive (Andrea Marcovicci) and a skeptical young boy (Scott Bloom) to investigate the proliferation of a mysterious new dessert called The Stuff that is taking over people&#8217;s diets and bodies.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Horror<\/li>\n<li>Larry Cohen Films<\/li>\n<li>Na\u00efve Public<\/li>\n<li>Patrick O&#8217;Neal Films<\/li>\n<li>Satires and Spoofs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary notes that &#8220;writer-director Larry Cohen&#8217;s horror spoof satirizes (among many, many things) how Americans automatically become hooked on all trendy&#8230; products&#8221;, and points out that this &#8220;odd film has interesting non-hero types as heroes, good offbeat performances, some genuinely funny scenes, and a premise that works&#8221;. However, he argues that it would &#8220;be so much stronger if the production values were better&#8221;, given that it &#8220;looks sloppy and choppy&#8230; and after a while it&#8217;s hard to tell what&#8217;s going on&#8221;. I disagree with his final point (the narrative seems continuously clear to me), but agree that this film&#8217;s low-budget is ultimately either its undoing or its saving grace as a laughingly &#8220;bad movie&#8221;. While the &#8220;offbeat performances&#8221; (particularly by droll Moriarty) are certainly unusual, they occasionally come across as first takes, as though the entire film was made in a hurry. Meanwhile, the Stuff itself is impressively gushy and foamy, but many of the special effects often show clear green-screening and\/or obvious animation.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Silly special effects<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Still1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Still1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Still1.png 720w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Still1-128x68.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Still1-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Still2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Still2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Still2.png 720w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Still2-128x68.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Stuff-Still2-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s worth a look for its cult status. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0090094\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moria.co.nz\/sciencefiction\/stuff-1985.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/review\/the-stuff-dvd-20240\">AV Club Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/movies\/the-stuff\/review\/119326\/\">TV Guide Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/film\/the-stuff\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s gonna kill you&#8230; It&#8217;s gonna kill you all!&#8221; Synopsis: An industrial spy (Michael Moriarty) joins forces with an advertising executive (Andrea Marcovicci) and a skeptical young boy (Scott Bloom) to investigate the proliferation of a mysterious new dessert called The Stuff that is taking over people&#8217;s diets and bodies. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Horror Larry Cohen Films Na\u00efve Public Patrick O&#8217;Neal Films Satires and Spoofs Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary notes that &#8220;writer-director Larry Cohen&#8217;s horror spoof satirizes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=35361\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35361"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98023,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35361\/revisions\/98023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}