A fan-made, fictitious movie trailer sequel to the 1958 movie, The Blob. This was a 2024 entry for the BlobFest Shorty's Short Film Contest - in the Best Animated Film category.
I know! I’m sure in the 50s, the filmmakers had no clue that would actually happen. I can’t believe it hasn’t been remade recently. There was a low budget blob movie in the 80s but it didn’t follow the ending of the original.
@@axis3d I do believe that was a remake not a sequel, there was the Beware! The Blob released in 1972 which according to it's wikipedia page is a direct sequel to the original 1958 original.
@@SoundwaveX7 At the end of the trailer for Beware! The Blob, it says "see Son of Blob". They must have changed the title after they made that trailer!
@@axis3d It went by many different names such as "Son of Blob", Beware! the Blob, The Blob Returns and The Blob 2 according the wikipedia page of Beware! The Blob
That kinda depends. You have to remember that there is FAR less significant numbers of sea life in the ocean due to human interference, and on top of that, anything the Blob would ABSORB would mean less biological creatures for it to increase its mass. Will it increase exponentially at the start? Sure, but its growth rate will go down as soon as it ACTUALLY needs to start looking for more biological things to absorb. If you watch the movies, you'd see that not ALL biological things are integrated into itself - it doesn't absorb STICKS, for example. It needs to be living, breathing, mobile creatures to increase its mass.
@@apoch003 you don't know that the hole in the ozone layer has been fixed? No of course you didn't because you don't really care about what you're replying to you're just responding to your tribal instincts your inheritantly evil tribal reaction. Tell me humans emit carbon. Trees need carbon to breath reduce the carbon footprint, now remember carbon is what trees breathe, and well, do I have to keep going or are you too far gone to even think?
But a cheesy 1950s-style movie trailer would definitely call it evil, regardless of the contents of the movie. They were really prone to outright making stuff up to hype monster movies.
This is an amazing follow up ngl. It makes excellent use of that incredibly ominous ending...kind of ironic how much it warned about climate change in hindsight
The thing a lot of people don’t know is there was a film made in 1972 called the “Beware! The Blob” - a direct sequel to the Blob. It was directed by Larry Hagman - yes that Larry Hagman who played JR Ewing in the massive television smash series Dallas that ran from the 1970s to 1990s.
@@axis3d I'm a huge fan of The Blob (1950s and 1980s versions) and even I couldn't enjoy most of it, but it had a few okay parts. The part where a balloon is inflated and we're supposed to believe that's The Blob is the worst part.
This is genius. Beautifully, brilliantly done. This is the monster movie that scared me the most when I was a little boy. I would have loved to see this as an actual film. Great job, thank you.
Fantastic pitch for a sequel, this is what they should be. Escalation of original threat based on context given in first movie (love that it’s a throwaway line) while ALSO taking into consideration why this would be relevant in a modern setting. Hollywood, buy this remake instead of The Crow.
@@sigmacademy You know it. I love _Them!_ and _20 Million Miles To Earth_ and _The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms_ to name a few. Plus some of those Lost World dinosaur movies too!
A lot of people have thought about this. Once awareness of global warming finally sank into the public mind (took a few decades), that's struck everybody who heard those last lines in the 1958 movie. I used to have a recurring dream about the Blob engulfing the world, dissolving every bit of animal life (far as we can tell from the movie, it only digests animal life; not interested in plants); with the last remnants of humanity huddling on a few bare mountaintops.
This reminds me a bit of how "John Carpenter's The Thing" was not actually a remake of "The Thing From Another World", but a sequel. The only change was that they switched the original movie's characters to Norweigan.
@@axis3d It makes the prequel from 2011 redundant. There's many clever nods to the 50s version, like the axe that MacReady finds stuck in the wall at the Norwegian base.
SOMEONE FINALLY GOT IT RIGHT, GOOD JOB THIS IS HOW A PART 2 MOVIE OF THE BLOB 1958 SHOULD BE MADE JUST PICK UP FROM THE ENDING OF THE FIRST FILM AND YOU GOT A GOOD STORY HOPEFULLY 😊😊😊
I wish there was a new animated trailer of the 1988 Blob. The small piece of the blob that’s in the jar, secretly owned by Reverend Meeker. That it’s been many years since the movie, that the tiny blob would be imprisoned forever. But a curious man stole the jar to secretly take it home with him, wanting to make money of this unnatural and Extraordinary discovery. Meeker learns of this theft but he doesn’t take action. For this is the sigh that judgment day is upon them very much soon. The thief returns to his apartment with the tiny blob. But when he is away in a drama with his ex-girlfriend, his dog broke the jar and despite its small size, the blob attacks and devours the dog and escapes. Over the next few days, the small blob slithers in the vents, entering through apartment to apartment, on a killing spree from eating cats and other dogs to people. For the more it consumes them, the bigger it gets. Only few people have discovered the larger creature’s existence and have to warn the public of the danger before the whole city becomes an all-you-can-eat buffet the Blob!
That would not be the best version of that story. For one thing, we know the Reverend was partially mad at the end of that movie, and having a piece of the Blob could essentially allow him the power to unleash it at anyone he so wishes. Exploring the Reverend's psychology and possible use of the Blob against an unsuspecting community whom he deems "Sinners" would be a far more interesting story to tell, since it would essentially be him going against EVERYTHING he originally stood for in the pursuit of power, and quite possibly set up someone else with the ability to do what HE should have done originally, which was to destroy the piece of the Blob he had.
You did a great job with this film. I do wonder about 2 things. Didn't the Blob grow bigger with each kill? Also while in the original series and remake the blob stayed together in "reality" couldn't it also separate into others of it's kind. I came up with that when the blob was blasted into multiple parts by tanks then just reformed. It would be scarier if it scattered in defferent directions.
Thank you! You are correct. In a he original, it did get bigger throughout the movie. Although, they hardly showed it in context, for budgetary reasons. At the end of the original, they hardly showed it’s scale on top of the diner. I decided not to make it too huge (like several city blocks). I kept it more quick moving. And I also did think of trying your second point of blowing it into pieces and all the pieces become creatures of their own. But, I had to keep my movie under a certain time limit for the film festival and I would have needed a lot more time to develop all of the scenarios of the “clones” attacking civilization 😁
As a fan of all three movies got the original on criterion blue ray and the 70s on DVD and the remake on special edition blue ray a sequel like what you awesomely made a trailer for us a fantastic what if!!
Thank you! I used Blender to do all of the animation and After Effects to do the compositing and sound mix. I also used AI for the voice over and a little bit of AI generated music along with real music.
@@waynezimmerman1950Funny you mention that. I’m a huge Ray Harryhausen fan and his movie “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” was based on that Ray Bradbury short story. I paid homage to Harryhausen’s film by showing the blob attack a lighthouse, which was a scene in his movie.
Technically, the Blob itself isn't evil, since it has no actual higher intelligence to speak of. It's just a mutated form of "nature", so it's actually more a "force of nature" than any kind of "insidious force". In that regard, it's no different to a hurricane, tornado, earthquake or tsunami? The only difference between an actual "force of nature" and the Blob is the Blob was kinda created through human intervention/interference (depending on which version of the Blob you are going with - this original version or the later movie version). ;) :P
