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Larry Cohen (writer)
Release Date:
14 June 1985 (USA)
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Are you eating it ...or is it eating you? more
Plot:
Weird yummy goo erupts from the earth and is discovered by a couple of miners. They taste it and decide to market it because it tastes so good...
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Stuff
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Ice Cream
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Advertising
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Blob
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Fake Commercial
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(2 articles)
Jill Gatsby's new horror film 'The Torture of Delva Mills'
(From pretty-scary. 18 November 2009, 1:57 PM, PST)
Maniac Cop to Remain Silent No Longer!
(From Dread Central. 25 August 2008, 11:10 AM, PDT)
(From pretty-scary. 18 November 2009, 1:57 PM, PST)
Maniac Cop to Remain Silent No Longer!
(From Dread Central. 25 August 2008, 11:10 AM, PDT)
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You scream. I scream. We all scream… for 'The Stuff'?!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Michael Moriarty | ... | David 'Mo' Rutherford |
 | Andrea Marcovicci | ... | Nicole |
| Garrett Morris | ... | 'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs |
 | Paul Sorvino | ... | Colonel Malcolm Grommett Spears |
| Scott Bloom | ... | Jason |
 | Danny Aiello | ... | Vickers |
| Patrick O'Neal | ... | Fletcher |
| James Dixon | ... | Postman |
| Alexander Scourby | ... | Evans |
| Russell Nype | ... | Richards |
| Gene O'Neill | ... | Scientist |
| Catherine Schultz | ... | Waitress |
| James Dukas | ... | Gas Attendant |
| Peter Hock | ... | Miner |
| Colette Blonigan | ... | Jason's Mother |
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93 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Fun Stuff
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According to audio commentary on the 2000 Anchor Bay DVD, the scene in the motel where the Stuff comes out of the mattress and pillows and attacks the man on the wall and ceiling was shot in a room that could turn upside down, allowing the Stuff to move up and down the wall. It was exactly the same room used in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) when Johnny Depp's character Glen is sucked into his bed and his blood is regurgitated back out onto the ceiling.
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Crew or equipment visible: After Moe and Nicole get off the jet plane, they leave in a car with two executives. As the car drives away, you can briefly see the camera's shadow on the car (on the left side of the screen).
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David 'Mo' Rutherford:
The name's Mo Rutherford. They call me that 'cause when people give me money, I always want mo'.
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Featured in "Svengoolie: The Stuff (#1.3)" (1995)
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A workman discovers some mushy white foam at an petroleum refinery in Alaska, and he gets the urge to try it and surprisingly it's tastes really good. Soon enough, it's a top-selling American dessert product known as "The Stuff" and everyone just can't seem to get enough of it. Industrial saboteur Moe Rutherford is hired by some rival companies to dig up information on "The Stuff" and he learns that it strangely got by FDA tests with those who passed it disappearing. Moe with the help of Nicole the advertising designer for 'The Stuff ' and a young boy Jason, whose family became obsessed with the deadly substance. Discover that the addictive dessert is actually alive and taking over the body of whoever eats it.
Yummy! For those looking for some tasty schlock that's low in calories and is a complete throwback to 1950's Sci-Fi horror. Larry Cohen's "The Stuff" definitely leaves a sweet taste in your mouth. Despite it's familiarity with the likes of "The Blob" and "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers", the neat premise still manages to feel fresh, sharp and ambitious, because of the unpretentious fun that's generated. All of this shows up in Cohen's enthusiastically accomplished direction and ace timing, where his off-the-rocker style shines immensely. Like most of his films, the playfully witty script digs deep into a social commentary and the flavour of the month happened to be consumerism and it's grip on society. The irony suggested ending, paints it perfectly. Not all of it is light and goofball in tone, as there are some dark, moody and gooey inclusions to the fold. There's a heavy cartoon-like atmosphere cooked up within a few striking images of creepiness and the deliciously campy special effects are well staged for such a low-budget production. Pacing is judge accordingly to pull you in. Cinematographer Paul Gickleman fluidly shot the film and the lively music score by Dwight Dixon ticks along fittingly. Cohen also pens the colourful story, which is terribly fractured with vagueness and continuity problems, but it's quirky maniac humour, zany developments with a surprise or two and satire frame of mind goes a long way to covering that problem up. The fruity performances are acceptably apt to what's happening on screen. The always interesting performer Michael Moriarty is wickedly good as the smarting, downbeat industrial spy Moe Rutherford. Paul Sorvino provides some amusing comic relief as an high strung, off-the-boil right-wing Colonel. Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris, Danny O'Neal, Patrick O'Neal, Scott Bloom and Cohen regular James Dixon give splendid support too.
Even with some lapses within the story (due to probably the editing) and it being one of his lesser features, it's hard not to be infatuated by Cohen's outrageously delightful and creative treat for the taste buds.