2-tape set. Pre-viewed for quality and the new remake played great on both my JVC & Emerson vcr decks. It is duplicated in the superior SP mode. The cassette is nice and clean, the box is a little shelf worn around the corners and edges and has sticker shadows on the cover (see photo) both top & bottom. It also has a light crease on the back bottom right.

This new version is Out Of Print (OOP) in all formats and no longer being produced. However the old classic version is still available on the very pricey Criterion Collection label.

I also pre-viewed the classic version here along with it's bonus feature of 'The Land that Time Forgot'. Both films also played fine on my Emerson deck and had surprisingly good color and both prints were not bad looking for an LP mode tape. Again, the cassette is nice and clean. However, the oversized clamshell box has a minor hiccup of both right corners being a little bit crushed and the other corners have some minor chipping. This often happens with these oversized vacuform type cassette housings.

BLOB (1988) An archetypal small town is invaded by a hungry smudge of ooze that absorbs any living thing that it comes in contact with, and expands at an expotential rate into a globbering mass of protoplasmic nastiness that shoots out killer tendrils, snacks on necking teens and generally rips up the countryside.

The hero is Brian (Kevin Dillon, Matt's brother), a leather-jacketed hoodlum whose sensitive underside is heavily telegraphed and who teams up, after the death of secondary hero (Donovan Leitch of 'Cutting Class'), with cheerleader Shawnee Smith ('Jigsaw' series) to kick some slime, when it looks as if the feckless authorities won't do anything to deal with the crisis.

This high-tech, special effects remake puts the monster through far more rigorous paces than the original, and allows it to do more spectacular absorbing in a series of star-turn sequences that suck victims down drains or reduce them to slime-covered skeletons. And wait till you get a load of the government conspiracy angle.

After this it's time to rewind and watch the original it was based on:

BLOB (1958) A meteor brings a blob of space protoplasm back to Earth. The blob grows until it consumes some of the inhabitants of a small American town and becomes elephant-sized. Steve McQueen and Aneta Corseaut see the blob and report that it has eatin the town's doctor and his nurse -- but no-one is prepared to believe them. McQueen rallies a group of hatred-obsessed teenagers who have also seen the blob, and together they try to warn the police, only to be dismissed as fantasy merchants.

Barton Sloane's special effects are authentic -- the blob grows bigger in a supermarket and even bigger in a cinema. The blob itself and the idea of teenagers saving (rather than destroying) small-town America results in a strangely appealing, if camp, movie.

LAND that TIME FORGOT (1975): The first of a series of Amicus Studios (Hammer films competitor) adventures based on Edgar Rice Burroughs novels.

A World War I German submarine with prisoners on board ends up in the lost land of Caprona with cavemen and the phoniest dinosaurs you have ever seen this side of old 'Godzilla' movies. They are really men in rubber suits with giant animatronic prop heads used for the close-ups. The pterodactyl doesn't use wings to fly; it uses easy to see wires! And the star is Doug McClure of the 'Virginian' TV series! Yet, there is a spirit of rousing adventure that makes this enjoyable. 

And as a bonus, 'Land that Time Forgot' is also Out Of Print (OOP) in all formats and no longer being produced.