Bonus Episode 12: ‘Beware! The Blob’ | Ft. Travis Alexander

The Monster Island Film Vault

Hello, kaiju lovers! In this bonus “Ameri-kaiju” episode, Travis Alexander of Kaiju Weekly and Henshin Men finally gets to see the goo—and he’s not happy! That’s mostly because he’s an animal lover and the Blob eats a kitten in the almost-forgotten and incredibly weird 1972 sequel, Beware! The Blob (aka Son of Blob). It’s the most bipolar movie Nate has ever seen for the show, and Travis, a lover of movies both weird and bad, found it borderline incomprehensible. Half of it is disjointed improvisational comedy, and the other half is a scary but inferior rehashing of the original 1958 classic. Strap for a discussion of more 30-year-old “teens,” a “hair sculptor,” and a Naked Turk!

Additional music:

• “Pacific Rim” by Niall Stenson
• “Beware! The Blob Theme” by Mort Garson
• “Chant My Name!” by Masaaki Endo

Check out Nathan’s (and Travis’s) spinoff podcasts, The Henshin Men and The Power Trip.

We’d like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Travis Alexander (co-host of Kaiju Weekly); Danny DiManna (author/creator of the Godzilla Novelization Project); Eli Harris (elizilla13); Chris Cooke (host of One Cross Radio); Bex from Redeemed Otaku; Damon Noyes, The Cel Cast, TofuFury, Eric Anderson of Nerd Chapel, and Ted Williams! Thanks for your support!

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This episode is approved by Cameron Winter and the Monster Island Board of Directors.

Timestamps:

• Intro: 0:00-6:05
• Main Discussion: 6:05-1:08:34
• Housekeeping & Outro: 1:08:34-end

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Bibliography/Further Reading:

• Beware! The Blob blu-ray from Kino Lorber
  • Commentary by Richard Harland Smith.
• “Beware! The Blob.” IMDb. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068271/?ref_=tttr_tr_tt)
• “Beware! The Blob.” Wikipedia. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware!_The_Blob)
• Warren, Bill. Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition. McFarland. 2016.