The Stuff - 1985

 Title - The Stuff
Language - English
Genre - Horror, B-Movie

The Stuff bad, its so bad its good. Its one of those films that, even though you know it is ridiculous you cant stop watching.

The Stuff starts with miner noticing a white substance bubbling out of the ground, he puts his finger into the ooze and, as you do he decides to see what it tastes like and finds that it is delicious. Now we jump forward a bit and find that there is a new yoghurt like dessert on sale, it is the best selling pudding in the country and is called 'the Stuff'. The Stuff seems to be the perfect food, it tastes great and helps you loose weight, it also seems to be addictive and, as people eat more of it they seem to be entranced and controlled by an outside force.

Nor every one like the stuff one such individual is Jason a young boy who's family are addicted to the stuff. One night, when looking for a snack he opens the fridge to see the stuff moving around after this he sets out to try to destroy all the stuff he can find and gets caught smashing up a supermarket.

Around the same time David 'Mo' Rutherford, an industrial saboteur is employed by a business man to find the secret of the stuff and to stop the manufacture of it. Mo Teams up with Charles W 'Chocolate Chip Charlie' Hobbs, a junk food suppler who's company has been forcibly bought from under him by the company that makes the Stuff & Nicole the advertising exec in charge of marketing the Stuff.

The team of 4 trace the source of the Stuff a mine and fight to stop the production of the evil substance.

As I have said the Stuff is so bad you find yourself watching it till the end but it does seem to have a few problems. The Script is bad but you expect that from a B movie but there does seem to be a bit of a problem with the editing especially at the beginning of the movie, the film seems to jump around a bit with Mo tying to trick Nicole into giving him the secrets of the Stuff and then, for no apparent reason telling her who he really is with the relationship jumping around, in some scenes they don't get on then they seem to switch from being two people working together to a couple and back again. Some of the scenes try to be quite atmospheric and nearly pull it off giving off a 'Body snatcher's' vibe.

All in all the Stuff is worth a watch if you have nothing better to do, with some quite good effects and a fairly unbelievable story line it is a good way to kill a couple of hours. Just remember to check the contents of your pillows before going to sleep.