A new episode of the Best Horror Movie You Never Saw video series has just been released through the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel, and in this one we’re taking a look back at writer/director Larry Cohen’s 1985 film The Stuff (watch it HERE), about a delicious dessert that has a strange effect on the people who consume it. We’ve previously talked about how Cohen made the concept of a killer baby work in It’s Alive, now find out how he made the idea of deadly dessert work by checking out the video embedded above!
The Stuff has the following synopsis:
It’s smooth and creamy! It’s delicious! It isn’t filling! It’s taken the country by storm… and it kills! It’s The Stuff! The newest taste sensation is outselling ice cream two-to-one and merchants can’t keep up with the voracious demand. In order to save their failing businesses, an ice cream industry saboteur and a junk food mogul attempt to uncover the manufacturing secrets of The Stuff. They soon discover the horrifying truth about The Stuff – that it is a living and all-consuming parasite that turns its hosts into walking zombies! Threatened on all sides and trusting no one, they suddenly find themselves in the middle of a last-ditch effort to ward off this invasion of the brand-name body snatchers and to save the country from the grip of this insidious and monstrous dessert!
The film stars Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom, Danny Aiello, Patrick O’Neal, James Dixon, and Alexander Scourby, with appearances by Brooke Adams, Laurene Landon, Tammy Grimes, Abe Vigoda, Clara Peller, Jason Evers, and Mira Sorvino.
Our Best Horror Movie You Never Saw series is
dedicated to highlighting horror films that, for one reason or another, don’t get as much love as we think they should. We know plenty of you horror hounds out there will have seen many of the movies we pick, but there will be plenty of you who have not.
The The Stuff episode of Best Horror Movie You Never Saw was Written by Cody Hamman, Narrated by Shawn Knippelberg, Edited by Juan Jimenez, Produced by John Fallon and Tyler Nichols, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
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