Roger Ebert
"The Stuff" is a wildly ambitious movie that fails because it forgets to attend to its bottom line. Before you can make a clever, funny, satirical horror film, first you have to make a horror film.
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The Stuff
A delicious, mysterious goo becomes marketed to the masses in this 1985 horror-comedy from Larry Cohen. But when the ooze starts taking over their minds, the world suddenly becomes infected with goo-craving zombie people.
198593 minsUSA
ComedyHorrorScience Fiction
- Director:
- Larry Cohen
- Writer:
- Larry Cohen
- Cast:
- Michael MoriartyAndrea MarcovicciGarrett MorrisPaul Sorvino
The Stuff / Reviews
Variety
The Stuff is sci-fi with no hardware but lots of white goo. It's a certified Larry Cohen film that seems to fly right out of the 1950s horror genre.
Full reviewA.V. Club
Aside from a few great moments, The Stuff remains memorable for a biting tagline ("Enough is never enough") and cultist fantasies of what might have been.
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