ARE YOU EATING IT …OR IS IT EATING YOU?

A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance begin infesting the world.

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      9 months ago

      Laugh if you must but The Stuff gave me nightmares for weeks and probably set yogurt back for a decade for me and the seven other people that saw it.

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        9 months ago

        I somehow saw this when I was really young, so I didn’t make the yogurt connection. But Marshmallow Fluff was never the same afterwards.

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          9 months ago

          It was one of those daytime movies they played on broadcast TV when I was a kid. Me and my brother loved it.

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    9 months ago

    I fucking love how the first thing these people do when they see white goo bubbling from the earth is to taste it.

    There’s a great scene of the protagonists eating like the old standard barbosol shaving cream they are passing off as the stuff to their possessed family. I remember thinking eating shaving cream would be way worse than getting possessed by the devil’s semen.

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    9 months ago

    Smart satire of American consumerism.

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    9 months ago

    I saw just enough of this as a kid for it to give me the screaming heebie-jeebies.

    This, Invaders from Mars, and the 1978 version of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers also freaked me the heck out.

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind was also terrifying to me. Again, I only saw bits and pieces.