Overview: The Stuff is the new dessert taking supermarket shelves by storm. It’s delicious, low in calories and better still doesn’t stain the family carpet. What’s not to like? Well, for a start, it has a life of its own, and we’re not talking friendly live bacteria!

Young Jason seems to be the only one who doesn’t love The Stuff - in fact, he won’t go anywhere near it, after having seen the pudding crawling around the fridge one night. What’s more, everyone who eats The Stuff has started acting really weird. Now, teaming up with wise-cracking industrial saboteur Mo, Jason must put a stop to The Stuff and the organization behind it or face a gooey, gloopy demise.

Coming courtesy of horror auteur Larry Cohen (director of the It’s Alive series and scribe behind the Maniac Cop trilogy), The Stuff is a titillating treat for the tastebuds which blends elements of films such as Street Trash with the straight-up B-movie flavor of The Blob.

So grab a spoon and dig on into The Stuff - the taste that delivers much more than you bargained for!

4K Blu-ray Verdict: Construction workers find a throbbing puddle of white goo on the ground and decide to take a taste (as one does). Turns out, this stuff is good -- really good! The sweet mystery treat is soon taking the country by storm. It’s low in calories and it tastes great, so shut up and buy!

A spy (Michael Moriarty) is hired by the competing ice cream company to try and crack The Stuff’s secret formula. What he gets is a little more than he bargained for, as he battles giant waves of fanatical Fluff, inexplicably beds a beautiful woman (Andrea Marcovicci) and somehow attracts a tag-along child (Scott Bloom).

If the above synopsis makes your stomach churn, The Stuff may not be the right stuff for you. If, however, you read it and are intrigued, you probably won’t be able to get enough of The Stuff. It’s a silly B-movie to be sure. Throwing logic out the window at just about every turn, director Larry Cohen’s schlockfest delivers silly, easily digestible entertainment, delivering chuckles (some intended, some otherwise) by the bucket load.

Michael Moriarty is game as the hapless lead. With his lazy, drunken demeanor, you forgive the fact that he basically stumbles over his own lines and find yourself cheering the guy on as he encounters racists and racist stereotypes alike and goes toe to toe with the titular goo.

The special effects are remarkably pretty effective for the era and the budget. In most shots, you’ll believe that a dessert really could come to live and swallow you whole, like an albino blob. Cohen plays the whole thing fast and loose and while it isn’t exactly an airtight movie, there’s still lots of fun to be had with The Stuff. When people speak of midnight movies, this is the stuff they are talking about.

Oh, and listening to the brilliant audio commentary some of the substance props or stand-ins for the real Stuff used in the movie included lots of Häagen Däzs ice-cream, yogurt, and for one scene involving an enormous avalanche-like effect of Stuff crashing through a wall, fire-extinguishing foam! Other shots, such as the ones of the giant lake of Stuff, required superimposed images and animation.

2-DISC 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Chris Barnes
Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring writing on the film by Joel Harley and a new essay by Daniel Burnett

DISC 1 – FEATURE & EXTRAS (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY)
Brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films from the original camera negative 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Original lossless English 1.0 mono audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Brand new audio commentary by writers and critics David Flint and Adrian Smith
Archival audio commentary by writer/director Larry Cohen
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Notorious Street – feature-length documentary exploring the history of New York City’s infamous 42nd Street, with first-hand accounts from an array of filmmakers, including Larry Cohen
Can’t Get Enough of The Stuff: Making Larry Cohen’s Classic Creature Feature – documentary featuring Larry Cohen, producer Paul Kurta, actress Andrea Marcovicci, mechanical makeup effects artist Steve Neill and critic Kim Newman
Enough is Never Enough – newly edited featurette featuring previously unseen interviews with director Larry Cohen and producer Paul Kurta, originally shot for the 2017 documentary King Cohen
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Notorious Street, a feature-length documentary exploring the history of New York City’s infamous 42nd Street, with first-hand accounts from an array of filmmakers, including Larry Cohen
Trailers and TV spots
King Cohen trailer
Image gallery

DISC 2 – PRE-RELEASE VERSION (BLU-RAY) [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE]
An early, pre-release cut of the film featuring over 30 minutes of additional footage and a different music score, exclusively remastered by Arrow Films
High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation
Original lossless English 1.0 mono audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

THE STUFF (1985) | Trailer | Full HD

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