The Date: July 21
The Movie: The Stuff (1985)
What Is
It?: Tasty white gunk called The Stuff is the latest culinary craze.
Corporations dispatch spies to learn the recipe. Families stockpile
containers of it. Swimsuit models hawk it in neon-lit T.V. commercials. The
only problem is The Stuff is a sentient monster: part Blob, part body snatcher.
Writer/director/genius Larry Cohen takes on corporate immorality, our junk
food-addicted culture, advertising, and the military. His satirical script is
funny and clever and gives Michael Moriarty lots of great things to say (“No
one is as dumb as I appear to be”).
Why Today?: Today
is Junk Food Day.
