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** In the aftermath of 9-11, Ruby Ridge and other calamities, there is no way that a RightWingMilitiaFanatic group would be portrayed as TheCavalry.
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** In the aftermath of 9-11, 9/11, Ruby Ridge and other calamities, there is no way that a RightWingMilitiaFanatic group would be portrayed as TheCavalry.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: When Jason tries to tell his family that The Stuff is sinister because it's alive and moving, his Stuff-stuffed father responds that the yogurt everyone eats has active cultures that are moving on a level too small to be seen. He's defending The Stuff because he's already been brainwashed by it, but he's not incorrect in asking for more evidence that it's evil.
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** The plan to [[CantStopTheSignal spread the word to stop the Stuff]] involves… taking over a radio station.
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** The plan to [[CantStopTheSignal spread the word to stop the Stuff]] involves… taking over a radio station. No noticeable attempt at taking pictures for evidence, which would become increasingly easier with cell phones.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** In the aftermath of 9-11, Ruby Ridge and other calamities, there is no way that a RightWingMilitiaFanatic group would be portrayed as TheCavalry.
** The plan to [[CantStopTheSignal spread the word to stop the Stuff]] involves… taking over a radio station.
** The marketing campaign for The Stuff that is showcased constantly through the film is so Eighties it hurts.
** In the aftermath of 9-11, Ruby Ridge and other calamities, there is no way that a RightWingMilitiaFanatic group would be portrayed as TheCavalry.
** The plan to [[CantStopTheSignal spread the word to stop the Stuff]] involves… taking over a radio station.
** The marketing campaign for The Stuff that is showcased constantly through the film is so Eighties it hurts.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Creator/BrianBloom Jason's brother]] is [[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes Captain America]] and [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3 Yuri!
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Creator/BrianBloom Jason's brother]] is [[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes Captain America]] and [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3 Yuri!Yuri]]!
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Creator/BrianBloom Jason's brother]] is [[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes Captain America]] and ''VideoGames/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3'' [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3 Yuri!
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Creator/BrianBloom Jason's brother]] is [[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes Captain America]] and [[VideoGames/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3 Yuri]]!''VideoGames/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3'' Yuri!
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Creator/BrianBloom Jason's brother]] is [[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes Captain America]] and [[VideoGames/CallOfDutyModernWare3 [[VideoGames/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3 Yuri]]!
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Creator/BrianBloom Jason's brother]] is [[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes Captain America]]!America]] and [[VideoGames/CallOfDutyModernWare3 Yuri]]!
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Constant and spectacular (and even the cause of a lawsuit between Cohen and the film's effects team, Effects Associates). Most notably is [[spoiler:Charlie]]'s death when The Stuff starts gurgling out of his throat. The puppet representing him has a grotesquely fake head. Then there's the awful way characters are matted into shots featuring the Stuff in multiple scenes.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Constant and spectacular (and even the cause of a lawsuit between Cohen and the film's effects team, Effects Associates).Associates, over payment). Most notably is [[spoiler:Charlie]]'s death when The Stuff starts gurgling out of his throat. The puppet representing him has a grotesquely fake head. Then there's the awful way characters are matted into shots featuring the Stuff in multiple scenes.scenes or vice-versa.
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* ValuesDissonance: With the whole RightWingMilitiaFanatic thing having become a much more reviled and feared faction rather than just the funny little quirk of society they were seen as in the '80s, the whole third act is rather hard to take these days.
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* EarWorm: The jingle.
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* ValuesDissonance: With the whole RightWingMilitiaFanatic thing having become an openly dangerous group of Nazis rather than just the funny little quirk of society they were seen as in the '80s, the whole third act is rather hard to take these days.
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* ValuesDissonance: With the whole RightWingMilitiaFanatic thing having become an openly dangerous group of Nazis a much more reviled and feared faction rather than just the funny little quirk of society they were seen as in the '80s, the whole third act is rather hard to take these days.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Constant and spectacular (and even the cause of a lawsuit between Cohen and the film's effects team team, Effects Associates). Most notably is [[spoiler:Charlie]]'s death when The Stuff starts gurgling out of his throat. The puppet representing him has a grotesquely fake head. Then there's the awful way characters are matted into shots featuring the Stuff in multiple scenes.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Constant and spectacular.spectacular (and even the cause of a lawsuit between Cohen and the film's effects team Effects Associates). Most notably is [[spoiler:Charlie]]'s death when The Stuff starts gurgling out of his throat. The puppet representing him has a grotesquely fake head. Then there's the awful way characters are matted into shots featuring the Stuff in multiple scenes.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Constant and spectacular. Most notably is [[spoiler:Charlie]]'s death when The Stuff starts gurgling out of his throat. The puppet representing him has a grotesquely fake head. Then there's the awful way characters are matted into shots featuring the Stuff in multiple scenes.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: The Stuff is ''gooey'' and ''white''.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Like most of Larry Cohen's films, there's some sort of social commentary. Here, it's about consumerism and possibly also cocaine (the Stuff is an addictive white substance that causes you to lose weight and gain energy--in the middle of the 1980s, no less).
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Like most of Larry Cohen's Creator/LarryCohen's films, there's some sort of social commentary. Here, it's about consumerism and possibly also cocaine (the Stuff is an addictive white substance that causes you to lose weight and gain energy--in the middle of the 1980s, TheEighties, no less).
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* ValuesDissonance: With the whole RightWingMilitiaFanatic thing having become an openly dangerous group of Nazis rather than just the funny little quirk of society they were seen as in the '80s, the whole third act is rather hard to take these days.
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* JustForFun/XMeetsY: ''Film/TheBlob1958'' meets ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''.
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* {{Narm}}: Numerous examples.
** The man trying to placate his Stuff controlled dog was especially good.
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**The man trying to placate his Stuff controlled dog was especially good.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Like most of Larry Cohen's films, there's some sort of social commentary. Here, it's about consumerism and possibly also cocaine ( the (the Stuff is an addictive white substance that causes you to lose weight and gain energy--in the middle of the 1980s, no less).
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* UnfortunateImplications: [[spoiler: When Charlie arrives at the station, Spears acts like a racist and suspects the black man of being a Commie or some other troublemaker. As it turns out, Charlie nearly causes the heroine's death, but because he was possessed by the Stuff, not because of Spears's reasons.]]
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Chocolate Chip Charlie doesn't get much screentime, but what he ''does'' get is nothing short of amazing.
