The Stuff Satire

The 1980’s was prosperous time for the horror movie genre as movies like _ and _ released to critical praise along with commercial success. But with that level of success also come the mediocre or boring. As a movie the that released nearing the end of that decade the 1985 movie The Stuff was released to an audience that was not impressed or interested by the film in the slightest considering its standing as B rate horror film with practical effects that would make any viewer jump for their seat from being genuinely uncomfortable. Written and directed by Larry Cohen, the movie begins as a story about workers finding and odd substance, manufacturing it and the repercussions that people face after. As random as it seems, the movie starts off outside a petroleum refinery in Alaska and follows a worker from the refinery finding a hole in the snow with a thick and gooey substance

They harvest the goo from the source and package it in small cylindrical containers then begin marketing it as a sweet treat. Before long every supermarket in the country stocks the suspicious pink and purple containers on their shelves for the public to try. Once available, the immediate response from the American public is endless praise and consumption. People can’t stop eating the substance, to the point where normal consumers will eat it for every meal. Commercials for the product on television are portrayed as almost hypnotic with spinning pink and purple colors. Characters in the movie become subservient to the product and begin pushing on other people, forcing them to try the product. Which leads to the main character, a boy named Mo having his parents become engrossed with the product then finding out that the terrible repercussions that come with “the stuff”. The movie includes the contrived horror of controlling the public without the substance of other movies of the genre released in the same