Lord Samper's Library

Page Count: 37 Pages After the disappointment of 'Starship Traveller', I fancied something completely different and it doesn't get a lot more different than a tale taken from the very first issue of 'Weird Tales' back in March 1923. That and I'd heard that 'Ooze' was an influence on 'The Blob', a favourite film of mine. And so it was settled, last night was all about 'Ooze'... Our narrator visits the ruins of a house in the swamp so that he can hopefully solve the mystery of the death of his friends so that their daughter (whom he has adopted) can know the truth when she is older. What he finds out though is far beyond anything that he ever expected to find... 'Ooze' takes its own sweet time to get going and given that the tale is only 37 pages long, that's a hell of a risk to take. I gave it a chance though and the approach does pay off to an extent, with Rud hiding revelations in plain sight and hopping back and forth, along...

When I'm trying to puzzle my way through something particularly tricky at work, I like to have a movie playing in the background. You would have thought it would distract me but somehow, it helps me concentrate on what I'm trying to accomplish. The last few months of this have seen me work through the early Romero 'Dead' films as well as the 1990 'Night of the Living Dead' and the 2004 'Dawn of the Dead', both favourites of mine :o) Just recently though, I've moved onto the 1988 version of 'The Blob' and it's been great fun. I won't go into all the reasons here (not when I've already posted about it over Here ) but it did get me wondering... Which is your favourite version of 'The Blob'? You can guess my favourite but I want to know if you have a preference for the 1958 or 1988 versions. And if you haven't seen either, don't worry, I've got you covered ;o) Any thoughts? Leave a comment and let me know...