The funny thing is parasites would be so much more effective if they were so tasty and addictive. They are basically one of the few lifeforms that would benefit from things ingesting them.
I like how they tasted some random substance and just because it was sweet they put it on the shelves right away without giving it to a laboratory first
@@Sedgewise47 why does "the stuff" need to be addictive, though? If it can reproduce on its own, and is already sweet, why would it need the human to consume more of itself? Surely it can just reproduce enough to take over on its own, right?
Lol opiates high fructose corn syrup lead based paint and petrol additive neo nicotinoids talc powder vape juice thalidomide yeah we never approve new and untested products for consumer use in the real world...
@@Mrkabrat it's just common knowledge. Antifreeze itself, is still sweet, yes, but a government body forces companies that produce it to add in bittering agents.
What really makes Dobermans such a scary breed is the fact that, when they attack, it looks like they are just licking you and poking around your suit for treats. The only way to convince people to help you in that situation would be to employ frantic editing.
They aren't evil dogs though, same thing with pitbulls they aren't evil just they are forced to fight which gives them a bad name Edit:forgot to say unless it wasn't already obvious. No dog is evil
@@Demonite-jj2zf Any dog with a lack of training will likely become aggressive. There's an Australian Shepherd on my street that is a fucking demon. The problem with pitbulls is that they are often bought by wannabe tough guy thugs who actually want them to be aggressive. You can ban the dog, but they'll still get ahold of something else, as we're seeing in Europe with new breeds getting around bans
I love how the bookmark for the beginning of the video says "Someone requested this acid trip be covered like 2 years ago, thanks bro", oh and also the rest of the bookmarks.
I love when Roanoke uploads. I watch most of the videos several times anyway so I'm okay with watching a re-upload. YT has been hitting good creators hard recently, so we need to do what we can to help him!
I used to live in GA and can confirm nobody walks in snow it’s either absolute joy for a single dusting or everyone going into a mass panic and literally buying all they can from the store and bunkering down because snow tires don’t exist and nobody knows how to drive in snow.
Such a worthwhile watch if you love the sheer "what-the-fuckery" that is 80s horror. I once used Stuff possessed Chocolite Chip Charlie as reference material for an illustration i made of a similar parasitic organism [see titlecard for Role With Me Terror at Isla Scorn[
What a small world it is. Didn't think I'd come across a fan of Roll With Me. I'm super far behind, but I was still blown away by Nick's talents as a storyteller. His campaign, as well as TFS at the Table, made me realize how much I prefer small DnD parties.
I had a blast with this. Just loaded up B movies to pass the time in college because I wasn’t old enough to go into the bars yet. Didn’t expect to enjoy this one whitr so much
I think this movie is an analogy for addictions, they start as something apparently harmless, and next thing you know they have taken control of your body and mind.
I think that is a valid reading, it really works with the movie, but I wouldn't go as far as say it is an analogy for it (period). By authorial intent, it is primarily a critic on corporate greed and consumerism "culture"... which technically would also be a form of addiction (thanks Edward Bernays... hope your place in hell is extra special, you Kant) so no surprise it is easy to see it as an analogy for addiction in a broader sense, but it is still technically not quite the same intent. By just reading the work, it also works with many other bad coping mechanisms that feel good for a while but are ultimately self destructive, issues of body or self image and bad ways to go about it (the woman losing weight fast and what this quick and easy and cheap method leads to is basically an anorexia PSA), and probably a few other metaphors I am too tired to think of atm.
@@louisvictor3473I think that ties in with it. Corporate greed often relies on dependence, if not psychological (or even physical) dependence. Think tobacco companies. They rely heavily on the addictive properties of their products. They know that their products are dangerous, but since ethics exists we can only say that they’re *linked* to health problems. Gambling (and to an extent any game or company employing a ‘loot box’) tends to be a sort of Skinner Box. You’ll keep playing to try and get back what you lost. And it’s no real skin off their nose. We get to see both sides of this coin. The Stuff is marketed widely with no ethical concerns or safety testing, it’s addictive and destroys people, but there are new customers coming in every day so it doesn’t affect the folks selling it. Hell, our main character is hired not because of concern over the product but because other companies want something that addictive.
It is definitely possible for it to work that way but the director has said that it's social commentary on diet fads, unhealthy snack foods, and the lack of regulation for what is clearly addictive and dangerous substances (albeit so addictive and dangerous that no one wants to admit it or put them down and make them illegal). Of course, it's not like prohibition works. What does work is ensuring people are confused and ignorant about their health and what constitutes healthy and/or food.
@@orangejjayHonestly seems like it all kinda comes together. Poor regulation and poor management cause unhealthy things to be prevalent in society, these things can be addictions, and commercialism profits off of them despite the huge human cost.
Honestly, I thought it could be more of a parasitic slime mold with very slight traces of the hallucinogenic substance that is in magic mushrooms. It would give people a reason to get addicted to the stuff and explain the erratic behavior of the victims. Plus, slime mold is one of the only fungi that can move from point A to point B. Throw in some b grade horror movie logic and there ya go. Loved the vid and now I have something new to add to my watch list :)
@Lex Bright Raven The thing is, the hallucinogenic element and the addictive part don't need to be the same compound. Depending on the effects of the other compound(s). Or the addiction part could just be a part of the mind domination effect of the stuff, however it goes about doing that.
1980s monster movies have yet to be bested in the sheer creepiness of their horror. The unatural movements, the oozing, gory visuals, the visceral depiction of infection and disease. Modern CGI just can't hold a candle to how pants-shittingly terrifying these movies were. I always loved the cover art on the video casettes as well. The horror aisle was always my favorite because of the disturbing visuals on the cover art. The Stuff was particularly trippy, as the cover I recall depicted three people writhing on the ground in an amorphous mass spilling out of their refrigerator.
I was asking myself "Hey haven't I seen this before?" and then I saw the description. Now it's clearer to me. How unfortunate though that RUclips keeps doing this >.>
Its so unfortunate that you had to re-upload. I watched the original half-a-dozen times already, so I'm happy to watch this again -- one of my favorite recent episodes. Keep up the great work!
This is why I hate YT, if anything videos like these make me want to rewatch the movies they're covering, but someone doesn't understand how Fair Use works and just has to be a copyright nazzi.
If the channel is going to be kneecapped anyway for a couple weeks, you should go ahead and give us a video about the impala..... Just saying. Lol. But still loving the videos man. And great job on the summaries!
Two things: One, the copyright gods are dicks. Two, I absolutely love the science you give out and the commentary you have. My dad and I love your content.
There are a ton of movie recap channels out there, however your explanation of this movie surpasses all the others! You explained the hell out of it, thanks. Well done!
OK I'm at the part where you explain what the monster is, and I have a question, why yeast? Why not slime mold that has developed some similar properties to yeast? It would definitely explain the consciousness and movement ability
Because it's impossible. Slime molds are not part of kingdom fungi at all and have their own unique physical structure and behavior. They normally exist as single cell amoeboids that engulf other cells but can fuse into a single supercell for improved durability and new abilities like scent detection/reproduction. They do not ferment sugar into alcohol and need oxygen to survive like us, so the sweet taste of the stuff would fit more to a fungal (yeast like) creature that can ferment with very little oxygen since it was previously underground.
This is one of the movies that I really love because it does get into some interesting stuff with business affairs. However, I still think the ending the film makers just gave up and made it more of a comedy than a horror flick.
I'll just be honest, this is 'based on true events', the "Stuff" is a metaphor for refined sugar, and the parasitic infection is a metaphor for the fact that sugar is slowly poisoning and killing us. This damn film was ahead of it's time.
I remember renting horror movies as a kid and seeing the preview of The Stuff and wanting to see it. I was not disappointed at what I saw, it was _golden!_
Absolutely disgusting! No, not the stuff, but the copyright claim. Who made it? Really, who would claim this aside from some troll who knows RUclips is broken? Gah, makes me so mad. Either way, I still like the film and the message it has against over-consumerism, even if the plot is a mess.
Me and my wife are allergic to a load of things (not like, I don't want to eat this today but like I don't want to die yet allergies) so there is 0% we would eat this thing, since there is not a list of Ingredients on the box :D
Yeah. Like I think in the movie they advertised it as like “ooh it’s dairy free” but like that doesn’t tell ya much. My cousins have a lot of allergies, it’s insane how dangerous some stuff can be.
The best part is that they randomly eat something coming out of the ground. Supposedly anti-freeze is sweet. Just b/c something tastes good doesn't mean you should eat it.
A weirdy but a goody. I remember this movie from childhood. I'll never forget wondering why the old guys first thought was to taste the white stuff coming out of the ground. I think this movie affected how I grew up :-)
I first watched it back in college, found it on Netflix while browsing 80s horror content. I loved it. Like, the practical effects were fun and I was having the time of my life. It’s best if you just roll with the 80s weirdness.
Honestly, this movie deserves a remake of sorts. If the plot holes we're fixed, the visuals we're updated and the horror elements were expanded upon, it would make for an incredible film.
I think this movie is an analogy for addictions, and how some people in power/companies benefit from them. They start as something apparently harmless, and next thing you know they have taken control of your body and mind. They also have the power to take your loved ones away from you, rendering unrecognizable from the person you used to know, and can destroy families or even entire communities.
Larry Cohen would proud that people are still talking about his work, even two years after his death. Speaking of body-invading organisms, ever thought about covering the incarnations of the pod people from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"?
So it’s a more advanced form of the fungi that takes over insects. You put quite a bit more thought in the movie than the original writer did, that’s for sure.
I would live to hear an analysis of Day of the Triffids, both on the anatomy of the carnivorous plants and thr phenomenon of everyone being blinded. Great videos!
@@RoanokeGaming How about the Spore Carriers from Fallout New Vegas? Randall Clark's terminal entries in Honest Hearts provide some interesting insights into the behavior of those infected but not deceased.
Leaving a like and a comment to appease the almighty algorithm! This is one of the last movies I'd expect someone to get a copyright hit for, I don't even really know who owns the rights to this acid trip of a movie
Been watching/listening to your videos all day while I art. I was just thinking about this film and wondering if you covered it. 😍So happy you did! The Stuff was one of my favorite films growing up. The practical effects from these cheesy films were AMAZING (minus the bad good green scenes lmao). I really miss that disturbing, crude look from 80s horror.
The next time you use the word "yeet", you can't just say it, you have to say it and mean it. You've gotta YEET with force! You've gotta YEET with style! You've gotta YEET with every bone in your body! Y E E T
This "Stuff" reminds me of the emulsion from Gears of War. The whole taking over and changing a host. Coming from the ground and being introduced to a large population before full testing or being aware of the effects. I don't know though maybe I'm just going mad.
Can you do a video about the Combine from Half Life’s vehicles, like the Strider, Dropship and Gunship? Because those things clearly seem to have been living creatures at one point, but now are half or completely synth versions of themselves. Sounds interesting.
Rewatching this and having paused on the toilet scene, I must say that this movie perfectly captured the state of a toilet rim in a house with 3+ people.
Now, lets say, hypothetically, that somebody once told me that the world would proceed to roll me, and made the claim that I was not, the smartest tool in the shed. Which would lead us to look at the facts and see that she was looking kind of dumb, due to the fact that she had placed her finger and her thumb, in the shape of the letter L, located on her forehead. This would mean that the years would start coming, and logically wont stop coming, that I was, hypothetically, fed to the rules, which would proceed with me hitting the ground running. Which didn’t make sense, to live for fun, in a way that your brain gets smart, yet your head gets dumb, seeing as there’s so much to do, and so much to see, so now I must pose the question, what is wrong with taking the backseat? This is due to the fact that you’ll never know if you don’t go, nor you will shine if you don’t glow. For you see, you are, at this moment, an All-Star, so get your game on, and proceed to go play, indeed, you’re an All-Star, get the show on, which would entitled you to get paid. That would mean that all that glitters, is indeed gold, and that only shooting stars, can participate in the process of breaking the mold.
8:45 "... Which basic has become a kidnaping, but it doesn't matter because they are going into an adventure" this line is so f*cking funny and so many movies use this logic too lmao
Have you ever done an analysis of Slither. That would be awesome Edit: well I feel stupid I just looked it up and it appears, I’ve already watched it a year ago.
Sorry that you had to upload a 2nd time. I live in Georgia too. Can confirm that it doesn't snow. If it starts snowing and magic white cream becomes the new norm we know what happens. Yes this is the one white cream that spitting out is better.
@@RoanokeGaming Oh yeah thank god I turned 21 that year too, that helped lol. We moved from Kansas 10 years ago so we're kind of used to it except I never had to drive in it. While I thought it was beautiful my father said, "it's f'ing disgusting." lmao. I can't remember when it was like 2013 or 14 but I remember it taking my parents, what was usually a 30 minute drive, about 6 hours to get home from work when it started snowing. Ahh, I love this state. You know maybe that was the movies intention, it rarely snows in Georgia. Maybe that had something to do with the stuff coming out of the ground and first being discovered. Idk though.
This is one of those b horror movies not many people have seen. I heard about this from my art teacher in highschool. Along with The Reanimator. I actually got a virus when I watched the stuff because I couldn't find it anywhere except shady streaming websites!
I listened to this video while working and thought the movies premise sounded really cool and didn't understand why you were calling it a fever dream movie until I later saw the visuals and holy shit you're right.
Next up, any chance of you covering the movie Bite? There is yet more parasitic weirdness to be had there, not to mention body horror. (2015 movie) seriously, I need some good explanations from someone who knows their stuff, to go over that movie for me, and you are literally my only hope of that.
@Vixen Lunastra Don't believe so I'm afraid. It is on amazon to rent or buy, and included free on something called "Shout! Factory TV" There is a half-decent decent horror movie on Netflix called Sweetheart, though, that definitely isn't a slasher. I'm not one for slasher stuff myself either usually, or ghosts for that matter.
Such a great movie. Found it in my mid teens when me and my friends were trying to find the best lame scary movies. This one is pretty much the best: so many crazy overacted scenes, weird ass characters, a plot that is just good enough to keep it going, cheesey graphics, and chocolate chip charlie.
Great vid as usual, sucks that you had to re-upload it. Can you do a biology breakdown of the creatures from Attack the Block? They’ve always intrigued me.
Now I have to say this again. I think that the "stuff" is like the sea organism called the man of war because it fuzes together with other man of war. (Men of war lol)
God I LOVED watching this movie when Jabooty dubs dubbed over it. Never even thought you’d cover it, yet here I find this old video! Gonna enjoy this one
I would.argue that the stuff is more like a slime mold -- it can share intelligence and information with the rest of the mass, already is motile, and is able to digest biological matter pretty well.
I do not think the Stuff sees humans as an attacking predator, but is actually making itself purposefully attractive to humans to use them (humans) as a spread vector. There are already lots of parasites that actually do this in nature. Since without human intervention, the stuff would not be able to spread beyond it’s native area of Midlands Georgia. Since the goal of all life forms is to spread and multiply because that’s the best strategy to long term survival. So, in short the stuff is using people as a transport vehicle/host, not as a predator. The Stuff IS the parasitical predator!
I don't know if you read the comments much Roanoke Gaming, but you often talk about a bunch of single-celled organisms that work together but don't quite form a multicellular organism. This is an actual thing, in the order of Siphonophorae, most known for the Portuguese Man O' War. They are single-celled colonies, each cell is identical and able to go off and do its own thing given the right circumstances, but they stick together instead. They can even form complex organs, circulate nutrients, and use crude signalling for reflexes; they use chemicals instead of electricity for signalling long distances. The topic seems right up your alley.
The Stuff probably smells good to attract the insects and even animals under the ground, and tastes good to have them keep eating it, allowing it to spread further to attract and eat more insects and even animals under the ground, and tastes good to have them keep eating it, allowing it to spread further to attract and eat more insects and even animals under the ground.
@@RoanokeGaming Well now, there are white slime molds. In fact they come in just about every color you can think of. I admit the sweet taste doesn't fit the bill, but for my money I think a type slime mold with sweet taste is less of a leap than a strain of yeast becoming ambulatory and learning to coordinate. I had a kooky idea that maybe a slime mold might get into intracellular symbiosis with a form of yeast, kind of like the way algae coopted cyanobacteria to form chloroplasts. Maybe the slime molds grow the yeast using their own metabolic waste and then turn around digest the yeast in order to conserve nutrients. That might help explain how the stuff could survive in a closed subterranean ecosystem. I will admit that I love slime molds and I _AM_ biased.
Hey Roanoke. I know there might not be much to go on, but I would love to hear you talk about Bugsnax. It’s honestly pretty dark and goes into body horror
Arguably speaking, I dont like reuploading these things either lol it basically kneecaps the channel for a few weeks everytime I do which is a blast.
Nice
Hello Roanoke Gaming
You're video's are really fun to watch
I always rewatch them bc i forget all science stuff too quickly
I'm gonna watch this again
The funny thing is parasites would be so much more effective if they were so tasty and addictive. They are basically one of the few lifeforms that would benefit from things ingesting them.
Altho evolutionairy arms racing would kick into full effect here. Other life would evolve to avoid it
"what kind of a thing *wants* you to eat it" ~the mayor, Slither
Stop giving them ideas
@@explodeybits931 Things like tapeworms, bacteria and finally, The Stuff.
Bugsnax
I like how they tasted some random substance and just because it was sweet they put it on the shelves right away without giving it to a laboratory first
Yea im pretty sure that would have to be FDA approved first lmao
It wasn’t just because it was “sweet.”
The stuff is addictive-and the moment it entered his body, the *parasite* was taking control of it.
@@Sedgewise47 why does "the stuff" need to be addictive, though? If it can reproduce on its own, and is already sweet, why would it need the human to consume more of itself? Surely it can just reproduce enough to take over on its own, right?
Lol opiates high fructose corn syrup lead based paint and petrol additive neo nicotinoids talc powder vape juice thalidomide yeah we never approve new and untested products for consumer use in the real world...
@@michaelweiske702 video explains this: it's parasitism as a method of defense rather than reproduction
Time for my second serving of "don't eat that" Jell-O
Wow Such Gaming, this is an intervention. You need to stop it with the Jell-O.
Nectar is my drug of choice
Nectar administrator: administering
Hell yeah! This feels awesome!
Though I gotta say....I wonder what it tastes like lmfao
@@RoanokeGaming mayonnaise. It's a good instrument too... an instrument of death
Brooo I was randomly unsubbed from you, RUclips is bugging
"Sure, I'll try out this mysterious white goo bubbling out of the ground"
Its sweet! Wait isnt antifreeze also sweat? lol
@@RoanokeGaming used to be.
@@AntonsVoice Dare I ask; how do you know and are you ok?
@@Mrkabrat it's just common knowledge. Antifreeze itself, is still sweet, yes, but a government body forces companies that produce it to add in bittering agents.
@@AntonsVoice I didn't know it has a sweet taste, since I've never used the stuff (the antifreeze I mean, not the gooey white thing from the movie)
“Local man licks white substance from pulsating hole”
Pretty standard lmfao
Is the hole glorious?
"pulsating hole" makes my head gonna explode
Hehe. Gross. And... Possibly lewd.
@@qinjikofoxx5580 thats make this is my kingdom come , more relatable
These guys have like 1400s scientist thought patterns
"Random bubbling liquid? Better taste it"
What really makes Dobermans such a scary breed is the fact that, when they attack, it looks like they are just licking you and poking around your suit for treats. The only way to convince people to help you in that situation would be to employ frantic editing.
They aren't evil dogs though, same thing with pitbulls they aren't evil just they are forced to fight which gives them a bad name
Edit:forgot to say unless it wasn't already obvious. No dog is evil
@@Demonite-jj2zf Any dog with a lack of training will likely become aggressive. There's an Australian Shepherd on my street that is a fucking demon. The problem with pitbulls is that they are often bought by wannabe tough guy thugs who actually want them to be aggressive. You can ban the dog, but they'll still get ahold of something else, as we're seeing in Europe with new breeds getting around bans
@@Demonite-jj2zfit was sarcasm, because the dog in the movie is obviously not attacking the man
Nurture above nature unless nature did some real fuckshit
Moron@@Demonite-jj2zf
Gotta love YT and dismissal of the legal rights of the creators that literally are the only reason this site hasn't crashed and burn.
The most ignored law in the US next to alabamas law on things you cant do on sunday
Not yet.
Yeah, YT cant just choose to ignore a lawful order.
@@cannedbollocks They can hire humans to look at the video that is being falsely claimed.
What's funny is that you can find the complete movie on RUclips
I love how the bookmark for the beginning of the video says "Someone requested this acid trip be covered like 2 years ago, thanks bro", oh and also the rest of the bookmarks.
Glad you liked that lol
I love when Roanoke uploads. I watch most of the videos several times anyway so I'm okay with watching a re-upload. YT has been hitting good creators hard recently, so we need to do what we can to help him!
I appreciate you watching it man!
Its because Hollywood is dying, so now they're calling in Copyrights so they can get some money that they aren't getting by making terrible movies.
RUclips is hitting its good creators in favor of mediocre or downright bad ones just to fit their agenda and most money possible business model.
@@RoanokeGamingback again.
"I'm doing my part."
I used to live in GA and can confirm nobody walks in snow it’s either absolute joy for a single dusting or everyone going into a mass panic and literally buying all they can from the store and bunkering down because snow tires don’t exist and nobody knows how to drive in snow.
As a fellow southerner, yeah the same thing happens in SC. Everything just shuts down lol
As a citizen from Canada’s coldest major city, I do not comprehend.
People who can’t afford snow tires use all season here all year too.
That's Mississippi described to a T. Bread aisles and milk coolers WILL look like a swarm of locusts hit them. Both sad and hilarious.
Such a worthwhile watch if you love the sheer "what-the-fuckery" that is 80s horror.
I once used Stuff possessed Chocolite Chip Charlie as reference material for an illustration i made of a similar parasitic organism [see titlecard for Role With Me Terror at Isla Scorn[
What a small world it is. Didn't think I'd come across a fan of Roll With Me. I'm super far behind, but I was still blown away by Nick's talents as a storyteller. His campaign, as well as TFS at the Table, made me realize how much I prefer small DnD parties.
I had a blast with this. Just loaded up B movies to pass the time in college because I wasn’t old enough to go into the bars yet. Didn’t expect to enjoy this one whitr so much
@@danielgiovanniello7217what a small world it is. Didn’t think I’d run into a crosscode fan.
@@yamnbam4346 the game is getting more and more popular as the days go on
I think this movie is an analogy for addictions, they start as something apparently harmless, and next thing you know they have taken control of your body and mind.
I think that is a valid reading, it really works with the movie, but I wouldn't go as far as say it is an analogy for it (period). By authorial intent, it is primarily a critic on corporate greed and consumerism "culture"... which technically would also be a form of addiction (thanks Edward Bernays... hope your place in hell is extra special, you Kant) so no surprise it is easy to see it as an analogy for addiction in a broader sense, but it is still technically not quite the same intent. By just reading the work, it also works with many other bad coping mechanisms that feel good for a while but are ultimately self destructive, issues of body or self image and bad ways to go about it (the woman losing weight fast and what this quick and easy and cheap method leads to is basically an anorexia PSA), and probably a few other metaphors I am too tired to think of atm.
@@louisvictor3473I think that ties in with it. Corporate greed often relies on dependence, if not psychological (or even physical) dependence.
Think tobacco companies. They rely heavily on the addictive properties of their products. They know that their products are dangerous, but since ethics exists we can only say that they’re *linked* to health problems.
Gambling (and to an extent any game or company employing a ‘loot box’) tends to be a sort of Skinner Box. You’ll keep playing to try and get back what you lost. And it’s no real skin off their nose.
We get to see both sides of this coin. The Stuff is marketed widely with no ethical concerns or safety testing, it’s addictive and destroys people, but there are new customers coming in every day so it doesn’t affect the folks selling it.
Hell, our main character is hired not because of concern over the product but because other companies want something that addictive.
It is definitely possible for it to work that way but the director has said that it's social commentary on diet fads, unhealthy snack foods, and the lack of regulation for what is clearly addictive and dangerous substances (albeit so addictive and dangerous that no one wants to admit it or put them down and make them illegal).
Of course, it's not like prohibition works. What does work is ensuring people are confused and ignorant about their health and what constitutes healthy and/or food.
@@orangejjayHonestly seems like it all kinda comes together. Poor regulation and poor management cause unhealthy things to be prevalent in society, these things can be addictions, and commercialism profits off of them despite the huge human cost.
the stuff is basically the blobs "cooler" brother, who can't take the "heat" when things get rough.
yeah he's the hipster brother of the Blob
Honestly, I thought it could be more of a parasitic slime mold with very slight traces of the hallucinogenic substance that is in magic mushrooms. It would give people a reason to get addicted to the stuff and explain the erratic behavior of the victims. Plus, slime mold is one of the only fungi that can move from point A to point B. Throw in some b grade horror movie logic and there ya go. Loved the vid and now I have something new to add to my watch list :)
So a slime mold that eats people from the inside out? Terrifying
@Lex Bright Raven good point didn’t think of that 🤙
mycelium moves and all mushrooms have that….
@Lex Bright Raven The thing is, the hallucinogenic element and the addictive part don't need to be the same compound. Depending on the effects of the other compound(s). Or the addiction part could just be a part of the mind domination effect of the stuff, however it goes about doing that.
1980s monster movies have yet to be bested in the sheer creepiness of their horror. The unatural movements, the oozing, gory visuals, the visceral depiction of infection and disease. Modern CGI just can't hold a candle to how pants-shittingly terrifying these movies were. I always loved the cover art on the video casettes as well. The horror aisle was always my favorite because of the disturbing visuals on the cover art. The Stuff was particularly trippy, as the cover I recall depicted three people writhing on the ground in an amorphous mass spilling out of their refrigerator.
It's also silly as hell and intended to be as well.
I was asking myself "Hey haven't I seen this before?" and then I saw the description. Now it's clearer to me. How unfortunate though that RUclips keeps doing this >.>
I agree with that lol
Reading the description is always a chad move
Person: *Sees some random white thing on the floor*
Also person: FINALLY SOME GOOD F**KING FOOD
Its so unfortunate that you had to re-upload. I watched the original half-a-dozen times already, so I'm happy to watch this again -- one of my favorite recent episodes. Keep up the great work!
wish I could of just kept that original version, the bots are insane but thank you for checking it back out bro!
This is why I hate YT, if anything videos like these make me want to rewatch the movies they're covering, but someone doesn't understand how Fair Use works and just has to be a copyright nazzi.
Bro straight up, its wild out here right now
That kid has to be the smartest horror character ever.
Right! The movie just wanted to handicap him to infantilize him and reduce him to just another Damsel in Distress cliche.
@@ButWhyMe...But then in the end he’s given the chance to have his revenge.
If the channel is going to be kneecapped anyway for a couple weeks, you should go ahead and give us a video about the impala..... Just saying. Lol. But still loving the videos man. And great job on the summaries!
Just straight up, it would be cool! and thanks for the continued support bro!
Impala how about gmc
@@RoanokeGaming Lowriders are always cool af
Love the profile picture bro love destiny
Two things: One, the copyright gods are dicks.
Two, I absolutely love the science you give out and the commentary you have.
My dad and I love your content.
I love eating white creamy fluids
Your dad and I love this too...
Have I already seen this? Yes. Will I watch it again bc I appreciate Roanoke’s hard work? Absolutely.
I appreciate you checking it back out bro!
The Stuff being a proper noun is driving me insane. Lol
Right?
@@RoanokeGaming thanks Roanoke.
There are a ton of movie recap channels out there, however your explanation of this movie surpasses all the others! You explained the hell out of it, thanks. Well done!
OK I'm at the part where you explain what the monster is, and I have a question, why yeast? Why not slime mold that has developed some similar properties to yeast? It would definitely explain the consciousness and movement ability
Because it's impossible. Slime molds are not part of kingdom fungi at all and have their own unique physical structure and behavior. They normally exist as single cell amoeboids that engulf other cells but can fuse into a single supercell for improved durability and new abilities like scent detection/reproduction. They do not ferment sugar into alcohol and need oxygen to survive like us, so the sweet taste of the stuff would fit more to a fungal (yeast like) creature that can ferment with very little oxygen since it was previously underground.
This is one of the movies that I really love because it does get into some interesting stuff with business affairs. However, I still think the ending the film makers just gave up and made it more of a comedy than a horror flick.
I'll just be honest, this is 'based on true events', the "Stuff" is a metaphor for refined sugar, and the parasitic infection is a metaphor for the fact that sugar is slowly poisoning and killing us. This damn film was ahead of it's time.
I remember renting horror movies as a kid and seeing the preview of The Stuff and wanting to see it. I was not disappointed at what I saw, it was _golden!_
Absolutely disgusting! No, not the stuff, but the copyright claim. Who made it? Really, who would claim this aside from some troll who knows RUclips is broken?
Gah, makes me so mad. Either way, I still like the film and the message it has against over-consumerism, even if the plot is a mess.
its all a mess with choppy water and im just plugging holes in the ship lol
Me and my wife are allergic to a load of things (not like, I don't want to eat this today but like I don't want to die yet allergies) so there is 0% we would eat this thing, since there is not a list of Ingredients on the box :D
but its of the earth! XD
@@RoanokeGaming that's what we call "au natural" baby
Yeah. Like I think in the movie they advertised it as like “ooh it’s dairy free” but like that doesn’t tell ya much. My cousins have a lot of allergies, it’s insane how dangerous some stuff can be.
The best part is that they randomly eat something coming out of the ground. Supposedly anti-freeze is sweet. Just b/c something tastes good doesn't mean you should eat it.
I was kinda confused about seeing this notif again but I realized it was reuploaded.
Thanks for checking it out though bro
I never thought I needed a full detailed scientific analysis of The Stuff, but I'm glad you did one!
Who remembers "don't put it in your mouth" "though it may look good to eat" " you could get sick, real quick."
“Don’t you put it in your mouth, till you ask someone you love, if it’s okay to eat~”
That lives rent free in my head. Send help.
I appreciate reuploads because it allows me to watch old videos that i didn't know you had❤️
I appreciate you watching!
Already seen this, but commenting and liking for the algorithm!
I appreciate the support man!
A weirdy but a goody. I remember this movie from childhood. I'll never forget wondering why the old guys first thought was to taste the white stuff coming out of the ground. I think this movie affected how I grew up :-)
First thing I'd do is call the authorities and have it checked put by the Department of Health and the CDC
I first watched it back in college, found it on Netflix while browsing 80s horror content.
I loved it. Like, the practical effects were fun and I was having the time of my life. It’s best if you just roll with the 80s weirdness.
@@dr.altoclef9255 roll with it we do. ;-)
I can't believe you didn't show Chocolate Chip Charlie's extended mouth when was possessed by the Stuff.
Honestly, this movie deserves a remake of sorts. If the plot holes we're fixed, the visuals we're updated and the horror elements were expanded upon, it would make for an incredible film.
I mean, at its core isnt it just a much larger scale version of The Thing?
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When you think about it, yeah.
@@neptuniamarina4924It's more similar to the blob tbh
@@garnett2350A little of both, but also it’s essentially the grand-daddy of Bugsnax.
Or just turn it back into the horror comedy it was supposed to be. I would watch that.
I think this movie is an analogy for addictions, and how some people in power/companies benefit from them. They start as something apparently harmless, and next thing you know they have taken control of your body and mind. They also have the power to take your loved ones away from you, rendering unrecognizable from the person you used to know, and can destroy families or even entire communities.
It's also possible the stuff is a type of slime mold; a conglomeration of microorganisms that move on moss as a slimy creature.
Larry Cohen would proud that people are still talking about his work, even two years after his death. Speaking of body-invading organisms, ever thought about covering the incarnations of the pod people from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"?
So it’s a more advanced form of the fungi that takes over insects. You put quite a bit more thought in the movie than the original writer did, that’s for sure.
I would live to hear an analysis of Day of the Triffids, both on the anatomy of the carnivorous plants and thr phenomenon of everyone being blinded. Great videos!
The original or the bbc 2 past remake with Eddie izzard. Which was really good!
I love how indepth this post was regarding what the The Stuff could be and how it works.
Also, would you consider covering Reign of Fire? Give us a dragon biology lesson? 😂
Just wanted to say thank you so much for reminding me about the name of that movie lol, haven't thought about it in years
I still do intend to cover reign of fire!
Dragons would be possible if they had 2 wings and 2 legs
@@RoanokeGaming omg. Please do!
@@tealablu3759 idk why you think having 4 legs is why dragons can't exist and not A their absurd size and B THEM BREATHING FIRE!
Man, I still have this movie on dvd. What a fever dream of a movie.
Could you do the Typhon or mimics from Prey 2017 it's an extremely underrated game
Yes I can!
@@RoanokeGaming
How about the Spore Carriers from Fallout New Vegas? Randall Clark's terminal entries in Honest Hearts provide some interesting insights into the behavior of those infected but not deceased.
YAY
......LES GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I love that game, so sad it was under the radar for most people
Leaving a like and a comment to appease the almighty algorithm! This is one of the last movies I'd expect someone to get a copyright hit for, I don't even really know who owns the rights to this acid trip of a movie
That was about my reaction too lol but apparent its still relevant enough or something, I appreciate you checking it back out though bro!
Been watching/listening to your videos all day while I art. I was just thinking about this film and wondering if you covered it. 😍So happy you did! The Stuff was one of my favorite films growing up. The practical effects from these cheesy films were AMAZING (minus the bad good green scenes lmao). I really miss that disturbing, crude look from 80s horror.
The next time you use the word "yeet", you can't just say it, you have to say it and mean it. You've gotta YEET with force! You've gotta YEET with style! You've gotta YEET with every bone in your body!
Y E E T
This "Stuff" reminds me of the emulsion from Gears of War. The whole taking over and changing a host. Coming from the ground and being introduced to a large population before full testing or being aware of the effects. I don't know though maybe I'm just going mad.
Hey, Roanoke, could you do some videos on the Chimera from Resistance?
I did a few back in the day, I heard rumblings of maybe a remaster, sort of holding off till that drops
@@RoanokeGaming I always get so scared of your videos but I love them
James Rolfe said it best: "what's he doing, he just fucking eats it? Would you eat something that you just found lying on the ground? Ugh!"
I think the stuff might actually be some form of slime mold or fungus.
Comment and like for the algorithm. Keep up the work Roanoke, Love the content!
you gotta love that little "Never go communist kid".
It's my 3ed time. ( now )
It's good advice we should give every kid.
@@julius-stark cringe
@@julius-stark I agree
Apparently, someone else was really upset about it
Can you do a video about the Combine from Half Life’s vehicles, like the Strider, Dropship and Gunship? Because those things clearly seem to have been living creatures at one point, but now are half or completely synth versions of themselves. Sounds interesting.
"This is my kingdom come, this is my kingdom come"
everytime one of these is reuploaded i just rewatch it lol
I appreciate you doing that!
Rewatching this and having paused on the toilet scene, I must say that this movie perfectly captured the state of a toilet rim in a house with 3+ people.
-Finds white stuff on the ground
-Eats it
Bruh what.
Now, lets say, hypothetically, that somebody once told me that the world would proceed to roll me, and made the claim that I was not, the smartest tool in the shed. Which would lead us to look at the facts and see that she was looking kind of dumb, due to the fact that she had placed her finger and her thumb, in the shape of the letter L, located on her forehead.
This would mean that the years would start coming, and logically wont stop coming, that I was, hypothetically, fed to the rules, which would proceed with me hitting the ground running. Which didn’t make sense, to live for fun, in a way that your brain gets smart, yet your head gets dumb, seeing as there’s so much to do, and so much to see, so now I must pose the question, what is wrong with taking the backseat? This is due to the fact that you’ll never know if you don’t go, nor you will shine if you don’t glow.
For you see, you are, at this moment, an All-Star, so get your game on, and proceed to go play, indeed, you’re an All-Star, get the show on, which would entitled you to get paid. That would mean that all that glitters, is indeed gold, and that only shooting stars, can participate in the process of breaking the mold.
Time for round 2!
Thanks for checking it out bro!
8:45 "... Which basic has become a kidnaping, but it doesn't matter because they are going into an adventure" this line is so f*cking funny and so many movies use this logic too lmao
Honestly though and a lot of children movies use it, like whatt!!!!!
Have you ever done an analysis of Slither. That would be awesome
Edit: well I feel stupid I just looked it up and it appears, I’ve already watched it a year ago.
We've all done stuff like that
@@Bt--vs8ru I can relate
@@Bt--vs8ru oh no, you're infected with the stuf
Unfortunately I can't find the slither vid anymore and I only discovered roanoke last month ;-;
@@yagamil46 ruclips.net/video/qYGeD-KGvyA/видео.html
Here it is my friend
This movie should have been called the blob: evolution because the stuff is basically the blob just evolved to get to humans better
Sorry that you had to upload a 2nd time. I live in Georgia too. Can confirm that it doesn't snow. If it starts snowing and magic white cream becomes the new norm we know what happens. Yes this is the one white cream that spitting out is better.
Remember that time though in 2017 we got like 10 inches of snow? that was pretty cool
@@RoanokeGaming Oh yeah thank god I turned 21 that year too, that helped lol. We moved from Kansas 10 years ago so we're kind of used to it except I never had to drive in it. While I thought it was beautiful my father said, "it's f'ing disgusting." lmao. I can't remember when it was like 2013 or 14 but I remember it taking my parents, what was usually a 30 minute drive, about 6 hours to get home from work when it started snowing. Ahh, I love this state.
You know maybe that was the movies intention, it rarely snows in Georgia. Maybe that had something to do with the stuff coming out of the ground and first being discovered. Idk though.
@@RoanokeGaming Also thanks for replying, made my day. Been watching you for a while now!
Everyone acting like we don't eat weird carp from the ground while we pay exorbitant rates for truffles.
Don’t you just love copyright law.
Whats funny is Im actually on the right side of the law. What they did was illegal
I gotta say, the actors to some point are godly to not allow the stuffs smell to affect their acting
please do "Kingdom" a review of the show, it's a Korean and about zombies in middle(ish) ages.
Love that show
"What sort of an idiot would just taste a strange white substance?"
Chemist who discovered artificial sweetener is sweating bullets right now. XD
This is one of those b horror movies not many people have seen. I heard about this from my art teacher in highschool. Along with The Reanimator. I actually got a virus when I watched the stuff because I couldn't find it anywhere except shady streaming websites!
Love the channel so I don't mind re-watching.
One of my favorite Horror B-movies from the 80s
Im still partial to the blob remake
I listened to this video while working and thought the movies premise sounded really cool and didn't understand why you were calling it a fever dream movie until I later saw the visuals and holy shit you're right.
Next up, any chance of you covering the movie Bite? There is yet more parasitic weirdness to be had there, not to mention body horror. (2015 movie) seriously, I need some good explanations from someone who knows their stuff, to go over that movie for me, and you are literally my only hope of that.
@Vixen Lunastra Don't believe so I'm afraid. It is on amazon to rent or buy, and included free on something called "Shout! Factory TV" There is a half-decent decent horror movie on Netflix called Sweetheart, though, that definitely isn't a slasher. I'm not one for slasher stuff myself either usually, or ghosts for that matter.
interesting, Ill have to give it a watch!
I second that! Bite was genuinely the only horror film that disturbed me so greatly I had to turn it off.
“We present to you SCP-(insert number here), The Kingdom Come. Never come into contact with this substance.”
Omg! I just watched this movie with my grandpa!
Great movie with grandpa!
Such a great movie. Found it in my mid teens when me and my friends were trying to find the best lame scary movies. This one is pretty much the best: so many crazy overacted scenes, weird ass characters, a plot that is just good enough to keep it going, cheesey graphics, and chocolate chip charlie.
It's a movie, not a video game, it has effects not "graphics", unless you are talking about the design of The Stuff logo.
Great vid as usual, sucks that you had to re-upload it. Can you do a biology breakdown of the creatures from Attack the Block? They’ve always intrigued me.
So happy you made this, this is my favorite, and imo, one of the most bizarre horror movies ever.
Now I have to say this again.
I think that the "stuff" is like the sea organism called the man of war because it fuzes together with other man of war.
(Men of war lol)
God I LOVED watching this movie when Jabooty dubs dubbed over it. Never even thought you’d cover it, yet here I find this old video!
Gonna enjoy this one
I would.argue that the stuff is more like a slime mold -- it can share intelligence and information with the rest of the mass, already is motile, and is able to digest biological matter pretty well.
I think about this movie every so often and it sort of reminds me of a specialized, goopy cordyceps
Reminds me of a symbiote, especially with a fire weakness
I’ve been watching this channel since the beginning it’s so great
I do not think the Stuff sees humans as an attacking predator, but is actually making itself purposefully attractive to humans to use them (humans) as a spread vector. There are already lots of parasites that actually do this in nature. Since without human intervention, the stuff would not be able to spread beyond it’s native area of Midlands Georgia. Since the goal of all life forms is to spread and multiply because that’s the best strategy to long term survival. So, in short the stuff is using people as a transport vehicle/host, not as a predator. The Stuff IS the parasitical predator!
I don't know if you read the comments much Roanoke Gaming, but you often talk about a bunch of single-celled organisms that work together but don't quite form a multicellular organism. This is an actual thing, in the order of Siphonophorae, most known for the Portuguese Man O' War. They are single-celled colonies, each cell is identical and able to go off and do its own thing given the right circumstances, but they stick together instead. They can even form complex organs, circulate nutrients, and use crude signalling for reflexes; they use chemicals instead of electricity for signalling long distances. The topic seems right up your alley.
the quality of your videos make them worth rewatching
I expected this to be like the blob. I would like to see the blob reviewed.
Same, especially the remake!
The Stuff probably smells good to attract the insects and even animals under the ground, and tastes good to have them keep eating it, allowing it to spread further to attract and eat more insects and even animals under the ground, and tastes good to have them keep eating it, allowing it to spread further to attract and eat more insects and even animals under the ground.
I'm telling you, it's not yeast. That's there's slime mold!
Yeah, that works.
I actually looked into that possibility, I think the biggest issue I ran into was coloring and the sweet taste not lining up
@@RoanokeGaming If slugs eat it, it's good enough for me too.
@@RoanokeGaming Well now, there are white slime molds. In fact they come in just about every color you can think of. I admit the sweet taste doesn't fit the bill, but for my money I think a type slime mold with sweet taste is less of a leap than a strain of yeast becoming ambulatory and learning to coordinate.
I had a kooky idea that maybe a slime mold might get into intracellular symbiosis with a form of yeast, kind of like the way algae coopted cyanobacteria to form chloroplasts. Maybe the slime molds grow the yeast using their own metabolic waste and then turn around digest the yeast in order to conserve nutrients. That might help explain how the stuff could survive in a closed subterranean ecosystem.
I will admit that I love slime molds and I _AM_ biased.
This is art imitating life. The " Stuff" that we are addicted to is called " PROCESSED SUGAR" ! Yes it does control our mood and even actions
Hey Roanoke. I know there might not be much to go on, but I would love to hear you talk about Bugsnax. It’s honestly pretty dark and goes into body horror
*HOW DO YOU WORK BUGSNAX, HOW DO YOU WORK?*
Slap some googly eyes on the stuff and you’ve got a new bug snak
Bunger
@@sailorsodium8813Maybe put it in like an ice cream cup. Then there ya go.
I have never forgotten that kid blowing chunks in the car from eating shaving cream XD Haunting movie for me as a kid for sure!
And Mo says something like “we all have to do that sometime-“