The Stuff: Larry Cohen's Consumerism Horror

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Larry Cohen’s The Stuff opens with two railway workers finding a white substance bubbling up out of the frozen ground, and one of them, against every instinct a sane person should have, tastes it. It is delicious. Within a year that substance is the biggest-selling dessert in America, sold in tubs, advertised with jingles, and craved by a nation that has no idea it is eating something alive. The 1985 film is a horror comedy about a product that consumes its consumers, and thirty years on it plays less like a period curio and more like a documentary shot slightly ahead of schedule.

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The Stuff: Larry Cohen's Consumerism Horror