The best formless horror ever on film for my money is from John Carpenter's "The Thing." I mean here we have a creature that doesn't just CHANGE shape but absorbs others into it self. It becomes not one "thing" but an army, each one capable of changing its shape into what ever it needs to survive. It was only a stroke of luck that it crashed i nto the one place on earth that can stop it. The middle of antartica.
Oh and I should mention it was was SMART. Like fly it's own space ship smart. Let's see the blob do that, right? All it needs is to sing and tell jokes and it could put on a show.
as we leave the subject of formless horrors for the moment, just a quick shout out as it were to some literay things. There were the Shoggoths from Lovecraft, who also coincidently haunted Antartica. There was the short story Slime (found in one of helen hoke's collection of weird tales for kid) that I remember chiefly for on one illustration of said slime eating a helpless victim. Also there is the short story "The Clone" which was about a bit of slime grown from a piece of hamburger left over in a sewer that grew to eat a whole city.
Sleep tight kiddies.
STRANGE SPANNERS being an accounting of strangeness of the warp and woof of my mind For those of you new here, think of this as 1/2 "Night Gallery" Our Motto: Nos somnium quisnam es futurus fatum quod insolitus tutus vos!
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