Job description: When you've got a monster movie to deliver and you're on a tight budget, forget about expensive CGI effects or painstaking latex creations. Get yourself some Cellophane, silicone and slime, blend well, and, hey presto, you've got yourself an evil Amorphous Blob - the cheesiest and least scary of all B-movie monsters, but good for a giggle all the same. Almost invariably, the blob will choose a meteor as its mode of transport. Some redneck will then poke and prod at the meteor until slime oozes forth. The blob will then wobble and slobber as it grows, consuming all in its path.
Recently seen in: James Gunn's Slither, a clever blend of B-movie classic The Blob (see below) and George A. Romero's zombie fare. As expected, a meteorite lands, and the chap who finds it is infected with a parasitic worm that lodges in his brain and transforms him into a squid-faced blob monster (right) with a penchant for snacking on puppies and - perhaps most horrific of all - grooving to the hits of Air Supply. Of course, where there's a big blob, there will be baby blobs, and in Slither they are legion: horrible, pink, slimy things that want to get up close and personal with various orifices.