The Blob
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
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- Cast：
- Steve McQueen , Aneta Corsaut , Earl Rowe , John Benson , James Bonnet , Olin Howland , George Karas
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Best movie of this year hands down!
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
The Blob is a terrible film, poorly scripted, poorly acted and void of any fun. The actual blob is the only thing worthy of any regard. You have adults as teens and the elderly as the parents. You have a Brady Bunch feel of everyone helping and loving one another, in a silly setting that is suppose to be fun. There isn't even a kill scene. A policeman playing chess over the phone for kicks in a cheesy monster movie WHAT!
Steve(n) McQueen and Aneta Corsaut star as the young couple who encounter the titular absorber of human flesh. Of course, no one believes their story about the marauding monster, especially a particularly peevish cop. From the glorious opening song, to the trapped-in-the-diner finale, THE BLOB delivers pure, unmitigated entertainment! For a creature feature from the 1950's, this one exhibits a fairly gruesome creature (it dissolves its victims in itself, turning deep red in the process!), and a relatively high body count. My personal favorite piece of prodigious protoplasm...
I first saw this movie in the 1960's on TV. IT SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME!!!!!So I have one question for all you naysayers: IF "THE BLOB" IS SUCH A PIECE OF GARBAGE, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY REVIEWS OF IT?
They say it's jelly but, have they taste it, how do they know it's jelly? It looks more like s..t to me and, it looks like lots of people liked the film so, s..t sells. Steve McQueen, in one of his first roles, he is OK, he's trying to look as credible and realistic possible. But the whole film is just a bad joke, a stupid story for stupid people.
