- Horror, Science Fiction
- 82 min
Rotten Tomatoes68%Metacritic58IMDb6.3
It crawls. It creeps. It eats you alive!
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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Classical in form, resolved, unpretentious and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Oct 20218/10
_**A weird hungry red glob from outer space!**_ Some teens (Steve McQueen & Aneta Corsaut) witness a strange Jell-O-like substance horrifically assault some people in a Pennsylvania town, but the police have a hard time believing their story. Despite its datedness, “The Blob” (1958) is worth checking out as a window into small town America in 1957 (when it was shot) plus the fact that it was Steve McQueen’s debut starring role, not to mention the movie is genuinely scary in a quaint 50’s way. My only criticism is that Steve is clearly an adult male and not a teenager or youngster. He was 27 during shooting, but looked at least 30. Larry Hagman did a sequel fourteen years later called “Beware! the Blob” (aka “Son of Blob”) after his rise to TV stardom with I Dream of Jeannie and before his return to popularity as J.R. in Dallas. It throws in quirky comedic bits amidst the serious horror and it is interesting to compare the two movies because of the social changes brought about by the radical events of the 60s. The sequel is an entertaining window into the counterculture of that time (specifically 1971 when the film was shot) and how the hippies or semi-hippies gelled with those of t
Read the whole review on TMDB - tmdb93836550on TMDB · Oct 20248/10
The campy theme over the strange title sequence may make you think it will be a very campy horror film that doesn't take itself seriously, you would be half right, but you'd also be half wrong. It is campy, but it takes its self seriously most of the time. Everytime I watch it it gets a few laughs and giggles out of me, I've been watching it since I was five and I recently watched it for the 7th time. I would give it a 7.4/10.
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Cast
- Steve McQueenSteve Andrews
- Aneta CorsautJane Martin
- Earl RoweLt. Dave
- Olin HowlandThe Old Man
- Stephen ChaseDr. T. Hallen
- John BensonSgt. Jim Bert
- George KarasOfficer Ritchie
- Lee PaytonKate
- Elbert SmithHenry Martin
- Hugh GrahamMr. Andrews
Crew
- Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.Director
- Theodore SimonsonScreenplay
- Kay LinakerScreenplay
- Thomas E. SpaldingDirector of Photography
- Ralph CarmichaelOriginal Music Composer
- Alfred HillmannEditor
- Jack H. HarrisProducer
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