The Blob (1958)

I was alive and even somewhat conscious in 1958, and I don't remember anyone questioning whether the Artic would stay cold as they do today. Can we then claim that this B horror classic was very far ahead of it time?Based on many of these negative reviews, some of you young whippersnappers need to lighten up a bit. You seem to take life and B horror films from the 1950's far too seriously. This film should be rated much better than 6.4 for its sheer entertainment value and for its "cool as a cucumber" star Steve McQueen, who appears as his first lead in a full length Hollywood movie. Without McQueen's charismatic presence, would the film have been as successful and as watchable? I doubt it. Overall, the dialogue is weak and often even laughable, but I liked it anyway and would gladly see it again.The irony of the movie theatre audience watching a B-horror film while being threatened by a very real monster should escape no one. Was it my imagination or did the thing turn red from the blood of its victims? That adds to its yuck factor.Beyond the creepy creature at the center of the horror, I also enjoyed the sub-themes of a younger generation struggling to achieve credibility with the folks in power, especially when the lives of the townspeople depend upon it. I also liked the other sub-theme of the frustration of a police department striving to establish respectability and authority among the people it has been hired to protect. After 60 years, I find both of these themes universal and very relevant to today's world.Has anyone figured out how the cute little doggy managed to escape from the locked supermarket before Steve and Jane made it out? Anyway, I sure hope that it found a good home. Poor little doggy alone in a highly unpredictable world. Who knows what will come out of the sky next?

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...

Funny I saw this today Easter 2017. I was 10 yr's old when made & lived in Spring City about 8 miles from Phoenixville . I would go to the movies every weekend at the Colonial Theater & had a great time. Hard to believe it became a cult film. I remember my parents going to the Downingtown Diner to eat which is where the last scenes were shot.Haven't been back there in a lot of yr's now live in Florida. Nothing like the good old day's I hear they have a Blob Day & do the scene where everyone runs out the theater. I still like to watch!!

It looks like the jello off of an Easter ham, but it can swallow you whole. Just because it oozes out of what looks like a giant acorn doesn't mean that it's a nice decoration, as veteran character actor Olin Howland finds out. It's up to the town bad boy (Steve McQueen) to save as many people as he can from becoming blob food, in an above average combination of horror and science fiction that is thrilling, funny, on occasionally romantic, and pretty much the "A Summer Place" of oozing monster movies.Starting with a great musical opening theme that leads into a fun theme song, this grabs you like goo and never lets go. Other than McQueen and a few old timer character players, thus is filled with mediocre actors playing late 20 something teens, but that's an insignificant quibble about a movie that has spawned one decent remake (in 1988) and has another one on the way. To me, it's a higher average cult film, giving the rising star McQueen something that people probably remember him more for than his big hits of the 1960's and '70s.There are plenty of frights that come out of nowhere, the most famous the movie theater scene (delightfully playing a Bela Lugosi film!), and clever ways for the blob to get victims and it's subtle enough in its gory moments to not become unnecessarily gross. The 1988 movie was far more graphic, but expanded the subtext to make it closer to the realities of something big out there beyond our control. I'll give that 6 to this version's 7, but enough is enough as far as a new version. This story needs to remain on deep freeze, taking the lead from the conclusion of this version.