The Blob (1958)
Genre: Action / Scifi
Duration: 86 minuten
Alternative title: Blob, Verschrikking zonder Naam
Country:
United States
Directed by: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Stars: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut and Earl Rowe
IMDb score:
6,3 (33.053)
Releasedate: 10 September 1958
The Blob plot
"It crawls. It creeps. It eats you alive!"
A mysterious creature, resembling a huge gelatin pudding, lands in a comet on Earth. Some teenagers from a nearby village notice the monster and sound the alarm, but of course none of the villagers believe them. However, the blob keeps getting bigger and soon threatens the entire village.
Actors and actresses
Steve Andrews
Jane Martin
Lieutenant Dave
Sgt. Jim Bert
Tony Gressette
'Mooch' Miller
The Old Man
Officer Ritchie
Dr. T. Hallen
George the Diner Proprietor
Reviews & comments
Vinokourov
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- 3143 messages
- 2909 votes
Haha, this is a great cult movie. A sleepy town is plagued by a blubbery substance and Steve McQueen becomes the hero of the story by fighting this thing. Only he first has the task of convincing all residents that there is really something dangerous. Those kinds of film pieces are painfully slow and typical of this kind of 50's sci-fi. I feared for a very mediocre SF film in the beginning.
But luckily once Blob starts dragging himself along and throws the town upside down, there's still plenty of fun to be had. Anyway, The Blob is more or less a B-movie and it's not quite perfect either, because the 'monster' sometimes looks strange and unconvincing. Fortunately, the 'wrong' dialogues compensate a lot.
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Tonypulp
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- 21231 messages
- 4608 votes
McQueen already has a much too old head here (looks like 50), but has to do it as a teenager. As well as the rest of his posse, for that matter. That makes it already quite strongly inclined towards pulp. Especially that racing scene and even the plastic reactions to everything de Blob does. De Blob which, incidentally, remains quite subtle. The first half hour seems promising, also in terms of effects, but in fact the film continues to play in the same (safe) area the entire time. Very charming and without this film the great remake from the 80's would not have happened 
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Chainsaw
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- 8845 messages
- 3711 votes
Funny silly science fiction from the 50s. The opening song during the credits already suggests that The Blob is going to be a lot of fun. And that's how the film starts when we immediately see a meteorite clattering down and an old man gets strange gunk on his hand. You expect the story to have started, but the movie suddenly takes a break to let Steve McQueen and some other dudes race, with a whole scene with a cop. And that happens often, sequences that have little to do with the story, usually accompanied by rather poor acting and dialogues. Such a sequence between Steve McQueen's sweetheart and her terribly acting little brother about a dog, for example. In any case, the film does not rely on its actors; just see the extras who have to run out of a cinema in panic, most of them visibly laughing out loud.
When the slimy monster slowly slides into the picture, the film becomes a lot more fun. He doesn't get into action very much, but the moments with the alien stuff are very entertaining. Towards the end, the special effects get pretty clumsy, but there's something charming about this as well. The ending is also wonderfully rushed, very witty. Just a shame that The Blob isn't very funny or memorable when murderous Mona dessert isn't in the picture. The characters are quite boring, especially Steve McQueen's girlfriend, who really has nothing to do for an hour and a half. In that respect, Frank Darabont and Chuck Russell have taken the right things from the original thirty years later, but also replaced the right elements for their version. Their remake is therefore one of those examples in which the remake is better than the original. Despite this, seeing the original Blob is far from a punishment.
3 stars.
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