Released September 10th, 1958, 'The Blob' stars Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, John Benson The NR movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 26 min, and received a user score of 63 (out of 100. The Blob (1958) Review Date February 28th, 2013 by M. Enois Duarte Overview - A cult classic of gooey greatness, The Blob follows the havoc wreaked on a small town by an outer-space monster with neither soul nor vertebrae, with Steve McQueen playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the jellylike invader. The Blob (1958) starring Steve McQueen is the first of three films eventually made based on a creature that had its origins from somewhere in outerspace.

1958 Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.

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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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The Blob (1958) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The Blob (now an enormous mass from all the people it consumed) engulfs the diner and begins to ooze in through the windows while the occupants seek refuge in the cellar. The police try to kill the Blob by dropping a power line onto it, but this fails and only sets the diner ablaze.

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Alternative Titles

Fluido mortale, The Blob - Fluido mortale, A Bolha, Blob, Terreur Sans Nom

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Popular reviews

Not to be THAT guy but this could’ve used more blob.
Absolutely loved it as much as I did when I was a kid! If you love the old Sci-fi Horror classics then this one is worth checking out!
I mean come on who wouldn't be afraid of a giant blob with a healthy appetite for humans!
I dunno what excited me more seeing a very young Steve McQueen or seeing all of the old classic cars!
The ending is yet another reason we need to stop global warming ;-)
can't believe our dumbass dogshit grandparents thought this movie was scary
Over the course of the last few months I've gone on a bit of a deep dive in regards to pulpy 1950's Science fiction B movies. A lot of them have been pretty bad, but there have been a few that rise above the constraints of the genre and 'The Blob' is one of those films.
Like most genre films of its era the film clocks in a run-time of around eighty minutes, and for the first sixty minutes we only get glimpses of the blob. Most of the film is centred around a young adult named Steve, played by Steve McQueen in an early film role. During the course of the film he's trying to convince the local authorities…
I have been listening to the theme song for this film for years. I assumed when I heard it that it was connected to the film, and I was delighted to learn that it was right there in the opening credits (complete with overlong instrumental intro). It's just pure, campy, wholesome easy listening harmony, cheezy in the best possible way. I am a little obsessed with finding the best of easy listening. It's an awful genre full of the very worst qualities of pop music, but in there, amongst the welling strings and the soaring, empty voices, there are gems, pure beautiful gems. Even Perry Como manages to have a good time somehow. And 'The Blob' is one of those…
Perhaps the best true B-movie ever made, Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.'s 'The Blob' bears all the infamous hallmarks of lesser cinematic gems but is played with a remarkable commitment to its material. A horror film about an outer space-born pile of goo, 'The Blob' features the genre trappings and 50s-style exploitation charms of fast cars, teenagers, and danger that marked the type of fare studios would sweep under the prestige-picture rug. With 'The Blob,' however, a B-picture with a certain seriousness of production, tone, and narrative is made, and it is fully appealing.
The story is simple: a meteor crashes outside of a bedroom town, spawning a deadly blob that heads toward civilization and destroying everything in its path. As…
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So that's a 1950s sci-fi monster movie.
'Beware of The Blob, it creeps and leaps and glides and slides across the floor ... right through the door ... and all around the wall ... A splotch, a blotch ... Be careful of The Blob.'
Well that's a pretty silly opening theme song, too bad the rest of the film was not that fun and exciting. The original The Blob movie stars Steve McQueen as a teen in a small town, where a meteor crashes to Earth unleashing an all-consuming dangerous ball of jelly on the town.
'Why don't you come with us to the spooky show.'
The special effects on The Blob…
Not nearly enough blob.
This is one of those instances where I should have listened to everyone in here because Lord almighty was this a snoozefest.
Steve is sleep walking the whole time, like, there's a scene where he asks the police to believe him because he's scared and you get a close-up of his face and he looks more dumbfounded than anything else. That's the kind of acting we're dealing with here, people. The effect on “the blob” is hysterically bad.
All in all, I recommend the 80s version written by Frank Darabont instead. That's a thousand times more entertaining. To be honest, about everything is much more entertaining than this.
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Just hearing that bouncing Burt Bacharach beginning always brings me back to when I was 10 or 11, huddled under the blankets in my room tuned into Friday night Fright Night Theater on Buffalo’s WKBW Channel 7 on my tiny little B&W ( which was my Christmas gift the year before … I think as a way for my parents to get out of watching Lost In Space, My Mother the Car, and Mr. Terrific, which I so loved at the time ).
I had been watching the late night creature feature religiously every week for quite a number of months, volume low as to not awaken my early-to-bed parents, and in that time had been introduced to Frankenstein, The…
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The Blob (1958)
From the late 50s comes this drive-in classic, whose title more than speaks for itself.
A small Pennsylvania is in trouble when a tiny meteorite unleashes a blobby lifeform, which starts off by attaching itself to the arms of helpless old shack dwellers, eventually working its way up to consuming people whole (getting bigger as it does). Attempting to stop it is the world’s oldest looking teenager Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen), and his girlfriend Jane, who try to warn people of the threat before it can potentially absorb the entire town into one giant blobby mass.
For the most part, it’s a typical 1950s B-movie, but I’d say it performs on average…
You might think Steve McQueen is cool when he’s screaming through the streets of San Francisco in a 1968 Mustang Fastback.
...or when he and six other badass gunfighters are protecting a small Mexican village from rapacious bandits.
...or when he’s doing random unnecessary tricks on a motorcycle while spearheading a seemingly impossible escape from a Nazi prison camp.
...or when he and Ali McGraw are fleeing from the law-and various other people that are not as good looking as them.

Personally, I think Steve McQueen is cool when he, Jane, and an occasionally misplaced puppy wage war against an ever-expanding mass of melted Fruit Roll-Ups.

The Blob 1958