The Blob Movie Review

In his first starring role, Steve McQueen is a rebel with a cause: to save his small Pennsylvania town from a gelatinous invader from outer space. Naturally, the adults don't believe him, but they change their tune when this purple people eater engulfs a supermarket, a diner, and most memorably, a movie theatre (where Daughter of Horror is playing). McQueen's girlfriend is played by Aneta Corsaut, who is best known as Helen Crump on The Andy Griffith Show. One of the most beloved monster movies of the 1950s (it was released the same year as The Fly). Producer Jack Harris later made Mother Goose A Go Go and the first 3-D adult film, Paradisio. Burt Bacharach co-wrote the title tune. The end…question mark? Nope, it was followed by Larry Hagman's 1972 direct-to-drive-in sequel, Beware! The Blob (or: Son of Blob), and a state-of-the-art remake in 1988.

1958 83m/C Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Olin Howlin, Earl Rowe; D: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.; W: Theodore Simonson, Kate Phillips; C: Thomas E. Spalding. VHS, Beta, LV COL, GEM, MLB