The Blob (1958)

I love this movie so much

Great Film overall

The acting in this movie is really good.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

They say it's jelly but, have they taste it, how do they know it's jelly? It looks more like s..t to me and, it looks like lots of people liked the film so, s..t sells. Steve McQueen, in one of his first roles, he is OK, he's trying to look as credible and realistic possible. But the whole film is just a bad joke, a stupid story for stupid people.

The Blob is seen by many as a fantastic, cheap, B-movie cult classic that's fun because it's campy. It features a young Steve McQueen in the leading role with an interesting blob of an alien attacking screaming and wailing extras throughout this poorly done mess. Campy can be fun and enjoyable for what it is. The Blob isn't. If you can enjoy props to you! I however, found this film not only bad but bad in a non-humorous way. The writing is terrible with every scene containing ridiculous and incoherent dialogue that feels unbelievable you thought a teenager wrote it. Disappointed to say the actors don't help save this cringeworthy dialogue. Instead, every line feels incredibly forced and unintelligent you're constantly being taken out of the movie to even enjoy the badness. The screenplay feels less of a coherent plot and more like a series of unrelated events with little flow from scene to scene. With inconsistent pacing, it's impossible to feel any real tension for characters who come across as textbook stereotypes of just about any group of person you can imagine. With everything just messy, the film's only saving grace is the concept of the blob itself. Yes it's not the best movie monster ever but the ideas behind what it is and where it comes from are enough to raise interest at the most. Some of the effects are actually executed in creative ways that made me say "Hmm. I kinda liked that."Unfortunately, the blob couldn't save The Blob. It's not a good horror movie or even a guilty pleasure. It's cheap, lazy, and honestly a little rough to watch from start to finish. This film might better suit a fun Halloween party as background noise where no one will absolutely watch it. Better to just skip this one.

OK, the special effects are crummy but everything else rates above average to excellent.Steve McQueen died young but he showed some extraordinary talent in this early B film where most young thespians find their one-and-only shot and usually fail miserably. McQueen showed off his charisma and skill and took this otherwise unremarkable piece of sci-fi fluff into cult category. He had the undefinable "It" factor that can carry a movie an order of magnitude higher than its face value.The movie, well, what can you say. It's a giant blob of Jello chasing - and often catching - fleeing, delinquent teenagers on a weekend night. Without McQueen, it would just another anonymous 1950s drive-in feature transiently crossing paths with an indifferent audience. But as it is, it thoroughly entertained my 2 young sons who saw it 30 years after it was made and continues to be one of my own favorite cinematic guilty pleasures.Definitely worth a look for anyone who has a free evening and a taste for novelty.NOTE: The fireman in one of the closing scenes who has one deadpan line ("It didn't work") bears a notable resemblance to Bill Murray.

The Blob was everything that a 1950s Teen/Horror flick should be. It was fun, goofy, contained awful dialog, and, yes, it was even entertaining, in its own cheesy way.A meteorite (from who the hell knows where?) containing a slimy blob of cherry-colored jelly lands just outside the town of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. This jelly-fied substance soon attaches itself to an old man's hand.Before long it completely engulfs the old man (clothes, and all). Then the same fate meets a nurse. And then it's the doctor's turn. And so on, and so forth - Until this once small creature (which acid can't harm) has grown in mass to a truly monstrous size - A size that nicely matches its equally monstrous appetite.Soon (regardless of its size), the blob is squeezing its way through small openings and (with the rapid speed of a true parasite) devouring anything and anyone who dares to stand in its path.In conclusion - One can only wonder what sort of a world the blob came from. I mean, when in its normal habitat, what could it have possibly fed on? This very unique creature was not like any other before it in the history of cinema. It neither had a skeletal structure, nor internal organs, nor a face, nor even a body, for that matter - Yet somehow the damn thing thought, breathed, and existed, and had a ferocious appetite, as well.All-in-all - I enjoyed The Blob.