A small but gluttonous, amorphous monster arrives on Earth via a meteorite and soon threatens the folk of a small Pennsylvania town. Can the actions of fast thinking teenagers save the townies from the vermillion jello-of-doom? Famous for an early starring role by Steve McQueen (at the time almost a decade past being a teenager), 'The Blob' is an entertaining low-budget monster film. The opening music, courtesy of Burt Bacharach and Mack David, deliberately sets a light-weight, tongue-in-cheek tone to off-set the early images of people being dissolved and the frequency of characters being interrupted by the oozing invader while 'making out' quickly establishes the target audience. The film was a money-maker for Paramount Pictures and remains a retro-entertaining, if somewhat campy, classic of 1950's drive-in fluff.
Review of The Blob
