The Blob (1958)

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THE HORROR CULT CLASSIC OOZES ITS WAY TO BLU-RAY! 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 (The Great Escape) playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the jellylike invader. Strong performances and ingenious special effects help The Blob transcend the schlock sci-fi and youth delinquency genres from which it originates. Made outside of Hollywood by a maverick film distributor and a crew whose credits mostly comprised religious and educational shorts, The Blob helped launch the careers of McQueen and composer Burt Bacharach, whose bouncy title song is just one of this film’s many unexpected pleasures.

one of the most memorable of the giant monster films of the '50s, this sci-fi classic concerns a shapeless, flesh dissolving mass that emerges from a fallen meteor and grows larger with each victim it absorbs. at fist scoffed at by the police, teenage hero steve andrews ("steven" mcqueen, in his first lead role) and his girlfriend, jane martin (aneta corseaut from the andy griffith show), enlist their dragracing buddies to alert the town to the danger, before being trapped in a diner that is completely envolved by the blob in the film's spectacular climax. featuring a hit theme song by burt bacharach and hal david, "beware of the blob" and specal effects that are still impressive today, the blob rocketed mcqueen to fame and was remade in 1988.