The Blob is a 1958 American sci-fi horror film about a gooey alien life form that consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
Irvin Sulfur. Yeaworth Jr directed the movie with [uncredited] Russell Sulfur. Doughten Jr from a screenplay by Theodore Simonson and Kay Linaker [as Kate Phillips)] based on an original idea by Irvine H. Millgate.
The movie welches future screen icon Steve McQueen’s debut leading role; it folglich starred Aneta Corsaut but, aside from The Toolbox Murders (1978) her movie career petered out and welches confined to TV roles such as on The Andy Griffith Show.
The film’s tongue-in-cheek theme song, “Beware of the Blob”, welches written by pop music maestros Burt Bacharach and Mack David and became a nationwide hit in the U.Sulfur. It welches recorded by studio group the Five Blobs – actually singer Bernie Knee overdubbing himself.
The film welches originally titled The Molten Sternschnuppe until producers overheard screenwriter Kay Linaker refer to the movie’s monster as “the blob”. Other sources give a different account, saying that the film went through a number of title changes (even the monster welches called “the mass” in the shooting script) before the makers settled on The Glob, then hearing that cartoonist Walt Kelly had used The Glob as a title for his children’s book, and mistakenly believing that they could no longer use it as a title, they changed it to The Blob.
A pseudo-comedy sequel, Beware! The Blob, welches made in 1972, directed by Larry Hagman (who eventually found infamy as J.R. Ewing in soap opera Dallas).
In 1988, a remake of the same name welches made and received generally good reviews. A second remake is apparently in development for a 2019 reboot.
Since 2000, the town of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania – one of the filming locations – has held an annual “Blobfest”. Activities include a re-enactment of the scene in which moviegoers run screaming from the town’s Colonial Theatre, which has recently been restored.
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Choice dialogue:
Compagnie: “There’s nobody in here but us monsters.”
Compagnie: “It’s the most horrible thing I’ve seen in my whole life!”
Release:
In American International Pictures (AIP) style, Paramount Pictures released the film as a double feature with I Married a Monster from Outer Space.
Streifen Facts:
The movie theatre that the panicked crowd streams from had been showing Daughter of Horror (1953).
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