bombersflyup The Blob is a terrible film, poorly scripted, poorly acted and void of any fun. The actual blob is the only thing worthy of any regard. You have adults as teens and the elderly as the parents. You have a Brady Bunch feel of everyone helping and loving one another, in a silly setting that is suppose to be fun. There isn't even a kill scene. A policeman playing chess over the phone for kicks in a cheesy monster movie WHAT!

robfla-38664 One of the first horror movies I ever watched. I still remember that Saturday afternoon sitting on the living room floor with my brother and sisters. This film scared me so much it's still difficult to watch it today and I'm 55. In my top 10.

utgard14 Sci-fi "classic" that holds some cheesy appeal but really isn't that good, in my opinion. It stars a young Steve McQueen (although not as young as the part he's playing) and Aneta Corsaut (Helen Crump herself) as two teenagers who try to warn people in their hick town about a red blob that came to Earth in a meteorite. The blob keeps eating people and growing in size. Bad stuff. Like I said, this has some cheesy camp value for many (dig that theme song) but it has never done much for me. I actually enjoy the 1988 remake more, which is saying something considering how much I loathe remakes on average. By the way, I've seen this a few times over the years and this print I saw on TCM is easily the best I've seen. The colors are crisp and the picture is cleaner than any of the other versions I've seen. There are a lot of cheap DVDs of this one out there and they have some pretty lousy picture quality. Watching crap is bad enough but watching it in crappy quality is the pits. Anyway, this is famous enough that I think any fan of older science fiction and horror films should see it at least once. It's got some Ed Wood but not quite Roger Corman upside to it.

Jeff Parker This is a typical "horror movie" from the 50's era so it's gotta be good! Actually I prefer "B" movies that are so bad they are good, yet this was enjoyable without being in the "B" movie class. One of Steve McQueen's earliest rolls and while the script was a wee bit cheesy, he did a great job with it. Don't just rent this one, buy it! It will provide countless hours of entertainment picking it apart for errors as you watch it over and over. If you haven't seen the movie yet don't read this until you do! I'm pretty sure the objective was to destroy the "monster" but that seems impossible. The best they could do was freeze it. To keep it frozen they transport it to the Artic where is will "hopefelly" remain frozen forever. In the last scene we see "The Blob" strapped to a pallet as it is gently lowered to the frozen wasteland by parachute. Then the clouds morph into a giant question mark. As if to ask... Will it remain frozen? Apparently we aren't supposed to question the need for parachutes so it can be "safely" lowered it to the ice cap. After all nobody would want to cause any. Harm to the horrible monster they were trying to destroy.