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The Blob
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
1958 · Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. · 82 min · Horror · Science Fiction · 11 frames
Tagline
It crawls. It creeps. It eats you alive!
Crew
- Screenplay: Theodore Simonson, Kay Linaker
- Cinematography: Thomas E. Spalding
- Edited by: Alfred Hillmann
- Music: Ralph Carmichael
- Produced by: Jack H. Harris
Cast
- Steve McQueen as Steve Andrews
- Aneta Corsaut as Jane Martin
- Earl Rowe as Lt. Dave
- Olin Howland as The Old Man
- Stephen Chase as Dr. T. Hallen
- John Benson as Sgt. Jim Bert
- George Karas as Officer Ritchie
- Lee Payton as Kate
- Elbert Smith as Henry Martin
- Hugh Graham as Mr. Andrews
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Tonylyn Productions Inc., Valley Forge Films, Fairview Productions
- Budget: $110,000
- Box office: $4,000,000
- Themes: small town, monster, halloween, film in film, blob, meteorite, town in panic, missing person, nostalgic, good cop bad cop
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