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The Blob
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
1988 · Directed by Chuck Russell · 95 min · Horror · Science Fiction · Thriller · 33 frames
Tagline
Terror has no shape.
Crew
- Screenplay: Chuck Russell, Frank Darabont
- Cinematography: Mark Irwin
- Edited by: Tod Feuerman, Terry Stokes
- Music: Michael Hoenig
- Production design: Craig Stearns
- Produced by: Elliott Kastner, Jack H. Harris
Cast
- Kevin Dillon as Brian Flagg
- Shawnee Smith as Meg Penny
- Donovan Leitch as Paul Taylor
- Jeffrey DeMunn as Sheriff Herb Geller
- Candy Clark as Fran Hewitt
- Joe Seneca as Dr. Meddows
- Del Close as Reverend Meeker
- Paul McCrane as Deputy Bill Briggs
- Sharon Spelman as Mrs. Penny
- Beau Billingslea as Moss Woolsey
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: TriStar Pictures, Palisades California Inc.
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Box office: $8,247,943
- Themes: cold, quarantine, killing, halloween, slime, disgust, comet, alien, playboy, remake
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