| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| 1958 | USA | USD 4,000,000 |
As the theater audience flees the blob, many of the extras can be seen laughing and smiling.
A crewmember can be seen in front of the box office of the movie theater when the audience is fleeing the blob.
During the backwards drag race, the car exhaust can be seen going back into the exhaust pipes.
The shot of electrical wire that falls on the diner to try to stop the blob is clearly cel animation, not live-action.
Steve and Jane are driving and almost hit the man with the blob on his hand.
The scene changes from night to day when Steve locks up the brakes, then back to night again.
While Steve is talking to Jane after they have snuck out, the smoke from a crew member's cigarette can briefly be seen rising behind him.
Jane's hair doesn't move at all despite the top on the car being down.
Steve doesn't have his headlights on and it's supposedly night time.
Just before Steve and Jane attempt to hide in the freezer, Steve grabs a black steel pole leaning on the wall and hurls it at the Blob; when they come out again, the pole is back where it was originally.
When a shot from outside the diner shows the blob climbing onto it, the diner is clearly only a photograph, as you can see the blob make a clear shadow on the diner, the sky, and the street.
Jane's dress changes from pink to yellow.
Steve is supposed to be a young guy/teenager, yet his wedding ring is clearly visible toward the end of the movie.
In the scene where Steve and Jane sneak out of the house and are talking in the driveway, smoke can be seen rising behind Steve in the lower right hand corner.
When Mr.
Andrews walks into the police station his jacket is cross-buttoned but when the camera pans back to him the jacket is neat and tidy.
When Steve, Jane and their friends are examining the meteorite (Blob's pod), it's clearly still hot as everyone is juggling it around like a hot potato.
As the dialogue continues though, the bloke with the shell just casually continues to hold onto it.
When the doctor pulls back the blanket off the old man, it is clearly visible that the blob is oozing on to the old man's chest.
Then on the closeup, the blob is only on the old man's hand and arm.
The next long shot shows the Blob over the man's chest again.
When Steve and Jane stop to help the old man on the road, The Blob is covering the old man's right hand.
The Blob is supposed to absorb flesh on contact.
However, the old man clearly touches The Blob with his left hand, and that hand is not affected.
At 1:05:01, as the actor awakens and dons clothes, the siren (added in post-production) changes from air raid to fire.
The Director can plainly be heard off screen cuing the actor with "Fire" just before the actor says it.
TV Land Award |
| Best Movie to Watch at the Drive-In |
| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| 1958 | USA | USD 4,000,000 |
Most sequels and remakes or "reimaginations," IMNSHO, are about as necessary and useful as having a second nose growing in the middle of your forehead. (And are just about as pleasant to watch.
I first saw this in the late 80s on a vhs. Revisited it recently.
Whoever thought that something as simple as a blob could gain so much popularity? This the film that launched the career of Steve McQueen.
The blob is back, this time with a bigger budget, a more modern look, and gore. Lots of gore.
This shoddy teen-age horror movie is done so ineptly in every respect that it's immensely entertaining.It isn't a question of what's wrong with it but of finding a short list of things that are right.
The monster is truly hilarious and terrifying in equal measures. The first death is a bit spooky if you think about it, despite it being silly in the actual film.
I had heard the title of this cult classic many times, I knew it had a big star in the leading role, and I knew a little about the concept, it became a big hit in drive-in theatres, it is even shown at a drive- in in the film Grease, so I had to see what it was all about. Basically teenagers Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and his girlfriend Jane Martin (Aneta Corseaut) see a meteorite crash nearby and go to investigate, an Old Man (Olin Howland) finds it first, he pokes it with a stick and the small rock cracks open, releasing an alien jelly-like blob, which attaches itself to his hand.
In this update of the 1958 version of THE BLOB, cheerleader, Meg Penny (Shawnee Smith) and local tough-guy, Brian Flagg (Kevin "Not Matt" Dillon) try to convince the sleepy town of Arborville that an ever-growing, alien mass is devouring its way through the populace. As in the original, no one believes them.
"THE BLOB" (1988, Russell) was one of those big budget remakes of horror and sci-fi films from the 50's and 60's. They were kickstarted, I believe, by the sheer brilliance and success of Philip Kaufman's 1978 "INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS" and immortalised by "THE THING" (1982, Carpenter) and "THE FLY" (1986, Cronenberg).
