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This 1957 Si-Fi horror movie takes me back to when I was a kid. We were all terrified as we watched this horror unveiled! WOW - were we dumb! This was Steve McQueen's first leading role, as a "bad-boy" teenager in a small town. Out with his girlfriend making-out, a meteor falls from the shy. They try to find it, but an old man finds it first and when he pokes the meteor with a stick, a small "jelly-like" blob falls out. He gets it on his hand, and that's all she wrote! He rushes out into the road and is almost hit by McQueen. They take him to the doctor for help, and the doctor sends them back to the crash sight to look for any clues. The blob is growing, and the doctor decides to amputate the man's arm, but before he can, the blob consumes the old man, the doctor, and his nurse. Steve and his girlfriend return just in time to see it consume the doctor. They try to tell the police, but are not believed. In the mean while, the blob is getting pretty big and consuming everybody it encounters. It squeezes through vents, and door louvers, and through any small space. Nothing will stop it, but it seems to move away from cold. When a lot of people are trapped inside a diner, and the blob now huge, is all over the building. Somebody uses a CO2 extinguisher on it and it retreats. Out of desperation, everybody grabs CO2 extinguishers and they are able to freeze it. An Air Force plane flies it to the North Pole where it is dropped frozen.Read full review
Despite the low-budget and low-tech effects, this Steve Mc Queen sci-fi classic showed him before he shaved regularly, as the promising young version of the great actor he would become during his short lifetime. A solid storyline and nostalgic glimpse of small-town life in America in the late 50's is worth the cost of the DVD alone. This movie still holds up as believable in concept, especially in these times of chemical and biological warfare. This movie has the threat coming from outer space in a fallen "meteorite", but the toxic world in which we live may hold similar unknown substances yet to be born. One you can show the kids without fear, charming in its contrast with todays more explicit carnage, still threatening in its possibility.
What could be better than a 50's horror/sci-fi film about a ... well, a killer blob from outer space? A 50's horror film about a killer blob from outer space - with Steve McQueen! The 1988 remake was pretty good - of course this is coming from an 80's kid so any bad horror movie from the 80's is a classic for me - but no one can come close to Steve McQueen as the bad boy/hero. As usual with 50's horror, the special effect are not scary and the acting is not great but it is a fun movie worth the time and money. Pretty simple story - meteor falls to Earth McQueen and girlfriend see it falling and decide to investigate. They find an old man who is infected with the blob and take him to the doc. Old man gets blobbed, so does the Doc. Police make fun of the kids for their wild story until it is too late when the movie theater gets attacked by the blob. Lots of running, screaming and gooey-Blob-goodness all over the place. Check out the Criterion version if possible - has the best film transfer and extras. But if you just want to watch the movie - and I actually like gritty transfers for better "mood" - pick up any edition. This movie is worth it! Oh and did I mention Steve McQueen is in it? (:Read full review
I saw this movie back in 1958 when it came out. It scared the hell out of my. And more than 50 years later, it is still the scariest movie I have ever seen. An absolute classic sci fi thriller, one of the absolute best of the best. If you can watch this one without turning the light on, nothing will scare you.
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I love this movie, grew up watching Steve McQueen in this movie since I was a kid. I've decided to start buying up movies that I grew up with watching now that most of them are being release in colour. Which is why I also purchased the Crawling Eye and King Kong. It reminded me of those after school specials and the 4.00p movies before Oprah and Eyewitness News took over that time slot some 20+ years ago. There isn't anything about this movie I don't like except I wish they would make a sequel. That would be fantastic. And I wish these Networks would show more classic movies instead of turning it over all to Turner Classic. Especially on Sundays, what a boring, slash your wrist, OD on Nitequil Sundays are for all these Networks. Its a shame. Some of us do not have cable and wish Networks would cut all that political talk and put in good family quality programming besides Degrassi reruns.Read full review