The Blob (Criterion Collection)
It crawls. It creeps. It eats you alive!
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DVD Details
- Audio Commentaries by Producer Jack H. Harris and film historian Bruce Eder, and by director Irvin S, Yeaworth Jr. and actor Robert Fields
- Theatrical Trailer
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 14, 2000
- Originally Released: 1958
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Steve McQueen, Aneta Corseaut, Earl Rowe & Olin Howlin | |
Performer: | John Benson & Stephen Chase | |
Directed by | Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr. | |
Edited by | Alfred Hillmann | |
Screenwriting by | Kay Linaker & Theodore Simonson | |
Composition by | Hal David & Ralph Carmichael | |
Produced by | Jack H. Harris | |
Director of Photography: | Thomas Spalding |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
It's exuberant and extraordinary, and just nasty enough.
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Suite101.com
Rating: 2/4 --
oh-no, not jello, NOT JELLO!
sbs.is
Rating: 5/5 --
Rebel Without a Cause for the matinee monster crowd.
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Popcornworld
Rating: 6/10 --
...there's something charming about it, as if all the tacky aspects of the 1950s (and again, I'm talking about the white, squeaky clean, small town 1950s) were distilled into a fast-moving 86 minutes.
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Playback:stl
Arriving from outer space (for which read Russia), a large ball of interstellar snot terrorises a small American town by eating everything in sight.
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Time Out
Unfortunately, [Harris's] picture talks itself to death, even with the blob nibbling away at everybody in sight. And most of his trick effects, under the direction of Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., look pretty phony.
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New York Times
The Blob is one of those B-movies that will always inhabit a warm little nook in the affections of SF fans but, truth be told, it's never quite as fun as it should be.
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SFX Magazine
Description by OLDIES.com:
"Beware of The Blob!" One of the great cult classics, The Blob melds '50s schlock sci-fi and teen delinquency pics even as it transcends these genres with strong performances and ingenious special effects. Made outside of Hollywood by a maverick film distributor, a crew experienced in religious and educational shorts, and a collection of theatrical talent from Philadelphia and New York, The Blob helped launch the careers of superstud Steve McQueen and composer Burt Bacharach.
Product Description:
THE BLOB is one of the quintessential films for lovers of those science-fiction/horror/monster/camp films of the 1950s. A red, gigantic, gooey, gelatinous glob arrives from outer space and proceeds to terrorize a small town. The more it eats, the more it grows. Local teenagers, who have witnessed its obscene display of hunger, are ignored until it seems that it's too late. Can the local bad boy (Steve McQueen, in his first leading role) save his 'burb from the sinister slime--and reform himself in the process' A perennial favorite of Saturday afternoon horror shows, the film is still a joy to watch, as the young McQueen battles his parents and the big protoplasmic hunk of Jell-O.
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TA ,DA,DA.. DA THE BLOB aaarrrggghhh!!!!
Movie Lover: Margaret Barreras from
HUNTINGTON PARK, CA US -- June, 24, 2015
IF YOU ARE A SCI FI GEEK LIKE I AM ??? GET YOUR POPCORN , BEVERAGE OF CHOICE.... AND PREPARE TO BE ENTERTAINED OH YEAH... AND HAVE YOUR MAIN SQUEEZE AT YOUR SIDE... YOU WILL NEED THEM ... BBBUUAAHHAAHAAHAA!!! :):):)
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