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Trivia: The theme to The Blob became a top 40 single, credited to The Five Blobs, one of whom was Burt Bacharach.
How others will see it. This low budget movie is watchable, but has its share of bad acting and stereotypes. It is targeted to teenagers, and depicts adults as squares, save for 'okay' policeman Dave (Earl Rowe) and deadpan doc Steven Chase.
The Blob is a curiousity. Fans of Steve McQueen and 'B' movie horror might enjoy it, and tame eye candy is provided by young Corsaut. Still, one can do much better. Even the 1988 remake is superior.
There is a category of movie audience that enjoys campy cinema. As bad movies go, The Blob is pretty good. If you watch it to snicker, as if it is Plan Nine From Outer Space, you might actually slip and begin to enjoy it for what it is, a wooden but likeable diversion.
How I felt about it. This movie has exactly two tiny subplots that don't involve our misunderstood youths: A policeman on the night shift plays chess, and a doctor tries to defend the honor of his nurse from the hungry and threatening blob.
Other than that, it's all McQueen, his girlfriend, her tot brother, and their cute little puppy dog. And McQueen's hoodlum-in-training friends, who only need the Sharks to show up to provide an incentive to form gangs and turf the small town.
One thing that would be very different if the film were made today: the role of the girlfriend. In the 1958 movie, she's angel-sweet, incorruptible, and achingly loyal to McQueen and his cause of town crier. She's also nearly completely passive, aside from her motherly instincts for the pup dog and her kid brother.
In the 1988 remake, her role was expanded closer into action figure heroics, and if The Blob was remade again today, she'd be the one kicking Blob ass (if such a thing exists), while McQueen's confrontations with local authorities would be angry rather than apologetic. Trust in authority and propensity toward violence in both genders might indicate a decline in civilization, or at least civility. Or perhaps, it just makes more interesting cinema.