Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Woodyanders Teenagers in a small town battle a gelatinous alien life form that grows bigger every time it consumes another victim. Director Irwin S. Yeaworth keeps the enjoyable story moving along at a steady pace, generates a good deal of tension, nicely captures a sleepy rural hamlet atmosphere, and stages the attack scenes with flair (the sequence in a movie theater is a doozy). Steve McQueen in his film debut makes for a likeable hero while Aneta Corsaut lends sturdy support as his sweet girlfriend. The special effects hold up pretty well, with the blob sizing up as a memorably funky monster. Moreover, it's an interesting touch to have a gang of rebellious hotrod-racing teenagers depicted in a heroic manner instead of as the usual bunch of obnoxious troublemakers. Ralph Carmichael's robust score hits the rousing spot. Thomas E. Spalding's vibrant color cinematography provides a pleasing bright look. Insanely catchy and groovy theme song, too. A fun flick.

frankwiener I was alive and even somewhat conscious in 1958, and I don't remember anyone questioning whether the Artic would stay cold as they do today. Can we then claim that this B horror classic was very far ahead of it time?Based on many of these negative reviews, some of you young whippersnappers need to lighten up a bit. You seem to take life and B horror films from the 1950's far too seriously. This film should be rated much better than 6.4 for its sheer entertainment value and for its "cool as a cucumber" star Steve McQueen, who appears as his first lead in a full length Hollywood movie. Without McQueen's charismatic presence, would the film have been as successful and as watchable? I doubt it. Overall, the dialogue is weak and often even laughable, but I liked it anyway and would gladly see it again.The irony of the movie theatre audience watching a B-horror film while being threatened by a very real monster should escape no one. Was it my imagination or did the thing turn red from the blood of its victims? That adds to its yuck factor.Beyond the creepy creature at the center of the horror, I also enjoyed the sub-themes of a younger generation struggling to achieve credibility with the folks in power, especially when the lives of the townspeople depend upon it. I also liked the other sub-theme of the frustration of a police department striving to establish respectability and authority among the people it has been hired to protect. After 60 years, I find both of these themes universal and very relevant to today's world.Has anyone figured out how the cute little doggy managed to escape from the locked supermarket before Steve and Jane made it out? Anyway, I sure hope that it found a good home. Poor little doggy alone in a highly unpredictable world. Who knows what will come out of the sky next?

mark.waltz It looks like the jello off of an Easter ham, but it can swallow you whole. Just because it oozes out of what looks like a giant acorn doesn't mean that it's a nice decoration, as veteran character actor Olin Howland finds out. It's up to the town bad boy (Steve McQueen) to save as many people as he can from becoming blob food, in an above average combination of horror and science fiction that is thrilling, funny, on occasionally romantic, and pretty much the "A Summer Place" of oozing monster movies.Starting with a great musical opening theme that leads into a fun theme song, this grabs you like goo and never lets go. Other than McQueen and a few old timer character players, thus is filled with mediocre actors playing late 20 something teens, but that's an insignificant quibble about a movie that has spawned one decent remake (in 1988) and has another one on the way. To me, it's a higher average cult film, giving the rising star McQueen something that people probably remember him more for than his big hits of the 1960's and '70s.There are plenty of frights that come out of nowhere, the most famous the movie theater scene (delightfully playing a Bela Lugosi film!), and clever ways for the blob to get victims and it's subtle enough in its gory moments to not become unnecessarily gross. The 1988 movie was far more graphic, but expanded the subtext to make it closer to the realities of something big out there beyond our control. I'll give that 6 to this version's 7, but enough is enough as far as a new version. This story needs to remain on deep freeze, taking the lead from the conclusion of this version.

jvance-566-20403 OK, the special effects are crummy but everything else rates above average to excellent.Steve McQueen died young but he showed some extraordinary talent in this early B film where most young thespians find their one-and-only shot and usually fail miserably. McQueen showed off his charisma and skill and took this otherwise unremarkable piece of sci-fi fluff into cult category. He had the undefinable "It" factor that can carry a movie an order of magnitude higher than its face value.The movie, well, what can you say. It's a giant blob of Jello chasing - and often catching - fleeing, delinquent teenagers on a weekend night. Without McQueen, it would just another anonymous 1950s drive-in feature transiently crossing paths with an indifferent audience. But as it is, it thoroughly entertained my 2 young sons who saw it 30 years after it was made and continues to be one of my own favorite cinematic guilty pleasures.Definitely worth a look for anyone who has a free evening and a taste for novelty.NOTE: The fireman in one of the closing scenes who has one deadpan line ("It didn't work") bears a notable resemblance to Bill Murray.