The Blob

1988
R
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

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A deadly entity from space crash-lands near a small town and begins consuming everyone in its path. Panic ensues as shady government scientists try to contain the horrific creature.A deadly entity from space crash-lands near a small town and begins consuming everyone in its path. Panic ensues as shady government scientists try to contain the horrific creature.A deadly entity from space crash-lands near a small town and begins consuming everyone in its path. Panic ensues as shady government scientists try to contain the horrific creature.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

45K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

996

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 7 nominations

Trivia
Chuck Russell and Frank Darabont didn't have a lot of rules for the Blob, but they agreed to the general concept of the creature basically being an inside-out stomach, meaning the acid is burning, melting, and devouring almost everything it touches: "It's a monster in its simplest form. There must be something about this thing that can slide under your door or squeeze through an air vent, or quietly dissolve somebody in the next room, that's very elemental. It just makes monstery sense. It's a fear of the worst death: being eaten."

Goofs
After Paul's arm is torn off and hits the floor, a small rise is visible for a brief moment near the wrist where the actor's real arm goes through the floor.

Quotes
Meg Penny: The front door is locked.
Brian Flagg: [picks up a brick] That's okay, I got a key.

Crazy credits
The credits at the end of the movie are pink colored to match the monster's color.

Alternate versions
Some prints contain an alternate version of Eddie's death; in the DVD print, he rises from the water appearing to be a mass of decayed grey flesh. In the alternate version, he rises from the water as a completely skinless, but obviously human, corpse.

Connections
Featured in Blob Town (2010)

Soundtracks
Brave New Love
Written by Janet Minto, Pam Barlow and Gary Cambra
Performed by Alien
Courtesy of Virgin Scandinavia AB

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Featured review

7/10

An 1980's horror remake to rank among the best

(70%) Along with "The fly", and "The thing", this is a member of a trio of fine remade 1950's B-movies that did a great job of recreating some pretty gross ideas by adding some 80's style gore, yet still keeping the basic premise, as well as maintaining some of the better ideas roughly the same. This is the lesser of the three movies, but the other two are fantastic, while this is just plain good. The plot is well told with enough time on the main characters, but not too much to ruin the pacing, and the effects are really well done throughout with great gore and creature based attacks. Overall though it's just a very entertaining movie to watch that I'd recommend to all horror fans.