The Blob rolls into Shadow's B-Movie Graveyard

[Shadow]

As part of the The Blob Family Picnic Roundtable, the Graveyard is featuring the original version
of THE BLOB!

Read it HERE.



Be warned, its a long one.

And kudos to Kevin from WTF-Film for the awesome image used on the roundtable's superoaker page.

[Mr. DS]

Another fine piece of work sir!   The caption "Meteor Sh*t" made me laugh out loud. 

[Shadow]

AHA! I was wondering if anyone was going to get that one.

[Andrew]

As I've maintained, this film traumatized me as a child.  The idea of an amorphous monster that can easily enter a locked room and then slowly dissolve you is terrifying.  Oh, and if you scream from the pain of being dissolved, you will find yourself choking on Blob as its digestive acids burn into your throat.

Poking any meteor from outer space will be accomplished with a regulation ten-foot pole, thank you very much (and I'll be ready to drop it immediately, should the thing being poke begin to travel up the pole).

[Jordan]

You know, I've seen two other non-Blob films where someone pokes something with a stick and pays the price: In Toho's "Space Amoeba," Kenji Sahara's character, Makoto Obata, pokes at the titular space creature with a stick. It soon engulfs his body, invades his mind, and takes control of him. A similar situation occurs in "Slither" when Grant Grant (Michael Rooker) pokes a slug-like creature with a stick and gets hit with a mutation-causing "harpoon" for being an annoyance. Sheesh, you'd think that after the Blob came out, people would realize that you shouldn't poke anything strange with a stick, including "meteor s**t."