It crawls. It creeps. It eats you alive!
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
Director
Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
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Screenplay
Theodore Simonson, Kate Phillips
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Release date
September 10, 1958
Country
United States of America
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Top billed cast
Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, John Benson, Robert Fields
Production companies
Tonylyn Productions Inc., Valley Forge Films, Fairview Productions
Keywords
criterion collection, monster, small town, film in film, blob, meteorite, cult film, town in panic, missing person, good cop bad cop, space monster, fire extinguisher, teenage hero, kid brother, teenage heroine, unkillable monster, people eater, night of horror, high school kids
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