azathothpwiggins Steve(n) McQueen and Aneta Corsaut star as the young couple who encounter the titular absorber of human flesh. Of course, no one believes their story about the marauding monster, especially a particularly peevish cop. From the glorious opening song, to the trapped-in-the-diner finale, THE BLOB delivers pure, unmitigated entertainment! For a creature feature from the 1950's, this one exhibits a fairly gruesome creature (it dissolves its victims in itself, turning deep red in the process!), and a relatively high body count. My personal favorite piece of prodigious protoplasm...

rodrig58 They say it's jelly but, have they taste it, how do they know it's jelly? It looks more like s..t to me and, it looks like lots of people liked the film so, s..t sells. Steve McQueen, in one of his first roles, he is OK, he's trying to look as credible and realistic possible. But the whole film is just a bad joke, a stupid story for stupid people.

dncorp It is now 59 years later, I had to watch The Blob 1958. As the idiots at NASA that do not have a Level 6 Quarantine Facility at some remote island are slapping themselves on the back, as NASA Space Probes are being sent to collect samples from other Planets, Asteroids, Meteorites, without any concerns for possible Earth Ending Events caused by these so called NASA "Geniuses".We don't need NASA to bring back Space Herpes (Spaceballs 1987), The Andromeda Strain 1971 microorganism, The Blob 1958 and 1988, The Night of the Living Dead 1968 zombie virus, and many more, we have enough problems with "Scientists" searching to dig up corpses with live Spanish Flu viruses, "Scientists" digging under Mayan Temples with sealed tombs filled with those that died of something that may have wiped out the Mayans in the area, "Scientists" digging up frozen Pre Historic animals that may contain dormant frozen Pre Historic Pathogens, Deadly Micro Organisms, Parasites, flesh eating bacteria.Supposedly there is going to be a 2017 Remake of The Blob. Should have a NASA Spacecraft like NASA's OSIRIS-REx bring back a sample that turns into THE BLOB 2017 devouring all the idiot "Scientists" at NASA as a consequence of their Stupid.

christopher-underwood Of course, what should have happened is that I should have seen this on original release when I was in my early teens and then undoubtedly I would have been a fan for life. Coming at it so late, even in 4K restoration Blu-ray there is something rather lacking. As I am finding with many of these wonderfully restored prints from the 50s and 60s, it is the colourful and glistening period cars that outshine much else. I always have a bit of a problem with US teen movies where the actors are at least twice the age they should be. And they shout and act as if they cannot act. Even Steve McQueen is a bit shaky in this but then I guess he doesn't really mature as an actor/star for another ten years. The titular 'blob' is okay - I like the way it squeezes through vents and under doors and yes, the scenes withe cinema and diner are iconic but it never gets to the size I was expecting. I realise these comments are irrelevant to those who watched this through their fingers back in the day but coming to this fresh, Blu-ray or not, is rather torturous, I'm afraid.