The Blob (1958)

In a small Pennsylvania town, a meteor crashes in the countryside. An old man (Olin Howland) discovers it and a gelatinous substance from the meteor attaches itself to him. Two teenagers (Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut) discover the injured man and take him to a doctor. But the "blob" gobbles up humans and increases in size. Directed by Irvin Yeaworth, the film has grown into a cult favorite in the ensuing years but I just found it rather silly and poorly acted. The young Steve McQueen is appealing but you'd never guess from his work here that he would be one of the biggest male stars in Hollywood in the 1960s. The blob itself is rather cool looking, sort of like a rolling piece of raspberry jam. But honestly, the 1988 remake is far superior as a horror film than this blobby (pun intended) piece of kitsch (it's not bad enough to qualify as camp). The kind of movie where all the teenagers look 30 something. The awful title song was written by the great Burt Bacharach but hey, we all have to start out somewhere. With Robert Fields and Pamela Curran.