Fifties camp classic. Not as good as you'd like it to be, with a slow pace and a stilted supporting cast, but that one-of-a-kind monster and catchy Burt Bacharach theme make it a watchable neo-classic of its era.

* Casting, Acting : 5 * Script : 4 * Directing, Aura : 3 * Ease of Viewing : 2 * Naked Eye : 3

Best watched while eating jello.

So crude and at times humorous.....a young Steve McQueen is the highlight here.

It's a 50's horror movie to the core.

Enjoyable for what it is: 50's B-Movie Horror

Would have been way better with a little more blob and a little less dialogue.

This must've been one of the first horror movies I've ever seen and I still vividly remember most scenes. The Blob is a classic flick that (naturally) cannot measure up in today's age. It's still kinda endearing and corny enough to elicit a few good chuckles, and if you have the chance, I recommend a double feature with the awesome, gross-out 80s remake.

A fun, campy competent creature feature.

Hey it's not the best movie ever made, but The Blob is by far one the coolest 'monsters' ever!

Classic 50's Sci-Fi. Fun all around. Love the movie theatre sequence.

it's one of the numerous ludicrous monster movies that may have once caused quite a terror among it's audience, but today's movie goers will find it cheesy kitschy and subsequently to a degree that is utterly humorous. mcqueen is a waste of screen time and even standing as one of the most widely remembered monster movies out of the era you're time would be better spent elsewhere.

The teens being ignored by the police because they're just silly teenagers with their practical jokes and whatnot is played above and beyond breaking point to the extent that you end up almost screaming at the TV. The film is extremely cheesy without being desperately fun but instead mostly being quite annoying. There are a few entertaining bits and the blob slipping under doors and sliding through gratings is very cool but for the most part it is just very dull.

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Silly little '50s horror film about strawberry jam that kills people. Kind of panders to teenagers without actually casting any of them, by positioning the kids as being the only voices of reason when surrounded by skeptical adults. Steve McQueen looks every one of his 28 (at the time) years, which complicates him playing a teenager. Accidentally becomes relevant for modern times with the last line. Still, it's cheap and silly, valuable only for the kitsch.

I love these kinds of movies, and I think "The Blob" is above average for that type. I found it genuinely scary in many places, tense and dramatic in others.

A little old, a little corny, but such good background characters! The policemen, the parents, the garage man, the bar tender... I loved how characters with a minute of screen time or less seemed as well developed (or better) than the major ones. Not what one expects from a "horror" movie, but it was a plesant surprise. My complaints would be that the climax music is sad, not tense, and that the romantic scenes are not at all natural.

Hearkens back to a simpler time in American history. When greasers in their mid-thirties still referred to each other as "kids" and were constantly being harassed by the police (also in their mid-thirties) who they still called "daddy-o". Into this peaceful slice of Americana, comes a nameless horror bent on the destruction of anyone that stands in its way. An unspeakable horror we call...Steve McQueen.

Almost comical it that bad.