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Genres:
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Horror /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Chuck Russell
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Actors:
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Donovan Leitch,
Joe Seneca,
Del Close,
Ricky Paull Goldin,
Sharon Spelman,
Kevin Dillon,
Shawnee Smith,
Jeffrey DeMunn,
Candy Clark,
Paul McCrane,
Beau Billingslea,
Art LaFleur,
Robert Axelrod,
Bill Moseley,
Frank Collison
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Duration:
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95 min.
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Rating:
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(5.8/10)53
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Plot Summary:
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Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi upon a nocuous blob from another planet which consumes all in its path. Teenagers try in vein to inform the townsfolk, who rebuff to take them gravely.
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Tags:
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Blob, The
An amorphous gob of cherry-red jelly threatens to engulf a hicksville US town - and only Steve McQueen, playing a wrinkly looking teenager, stands in its way
This cult sci-fi nonsense gave McQueen his first starring role (aged 28) - alongside a mass of overwhelmingly threatening, gelatinous goo. McQueen plays misunderstood teenager Steve Andrews, whose story of a monstrous parasitic entity threatening to engulf his town falls on deaf ears among the older folk. As the blob claims further victims, he rallies his friends to convince the adults and defeat the slime with er, dry ice.
As with many sci-fi films of its time, The Blob's redly menacing incursion into small town America reflects the anti-Communist fear and loathing of McCarthy era. Whatever the...
I'm melting...I'm melting.....
Chuck Russell is and has always been an inventive the man. Cryptic behind the splattering of blood and guts lies a brooding and artistic master. The Blob, a remake of a b movie (in sundry ways the remake is smooth a b movie - but grade A), lures you into a false feel of security. The foot in the door sequences of a very much piddling city are splendidly discharge and an eerie soundtrack ads to the bod up. You are introduced to the usual suspects - The leading actress, the actor, the the long arm of the law chief, the hobo, the mechanic etc in whispers and efficiently in the presence of hitting you with a speeding train broad of brains and entrails. I loved this film when I was younger and with a certain nostalgic view at rest call to mind a consider it holds up in this day. The speci...
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