Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

SnoopyStyle In rural Pennsylvania, teenagers Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and Jane Martin are parked in his car when a meteorite crashes over the hill. A local hillbilly pokes at it with a stick and goo grabs onto his hand. The teens find the suffering old man and bring him to doctor Hallen in town. It's the start as the blob consumes its victims and grows ever larger.This movie has two things going for it. It's got a good B-horror premise that is executed pretty well. It's also got a young McQueen early in his career. The writing can be clunky and the acting can be uneven. The boy is no picnic. The part I most appreciate is McQueen's self-doubt after the initial police station scene. I also appreciate that the adults are mostly reasonable with that one exception. Even that cop is reasonable in his fiery angriness. The Blob effects are not the most advanced but it does have great camp value. It's notable that the kids are the ones with the truth and the adults are reluctant to believe them. The theater stampede is the big iconic scene and the movie drags on a bit after that. This is a classic although not a classic for the critics.

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.

sol- Emerging from a crashed meteor, a red blob terrorises a small town, increasing in mass with every citizen devoured, in this low budget horror film that attempts to fuse drama and horror elements. The drama is quite decent, with belief in the blob representing a social divide between the cynical adults and open-minded, alienated teenagers of the 1950s, with both groups having to work together to defeat it. The dramatic side of the film leads to much talk and little action though, and whenever the teens engage in daredevil driving or romance, it is an unwelcome distraction from the antagonistic blob. Then again, the blob is never all that fearsome since it is hardly ever seen as we mostly just see characters reacting to it. Also, whenever it is on screen, it looks more cuddly than menacing. As the blob seems to move at a very slow pace, it is additionally difficult to view it as threatening; its only scary moment is when it latches onto a curious elderly farmer who makes the mistake of touching the slow-moving creature. The film is additionally beset by an abrupt ending, a terrible child performance (from Keith Almoney as the heroine's whiny brother) and the awkwardness of everyone calling Steve McQueen a kid when he was 28 at the time of filming... and looks older. Then again, as the only really skilled actor in the midst, McQueen does gives the film some class as one truly feels for his struggle to get the townspeople to believe his wild and fantastic story. The theme song is very catchy too and the film makes for decent repeat viewing, providing one enters with low expectations.

roddekker The Blob was everything that a 1950s Teen/Horror flick should be. It was fun, goofy, contained awful dialog, and, yes, it was even entertaining, in its own cheesy way.A meteorite (from who the hell knows where?) containing a slimy blob of cherry-colored jelly lands just outside the town of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. This jelly-fied substance soon attaches itself to an old man's hand.Before long it completely engulfs the old man (clothes, and all). Then the same fate meets a nurse. And then it's the doctor's turn. And so on, and so forth - Until this once small creature (which acid can't harm) has grown in mass to a truly monstrous size - A size that nicely matches its equally monstrous appetite.Soon (regardless of its size), the blob is squeezing its way through small openings and (with the rapid speed of a true parasite) devouring anything and anyone who dares to stand in its path.In conclusion - One can only wonder what sort of a world the blob came from. I mean, when in its normal habitat, what could it have possibly fed on? This very unique creature was not like any other before it in the history of cinema. It neither had a skeletal structure, nor internal organs, nor a face, nor even a body, for that matter - Yet somehow the damn thing thought, breathed, and existed, and had a ferocious appetite, as well.All-in-all - I enjoyed The Blob.