Night 6 of "The 31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest"

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Here at The Lounge we will have a "31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest". Check back each day to see which movie is featured and some days you may get more than one. They will be a random selection of my favorites. You can see all past selections on the sidebar.

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Make sure to leave a comment for each movie as one lucky person will win their choice of pendant from Laughing Vixen Lounge at the end of the film fest. Please see rules at end of post.

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Night 6...."The Blob"

I love B movies and the old classics are just too fun. This movie is a great example of how fun they can be.

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Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr (The Flaming Teen-Age and 4-D Man) and released on September 12, 1958 by Paramount Studios. While on a date up at Inspiration Point, Steve (Steve McQueen) and Jane (Aneta Corsaut) see a falling star shoot across the night sky and crash in the distance. Clearly more excited by that than by his girlfriend Steve insist they go look for it. Before they get very far they come across an old man wandering in the road with a strange goo on his hand. Steve and Jane leave him at the local doctor's office and head out to see if they can find any information about what happened to him. Upon returning to the doctor's office Steve sees the doctor attack by the strange goo that is quickly growing larger.

Will anyone believe him? Can teenagers be trusted? Will the bumbling townspeople get wise before it's too late? Who can stop....The Blob??!

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This is just plain cheesy fun. The color is great old Technicolor looking. The writing is bad. The acting is bad. The music is priceless.

First off The Blob has it's own theme song playing over the opening credits. "It creeps, and leaps, and glides and slides across the floor" done to a nice little bouncy music track. I love it! It makes me laugh it's so silly.

While Steve McQueen (listed here as Steven) would come to be a fine actor, you would never know from this movie. He is trying so hard to do his best James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. No one is saved from the bad acting bug on this movie but it might have a little something to do with the writing. It's not good. And then, in case you don't know what just happened, the music will help you out. Da Da Daaaaaaa!!!

And these are all the reasons why this movie is so fun. It works on a great B movie level that not all B movies manage to hit. It's great silly fun that will make you laugh!

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Some trivia about the movie...

1. Multiple working titles for this movie included..."The Glob", "The Glob That Girdled the Globe", "The Meteorite Monster", "The Molten Meteorite" and "The Night of the Creeping Dead".

2. The title song, "The Blob", was co-written by Burt Bacharach and can be found on his CD "Look of Love".

3. Paramount originally picked up the "The Blob" to use as the bottom half of a double bill with "I Married a Monster from Outer Space". When they realized that more people were coming to see "The Blob" it was moved to the top billing.

4. The movie being shown at the theater was "Daughter of Horror" which was originally released as "Dementia". The poster that is displayed out front is for a movie entitled "The Vampire and the Robot". The movie isn't real and the poster is fashioned out of the poster for "Forbidden Planet".

5. There was a sequel in 1972 "Beware the Blob" directed by Larry Hagman (Dallas' J.R.) and a remake in 1988 with Kevin Dillon and Donovan Leitch. And I have heard tales of a new remake coming soon!

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