Steve McQueen's a teenager in this one? Uh-huh.
For an A-list 1950s sci-fi horror film, this is strangely disappointing. I'm not faulting it for being dated because the effects, for what they are, are actually pretty good. There just isn't enough of them. We really never get a good, long look at the Blob, and when it does appear, there's just never a sense of real danger. For a much better film, I'd recommend the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." That movie has a much higher sense of immediacy and paranoia about it that "The Blob" sorely needs.
For an A-list 1950s sci-fi horror film, this is strangely disappointing. I'm not faulting it for being dated because the effects, for what they are, are actually pretty good. There just isn't enough of them. We really never get a good, long look at the Blob, and when it does appear, there's just never a sense of real danger. For a much better film, I'd recommend the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." That movie has a much higher sense of immediacy and paranoia about it that "The Blob" sorely needs.