The practical gore effects go a long way to make these kills simply stunning. This movie has been out there just lurking, waiting for me to take it in in order to realize that it features some of the all time greatest kills in horror movie history. Call me ignorant (I was), but I didn’t expect Edgar Wright-ian levels of complex humor from a movie called The Blob. As a for instance, there is an entire comedy scene revolving around some high school boys trying to buy condoms at the local pharmacy, which pays off in one of the funniest reveals I’ve seen in a long time (“ribbed”) a full 10 or 15 minutes later in the film. I’m going to guess that a young Edgar Wright took a fair amount of inspiration from The Blob as his style of horror/comedy in Shaun Of The Dead is probably the closest I can think of to compare this to. Add to that a screenplay co-written by director Chuck Russell ( NOES 3: Dream Warriors, The Mask) and Frank Darabont ( The Shawshank Redemption, The Walking Dead), which deftly interweaves pure visceral horror, hilarious laughs, and rewarding character moments on top of biting societal commentary and surprising twists and turns, and the whole thing feels like a master class in balancing disparate tones wonderfully. More akin to John Carpenter’s The Thing than the 1950s B-monster movies it was spawned from, The Blob features practical make-up effects and clever kills enough to make any horror fan giddy. Were people really that into The Blob? And if so… why?Īs it turns out, The Blob is jaw-drop cinema. But when Twilight Time announced that they would be upping their normal amount of limited edition copies from 3000 to 5000 specifically for their Blu-ray release of The Blob (1988), I took notice. I could go the rest of my life knowing that hundreds of giant monster movies from the 1950s exist, and get joy out of that knowledge, but never quite feel compelled to put them on the top of my viewing queue. You know, like Them!… about giant killer ants. The Blob, if I’m honest, always sounded like B-sci-fi. I don’t remember a time in my life where I wasn’t aware that there is an older film starring Steve McQueen called The Blob, or that there was a remake in the 1980s. I’ve never had an active disinterest in The Blob, per se, but I certainly never placed a high priority on seeing it. The Blob hit Blu-ray in a limited edition release from Twilight Time on Oct.
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