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It grossed $8,247,943 at the box office. An article in the May 27, 1989 Screen International reported that the film's domestic box-office gross was "disastrous." On Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, The Blob holds a 71% approval rating based on 31 critic reviews and an average rating of 5.9/10. The consensus reads: "The Blob can't replicate the B-movie charms of the original, though its fast pace and gory thrills pack enough of a punch to make it a worthwhile update." Film critic and historian Leonard Maltin gave the film two out of a possible four stars, describing it as a, "Needless, if undeniably gooey, remake about a man-made what's-it that wipes out the standard number of vagrants…
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60 of 254 · most liked firstOh, also in recent movie news, I got some friends of mine to watch both the original of The Blob and the 80s version. They liked them both! Still crowd pleasers to this day, even if the original has like 40 year olds pretending to be high schoolers. #horrorsky #filmsky #nowwatching
positive · AI labelView post →Good morning, Horror Fam. We spoke on The Blob and its remake yesterday - how do we feel about Dawn of the Dead (1978) and its 2004 remake? I'll be honest, I'm positive in both but I think the '78 is a classic. What's your favorite flavor of zombie movie? #horrorsky #filmsky #nowwatching
neutral · AI labelView post →While most folks are talking about Chuck Russell's directorial efforts like THE MASK, NIGHTMARE ON ELMSTREET 3, and THE BLOB, for my money his script for DREAMSCAPE was a *huge* inspiration for me & proved incredibly formative. My God, what a rad movie full of big ideas. Chuck was an amazing writer.
neutral · AI labelView post →By the end of the movie I actually found myself agreeing with the Blob
positive · AI labelView post →There should be a law that every 25 years there's a new remake of The Blob but it's a metaphor for whatever our current Big Fear™ is. Every movie should become a time capsule for the period in which it is made so that when placed side by side they can act as a cultural fear archeological timeline.
neutral · AI labelView post →"I seen the fuckin glob." "I think everyone's actually calling it a blob.." - scene I'm imagining from the movie The Blob
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a horror movie crush from your past! Shawnee Smith as Meg Penny in ‘The Blob’ (1988) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 68 years ago today (September 10, 1958), "The Blob" premiered in US theatres! Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., the film stars Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Stephen Chase & John Benson. BEWARE OF THE BLOB!!! #Horror #TheBlob #16mmInferno
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 The Blob (1988) By Devon Whitehead
neutral · AI labelView post →A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) concludes my mini Chuck Russell marathon. This film ties with The Blob as my favorite from the director/writer
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched the 1958 version of The Blob, and they defeat the blob (spoiler alert) by freezing it and dropping it in the Arctic. The last line of the movie is: “We should be safe, as long as the Arctic stays cold.” OH NO
neutral · AI labelView post →Post a remake you love... The Blob (1988) dir. Chuck Russell
neutral · AI labelView post →#watched THE BLOB (1988) The script is quite clever and full of good misdirection, setting up and paying off both comedically and horrorifically. This one deserved better at the box office. #horrormovies #monsters
positive · AI labelView post →I have now seen THE BLOB. The (in)famous b-movie that launched Steve McQueen's career and dozens of not hundreds of blob jokes and spoofs! It's not a *great* movie, but it's not a bad one either, and it's RIDICULOUSLY unique, interesting, and weirdly important. 🧵
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie is a classic sci-fi that's on YouTube: The Blob (1958)! Stars Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Stephen Chase, John Benson, & Olin Howland. Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. & Russell S. Doughten Jr. Music by Ralph Carmichael. #movies 🎬 #NowWatching #scifi
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 26/100 of Horror Movie Watches: *The Blob (1988) *Resident Evil (2002) *Practical Magic (1998) *House of Wax (1957)
neutral · AI labelView post →Chuck Russell (A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors, The Blob) is back this year with WITCHBOARD, a remake of Kevin S. Tenney’s same-titled movie from 1986. And it's just received an "R" rating.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Blob and A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors director Chuck Russell is back this year with WITCHBOARD, a remake of Kevin S. Tenney’s same-titled movie from 1986. The brand new trailer has arrived today to conjure up bad magic.
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 7/100 of Horror Movie Watches: *Halloween (1978) *Deadstream (2022) *The Blob (1958) *It Comes at Night (2017) Bonus nighttime watch: *Circle (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Blob (1958). Steve McQueen is 28, playing 17, looking 40.
neutral · AI labelView post →this movie just gave me a similar experience as when i watched The Blob for the first time: “Hey this isn’t half bad!” “Wait this might actually be great!” “I’m literally obsessed with this” “Oh my god this is the best movie I’ve ever seen” genuine movie magic. 11/10 perfection
neutral · AI labelView post →This rock reminded me of the Blob coming to swallow me up… anyone else remember that campy, old movie? 🍿 #landscapephotography #photography #monochrome #on1pics
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #289 (screwed up the numbering yet again 😅) "The Blob" (Chuck Russell/1988) Russell's incredible remake/reimagining of the 1958 classic! Filled with awesome practical effects. Fans of sci-fi/horror need to check this out!
positive · AI labelView post →RIP. The Blob was such a formative experience for me. The first R-rated movie I ever saw. Made the second best NOES film. The Mask is a blast. And I thought his Witchboard remake last year was a lot of fun.
positive · AI labelView post →#Shocktober The Blob (1988) - on 35mm one of my all time faves on the big screen, what a treat. This movie really has everything - great dialogue, characters, effects, gore, action. And of course Shawnee Smith, whom … my god the crush I had on her in this movie as a kid. She’s such a badass.
positive · AI labelView post →Today's horror rec is the 1988 remake of the Blob. Everyone talks about the remake of the Thing and the Fly, but this easily deserves to stand up there as well. Great small town horror film with a threat so much larger, and not afraid to go in directions you wouldn't expect. #HalloweenRecs
positive · AI labelView post →The 1958 Horror Movie the Blob was filmed here fineartamerica.com/featured/the...
neutral · AI labelView post →#HalloweenMovieRec Day 20 The Blob Everyone talks about the Fly and the Thing as great 80s remakes, but the Blob should definitely be included among them. Really makes a pile of goo seem terrifying and constantly goes in directions you think it won't. This is one film where no one is safe.
positive · AI labelView post →Finally watching The Blob (1988) and I didn't know this movie was so.... Soft...
negative · AI labelView post →And as we approach the holiday, please bear in mind.... The Blob is, basically, a Thanksgiving movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #101 "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" (Chuck Russell/1987) The best ANoES sequel in this guy's opinion. Also, what a one-two punch Chuck Russell had with this and the 1988 remake of The Blob!
neutral · AI labelView post →Settling in now to watch 👀 this evenings film entertainment 🎬📽🩸🍿 Beware! The Blob A 1972 An independent science fiction comedy horror film directed by none other than Larry Hagman #movieSky #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →You know how, in the movie The Blob, they finally freeze the Blob and cart it off to the Arctic, and Steve McQueen says we'll be safe from the Blob "as long as the Arctic stays cold"? We're screwed, aren't we?
neutral · AI labelView post →Another rewatch this evening and I am staying in the B-movie sphere, with a rewatch of the excellent The Blob (1988, USA) - Chuck Russell 🎥 #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Currently watching The Blob!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Omg! Liz Truss has her very own ‘Romaines of the day’ film out called ‘The Blob’. Could it get any fucking worse?!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Blob |1988 www.imdb.com/title/tt0094... 📽️ #NowWatching #filmsky #horrormovies ·a deadly entity from space crash-lands near a small town and begins consuming everyone in its path. panic ensues as shady government scientists try to contain the horrific creature·
neutral · AI labelView post →Here’s to the most incongruous movie theme tune ever. 🎵’It creeps and leaps and glides and slides across the floor … beware of The Blob!’ 🎵
neutral · AI labelView post →Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists the Best and Worst Sci-Fi Movies: The Blob, Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey & More
neutral · AI labelView post →Scott Nicolay reworked his original essay for the very first Stories From The Borderland entry about The Slime; this story was the inspiration for the 1958 film The Blob! Here’s my updated drawing for the entry. Read the full essay here: www.theouterdark.org/sftb-archive...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Blob (1988) for the first time and this is the best dog I've ever seen in a movie
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's film The Blob (1988)
neutral · AI labelView post →Saturday afternoons in my hometown growing up was Monster movie matinee! How terrified I was of the Blob,and 50 ft woman.😆😅😄 #scarymovies
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday The Blob - Not enough Blob. Great theme tune. Touch of Evil - Welles shines in this film noir Elevator to the Gallows - I too want to be soundtracked by Miles Davis walking the streets of Paris
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, hell yeah, The Blob (1988) is on youtube again. That's a movie with some of my favorite practical effects in horror. I'm definitely watching it tonight.
positive · AI labelView post →I really liked the movie “The Blob” as a kid. My dad and i would get b-movie dvds and make fun of them. The Blob was my favorite because it had a jazzy theme song and the dialogue was very charming.
positive · AI labelView post →I know I'm a little late to the party but Chuck Russell's 80s version of THE BLOB is quite superb. Perhaps even phenomenal. It's been a while since I've seen a film that good.
positive · AI labelView post →Halloween Movie-a-thon Day 8 Night of The Living Dead (1990) and The Blob (1988)
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie monster The Blob, not the X-Men character.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sad news. The Blob is both a great film and a credit to the concept of how remakes could work. And Dream Warriors did bring new ideas to the Freddy franchise, which figured out its formula much earlier than like Friday the 13th.
positive · AI labelView post →"they should make a Kirby movie!!!" they did, it's called The Blob (1988)
neutral · AI labelView post →Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists the Best and Worst Sci-Fi Movies: The Blob, Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey & More
neutral · AI labelView post →Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists the Best and Worst Sci-Fi Movies: The Blob, Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey & More
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie The Blob is about the dangers of self pleasure, people being consumed by cummies
neutral · AI labelView post →Two more days until THE BLOB! We got Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch, and Tony Gardner all coming for Q&A. You gonna join us? www.lookcinemas.com/glendale/mov...
neutral · AI labelView post →I just walked 1 mile to my local movie theater to watch The Blob (1958). The last line was something like: "As long as the Arctic stays frozen, we should be safe." 🫠🧊🔴 I love my 15 minute city. It isn't a conspiracy. It's just convenient. #StopDriving #GlobalHeating #FossilFuel #15MinuteCity
neutral · AI labelView post →Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists the Best and Worst Sci-Fi Movies: The Blob, Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey & More
neutral · AI labelView post →CW: #vore #digestion Watching the Blob remake from the 80s must have rewired my brain and how I enjoy bulges, imprints and digestion. It’s like a rite of passage. It’s a horrifying film, but it leaves a strong impression and I want to capture that vibe and turn into something mischievous and fun.
positive · AI labelView post →31 days of spooky things I like day 6: The Blob (1988) is probably the single best remake of a horror film in existence. It's better than the original in every way, and also scared the bejesus out of me as a child. It's still deeply uncomfortable even up to this day, the special effects are amazing
positive · AI labelView post →Just saw a "body horror" list that included Demons and The Blob. Body Horror doesnt mean "bad things happen to your body" or else every Friday the 13th movie would qualify.
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