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The Stuff
Why this pick
Like The Blob, it turns an ordinary-looking goo into a fast-moving small-town nightmare, balancing creature-feature gross-out fun with sly social satire.
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MOVIE1958 1h 26m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Deadly Spawn
Why this pick
A scrappy, effects-forward alien-monster movie with the same tactile creature-feature appeal, escalating danger, and youthful underdogs facing disbelief.
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The Tingler
Why this pick
Its lurid color, eager pacing, and playful drive to make the audience squirm closely echo the cheerful, old-school monster-matinee spirit of The Blob.
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The Creeping Terror
Why this pick
This ultra-low-budget cult creature feature similarly sends an amorphous extraterrestrial threat through a community, delivering pure drive-in B-movie oddity.
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The H-Man
Why this pick
Released the same year, this eerie radiation-creature tale shares The Blob’s anxiety about unstoppable contamination and its fondness for vividly physical monster effects.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A mysterious creature from another planet, resembling a giant blob of jelly, lands on earth. The people of a nearby small town refuse to listen to some teenagers who have witnessed the blob's destructive power. In the meantime, the blob just keeps on getting bigger.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
John Benson
Sgt. Jim Bert
Robert Fields
Tony Gressette
Anthony Franke
Al
Pamela Curran
Unidentified Teenager
Tom Ogden
Phil the Fire Chief
James Bonnet
'Mooch' Miller
Aneta Corsaut
Jane Martin
Earl Rowe
Lieutenant Dave