The Blob
It crawls. It creeps. It eats you alive!
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size.
- Director
- Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
- Signature
- Tension · Wonder · Craft
- Worldwide
- $4M
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Cast
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A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Blob returned 36.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $110,000
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $4M
- Release date
- Sep 10, 1958
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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