--- product_id: 15358024 title: "The Blob (1958)" price: "133 zł" currency: PLN in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.pl/products/15358024-the-blob-1958 store_origin: PL region: Poland --- # The Blob (1958) **Price:** 133 zł **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Blob (1958) - **How much does it cost?** 133 zł with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pl](https://www.desertcart.pl/products/15358024-the-blob-1958) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description THis sci-fi classic follows the story of a shapeless, flesh-dissolving mass that emerges from a fallen meteor and grows larger with each victim it absorbs. Review: "The Blob" was unique in every way. - Everything about “The Blob”(1958) is a bit unusual. It was an independent film made by a regional film distributor as producer and an ordained Methodist minister as director, whose studio made short films for religious groups and churches. It was filmed in small towns around Philadelphia, not Hollywood, because that’s where producer Jack H. Harris and director Irwin Yeaworth were headquartered. It featured future superstar Steve McQueen in his first starring role. It was filmed in color, something unheard of in the world of low-budget sci-fi films. It almost never found a distributor until Paramount decided they needed a co-feature for their upcoming “I Married a Monster From Outer Space.” They paid enough for distribution rights for the filmmakers to have 300 copies of the film made by Deluxe Color Lab. The little film became something everybody was talking about and eventually grossed four million on its one hundred thousand dollar budget. There is even a Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition, a real surprise to me and something I added to my collection. Not everyone will want to get the blu-ray, but desertcart is streaming the Criterion version and the images are clear and the color is perfect. One thing to note here is that with classic films, Criterion has opted to create a grained image rather than a super sharp, polished look. As the premier company for cinema fans, they have done this to exactly duplicate the look of the film when it was released. Harris had been inspired by a newspaper article about “star jelly”, a gelatinous substance found frequently after meteor showers. In 1950, four Philadelphia policemen found a disc-shaped mass of it, six feet in diameter, which dissolved when they tried to collect it. They chalked it up as some kind of industrial waste, but one can easily imagine Harris thinking, “ What if it was alive? What if it attacked people and absorbed them, growing bigger each time?” He had also been impressed with Howard Hawks “The Thing From Another World”, which showed that a good film could be made with a sci-fi idea. He contacted Yeaworth, who he knew owned local Valley Forge Studio and was familiar with the good quality of their short films. Perhaps surprisingly, Yeaworth was all for the idea, wanting to show that he could make a full length feature film. A screenplay was written by Theodore Simonson and rewritten by former actress and current television screenwriter Kay Linaker. Only casting remained. Most of the cast were actors who had had small roles in film and were now finding work in television. But how did they get Steve McQueen, one of the aspects of the film that makes it notable? McQueen was not known yet and was bouncing back and forth between Broadway and Hollywood taking small roles. Coincidentally, he was about to become much better known when later in the fall, “Wanted: Dead or Alive” would premier on television. At 28, he looks much too old to be a teenager, as do the actors who play his girlfriend and friends. I just ignore that description of them and see them as some local young adults. It doesn’t change anything. The late 50s was a time when everyone had become aware of the decade’s fads, fancies and tropes, and science fiction movies, creatures from outer space and teenagers were among its biggest themes. “The Blob” managed to come up with a truly new “monster” after a seemingly endless cycle of giant mutated animals and unfriendly aliens in cheap black and white films often played tongue in cheek. Sheb Wooley’s song,“The Purple People Eater” had been #1 on the Billboard charts for six weeks in early summer. Harris was very savvy in promoting the film, and commissioned a teen pop song to open the film from young unknown songwriters Burt Bacharach and Mack David (Hal’s brother). This was over the furious objections of both Yeaworth and the score composer Ralph Carmichael, who had written some scary music for the opening credits. The song became a top 40 hit and gave the film instant publicity whenever it was played. It made going to see “The Blob” a thing for teens to do and soon everybody was seeing it. Comedians and radio personalities joked about it and it became one of the big fads of the moment. After that silly song opening, however, the film is played totally straight and serious without a single wink or chuckle and successfully combines both sci-fi and teenage elements. As it opens, Steve Anderson is out on a date with his girlfriend Jane Martin and you know it’s the fifties by Steve’s nice shirt and the yellow striped dress and pearls she is wearing. They are in his blue Plymouth convertible sharing a kiss. They find an old man in pain from a strange substance wrapped around his arm. They take him to the local doctor and things spiral out of control from there. A few notes for new potential viewers. The movie is slow by modern standards, especially for a sci-fi/horror movie. The reason is the small budget and limited special effects. Except in the beginning when it is small, the blob is shown in its own cut-away shots as there was no budget to make an actual gigantic creature. In the theater we see the blob oozing out of the projection booth but never in the audience. This was not MGM shooting “Forbidden Planet” with a gigantic budget and the viewer has to imagine some goings on that would be CGI today. The Blob is never quite explained: is it an animal? A sentient being? Is it a hostile invader or is it merely hungry? The blob’s actions are also odd. Sometimes it almost seems to stand up and move forward rather than ooze along the way you’d expect a gelatinous mass to move. It also seems to be amazingly fast at times, like when it goes from a hilltop lover’s lane to the town seemingly as fast as the cars. It also assimilates and eats people with lightning speed. Still, making a few allowances for the era, it’s a fine film that has held up well, a great memento of the late fifties. THIS PARAGRAPH REVEALS THE ENDING (SPOILER!) The blob is finally frozen then blown to bits which are collected and sent by plane to the Arctic. A now prescient conversation takes place. Police Lt. Dave Barton: “Take it to the Arctic where it will never thaw out. At least we got it stopped.” Steve: “At least as long as the Arctic stays cold”. Review: recommend this seller - great product, great seller ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B000AQKU72 | | Actors | Aneta Corsaut, John Benson, Julie Cousins, Stephen Chase, Steve McQueen | | Best Sellers Rank | #28,008 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #532 in Science Fiction DVDs | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,507) | | Director | Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | | Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No | | Item model number | 9801 | | MPAA rating | Unrated (Not Rated) | | Media Format | Dolby, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Widescreen | | Number of discs | 1 | | Product Dimensions | 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 ounces | | Release date | January 15, 2003 | | Run time | 1 hour and 30 minutes | | Studio | Thrill Kill | ## Product Details - **Format:** Dolby, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Widescreen - **Genre:** Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy - **Language:** English - **Runtime:** 1 hour and 30 minutes ## Images ![The Blob (1958) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71EYklE-qGL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The Blob" was unique in every way. *by J***F on July 15, 2024* Everything about “The Blob”(1958) is a bit unusual. It was an independent film made by a regional film distributor as producer and an ordained Methodist minister as director, whose studio made short films for religious groups and churches. It was filmed in small towns around Philadelphia, not Hollywood, because that’s where producer Jack H. Harris and director Irwin Yeaworth were headquartered. It featured future superstar Steve McQueen in his first starring role. It was filmed in color, something unheard of in the world of low-budget sci-fi films. It almost never found a distributor until Paramount decided they needed a co-feature for their upcoming “I Married a Monster From Outer Space.” They paid enough for distribution rights for the filmmakers to have 300 copies of the film made by Deluxe Color Lab. The little film became something everybody was talking about and eventually grossed four million on its one hundred thousand dollar budget. There is even a Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition, a real surprise to me and something I added to my collection. Not everyone will want to get the blu-ray, but Amazon is streaming the Criterion version and the images are clear and the color is perfect. One thing to note here is that with classic films, Criterion has opted to create a grained image rather than a super sharp, polished look. As the premier company for cinema fans, they have done this to exactly duplicate the look of the film when it was released. Harris had been inspired by a newspaper article about “star jelly”, a gelatinous substance found frequently after meteor showers. In 1950, four Philadelphia policemen found a disc-shaped mass of it, six feet in diameter, which dissolved when they tried to collect it. They chalked it up as some kind of industrial waste, but one can easily imagine Harris thinking, “ What if it was alive? What if it attacked people and absorbed them, growing bigger each time?” He had also been impressed with Howard Hawks “The Thing From Another World”, which showed that a good film could be made with a sci-fi idea. He contacted Yeaworth, who he knew owned local Valley Forge Studio and was familiar with the good quality of their short films. Perhaps surprisingly, Yeaworth was all for the idea, wanting to show that he could make a full length feature film. A screenplay was written by Theodore Simonson and rewritten by former actress and current television screenwriter Kay Linaker. Only casting remained. Most of the cast were actors who had had small roles in film and were now finding work in television. But how did they get Steve McQueen, one of the aspects of the film that makes it notable? McQueen was not known yet and was bouncing back and forth between Broadway and Hollywood taking small roles. Coincidentally, he was about to become much better known when later in the fall, “Wanted: Dead or Alive” would premier on television. At 28, he looks much too old to be a teenager, as do the actors who play his girlfriend and friends. I just ignore that description of them and see them as some local young adults. It doesn’t change anything. The late 50s was a time when everyone had become aware of the decade’s fads, fancies and tropes, and science fiction movies, creatures from outer space and teenagers were among its biggest themes. “The Blob” managed to come up with a truly new “monster” after a seemingly endless cycle of giant mutated animals and unfriendly aliens in cheap black and white films often played tongue in cheek. Sheb Wooley’s song,“The Purple People Eater” had been #1 on the Billboard charts for six weeks in early summer. Harris was very savvy in promoting the film, and commissioned a teen pop song to open the film from young unknown songwriters Burt Bacharach and Mack David (Hal’s brother). This was over the furious objections of both Yeaworth and the score composer Ralph Carmichael, who had written some scary music for the opening credits. The song became a top 40 hit and gave the film instant publicity whenever it was played. It made going to see “The Blob” a thing for teens to do and soon everybody was seeing it. Comedians and radio personalities joked about it and it became one of the big fads of the moment. After that silly song opening, however, the film is played totally straight and serious without a single wink or chuckle and successfully combines both sci-fi and teenage elements. As it opens, Steve Anderson is out on a date with his girlfriend Jane Martin and you know it’s the fifties by Steve’s nice shirt and the yellow striped dress and pearls she is wearing. They are in his blue Plymouth convertible sharing a kiss. They find an old man in pain from a strange substance wrapped around his arm. They take him to the local doctor and things spiral out of control from there. A few notes for new potential viewers. The movie is slow by modern standards, especially for a sci-fi/horror movie. The reason is the small budget and limited special effects. Except in the beginning when it is small, the blob is shown in its own cut-away shots as there was no budget to make an actual gigantic creature. In the theater we see the blob oozing out of the projection booth but never in the audience. This was not MGM shooting “Forbidden Planet” with a gigantic budget and the viewer has to imagine some goings on that would be CGI today. The Blob is never quite explained: is it an animal? A sentient being? Is it a hostile invader or is it merely hungry? The blob’s actions are also odd. Sometimes it almost seems to stand up and move forward rather than ooze along the way you’d expect a gelatinous mass to move. It also seems to be amazingly fast at times, like when it goes from a hilltop lover’s lane to the town seemingly as fast as the cars. It also assimilates and eats people with lightning speed. Still, making a few allowances for the era, it’s a fine film that has held up well, a great memento of the late fifties. THIS PARAGRAPH REVEALS THE ENDING (SPOILER!) The blob is finally frozen then blown to bits which are collected and sent by plane to the Arctic. A now prescient conversation takes place. Police Lt. Dave Barton: “Take it to the Arctic where it will never thaw out. At least we got it stopped.” Steve: “At least as long as the Arctic stays cold”. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ recommend this seller *by D***. on March 4, 2026* great product, great seller ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great vintage movie *by M***E on January 5, 2020* Okay---you would probably have to have grown up in the fifties to truly appreciate this old movie. But it was well worth watching it with the grandkids. They were able to enjoy a creepy movie without being mentally disturbed by graphic scenes, raw footage of killing and bad language. I thoroughly enjoyed the trip down memory lane when I would have spent a whole dime, stood in line and gobbled popcorn while sitting frozen in my seat. There will be those who will miss the joy of that era and see nothing but corny. But I disagree. This was the height of fright while leaving childhood innocence in tact. Grandkids giggled nervously, buried their heads in pillows and LOVED it. Just like in the fifties, they're still talking about it. 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