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The Blob is the titular main antagonist from the 1958 horror film of the same name. Depicted as a red gelatinous amoeba-like space alien that grows bigger by digesting humans and any living thing in its path. The Blob has never been killed in any of its appearances, but can be stopped by freezing it.

Biography[]

The Blob (1958)[]

The Blob comes from a small meteorite that falls on Earth from Outer Space. An old man finds it and pokes the meteorite using a piece of a tree branch, it hatched and reveal the small Blob inside. He picks up the Blob with the branch to observe it, but the Blob attaches itself to his right hand. The old man is found by a couple, Steve Andrews and Jane Martin who take him to Dr. Hallen, who realizes that the Blob is dissolving the old man and tries to amputate the arm. Unfortunately, before he can do so, the Blob dissolves the old man. Dr. Hallen realizes that the Blob needs to be killed and has Nurse Kate pour trichloroacetic acid on it, but the Blob soaks it up. Dr. Hallen goes into his office to get his gun, leaving Kate behind who ends up getting devoured by the Blob. Dr. Hallen shoots at it several times, but the Blob is unharmed and goes after the doctor. Steve and Jane return in time to see Dr. Hallen being devoured by the Blob and try to alert the police, but by then, the Blob disappears and the police dismiss the warning as a prank.

Meanwhile, the Blob consumes a mechanic at a repair shop before going into Steve's father's grocery store, presumably devouring the janitor. Steve and Jane see the store unlocked and go to investigate, where they encounter the Blob. The Blob chases the couple into a freezer but quickly retreats. The Blob later invades the Colonial Theater, first attacking the projectionist before oozing into the auditorium. As people flee the theater in a blind panic, Lt. Dave enters the theater and encounters the Blob, whom he attempts to kill, but finds that bullets have no effect and retreats, stopping his deputy from entering. Then, the Blob emerges, having grown to gigantic size and blood-red from the people it has consumed. The Blob attacks a diner with Steve, Jane, and her brother Danny trapped inside along with the diner's owner and waitress.

The police attempt to fry the Blob with a live power line, but it fails and the diner is set ablaze. The Blob then starts making its way into the basement, and as the owner tries to put out a fire with a CO2 fire extinguisher, he unintentionally blasts the Blob with it. Steve notices the Blob backing away from the exhaust and realizes why the Blob did not come into the freezer: because the Blob cannot stand the cold. Steve manages to use the diner's phone to tell Dave the Blob's weakness to the cold. The townspeople get all of the CO2 extinguishers that they can find and blasts the Blob with them, freezing it solid. Dave then requests an Air Force jet to transport the Blob to the Arctic, where it is parachuted onto the ice.

Beware! The Blob[]

In the sequel, an oil pipeline layer named Chester Hargis returns to his suburban Los Angeles home from the North Pole, bringing with him a small sample of a mysterious frozen substance uncovered by a bulldozer on a job site. Chester places the substance container in his freezer, but his wife, Mariane takes it out after reading that the container contains a specimen. The container pops open and the substance is revealed to be the Blob, which thaws out and revives. The Blob first consumes a fly that lands on it, then going after Mariane's cat, Samuel. When Mariane goes outside looking for Samuel, the Blob ambushes her. As Chester gets ready to watch a movie, the Blob crawls up his seat and patiently waits for Chester to absentmindedly sit down.

Later, Chester's friend named Lisa Clark walks in to see him being devoured by the Blob. She flees to notify the police and her boyfriend Bobby Hartford, but when they investigate Chester's house, the Blob has disappeared and Lisa's claims are dismissed. Meanwhile, the Blob begins its hunt on the town with some of its victims being a police officer and presumably two hippies in a storm drain, a barber and his client, transients, a scoutmaster, and a farm full of chickens.

Later, when Lisa and Bobby drive back to Bobby's farm, the Blob descends down to try to get inside Lisa's truck. Despite the two's attempt to escape, the Blob covers the truck and squeezes in through the gap in the door. In a panic, Lisa accidentally turns on the air conditioner, making the Blob retreat, establishing its vulnerability to cold as in the original film (though the characters, also as in the 1958 original, do not immediately make the connection).

As Joe, Lisa and Bobby's friend, drives down the road, he sees the now-massive Blob blocking the path ahead of him and tries to turn around, but he's going to fast to stop and he ends up steering out of control, crashing straight into the Blob. Later, Lisa, Bobby, and another friend of theirs, Leslie drive by and see the Blob and Joe's car. Despite Lisa and Bobby's attempt to stop her, Leslie tries to go help Joe, only to end up as the Blob's next victim.

The Blob then invades a bowling alley, where it starts off with a repairman's assistant and then the repairman himself before it starts feeding on the customers. It then oozes into an ice rink where it consumes more people before chasing Lisa, Bobby, and the ice rink manager into the commentator's booth. Bobby attempts to fry the Blob with electricity, but it fails (like in the 1958 original). Sheriff Jones and Deputy Davis enter the ice rink and spot the Blob. Davis tries to shoot it down with his gun, but it fails and Davis gets eaten. Jones fires a few shots before realizing that bullets are not going to work and flees. Back in the booth, Lisa, the manager, and Bobby get on the counter to avoid the Blob, and in the process Bobby almost knocks down a refrigerator and spills out all of the ice onto the floor, making the Blob retreat and Bobby realizes the Blob's weakness to cold. Bobby tries to inform the police about the Blob's weakness but fails due to the microphone being busted. Bobby then asks the manager how to freeze the rink and makes his way to the fuse box despite the Blob's attempt to catch him and successfully activates the rink's ice mechanism, freezing it.

While the frozen Blob is being filmed by a television crew, one of the crew's bright lights that is positioned on the ground melts a small portion of it, which oozes toward Jones and envelopes his feet as he is speaking on camera. The movie ends with a cliffhanger, not knowing if the Blob is stopped, as it is about to engulf Jones.

Victims[]

The Blob (1958)[]

  1. Old Man
  2. Nurse Kate
  3. Dr. T Hallen
  4. Mechanic
  5. Projectionist
  6. Movie patrons

Beware! The Blob[]

  1. Fly
  2. Samuel (Cat)
  3. Mariane Hargis
  4. Chester Hargis
  5. Deputy Sims
  6. Randy
  7. Randy's Girlfriend
  8. Hair Stylist's Customer
  9. Hair Stylist
  10. Dog
  11. Chickens
  12. Young Hobo
  13. Old Hobo
  14. Hobo Wearing Eyepatch
  15. Scoutmaster Adleman
  16. Joe
  17. Leslie
  18. Al (Repairman's Assistant)
  19. Mike Pinsetter (Repairman)
  20. Bowling Alley Manager
  21. Henry (Security Guard)
  22. Mechanic
  23. Priests
  24. Bowling Customers
  25. Deputy Kelly Davis
  26. Sheriff Jones

Nature of the Blob[]

The Blob is an amorphous, jelly-like creature who digests flesh on contact, assimilating it into its mass. It grows ever larger, and the limits of its growth, if any, are not known. Because it has no proper form, it can change its shape and squeeze through narrow passages and openings. As it grows bigger, it can engulf and smash things under its weight.

Because of its protean nature, the Blob is very difficult to injure. Openings caused by weapons such as gunfire close immediately, and it has no internal organs that can be damaged. Even high explosives have only a limited effect on it. In both films, however, it is vulnerable to very cold temperatures and can be frozen and rendered immobile. It also cannot pass through impermeable barriers such as glass.

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Trivia[]

  • The titular slimy monster from the Goosebumps book "The Blob That Ate Everyone" was inspired by the Blob itself.
  • In the 1958 version of The Blob, the Blob itself and its actions were seen as somewhat campy, but still scary. However, in the 1988 version, it was seen as much more threatening along with the film's tone as its kills were far more gruesome and vile.
  • Unlike The Stuff's weakness to fire, The Blob's weakness is low temperatures.
  • The Blob is parodied in The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XVII". In the first segment, "Married to the Blob", Homer turns into the titular monster after eating alien goo from a meteorite. He then goes on a rampage, consuming townspeople.

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