Here it is folks, the cult classic that scared the living hell outta me when I was a kid. I mean really, for a long, long time. I truly believed that this red gooey jello thing was either under my bed or oozing it's way through my window as I tried to sleep. Later I found out I was not the only one that was affected this way.

Steve and Jane are sitting in his car with him trying to act cool. He's failing miserably at it so thankfully something comes streaking out of the sky and crashes to the ground a couple of miles from them. They decide to drive out and see if they can find it.

But some old hermit dude out in the woods finds it first. It looks like a cute little model of the moon complete with little craters and all that stuff. The old geezer pokes at it with a stick and it breaks open to reveal a gooey mystery substance within. He then hooks the goo with his stick and it slithers along and onto his hand. He goes running out onto the highway where he is almost run over by Steve and Jane. They throw the old boy into the back of the heap and race over to the Doctor's office. The good Doctor calls up his nurse who takes just long enough to get there for the Blob to gobble up the old man.

The nurse discovers the Blob rolling around on the floor and lets out the required blood curdling scream. Doc comes over and instructs nursie to thow the contents of a bottle of acid at the monster. Sorry Honey, you shoulda read the label on the bottom which clearly states: "This Blob Is Acid Resistant." The Blob then sucks up the the nurse and Doc while Steve watchs through a window in horror. Naturally the thing gets bigger every time it munches on someone.

Steve and Jane tell the cops about the deaths and they investigate the scene. The place is messed up but there's no bodies. We've got the good guy cop, bad guy cop thing going on here. The bad guy cop Jim, wants to throw them in jail. The good guy cop Dave, who out ranks the bad guy cop, calls their fathers to take them home while he figures everything out.

Steve and Jane, who are rapidly becoming juvenile delinquents, sneak back out and try to hunt down The Blob. Steve and Jane take off over to the Colonial theatre where there is what looks to be an absolutely awful horror movie playing. He drags his hot-rodding buddies out to help him warn the town about the danger. Of course nobody believes them. Small wonder when you see the morons that live in this town.

Steve and Jane find The Blob in his father's grocery store and it chases them into the meat locker. The Blob begins to slither under the door but retreats leaving the kids intact.

The kids then decide that the only way to get any attention is to make a lot of noise. So they start honking horns and set off fire truck and air raid sirens. Huh? Air raid sirens? What, do they have little boxes on telephone poles in this town that read "Break glass and pull lever in case of air raid?" Oh well, this provides some very humble comedy relief when some old coot keeps switching helmets from civil defence to volunteer fireman as the sirens switch back and forth.

The whole town shows up to see what's going on. Jim, the bad guy cop, checks out the grocery store and finds nothing. He wants to throw them all in jail again.

Meanwhile, The Blob gets up into the projectionist's booth at the Colonial and gobbles the poor projection dude up. It then starts oozing out through the projection holes into the crowd scattering them into the streets.

Steve, Jane and her geeky little brother end up in the Downingtown Diner with some other local yokels. The Blob, which by this time is huge, completely envelops the building. Dave, the good guy cop, phones the diner and tells Steve to haul everybody's butt into the basement while they drop some power lines on the monster to fry it. The line are dropped and do diddley. I think they shoulda read the label on the bottom which clearly states: "This Blob Is Electricity Resistant." C'mon people, ya gotta start reading these labels.

The Blob starts oozing into the diner and Steve attacks it with a CO2 fire extinguisher. It backs off. Steve then realizes that it didn't attack them in the meat locker because it can't stand the cold. He hollers the good news up the stairs to the phone which is still off the hook. Dave is listening on the other end and instructs everybody to round up all the extinguishers they can find. The Blob is frozen solid and shipped up to the Artic where it will stay frozen cause the Artic will never thaw out.

So what can I say. It's one of those "some love it and some hate it movies." Me, I love it. But then again I was nine years old when it came out and, as I said, it scared the living hell outta me. If you can get past the fact that these kids are supposed to be seventeen years old you'll be okay. Steve was 28 and Jane 25 at the time of it's release. The special effects are okay for the 50's and the color is excellent. So check it out.