Blob - horror without a name

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Movie
German title Blob - horror without a name
Original title The blob
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1958
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
script Kay Linaker
production Jack H. Harris
music Ralph Carmichael , Burt Bacharach (title)
camera Thomas E. Spalding
cut Alfred Hillmann
occupation

Blob - horror without a name (alternative title: Attack from space, original title: The Blob ) is an American science fiction film from 1958 with Steve McQueen in the leading role.

action

On a romantic evening, teenagers Steve Andrews and Jane Martin watch a falling star fall into a nearby forest. To find out what is going on, they make their way to the point of impact. An old man who lives in a forest hut discovers that it was a small meteorite. With a stick, he pulls out a gelatinous substance that slips into his hand. The old man tries in vain to remove the substance and finally his hand begins to hurt terribly. He runs out onto the country road, where Steve and Jane almost run into him. The duo takes the man to a doctor.

The doctor asks Steve to drive to the site to look for clues; they find the old man's meteor and dog. Meanwhile, the doctor takes care of the man and comes to the conclusion that only an amputation can help. But the blob is faster and devours the man. The attending nurse discovers the now grown blob and screams. When the doctor arrives, he advises her to tip a glass of hydrochloric acid on the blob, but this has no effect. The nurse is devoured, and finally the doctor too. Steve, who comes back, sees everything from the outside, whereupon they alert the police. Later in the doctor's house everything is devastated and nobody can be found. You don't believe Steve because the doctor actually wanted to go to a conference and is probably already on his way. Steve and Jane are taken to the station and picked up by their parents. Both pretend to go to sleep, but then meet to do further research.

They go to the cinema to meet their friends, team up with them and now try to warn everyone. But nobody believes them. On their tour, Steve and Jane pass his father's grocery store and notice that the door is open. You look and are attacked by the blob. You can hide in the cold room, which the blob cannot enter because of the cold, and learn about the weak point of the blob. After leaving the refrigerator, the group makes a noise in the street to wake everyone up and alert the police. The blob has become even bigger and now wants to eat the people in the cinema. Panic breaks out and some escape. The blob has now grown again and lies over a diner in the basement of which Steve, Jane, their little brother and a few others have fled. Steve gives the hint about the cold, and immediately everyone leaves to get fire extinguishers. With combined forces it is possible to freeze the blob. The United States Air Force then eventually drops him over the Arctic in a transport plane .

background

Blob originated in a collaboration between screenwriter Kate Phillips (also known as Kay Linaker) and evangelical filmmaker Irvin S. Yeaworth . Yeaworth owned a small Christian film company that made religious shorts for Sunday schools. Both met in 1957 at the Presidential Prayer Breakfast (now National Prayer Breakfast ) or the associated International Christian Leadership Meeting in Washington, DC , which was initiated by a right-wing evangelical network known today as The Family . The film should subtly bring the anti-communist message into the so-called mainstream. The highly infectious and all-devouring "blob" served as a metaphor for communism .

Blob was released in American cinemas on September 12, 1958 and in German cinemas on March 18, 1960 .

The film shown in the cinema the "Blob" invades is John Parker's Dementia (1955). Blob producer Jack H. Harris held the distribution rights to Parker's film at the time .

Reviews

The lexicon of international films describes Blob as a horror classic that has advanced to a cult film and derives its tension largely from the fact that adults long for the young people who are the first to see the cause of the horror do not believe ”. The result was "a thoroughly enjoyable film about the generation conflict in America in the 1950s".

Aftermath

In 1972 actor Larry Hagman made a sequel called Beware! The Blob , his only directorial work. In 1988 a remake was made with the title The Blob .

Another remake, directed by Simon West and with Brian Witten as producer, was announced in January 2015 .

In Phoenixville , Pennsylvania , the "Blobfest" has been held every summer since 2000. At this event , the classic will be performed in the Colonial Theater , where the scene for the film was shot at the time. After the screening, the audience reenacts the escape from the cinema shown in the film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Blob - Terror without a name . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2015 (PDF; test number: 21 081 V).
  2. ↑ Tom Weaver: Science Fiction Confidential: Interviews With Monster Stars & Filmmakers , McFarland & Co., Jefferson (NC) 2002, pp. 234 ff., ISBN 978-0-7864-1175-7 .
  3. ↑ Jeff Sharlet: The Family, The Secret Fundamentalism at The Heart of American Power , Harper Perennial, New York (NY) 2008, Chapter 7 The Blob , pass., ISBN 978-0-06-056005-8 .
  4. ↑ Blob - Horror Without a Name in the Internet Movie Database .
  5. ↑ a b Blob - Terror without a Name in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used .
  6. ↑ First remake details: [1]
  7. ^ Franz Lidz: In Pennsylvania Hamlet, Much Ado About Goo . The New York Times, June 10, 2007, accessed December 8, 2012.