Creepy Crawlies Countdown - Day 28

Dr. Gangrene keeps the 2023 Halloween Countdown crawling with a look at the 1958 classic THE BLOB.

[@itsthelasttime13]

Classic gooey goodness!🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

[@dkno5941]

I just watched this a few nights ago. One of my all time faves. 🎃

[@cherylbowker3717]

💕 that 🎥!!

[@rob-brown]

The Blob! Classic!

[@jamiepaich]

I remember when I first saw that as a kid 😮 Terrifyingly fun 😀😳😆🤘

[@virghosh5622]

One of my favorites for sure! Love that theme!

[@drgangrene]

Oh yeah!

[@FauBDaddy]

You the Best!

[@pw529]

THAT IS THE BEST SO FAR, one of the movies I watch DVD on my Birthday every year, because it came on tv on my Birthday in LA back in the 70's good old Ch. 7 KABC I can still here the announcer saying " the 3:30 movie for Wednesday the Blob " 5 STARS THANKS SOOOOOOO MUCH.

[@drgangrene]

It's a classic and that's a great memory!

[@cayoooga]

Always loved the Burt Bacharach song. Beware of the BloB!

[@drgangrene]

A classic!

[@ivorybow]

I got to see this at age 11 at my local theater when it came out...shout out to the great Village Theater in Houston, now sadly gone. My mother definitely did NOT know what my neighbor friend and I walked to the theater to see. It changed my life and added to the reasons I became a dyed in the wool horror and sci-fi devotee. 👾👾👾👾👾

[@drgangrene]

Great memories!

[@mr.danandhorror4230]

Definitely a TV staple growing up - I’m gonna try to get out to Blobfest this year.

[@drgangrene]

Should be a fun time

[@RichardDominguezTheMagicIsReal]

another classic in the genre, available right here on most of the legit movie channels

[@drgangrene]

It's a good one!

[@sonnymaupin9267]

Always one of my favorites,so much better than the 70s remake. And Steve never forgave Sheriff Andy Taylor for stealing his GF ;)

[@drgangrene]

So true!

[@VincentGrimmly]

This movie traumatized me when I was a little kid. I was scared for weeks

[@drgangrene]

Understandable. I saw it on TV at some point and loved it.

[@ComradeRops]

Not one I expected on this countdown, but an absolute delight to see. I'd give the extra skull to make it 5. Meteor shit!

[@TvGyrl]

Well, the Criterion sale is coming in November.

[@drgangrene]

Woohoo!

[@clpbuttercup]

The actual Blob, a mixture of red dye and silicone, has never dried out and is still kept in the original five-gallon pail in which it was shipped to the production company in 1958 from Union Carbide. So BEWARE!

[@drgangrene]

I think it might have stiffened up some, maybe? I've never seen it in person, and understand the caretaker of it passed away. Guess it's in new heads now. Let's hope it doesn't escape!

[@dancinggodzilla2169]

With Steve McQueen it gets 5 skulls.

[@drgangrene]

Understandable!

[@curtisrice142s9]

I had that song on a 45 as a kid. What did you think of the sequel and remake?

[@drgangrene]

I like them both, the remake is especially good.

[@Bucky749]

I’ve bin flexing my own creativity with my own horror host alter ego Frank-N-King have doing reviews and have him in a rivalry with another one, my characters blockbuster Jason . Check out the videos when some time

[@Stroheim333]

Larry Hagman's sequel, Beware! The Blob (1972), is at least interesting. With some good scenes (and many bad).

[@drgangrene]

I like it pretty well. Need to give it a rewatch, it's been years since I last saw it.