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With Steve McQueen, Aneta Corseaut, Olin Howlin Directed by Irwin S. Yeaworth Jr. Made in 1958, this low budget sci-fi thriller sees Steve McQueen in his first starring role. A meteorite crashes outside of his town. A plasma blob emerges from it and attaches itself to the hand of a vagrant investigating the crater. Stevie finds him and takes him to hospital. This alien goo ingests the man completely and slithers away for some more. As it chows down it grows in size. McQueen, his gal and other teens are on the run as the blob not only grows larger, but also redder. With communist paranoia sited as an underlying subtext, it pretty much boils down to a drive-in screamfest, with not as many scares as you'd expect. The classic 'patron fleeing from the cinema' is one of the cool scenes scattered amoung the many time padded sequences. It does remain a classic B riot. Three decades later saw a decent remake that was very '80s, but with the improved special FX made it far more prone to utilizing the gore opportunities.  3 / B - PB 1 2 3 4 5 6 A - B - C |
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