A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
Arriving from outer space (for which read Russia), a large ball of interstellar snot terrorises a small American town by eating everything in sight.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
Unfortunately, [Harris's] picture talks itself to death, even with the blob nibbling away at everybody in sight. And most of his trick effects, under the direction of Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., look pretty phony.
– Howard Thompson,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2006
rotten:
Neither the acting nor direction is particularly creditable.