What can you do if your science fiction film doesn’t quite have the budget to pull off a proper alien invasion? Easy, just shift the tone into the arena of comedy so that the audience is laughing “with you” instead of at the cheesy special effects on display. This is exactly what happened with Edward…
Tag: The Blob
The Deadly Spawn (1983) – Review
If cinema has taught us anything it’s that meteors are nothing but trouble, they either wipe out cities ala Deep Impact or they’ll bring nasty alien creatures like The Blob to eat the locals, and today we will be looking at writer/director Douglas McKeown’s The Deadly Spawn, a film that falls in that second category…
The Blob (1988) – Review
In movies, the effect of a meteorite hitting the Earth will most likely consist of one or two things: either we will see widespread catastrophic damage — tidal waves sweeping across major cities — or, if the meteorite in question is of a smaller scale, it will have undoubtedly brought an alien threat from outer…
The Blob (1958) – Review
The 1950s were certainly the glory days when it came to monster movies and science fiction — two great tastes that taste great together — and if atomic testing wasn’t awakening creatures like Godzilla and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, then mad scientists were creating Monsters on Campus and giant Tarantulas, but in 1958, a…
Beware! The Blob (1972) – Review
One of the seminal monster movies of the 50s was 1958’s The Blob, produced by Jack H. Harris and starring 27-year-old Steve McQueen as a “teenager” leading a group of rebels without causes against an amorphous creature from outer space; that film was a classic example of the genre, and fondly remembered by many, not…