Few actors epitomized "cool" like Steve McQueen. He was dressed to the nines in The Thomas Crown Affair, had the most badass car chase in Bullitt, and played a brave fighter in The Towering Inferno, ...

In the 1958 film The Blob, a young Steve McQueen and other actors flee from a gelatinous muck that threatens to consume everything in its path. The cult film was remade in 1988 with Kevin Dillon, and ...

The 1950s saw the rise of cinematic mutated monsters, reflecting post-war anxieties about nuclear weapons and science. Many believe that The Blob, a 1958 film about a carnivorous alien blob, was ...

We discuss the 1958 film The Blob, often cited as the film debut of Steve McQueen. What is it about this independent film about a strange visitor from another planet — one that immediately starts ...

It's the 50th Anniversary of The Blob, one of a series of low-budget horror/sci-fi films that proliferated in the wake of the Cold War. The themes that made The Blob a hit in 1958 are still the ones ...

In an era of remakes, reboots, and revivals, a second remake of a film is still somewhat rare. The Blob is one of those instances. Having first been released in 1958, and remade in 1988, a planned ...

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.

Step back in time with the 1958 film classic "The Blob" playing at Houston's 1940 Air Terminal Museum drive-in movie night this weekend. "Indescribable, indestructible! Nothing can stop it! The Blob." ...