The Blob and Beware the Blob Trailers

uraniumcafe-the.com The Blob and Beware the Blob Trailers From www.IMDB.com Nostalgia Heaven!, 8 January 2006 7 Author: greyeyesoul from Toronto This movie is of almost generation-defining importance to some of us born in the early post-war years in that (and especially if you were born between 1946 and 1953 and loved spending Saturday afternoons at your neighborhood movie house) you almost certainly saw it. And the memory of seeing it has probably stayed with you. It’s style is the stuff of a brief and somehow gloriously exciting moment in our growing up days. It had a modern, space-age storyboard for the audiences of it’s time. The set was any town with a supermarket and a movie theater that would be packed for a Friday midnight show. It has hot rods and rebellious youth, but in the ‘why can’t they let us have fun’ way rather than the disturbed, histrionic rebel-without-a-cause way. All characters were identifiable to us – teens, parents, the old man, the doctor, the nurse, the mechanic, the boy, the puppy, even the cops – were sympathetic to us. We could relate to them all It had a singularly horrifying monster. It’s first victim is heard moaning ‘it hurts…..it hurts’ and we were convinced and frightened. The menace grows continually throughout the story. There are intense periods of suspense, colourful effects, a fabulous lead in McQueen, and moments of humour, both intended and not. It even had an almost over-the-top sad part to make the more sensitive of us feel …