History Film / TheBlob

* ItCanThink: The titular creature, instead of mindlessly oozing everywhere chooses [[spoiler:ambush tactics like a predator instead. The JerkJock was killed when the blob consumes his date from the inside out and waits until he moves in before it reveals itself and kills him.]] Another example is when it attacks a flamethrower-wielding soldier and blocks the end of his flamethrower, causing the fuel tank to explode and kill him

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to the puppy?
** A brief conversation reveals that the puppy managed to escape and was seen running down the street away from danger.

* [[spoiler: KillItWithIce]]

As the film begins, a small meteorite drops to earth near a small town. It contains a tiny, jelly-like substance which quickly attaches itself to a nearby hermit, who is subsequently brought to town for medical attention. Unfortunately, The Blob grows and consumes the hermit and the medical staff, observed only by a pair of teenagers. Of course, when they try to raise the alarm, [[CassandraTruth no one believes them]] -- until The Blob attacks a crowded movie theater. Eventually deducing that the creature [[spoiler: can be defeated only by extreme cold, the town collects all available fire extinguishers and blanket it in CO[[subscript:2]], freezing it solid.]] In the end, [[spoiler: the frozen Blob is deposited [[KillItWithIce deep in the Arctic]], where it is presumed it will remain frozen.]]

In the sequel '''''Beware! The Blob''''' (also known as ''[[RevengeOfTheSequel Son of]] Blob''), a construction crew working on a new Alaskan oil pipeline has uncovered the [[spoiler: frozen Blob.]] Not knowing what it is, the construction foreman brings a small chunk of it home to southern California with him, upon which it promply escapes, grows, and terrorizes the community, slinking through the sewers. Eventually entering the brand new bowling alley (and attached, still-under-construction ice-skating rink), the Blob is [[spoiler: ultimately defeated by freezing the ice rink floor.]] A decidedly campy film, ''Beware!'' nonetheless plays many monster movie tropes dead straight, particularly the CassandraTruth-spewing heroes and the ObstructiveBureaucrat who runs the bowling alley.

''The Blob'' was remade in 1988, using the original story with a few minor changes:
* The Blob [[spoiler: was no longer an alien creature, but instead a secret government project gone wrong.]]
* Being made in TheEighties, the deaths were [[BloodierAndGorier much more visceral]].
* And [[spoiler: instead of the Blob being beaten permanently, a crazy preacher finds and [[SequelHook keeps a piece of it]], planning on using it to fulfill his own predictions about the apocalypse.]]

''Another'' remake of the original film was announced in 2006, to be penned by the writers of the ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'' remake.

* DawsonCasting: In the time-honored Hollywood tradition, 28-year-old Steve [=McQueen=] plays a teenager.

* ItCanThink: The titular creature, instead of mindlessly oozing everywhere chooses [[spoiler:ambush tactics like a predator instead. The JerkJock was killed when the blob consumes his date from the inside out and waits until he moves in before it reveals itself and kills him.]] Another example is when it attacks a flamethrower-wielding soldier and blocks the end of his flamethrower, causing the fuel tank to explode and kill him

* ItCanThink: The titular creature, instead of mindlessly oozing everywhere chooses [[spoiler:ambush tactics like a predator instead. The JerkJock was killed when the blob consumes her from the inside out and waits until he moves in before it reveals itself and kills him.]]

* KillItWithIce

And leaps and glides\\

* PoliceAreUseless: Subverted. The police are actually helpful once they are presented with proof of the teenaged heroes' (admittedly wild) story.

** The girls who accompany the guys to try to warn the citizens about the Blob. After everybody's been gathered and the blob emerges from the movie theater, the guys stick around to help, but the girls are never seen again.

'''''The Blob''''' is a horror/monster film from 1958, about a killer amoeba from outer space. The film is notable not only for its memorable villain, but also for being Steve [=McQueen's=] [[StarMakingRole film debut]]. It spawned a sequel in 1972 and a [[TheRemake remake]] in 1988.

* [[spoiler: KillItWithIce]]

* [[spoiler: GovernmentConspiracy]]: In this film, [[spoiler: this is the source of the Blob.]]

As the film begins, a small meteorite drops to earth near a small town. It contains a tiny, jelly-like substance which quickly attaches itself to a nearby hermit, who is subsequently brought to town for medical attention. Unfortunately, The Blob grows and consumes the hermit and the medical staff, observed only by a pair of teenagers. Of course, when they try to raise the alarm, [[CassandraTruth no one believes them]] -- until The Blob attacks a crowded movie theater. Eventually deducing that the creature can be defeated only by extreme cold, the town collects all available fire extinguishers and blanket it in CO[[subscript:2]], freezing it solid. In the end, The Frozen Blob is deposited [[KillItWithIce deep in the Arctic]], where it is presumed it will remain frozen.

In the sequel '''''Beware! The Blob''''' (also known as ''[[RevengeOfTheSequel Son of]] Blob''), a construction crew working on a new Alaskan oil pipeline has uncovered the frozen Blob. Not knowing what it is, the construction foreman brings a small chunk of it home to southern California with him, upon which it promply escapes, grows and terrorizes the community, slinking through the sewers. Eventually entering the brand new bowling alley (and attached, still-under-construction ice-skating rink), The Blob is ultimately defeated by freezing the ice rink floor. A decidedly campy film, ''Beware!'' nonetheless plays many monster movie tropes dead straight, particularly the CassandraTruth-spewing heroes and the ObstructiveBureaucrat who runs the bowling alley.

* GreyGoo: The Blob (in the original 1958 movie) ''could'' be either this or TheVirus. No one's really ever gotten close enough to examine it without being eaten. All that's known about it is that it's of alien origin. Oh, and it prefers to devour ''organic'' life as opposed to inorganic matter. The 1988 remake of the movie had the Blob be the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project. There it acted less like mindless spreading Grey Goo and more like a malicious, semi-intelligent monster.

* KillItWithIce

** The girls who accompany the guys to try to warn the citizens about the blob. After everybody's been gathered and the blob emerges from the movie theater, the guys stick around to help, but the girls are never seen again.

* BodyHorror: In the sequel, when the blog kills someone and we see them being killed.

* SealedEvilInACan: A foreman for an oil pipeline construction crew brings home a chunk of The Blob from Alaska (where it had been deposited in the original film) in a sealed thermos.

* {{Badass}}: Brian, Meg. Also Col. Hargis who elects to remove the grenade pins before getting munched so that [[TakingYouWithMe he can kill the Blob.]] Unfortunately, it doesn't work.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Subverted. After a failed attempt to blow up the Blob by dropping some bombs down the sewer, the scientists' second-in-command is about to be crushed and consumed by the Blob. He pulls the pins from his grenades, but the Blob eats him anyway. We briefly see two flashes inside of the Blob, making it clear that it did nothing to the monster.]]

* DeathBySex: A guy gets his date drunk on alcohol so she'll pass out. The Blob gets to her, sucking her innards out, while he's mixing another batch. When he sees she's passed out, he goes in for the DateRape, only to discover there's nothing there but The Blob.

* DroolHello: Just before The Blob kills the quarterback.

* [[spoiler: GovernmentConspiracy]]: In this film, [[spoiler: this is the source of The Blob.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After Dr. Meddows' death, the other soldiers, several of whom were already on the fence of sacrificing the entire town to capture The Blob, quickly change their plan to try and destroy it and save the town instead.]]

* InfantImmortality: Averted. [[spoiler: The heroine rescues her child brother and his friend. Right before they climb out of the sewer, the friend is pulled underwater screaming. Moments later, he pops out of the water again. Half melted. ''Still screaming.'']]

* The Blob was no longer an alien creature, but instead a secret government project gone wrong; and

* And instead of the Blob being beaten permanently, [[spoiler:a crazy preacher finds and [[SequelHook keeps a piece of it]], planning on using it to fulfill his own predictions about the apocalypse.]]

* GovernmentConspiracy: In this film this is the source of The Blob.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. [[spoiler:The heroine rescues her child brother and his friend. Right before they climb out of the sewer, the friend is pulled underwater screaming. Moments later, he pops out of the water again. Half melted. ''Still screaming.'']]

* RedShirtArmy: The soldiers accompanying the scientists are useless. Though their poorer performance compared to the main characters when fighting the Blob might be attributed to the heavy NBC gear they are wearing.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: It's wide enough for a bike to go through.
** Which brings one of the most confusing [[PlotHole plot holes]] in the film. When Flagg and Meg are trying to escape from the sewers they apparently get lost or, at least, don't know how to get out. Taking in account Flagg drove through the sewers to get to Penny via another entrance just minutes before. Why didn't he just went back the way he came in?
*** Flagg entes the sewers through a pipe in the woods, and finds Meg somewhere beneath the middle of the town. It's highly likely that he had to take many turns along the way and simply lost his sense of direction.
** The sewers being so absurdly spacious is actually explained in an easy-to-miss bit of dialogue. The "sewers" are actually an aqueduct system built to prevent flooding from the mountains.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dave the cop.

* TookALevelInBadass: Meg starts the movie as a happy, innocent cheerleader living an obviously sheltered lifestyle. During the climax, we see her climbing atop a crashed snowmaker truck, firing an M16 full auto against the titular monster while screaming at it, and then setting up a satchel charge to blow up the trucks liquid nitrogen tanks and take the creature with it.