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  • Acting in the Dark: The extras running out of the movie theater weren’t told what kind of monster they were fleeing from.
  • Completely Different Title:
    • Denmark: The Killer from the Sky
    • Finland: Dripping Death
    • France: Planetary Danger
    • Greece: Invasion from an Unknown Planet
    • Italy: Deadly Fluid
    • Japan: Absolute Crisis
    • Sweden: The Danger from the Sky
    • Turkey: Growing Monster
  • The Danza: Steve McQueen plays...Steve Andrews.
  • Dawson Casting: The "teens" are all obviously way too old. The 28-year-old Steve McQueen looks particularly out of place as a high school student who needs to sneak out of his parents' house. He could easily pass for a man in his 30s. It's not immediately apparent how old his character is supposed to be, making some of the early scenes very strange.
  • Magnum Opus Dissonance: Despite it being by far his best-known work, director Irvin Yeaworth Jr. didn't think much of the film, and was far prouder of the series of independently-produced religious films he subsequently made with Billy Graham.
  • Old Shame: Steve McQueen apparently did not think highly of this movie near the end of his life, and refused to discuss it in interviews.
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  • Working Title: The original title for the film was The Glob, hence why the characters never actually call it a "blob" in the story. But a Walt Kelly character already used the name, so it was changed. Other titles included Absorbine Senior, The Night of the Creeping Dead and The Glob That Girdled the Globe.

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