‘It creeps! It crawls! It eats you alive!’ Steve McQueen stars in this ’50s Rowntree’s jelly-based horror of the sort that the likes of Jonathan Ross used to bore us to death with in the ’80s. But Burt Bacharach’s nifty cha-cha-cha theme tune (“Be careful of The Blob!”) and the knowledge that the belated sequel was directed by Larry Hagman will never dull.

Matt Patton
July 24, 2010 at 1:32 am
It leaps it creeps
It glides and slides across the floor
Right through the chair and all across the wall
A splotch, a blotch
Beware of The Blob!
(immortal lyrics by Mack David, older brother of Hal)