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The Blob

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Added Sat, 26/09/2020
Release date
10-09-1958
Original title
The Blob
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The Blob is a classic American horror film from 1958.

July 1957. Teen Steve Andrews and his girlfriend Jane Martin parked outside the city to watch shooting stars. One of these "stars" falls not far from them, and they are sent to the place of the fall.

A meteor falls near the house of a lonely old man who goes out to check the source of the noise. He starts poking at the meteor with a stick, causing it to crack and a jelly-like mass ("Drop") flows out of it, which clings to the stick and quickly crawls over to the old man's hand. From the terrible pain in his arm and the inability to free himself, the old man rushes to the road, where he is met by Steve and Jane. They take him to see a local doctor, Dr. Hallen. He gives the old man an injection of painkillers and advises Steve to go to the crash site to gather more information.

Hallen decides that the man needs to have his arm amputated to stop the disease from spreading. But he doesn't have time to do it: the "Drop" completely engulfs the old man, then Hallen's nurse Kate, and finally the doctor himself, becoming redder and larger with each victim eaten.

Steve and Jane return just in time to see Dr. Hallen trying to get out of the window, completely covered in an alien creature. The young men go to the police station and return with Lieutenant Dave and Sergeant Bert. However, there is no sign of the alien creature or its victims at the doctor's house, and the skeptical Bert rejects Steve's story, mistaking it for a teenage joke. The parents take Steve and Jane home, but they soon escape.

Meanwhile, the creature eats a mechanic in a repair shop. Steve finds his friends, led by Tony, in a movie theater at a midnight session of the Movie "daughter of horror" and asks them to warn people about a dangerous alien monster. Steve and Jane continue their search. Steve notices that his father's grocery store is open, and he and Jane go inside to find out why. The watchman who is supposed to be guarding the store is nowhere to be seen. A "Drop" appears and attacks the guys, who are forced to seek shelter in the freezer. The creature seeps under the door, but quickly retreats. Steve and Jane gather their friends and call the townspeople and the police, but they don't believe them. Meanwhile, the creature infiltrates the movie theater and engulfs the projectionist, then seeps into the auditorium. When screaming people run out of the theater in a panic, everyone finally realizes that Steve was right.

Jane, her younger brother Danny, and Steve are locked in a diner with the Manager and waitress. The creature, which has absorbed a large number of people and has become huge, completely covers the diner with its jelly-like body. Dave contacts the police on the radio and tells the people in the diner to go down to the basement. The police are going to bring down a high-voltage power line on the creature to try to kill it with an electric current.

A power line falls on the creature, and a powerful electric current passes through its body. It doesn't have a noticeable effect on The drop, but the diner lights up. When the diner Manager uses a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher, hoping to put out the fire, Steve notices that the creature recoils from a jet of cold gas. He remembers that the "BLOB" was similarly removed from the freezer, and tells Jane: "That's why it didn't follow us then. It can't stand the cold!"

Steve informs Dave of the creature's vulnerability to the cold, but the firefighters have too few carbon dioxide extinguishers. Jane's father, who works as a high school principal, asks Steve's friends to break into the school and bring fire extinguishers from there. After they return, firefighters and police armed with fire extinguishers first drive the creature away from the diner, freeing everyone stuck there, and then surround and freeze it.

Dave asks the authorities to equip planes to transport the creature to the Arctic. He says it's unlikely to kill the creature, but at least it can be stopped. To this Steve responds: "Yes, as long as it's cold enough in the Arctic."

The film ends with footage of the creature parachuting into an Arctic snow field.

Phenomena in artwork: UFO

The landing of an alien organism looks like the fall of an ordinary meteorite. At the site of the fall, a shallow funnel is formed, in the center of which a capsule is located on the surface of the earth, similar to a porous stone.

Phenomena in artwork: The Alien

The alien organism looks like a lump of slime. It envelops any living creature and absorbs it, gradually increasing in size and changing color from transparent to red. The creature has no mind and moves from one victim to another, seeping to them even through the smallest holes. He is not harmed by fire, electricity, or even firearms. The cold is able to reduce its activity, but it is not possible to completely kill the creature. At the same time, the creature itself tries to avoid places with low temperatures (for example, a refrigerator).


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