Saturday Screenings: The Blob
Directed by Shorty Yeaworth. 1958. NR. Running time: 82 min.
- Sat, Jul 12, 2:00 pm
- Sat, Jul 12, 5:30 pm
- Sat, Jul 12, 8:30 pm
Combine one of the afternoon screenings with The Creature from the Black Lagoon (in 3-D!) at 3:30pm to make it a double feature. WRISTBAND REQUIRED for the afternoon double features. TICKETS REQUIRED for the 8:30pm double feature with The Tingler. Wristbands and tickets are $7 adults, $6 seniors, $4 members of the Colonial and children. A noticeably non-teenage "Steven" McQueen stars as a misunderstood teen in the James Dean mold who interrupts a make-out session to investigate a mysterious meteorite. After discovering a grizzled backwoods loner with a gelatinous substance on his arm, McQueen brings him to a doctor, unaware that the substance will eventually grow and terrorize his otherwise sleepy small town. Whatever its flaws as a film, a none-too-scary monster chief among them, The Blob is a uniquely compelling monster movie. (Keith Phipps, The Onion A.V. Club)
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