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Eran Creevy (director/screenplay); F. Scott Frazier (screenplay); Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Marwan Kenzari, Ben Kingsley, Anthony Hopkins. [55] I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore. Netflix / XYZ Films. Macon Blair (director/screenplay); Melanie Lynskey, Elijah Wood, David Yow, Jane Levy, Devon Graye.
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In a small Pennsylvania town, teenager Steve Andrews and his girlfriend Jane Martin kiss at a lovers' lanewhen they see a meteorite crash beyond the next hill. Steve goes looking for it but Barney, an old man living nearby, finds it first. When he pokes the meteorite with a stick, it breaks open and a small jelly-like globule blob inside attaches i...
The film was the first production of Jack Harris, a film distributor from Philadelphia, and was reportedly inspired by a discovery of star jelly in Pennsylvania in 1950. It was originally titled The Molten Meteor until producers overheard screenwriter Kay Linaker refer to the film's monster as "the blob". Other sources give a different account, say...
Paramount acquired The Blob for $300,000 from Jack Harris and spent another $300,000 promoting it. According to Tim Dirks, it was one of a wave of "cheap teen movies" for the drive-in market—"exploitative, cheap fare created especially for [young people] in a newly-established teen/drive-in genre". Harris eventually bought back the rights from Para...
The Blob received negative reviews upon release. The New York Timeshighlighted some of its problems and identified some positives, although Steve McQueen's starring debut was not one of them. On director Irvin Yeaworth's work, they wrote: Variety had a similar reaction, seeing McQueen as the star, gamely "giving the old college try", but that the "...
Beware! The Blob, a sequel directed by Larry Hagman, was released in 1972. The same creature from the original—this time starting as a small specimen unearthed by a bulldozer crew in the Arctic—is brought back to suburban Los Angeles, where it escapes. Presented as a "horror comedy", the film was also released under the title Son of Blob in 1972. A...
A remake with the same name was directed by Chuck Russellin 1988. In August 2009, it was revealed that musician-turned-director Rob Zombie was working on another remake, but he later left the project. He was replaced by Simon West as director in January 2015. It was announced that the film would be produced by Richard Saperstein and Brian Witten, w...
The 1958 Japanese film The H-Man directed by Ishiro Honda, resembles The Blob. From an original story by Hideo Kaijo, the English version was released in the United States by Columbia Picturesin 1959. In it, a creeping radioactive blob consumes human flesh on contact, leaving clothing behind. As well, a ghostly image of dissolved humans sometimes a...
Since 2000, the town of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, one of the filming locations, has held an annual "Blobfest", including a reenactment of the scene in which moviegoers run screaming from the town's now-restored Colonial Theatre. Chef's Diner in Downingtown has also been restored, and customers are able to take photographs of the basement (on week...
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- Jack H. Harris
- September 12, 1958 (U.S.)
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- 'Vertigo' Of all the great Alfred Hitchcock movies released over so many years, Vertigo could well be the greatest of the greats. It's one of Hitchcock's most unsettling and thought-provoking films, as well as arguably one of his darkest and most mature.
- 'Elevator to the Gallows' Elevator to the Gallows might well be the most effortlessly cool crime movie ever made, with a certain amount of style and class that's ensured it's aged extremely well.
- 'Touch of Evil' Though some would say Orson Welles peaked with his directorial debut, 1941's Citizen Kane, he made plenty of other noteworthy movies after.
- 'The Hidden Fortress' When looking over the great samurai epics made by Akira Kurosawa, it's his 1954 film, Seven Samurai, that most people will point to as being his best (understandably so).
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6 days ago · Trail of Robin Hood is a 1950 American Trucolor film starring Roy Rogers and filmed in the San Bernardino Mountains and Big Bear Lake California. It is notable for featuring a large cast of Western stars and the last film that Roy Rogers filmed in Trucolor. There is no reference to Robin Hood in the film. 19.
20. Rashomon (1950) Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery. The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter. Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura.
