An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
A mysterious creature from another planet, resembling a giant blob of jelly, lands on earth. The people of a nearby small town refuse to listen to some teenagers who have witnessed the blob's destructive power. In the meantime, the blob just keeps on getting bigger.—Rob Hartill
After teenagers Steve Andrews and his girlfriend Jane Martin see a meteorite crash nearby, they set off to investigate. They come across an old man who seems to have some type of gelatinous matters stuck to his hand. They take him to Dr. Hallen who isn't sure what the substance is but Steve becomes convinced it's a monster of some sort after both the old man and the doctor vanish. As the creature consumes more and more people, it grows larger and larger. Steve's biggest problem is that he can't get anyone to believe him and continually faces skeptical policeman and angry parents. The creature finally reaches a size that it cannot be missed and everyone wonders how they will possibly stop it—garykmcd
In a rural town, two teens r busy kissing n enjoying falling stars when a meteorite crashes a lil far off from em. They hurry to the place to catch a glimpse of the falling star but an old farmer reaches to the site first n pays the price for being inquisitive. It turns out that the meteorite is an alien, a jelly like parasite thing and it gets stuck on the ol geezer's hand. The teens comes across the old man n seeing him in pain they take him to a doc but surprisingly the parasite swallows the whole man alive n keeps getting bigger n bigger. Now its upto these two teens n their bunch of pals to convince the whole town that they r under attack but nobody believes em.—[email protected]
Out on a date one evening, teenagers Steve Andrews and Jane Martin are parked in a secluded location looking at the stars when they see something fall out of the sky to the ground off in the distance. They go looking for what the falling object is, but instead find an elderly man they don't know in medical distress with something on his hand, he who they drive to Dr. Hallen's office. They are able to catch Dr. Hallen just before he was about to leave to attend an out of town conference. What no one yet knows is that the gelatinous mass covering the elderly man's hand was inside that falling object, it an alien life form that is looking for flesh to consume to be able to grow. Steve is the first survivor to witness that gelatinous blob totally consume someone to death. While Jane believes Steve's story, he is unable to convince anyone in authority, including the police, of what he saw, namely that there is a deadly "monster" for lack of a better word that threatens the survival of everyone in town. Steve and Jane go on a mission to find proof of the existence of the blob before it's too late, and even if they do find it, they, with anyone else they are able to convince of its deadly nature, have to find out a way to kill or neutralize it.—Huggo
July 20, 1957. In the small Pennsylvania town of Downington, teenager Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and his girlfriend Jane Martin (Aneta Corsaut) are out parking and see a falling star. They drive out to try to find where the meteor landed. An old man (Olin Howland) has heard the meteor crash near his house. He finds the meteor and pokes it with a stick. The rock breaks open to reveal a small jelly-like blob inside. This Blob, a living creature, crawls up the stick and attaches itself to his hand. Unable to scrape or shake it loose (and apparently now in pain), the old man runs hysterically onto the road, where he is seen by Steve, who takes him to see the local doctor, Doctor Hallen.
They reach the clinic when Doc Hallen is about to leave. Hallen anesthetizes the man and sends Steve back to the crash site to gather more information. Hallen decides he must amputate the man's arm which is being consumed by the Blob, calling in his nurse. However, the Blob completely consumes the old man. Now an amorphous creature, it eats the nurse and the doctor while increasing in size.
Steve and Jane return to the office and Steve witnesses the doctor's death. They go to the local police and return to the clinic with the kindly Lt. Dave (Earl Rowe) and cynical Sgt. Bert (John Benson). However, there is no sign of the creature or the doctor, and the police dismiss Steve's story. Steve and Jane are sent home with their fathers but sneak out and retrieve Steve's friends and successfully enlist their help warning the town.
In the meantime, the Blob has consumed a mechanic, the janitor in Mr. Andrew's grocery store, and a bar room of late-night drinkers.
Investigating, Steve and Jane are confronted by the Blob in the grocery store and seek refuge in the walk-in refrigerator. The Blob starts to ooze in under the door but then retreats. Steve and Jane escape and set off the town's fire and air-raid alarms. The whole town gathers and demands to know what is going on. As the townspeople and police angrily confront Steve, the Blob enters the Colonial Theater which is showing horror classic Daughter of Horror engulfing and eating the projectionist before oozing into the cinema seating area.
The patrons run screaming out of the theater, alerting the assembled townspeople to the danger. The Blob leaves the theater, but Jane's little brother appears from the crowd to confront the Blob with his cap gun before running into the adjacent diner. Jane and Steve run in after him but become trapped along with the owner and a waitress.
The Blob (now an enormous mass from all the people it consumed) engulfs the diner and begins to ooze in through the windows while the occupants seek refuge in the cellar. The police try to kill the Blob by dropping a power line onto it, but this fails and only sets the diner ablaze. Defending themselves inside, the diner's owner uses a CO2 fire extinguisher attempting to put out the fire, which also causes the approaching Blob to recoil. Steve remembers that the Blob retreated from the refrigerator, too, and tells Lt. Dave that the Blob apparently cannot stand the cold ("CO2, Dave, CO2!"). Jane's father, Mr. Martin (Elbert Smith), takes Steve's friends to the high school to retrieve fire extinguishers which are used to freeze the Blob. Dave requests an Air Force jet to transport the Blob to the North Pole to keep it frozen. A military plane is shown dropping the Blob into an Arctic landscape. The film ends with the "The End".... which morphs into a question mark (?).
