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The Blob is the titular main antagonist from the 1988 remake of the 1958 horror film of the same name.
It is a pink, gluttonous, gelatinous man eating super-organism created from a military experiment led by Dr. Christopher Meddows, which involved launching various forms of bacteria into orbit so that their reactions to solar and cosmic radiation could be studied. The result crashed back down in the town of Arborville some years later, heavily mutated and hungry for living prey.
Biography[]
In the woods, an elderly transient known to the locals as the Can Man spies a meteorite crashing nearby, and goes to investigate. Through a crack in the meteorite's crust, he sees something gelatinous moving around inside and uses a tree branch to poke at it, picking the small Blob up out of the crater. The Blob quickly attaches itself to the Can Man's hand and begins to consume him.
The Can Man runs around in pain and in a panic before he encounters Brian Flagg, a local ruffian. The Can Man uses his axe to try and cut off the hand that the Blob has attached itself to, but the Blob simply extrudes pseudopods to hold the limb in place before pulling itself further up his arm. The Can Man runs off, with Brian chasing after him.
The Can Man eventually runs out into the open road, where he encounters Paul Taylor and Meg Penny, who take him to a hospital. While the Can Man is left unattended, the Blob reaches his chest and begins feeding on him, which is noticed by Paul, who brings a doctor over, and the two see that the Can Man's lower half has been entirely dissolved into pinkish-orange slime. Paul then goes to call Sheriff Gellar in the doctors office, but the Blob sneaks up on him by crawling along the ceiling before dropping onto him from above. Paul's scream draws in Meg, who sees Paul enveloped by the Blob and tries to save him by pulling his only exposed arm. The Blobs acidic body-chemistry kicks in, however, and Paul's arm melts off as Meg falls unconscious, while the Blob flees the hospital after dissolving Paul completely and absorbing his flesh.
In the woods, the Blob comes across Vicki De Soto and Scott Jeske in the latter's car. As Scott gets out to prepare a drink to get Vicki drunk and knocked out, the Blob sneaks into the car and enters Vicki's body, killing her and hollowing her body out to act as bait. As Scott gets back in the car, he sees Vicki unresponsive and moves to unbutton her blouse, but before he can continue his perversions, he is grabbed by the Blob which comes bursting out of Vicki's body before engulfing him completely. Afterwards, the Blob slithers out of the car and enters the sewers, seeking new prey.
At the town's diner, there is a clog in the kitchen sink and when the handyman, George, reaches into the drain, he finds a mysterious gooey substance on his fingers, and then, the Blob bursts out of the pipe and grabs George by the face before pulling him down into the sink drain. The diner owner, Fran Hewitt, along with Brian and Meg, walks in to see George's corpse being dragged into the drain as the Blob emerges. The Blob chases Brian and Meg into the freezer, but it quickly retreats. Fran manages to get outside and runs into a phone booth to call Sheriff Geller, unfortunately, she is spotted by the Blob, which slowly starts covering the phone booth. When Fran manages to get a hold of the sheriff's office, she learns that Sheriff Geller is not present, and that's when the Blob presents her with Sheriff Geller's dissolving corpse. Fran screams at the sight as the Blob bursts into the phone booth and captures her. Afterwards, the Blob reenters the sewers while Reverend Meeker sees the creature and goes over to the diner to investigate, where he sees the frozen pieces of the Blob that were left behind and puts them in a glass jar.
At the theater, a projectionist named Phil Hobbes is relaxing and playing with a yo-yo in the projection room when it starts getting hot in the room. After calling the theater manager, Hobbes looks into the vents where he gets ambushed by the Blob. The manager comes into the room looking for Hobbes when he sees Hobbes's yo-yo come down from the ceiling. The manager looks up to see Hobbes being digested by the Blob before the manager himself gets snatched up by the Blob.
Afterwards, the Blob enters the auditorium and begins its carnage with a rude patron that keeps talking and acting disrespectfully. Meg runs into the theater to look for her brother, Kevin, and his friend, Eddie. When she enters the room, she witnesses the audience fleeing in panic along with the Blob snatching up some unfortunate victims, including a woman with her head half-dissolved. Meg manages to reach Kevin and Eddie and direct them towards the emergency exit with the Blob in hot pursuit. The three manage to get out of the theater, but they are forced to go into the sewers when they encounter a dead end.
In the sewers, Meg, Kevin, and Eddie reach an area they can use to get out, but the Blob catches up to them and manages to catch Eddie. Meg tries to save him but fails and is forced to run as the Blob closes in on her and Kevin. However, the Blob gets distracted by three of Meddows's men attacking it and Meg is able to get Kevin to safety while Brian comes by and saves Meg. After barely dodging the Blob, the two encounter one soldier that survived the Blob's attack on his squad. He leads the two to an exit, but Meddows callously has the exit blocked, even over Colonel Hargis' objections. Brian uses the soldier's anti-tank rocket launcher to blow the exit open, whereupon Brian, Meg and the soldier escape from the manhole.
Meddews orders his soldiers to draw down on Brian, who grabs a dropped rifle to defend himself, resulting in a tense standoff. As Meddows is about to kill Brian to cover up his crime of creating the Blob, a tentacle from the creature grabs its creator and drags him toward the manhole, Meddows is able to grab onto the edge, bracing himself with a rifle, but the Blob oozes inside his suit and after a struggle, Meddows is dragged into the sewer, eaten by his own creation. Following Meddows's death, Colonel Hargis has his men riddle the Blob with bullets and drops in an explosive satchel charge for good measure, however, this only angers the Blob as it comes bursting out of the sewer. It crushes Hargis, who pulls the pins on his grenades in an attempt to damage the creature as it consumes him, and then begins a rampage down the street.
The townspeople flee from the Blob, and it chases after them, snatching up a few unfortunate victims. Reverend Meeker sees the ensuing carnage and believes it to be prophecy. A soldier attempts to attack with a flamethrower, but the Blob simply jams the nozzle with a tentacle, causing the flamethrower to backfire and burn the soldier, as well as Meeker, who gets caught in the backdraft. Meg gets a CO2 fire extinguisher to save him and instinctively blasts the Blob with it when it moves in for an attack, causing the Blob to back off. Meg realizes the Blob's weakness to the cold and uses the extinguisher to keep the Blob at bay as she and the other survivors barricade themselves in the city hall.
The Blob attempts to get inside while the townspeople hold it off with furniture barricades and CO2 extinguishers, but it is a losing battle and Deputy Briggs is killed. Meanwhile, Brian gets a snowmaker truck and uses it to shoot snow at the Blob. The Blob gets angry and turns its attention toward him and flips the truck over, knocking off its liquid nitrogen canisters. Meg sees Brian in danger and goes to help him. She takes a satchel charge and an M16 rifle from a dying soldier. As the Blob tries to get into the truck, Meg shoots the Blob to distract it from Brian and rigs the canisters with explosive charges. However, she ends up getting her foot caught. Fortunately, Brian recovers and is able to get Meg to safety as the Blob engulfs the canisters and gets doused by liquid nitrogen when the canisters explode. The Blob is flash-frozen and shatters into millions of crystallized pieces. Moss Woodley then calls for its remains to be stored in the town's ice house.
However, this is not the end of the Blob, as Meeker, who was disfigured and driven insane by the attack, preaches for the Day of Reckoning (commonly known as the Apocalypse). When asked about when it will happen, Meeker replies when the Lord gives him a sign, as he holds up the jar containing the small piece of the Blob that he found, which is revealed to be still alive as it moves around in the jar.
Victims[]
- Can Man
- Paul Taylor
- Vicki De Soto
- Scott Jeske
- George Ruiz
- Sheriff Herb Geller
- Fran Hewitt
- Phil Hobbs
- Theatre Manager
- Crazy Man
- Movie Patrons
- Sewer Rat
- Eddie Beckner
- 2 Hazmat Soldiers
- Dr. Christopher Meddows
- Colonel Hargis
- Townspeople
- Flamethrower Soldier
- Deputy Bill Briggs
- Hazmat Soldier
Behavior[]
Unlike the original Blob from the 1958 film, this iteration of the Blob shows signs of an intelligent hunter rather than some mindless being that just attacked people that it just happened to come across. A few instances are shown when it uses ambush tactics to lure its prey in or when a soldier shoots a flamethrower at it, the Blob specifically shot a tentacle at the flamethrower's barrel to block the fire. In addition, this increased intelligence appears to give it the capacity to be sadistic as occasionally when it went after a target, it showed them a victim that it was currently dissolving to add to the current target's fears of their inevitable fate, or in some cases, slowly approach a target that has no means of escaping it. However, the latter behavior would prove to be its undoing as it tries this a few times with Meg Penny, who is able to make it out alive due to the Blob taking its time, and eventually find out the Blob's weakness to the cold, leading to its defeat.
Characteristics[]
The Blob grows in size and mass with each victim that it consumes, without known limit. Given its size, it is surprisingly fast, and can flow through tiny openings such as pipes. It can ooze rapidly and it can form tentacles to strike out at victims. Due to its amorphous nature, the Blob is extremely difficult to injure, as there are no limbs, sensory organs, internal organs, or central nervous system to damage. Even explosives seem to have limited effect on it. Its weakness is cold: cold gasses can repel it and cold-inducing substances such as nitrogen can freeze it quickly, reducing it to small pieces. It also cannot penetrate impermeable barriers such as glass. The original Blob from the 1958 film was unaffected by electricity, although this possibility was not explored in the remake.
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Trivia[]
- Due to the 1988 film lacking the campy nature of the 1958 version, the Blob's threatening nature is more prominent, as due to advances in technology, the Blob can actually be seen killing people onscreen.
- This version of the Blob appears to be more intelligent than the original, setting up ambushes to catch its targets rather than just randomly going after whomever it comes across.
- This suggests that the Blob has some capacity to be sadistic rather than just a mindless predator as seen during the phone booth scene where it reveals Sheriff Geller's corpse to Fran before breaking into the phone booth, and in the sewers, the Blob slowly goes after Meg while forming itself into a “mouth” of some sort.