You know what really chaps my nose? Teenagers! Them dang kids, always riding their jalopies around at crazy speeds, like thirty miles per hour . . . swinging those indecent hula-hoops around . . . listening to that devil’s Big Band music . . . well, for this week’s episode of “Oh No! A Giant Monster!” we’re talking about one of the great unsung heroes of cinema: “The Blob.” Here’s a decent, civic-minded mass of corrosive protoplasm who ends up on Earth, minding its own business, maybe eating one old hermit (probably on Welfare or Unemployment, good riddance) and next thing the poor thing knows, it’s being harassed by, you guessed it, teenagers! Whether they’re hot rodding around or smooching (disgusting!) nearby, these wild hooligans won’t leave our poor, hungry hero alone. Of COURSE he’s going to eat one or two of the townsfolk; serves ‘em right for putting up with these ding-dang teens! And you’d think a nice, mature fella like Steve McQueen would know better, but no! He’s claiming to be one of the teenagers! Traitor! I won’t spoil the heartbreakingly tragic ending but you don’t shed a tear at the end, well, you’ve got a heart of stone. Give a listen and enjoy; I see a cloud that needs yelling at!
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Mike knows me too well… Save the Earth it Is! At the video store I managed I had the staff do the 60s dance to the song and the customers had to wait until it was over to be served. I might also suggest:
https://youtu.be/rMAyaUrSOi0?si=0IFRSQfNRseSrdO8
Dementia/Daughter of Horror is… something else. I have both versions one is silent the other has Ed MacMahon. The music is a lot of singing/wailing but the same woman he did the vocals in the original Star Trek theme!
Wow. I can’t believe they cut this sequence from the MST3K version of “Reptillicus.”
There is another sequence where Reptiligus “flies” and it’s…. something else. That is harder to find.
Ah! That explains the “wings a thousand feet wide” line in Petersen’s song.