As we toast to FilmScene's growth and The Chauncey's Grand Opening Weekend, catch young Steve McQueen has he fights cinema-consuming ooze in the 1958 creature feature The Blob. We promise, the Chauncey will be ooze free - but don't forget the Dots!

"There is just something about that unlikeable lump of goo: faceless, mindless...timeless." - Criterion Collection

"The Blob is somehow perfect - as a movie, and as a monster." - Kim Newman, the Current

A drive-in favorite, and cult classic of gooey greatness, The Blob follows the havoc wreaked on a small town by an outer-space monster with neither a soul nor vertebrae, with Steve McQueen playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the jellylife invader. Strong performances and ingenious special effects help The Blob transcend the schlock sci-fi and youth delinquency genres from which it originates. Made outside of Hollywood by a maverick film distributor, The Blob helped launch the careers of McQueen and composer Burt Bacharach, whose bouncy title song is just one of this film's many unexpected pleasures.