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The Blob (1988)

★ 6.8 · 1,028 ratings on TMDB

Terror has no shape.

The Blob poster★ 6.8

In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.

DirectorChuck Russell
CastBeau Billingslea, Candy Clark, Del Close, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn, Joe Seneca
GenresHorror, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

The Blob keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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