Okay so I've seen "The Blob" several times, often on TV over the years. And I have the Quatermas X-periment (the Creeping Unknown). Also Star Trek's "The Devil in the Dark" is a classic of this genre. But I was wondering.....

What other titles are there which feature a blobbish type of monster. I just received "Caltiki" from Monsters IN Motion (Resurrection Video) but I'd really love to know of any others of such type.

When I was a little 5 or 6 year old I remember a scene of a guy being lowered down a mine-shaft or cave and getting screamingly "blobbed". Was this underwater? Which movie was that?

I also recall a scene where a scientist has something in a jar in a lab which suddenly starts "blobbing it up", expanding and attacking, and his screaming face is fried off. Which one is that?

Anybody know about these type of "acidically searing amorphous attacking mass" movies?

Besides the ones you named, I only know of one I saw some years back on AMC (when they were still worth watching). It's a Hammer film called X- The Unknown. I know, it's sounds like an alternate title for the Quatermass movie (The Creeping Unknown), but it's a different movie altogether. Same sensibilites, though, I thought it was quite good. Black and white, 1956, available on dvd region 1.

You'll have seen it already, but the remake of The Blob was much better than I expected it to be.

Island of Terror (1966) Starrring Peter Cushing

IMDB

'Plot Summary: A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures...'

Gave me nightmares as a kid. Turns out to be a bit lame realy. The silicates are realy slow and the attacks rely on the camera not revealing them or characters walking backwards into them.


Jim

Thanks guys! I have "Island of Terror" and really like it, forgot about that one, probably because there's more than one of those creatures, a whole "swarm" (if something slow can be called a swarm). It actually reminds me somewhat of "Fiend Without A Face".

"X - the Unknown" thanks so much, totally forgot about this one, I need to get that and also I've never seen the Blob remake but I will now on Dreamer's excellent recommendation.

We used to catch marshmallow's on fire when camping and watch them bubble and melt as we moaned "Caltiki!"

We can't forget the infamous "Son of Blob/Beware! The Blob."

I remember seeing that one in 1972 at the Plaza I and II in Daly City, California. It's a tongue-in-cheek horror comedy that's really not that bad taken for what it's worth.

It's only claim to fame was the director - Larry Hagman.

Whoa, stared in abject fascination at "Caltiki - The Immortal Monster" last night over dinner (good dinner movie) for the first time in probably 40 years, and noticed that the scenes I vaguely describe from my 5- year-old's memory in the my first post here are, in fact, in this movie. I was thrilled! Excellent searing action. Quite revolting, in fact. Mario Bava was the cinematographer on this (mainly Mexican?) movie and the filming is excellent. The whole thing was even better than I hoped it would be, and the packaging by Resurrection Video is wonderful, theater card, nice colors. Overall a real Lovecraftian crawling chaos of horror, and in case you can't tell, highly recommended.

I'm watching the brown sugar melt in my Cream of Wheat this morning. Maybe I'll add some of these HO little tiny men to the mix. "YIIIII!" "AAEEEEE!" Yeah, die, you little vermin! Poor blighters.

I just received "Caltiki" from Monsters IN Motion (Resurrection Video) but I'd really love to know of any others of such type.


Heya,

How long did it take for you to get your copy from MnM? I ordered it when this post started and am still waiting for it.

Hiya, you gotta give them about a month or so, that's typical. Also, they were undergoing major website upheaval for the last several weeks, are you sure that you successfully placed your order? Try contacting their customer service via email. If you already received an email from them confirming your order, scratch what I just said.

I got "X-The Unknown" and that one is the Bomb as they say, meaning in a good way. What a keeper! This is the one, in fact, which contains those scenes I remember from childhood - there are some similarities to "Caltiki", to say the least.

Watched a movie saturday night called SPACEMASTER X-7. Bacteria from outer space that is carnivorous, also likes blood and grows. Can be spread by physical contact. Most of the movie deals with the feds and scientists trying to track down a woman who came in contact with it and doesn't know it. Scene on a plane where the stuff was on a piece of luggage and grows to fill the luggage hold. The stuff expands to blow the door to the luggage hold and starts spreading along the outside of the plane. Has onscreen appearance of Paul Frees as the scientist who discovers the stuff and names it "Bloodrust" because of it's color.
How about THE STUFF. A blob movie sorta. Eats you from the inside out.

Finally got my copy of Caltiki. Great movie and never heard or seen it before.

Even though it looks like a VHS to DVD copy.

Thanks for the heads up!