Like his A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Chuck Russell’s The Blob offers a new take on a famous monster. In A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, the ghoul is Freddy Krueger. In The Blob, the menace is extraterrestrial, a rampaging force the color of Pepto Bismol.
In the 1958 original, the titular monster was from outer space. In the …
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