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Cthulhu

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Who is that?
 

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Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 07-03-2003, 07:17 AM:
 
The Blob found dead? Up in heaven Steve McQueen is crying!

Paramount (or whoever holds the rights) should re-release The Blob. Better than most of the product out there now. Dig that theme song it was written by Burt Bacharach!
 

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Posted by Ron Lacheur (Member # 1126) on 07-03-2003, 08:46 AM:
 
The Blob is available on dvd from Criterion.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 07-03-2003, 08:47 AM:
 
I always thought "The Blob" used stock music entirely from the Valentino library?

Valentino Evergreen Library
 

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Posted by Andrew Duggan (Member # 1302) on 07-03-2003, 09:23 AM:
 
Cthulhu: The enormous, octopus-headed monster that became the backbone to all of the H.P. Lovecraft mythos. I suppose theres a good reason as to why I scored so high on the geek test!

http://www.cthulhu.org/cthulhu/index.html
 

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Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 07-03-2003, 06:55 PM:
 
The speculation is that these bad boys live in a big trench off the East coast of New Zealand.
 

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Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 07-03-2003, 07:18 PM:
 
Didn't Bachrach sing the theme song himself, multi-tracked? Screen credit for the singing goes to "The Five Blobs." Cute!
 

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Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 07-12-2003, 07:25 PM:
 
Mystery Solved. Click here if you think you can handle the horific truth!
 

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Posted by William Leland III (Member # 1400) on 07-13-2003, 03:55 PM:
 
I remember watching this TV show about the giant squids. The scientist some how hooked a camera onto a sperm whale. The whale dove deep hunting for squid, but, while they dove another whale looked at the camera the entire time. They found nothing, but the searches still continues.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 07-13-2003, 08:31 PM:
 

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after analyzing samples of the decaying specimen and finding glands of a sperm whale.

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Maybe it ate the whale?
 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 07-14-2003, 12:14 AM:
 
William Leland III: Maybe it is my English, but I do not understand what you are trying to tell us. Which whale looked at what camera while which whale did what with which squid? Or did the squid hold the camera?
 

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Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 07-16-2003, 12:01 PM:
 
The Blob has been re-animated!

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PHOENIXVILLE, Pa. -- The town where "The Blob" first made horror history is celebrating the movie monster that made it a star.

Several hundred people kicked off the Fourth Annual BlobFest weekend in the former steel town outside Philadelphia by bursting from the Colonial Theatre on Friday night in a re-enactment of the famous escape scene from the 1958 cult classic.

"Every year this event has taken on a life of its own," said Mary Foote, executive director of the Association for the Colonial Theatre. "I'm glad so many people came out for it."

Opened as a vaudeville hall in 1903, the Colonial hosted Broadway-bound musicals, magician Harry Houdini, musicals and a local orchestra. But the theater's main claim to fame was its use as the set where the oozing space creature chased horrified movie-goers.

People arrived for the re-enactment dressed in a wide variety of outfits, from 1950s garb to gorilla suits.

Foote gave the countdown to the audience inside the theater, and seconds later the screaming audience members came barreling out of the front doors.

Brian Etrachan, 42, of Collegeville, and Dori Eisenhauer, 34, of Brooklyn, N.Y., were told of the re-enactment by a friend.

"I've seen 'The Blob' ten times and it is one of the first movies I'd ever seen," said Etrachan, who came dressed as actress Kitty Carlisle.

Added Eisenhauer, "This definitely was something crazy to do. I didn't realize how many people got involved in something like this."

The Colonial's fortunes declined along with the steel industry's, and by the 1970s the glitzy front entrance had been converted into brick.

But in 1996, the nonprofit Association of the Colonial Theatre took over the site and began renovations.

Architects restored the theater's art deco facade using photographs from the 1958 Steve McQueen movie and the marquee now sports eye-popping neon and new sheets of yellow-and-black pigmented glass, just like it had in the 1950s.

"We tried to emulate the filming the same way it was in the original movie," said Tom Amici of Pottstown Community Television, which filmed the event and plans to show it on the borough-run station.

BlobFest weekend includes screenings of the movie, and a street festival with vintage cars, music, food, and entertainment outside the Colonial. There also is a piece of the original Blob on display that's owned by Wes Shank, a horror movie fan and a collector of movie props.

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The researchers believe the whale was curious about the inanimate object on his whale buddy's back.

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