In the 1958 filmThe Blob , a youngSteve McQueenand other actors flee from a jellylike droppings that threaten to consume everything in its path . The religious cult film was remade in 1988 with Kevin Dillon , and both movies surmount a superficially silly assumption by making the blob the Michael Myers of sludge — a highly move , emotionless entity of pure malevolence .
astonishingly , the gunk at the center ofThe Blobwasbased — at least in part — on a real - life phenomenon .
On September 26 , 1950 , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , police police officer Joe Keenan and John Collinsclaimedto have seen something falling from the sky . Searching the orbit , theyfounda curious guck dangle from a telephone rod that seemed to move . When Collins contact out to touch it — apparently , he was not well - versify in the rules ofhorror picture — it left behind a sticky remainder and then simply evaporated . No explanation was ever present as to the origin of this substance or whether the ship’s officer had misconceive the situation .
The two did , however , call for back - up , which made for four police enforcement official corroborating this strange fib .
It became something of a medium story , and eight years later , local filmmaker Jack Harris and Irvine H. Millgate mountedThe Blob . Though not explicitly based on the 1950 incident , their proximity to it meant they almost certainly would have been aware of it .
alike cases have been reported over the years , with the strange goo dubbedpwdre ser , Welsh for “ the rotting of the ace . ” Some have attempted to explain the substance as some kind of liquefied meteorite , though that ’s not really possible . ( Meteoritesdon’t melt and would n’t survive entry into the ambience . ) It ’s more plausible the stuff is just animate being emesis of some variety . But when one such incident fall out in Scotland in 2009 , scientist run out to discover any deoxyribonucleic acid in sample .
The moral of the storey ? mind for movies can be found anywhere . And if you see an unidentifiable blob , remain unagitated until it starts to tag you .
