tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180764321069319458.post6003358553029720759..comments2024-01-07T07:40:29.133-05:00Comments on The WMRA Blog: Scary movies . . .Most of Martha Woodroof in one placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628461346931946238noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180764321069319458.post-45339403990563570752010-01-25T12:06:59.474-05:002010-01-25T12:06:59.474-05:00I'm the one who commented on Nov. 5, but this ...I'm the one who commented on Nov. 5, but this time I can report on having SEEN "The Blob." No sign of Commie Menace that I could discern, but (spoiler alert) a scary hint of global warming prophecy in the film's final moment. Also I may never look at a red velvet cake the same. The creature is the exact color and texture of red velvet cake dough. :-) -- CEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180764321069319458.post-44986712016523643232009-11-05T13:13:29.902-05:002009-11-05T13:13:29.902-05:00Having been barred by parents from seeing The Blob...Having been barred by parents from seeing The Blob in 1958, this post, together with a very different interpretation in Jeff Sharlet's The Family, compelled me to put it in my NetFlix queue. Sharlet's book about a rich, quasi-secret, fundamentalist mover-shaker group is fascinating, though he can get over-wrought once in a while -- maybe including when he says The Blob was a conscious effort to scare Americans about The Communist Menace. I googled it and found there are actually many debates about this Blob-As-Commie issue, and that has forced me to check out the original source. :-) CEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com