The cult film was remade in 1988 with Kevin Dillon, and both movies overcome a superficially silly premise by making the blob the Michael Myers of sludge—a highly motivated, emotionless entity ...

That movie, The Blob, involves a goo that crashes down to Earth, and McQueen as a tough teen who tries to warn others of the encroaching sentient slime. (And it features plenty of outdated gender ...