The Blob

Greg & I watched the original "The Blob" tonight. It was released in 1958. I can't figure out if it was supposed to be funny or serious. It's really hard to take a movie seriously when it has lyrics like this:

Beware of the Blob!
It creeps, and leaps, and glides and slides,
across the floor, right through the door,
and all around the wall.
A splotch, a blotch,
be careful of the Blob!

Beware of the Blob!
It creeps, and leaps, and glides and slides,
across the floor, right through the door...

Oh, and you can hear it here. It hardly sounds like a horror movie. Then we started watching the remake from 1988. It at least had a pretense of being scary, and I don't just mean because Kevin Dillon is in it with a really scary looking mullet.

Anyway, if you want a laugh, watch them back to back. Maybe some Jell-o shooters would help.

Anyone who saw this when it first came out...was it scary then?