The Blob (1988)

Written by: Chuck Russell, Frank Darabont
                    Based on the 1958 screenplay by Theodore Simonson, Kay Linaker (as Kay Phillips), 
                    Irvine Milgate (story)


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Main characters:

Brian Flagg
Meg Penny
Paul Taylor
Scott Jeske
Sheriff Herb Geller
Deputy Bill Briggs
Fran Hewitt
Dr. Meddows
Reverend Meeker
Kevin Penny (Meg's little brother)

EXT. HIGH-SCHOOL FOOTBALL FIELD - PAUL TAYLOR is goaded by his buddy SCOTT into asking pretty cheerleader MEG PENNY out on a date.

EXT. WOODS - Town rebel BRIAN FLAGG attempts to jump a broken bridge on his motorcycle. He wipes out. He's applauded by a homeless man, CAN MAN, who is out collecting empty cans.

INT. DINER - SHERIFF HERB GELLER works up the nerve to ask the diner's owner FRAN HEWITT out on a date. She slips him a note that she gets off work at 11:00 p.m.

EXT. TOWN - Brian Flagg gets a ride into town. Sees the Sheriff, tries to hide from him. The Sheriff spots Brian anyway and tells Brian that since he's soon turning eighteen, his crimes will no longer be considered juvenile misdemeanors.

INT. AUTOBODY SHOP - Brian borrows tools to fix his bike from his friend MOSS WOODLEY. They mention snow-maker trucks parked there in the garage.

EXT. WOODS - A fireball zooms over Can Man's head, impacts near-by. Can Man grabs his small kindling axe and goes to investigate.

INT. PHARMACY - Scott goes to buy condoms. REVEREND MEEKER comes up to chat with him. Scott tells the priest and the PHARMACIST that he's buying the condoms for his pal Paul, who is too irresponsible to buy them himself. The pharmacist is not impressed.

EXT. WOODS - Can Man investigates the fireball's crash site. Sees something pulsing, pokes it with a stick. The baby blob jumps up and wraps itself around his hand.

INT. PENNY HOUSE - Meg's younger brother KEVIN PENNY and his buddy EDDIE plan on going to see a horror movie, but his mother MRS PENNY forbids it. Paul arrives to pick up Meg for their date. Kevin and Eddie head out for a sleep-over at Eddie's. Meg brings Paul in to meet her father MR PENNY, who turns out to be the pharmacist - he's not happy to see Paul.

EXT. WOODS - Brian is fixing his motorcycle, hears something. He's startled by the Can Man who crashes out of the woods, waving his kindling axe. But instead of attacking Brian with the axe he starts chopping off his own hand. The baby blob jumps the cut, moving further up Can Man's arm. When Brian tries to stop the Can Man from hacking at himself the Can Man runs off. Brian chases.

EXT. ROAD/INT. PAUL'S CAR - The car runs into the Can Man who comes running out of the woods. Brian runs out after him.  Paul blames Brian - why are you chasing this old man? They get Can Man into the car, Brian comes along to make sure Paul doesn't blame him for everything.

INT. HOSPITAL - They hustle the Can Man in, are ignored by the NURSE at first. Finally they hand over the Can Man. Paul is given a bunch of forms to fill out. Meg notices when rebel Brian tries to comfort Can Man. Brian leaves - he knows that none of the adults are going to care about their explanations.

INT. HOSPITAL - Later. Paul is still filling out forms. Goes in search of soda. Notices that the blanket covering Can Man is moving in a weird way. Investigates, see that Can Man's neck and face are distorted. Gets a DOCTOR. They pull back the blanket - Can Man's body has been dissolved. Paul runs to the doctor's office, calls the Sheriff's office. In the reception area, Meg wonders what's keeping Paul. In the doctor's office, Paul tells the Sheriff on the phone about Can Man and that Brian was involved. The Blob, bigger now that it's eaten Can Man, attacks Paul. Meg hears Paul's scream, runs in to see Paul being eaten. She grabs Paul's arm to help him but the arm pulls off. Meg stumbles back, hits her head and passes out.

EXT. HOSPITAL - Meg's parents take her home, not listening to her. The Sheriff doesn't listen either, he thinks Meg is hysterical. Brian is brought around in the back of a police car.

EXT. WOODS/INT. SCOTT'S CAR - Scott puts the moves on his date. The Blob noms them both.

INT. PENNY HOUSE - Meg overhears her father blaming Brian. She fakes taking a sleeping pill and sneaks out.

EXT. WOODS - The Blob oozes into a storm drain - it's now in the town's sewer system.

INT. SHERIFF'S STATION - The Sheriff and DEPUTY BILL BRIGGS are getting nowhere in their interrogation of Brian. They have to let him go.

EXT. SHERIFF'S STATION/INT. DINER - Meg catches up with Brian, she wants to talk to him. He's not interested, heads into the diner to get something to eat. Meg comes in after him, she needs his help - nobody will believe her story. Brian doesn't believe her either. Meg storms off, telling Brian he's just like everyone else. Brian calls her back and gives her half of his sandwich.

EXT. TOWN/INT. SHERIFF'S STATION - Deputy Briggs radios in from his patrol car, wondering if he should search the woods. The Sheriff tells him to keep patrolling the town, they'll wait until daylight to search the woods. The Sheriff remembers the note from Fran saying she'll get off at 11:00 p.m. He exits, concerned about her.



EXT. TOWN - The Blob covers the phone booth. Fran sees the Sheriff being digested by the Blob. The Blob bursts in.

INT. DINER - Meg and Brian leave the freezer, make their way out of the diner.

EXT. DINER - Reverend Meeker hears strange Blob noises. Sees the Blob oozing into a storm drain.

INT. DINER - The Reverend investigates the destroyed diner. He finds the Blob crystals in the freezer, puts them into a seal-top jar.

INT. SHERIFF'S STATION - Meg and Brian enter, looking for the Sheriff or Deputy. The ON-CALL LADY hasn't been able to raise either of them. Last she heard the Deputy was out near where Brian found Can Man.

EXT. WOODS - Brian and Meg find the Deputy's deserted car. They head into the woods. They hear strange noises, see strange lights, a wind kicks up. They run into a bunch of SOLDIERS in hazmat suits - the ruckus was caused by their helicopter over the crash site. Kindly DR MEDDOWS has the soldiers lower their guns - finally someone who will listen.

EXT. WOODS - Medics question them about their health. Brian breaks free to demand answers from Dr Meddows. Meddows explains they're a government-sanctioned bio-containment team. The Deputy is there working with the soldiers. Dr Meddows explains that the crash site was caused by a meteorite which might have brought a germ. Brian tells him the germ is "the biggest son of a bitch you've ever seen."

INT. MOVIE THEATRE - Meg's little brother Kevin and his pal Eddie are watching the slasher movie Mrs Penny forbid Kevin from seeing. A MOVIE PATRON keeps talking out loud.

INT PROJECTIONIST'S BOOTH - The PROJECTIONIST checks to see why the air conditioning isn't working. The Blob attacks. Another THEATRE EMPLOYEE, looking for the projectionist, is also attacked.

EXT. WOODS - Dr Meddows thanks Meg and Brian for their information. But then they're forced into a truck to head to town for quarantine.

INT. TRUCK - Brian tries to convince Meg to hop out of the truck with him. She refuses, she has to go back to town for her family. She accuses Brian of only looking out for himself. Brian busts open the back door and jumps.

EXT. TOWN - Soldiers herd the town-folk. Meg returns to her family, learns Kevin must have gone to that movie. Meg's father runs interference with a soldier so Meg can slip away.

INT. MOVIE THEATRE/EXT. ALLEYWAY - The Blob attacks the movie-watching crowd. Meg pushes in against the fleeing crowd, finds Kevin and Eddie. Blocked from the front doors by the Blob, they run out the back into a dead-end alley. They head down a manhole and begin to wade through the sewers.

EXT. WOODS - Brian has returned to get his motorcycle. Hiding, he sees a man-made satellite pulled from the impact site. Overhears that Dr Meddows created the Blob as a bio-weapon. Meddows is sure the Blob can be contained. Says the town folk are expendable. Brian overhears a radio call from soldiers in town that the Blob was spotted going down into the sewers after Meg, Kevin, and Eddie. Brian is noticed, he escapes by jumping his back over that broken bridge where he failed earlier. He finds a sewage culvert big enough to fight his motorcycle.

EXT. TOWN - Meddows arrives in town to coordinate a plan to trap the Blob in the sewers by shutting down certain valves - which will trap Meg and Kevin and Eddie down there with it.

INT. SEWERS - Meg, Kevin, and Eddie wade through the sewers. Soldiers move through the sewers in their way to shut the valves. Meg, Kevin, and Eddie are attacked. They climb pipes to get up to a storm drain. Eddie is killed. Meg gets Kevin through the grate but she can't fit. The soldiers find them, the Blob attacks them instead. Using the distraction, Meg jumps back down into the water. two of the three soldiers are killed. Meg tries to climb a ramp but it's too slippery. Just as the Blob is about to grab her Brian appears at the top of the ramp and pulls Meg up onto his motorcycle. The motorcycle gets wrecked during the chase. On foot, they run into the remaining soldier. They find a ladder leading up but Dr Meddows orders the manhole closed and a truck parked on top of it. The Blob is coming. Brian uses the soldier's r.p.g. to blow the truck off the manhole. They climb up.

EXT. TOWN - Brian snatches a gun, targets Meddows. A stand-off with soldiers. Brian tries to get the Deputy to listen to him s he explains what the Blob really is. Meddows grabs a gun to kill Brian but the Blob drags him down the manhole. The soldiers shoot at, then drop a satchel charge down the manhole. This just angers the Blob which smashes up through the street and starts gobbling people. The Reverend, preaching, is set on fire by a flame-thrower explosion. While putting him out Meg discovers the Blob doesn't like the cold of the extinguisher. Everyone retreats into the town hall.

INT. TOWN HALL - Everyone barricades the doors. Meg uses the extinguisher to keep Blob tentacles from slithering in under the doors.

EXT. AUTOBODY SHOP - Brian rams a snow-maker truck out through the roll-up door.

INT. TOWN HALL - Another extinguisher is found as Meg's runs dry.

EXT. TOWN - Brian rams the snow-maker truck through the soldiers' barricade of parked cars.

INT. TOWN HALL - The Reverend is ranting. The second extinguisher runs dry. The Deputy gets snatched by the Blob.

EXT. TOWN - Brian arrives at the town hall. He blasts the Blob with the snow-maker. He tries to ram the Blob with the truck's snow-plow but the truck is over-turned and breaks in half - the can with Brian in it goes one way, the snow-maker container goes the other. Meg sees that Brian's half of the truck is being covered by the Blob. She grabs a satchel charge and a gun. She gets on top of the snow-maker part of the truck, lures the Blob to her by shooting it, then sets the satchel charge. But as she jumps off her boot gets stuck. Brian frees himself from the truck's cab, runs over and frees Meg, they run clear. The satchel explodes, shooting snow everywhere. The Blob freezers into crystal form. Moss suggests they get a dump-truck and gather up the crystals so they can dump them in "the ice-house" before dawn.

EXT. FIELDS/INT. TENT - The fire-scarred Reverend preaches the Doomsday in a revival-style tent. He still has those couple of Blob crystals from the diner in the jar, and he's looking forward to releasing them.