Revealing mistake: When the Blob is eating Paul at the doctors office, his right arm is the only part not covered. It's very obvious that it's in a fixed plastic sleeve surrounded by the Blob's ooze.
The Blob (1988)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Chuck Russell
Starring: Kevin Dillon, Jeffrey DeMunn, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch, Donovan Leitch Jr.
Meg places a pack of explosive charges next to a couple of liquid nitrogen tanks, and when the charges go off, the blob is frozen. Some time later: the priest is preaching in another town about the end of the world. After the sermon, someone asks the priest "when will it happen?" and the priest reveals a jar with a piece of the blob and says "God will give me a sign..."
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Question: For the original, the sequel and the remake, what materials did the crew use to create the blob and how did they get it to move?
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Answer: In both the the 50's original and 70s sequel, the majority of the Blob effects were created using a thick silicone gel colored with red vegetable dye; its movement was essentially controlled by gravity, just letting the goop run downhill and angling the camera to provide the illusion that it was moving horizontally, vertically, or straight at the audience. The original film also employed a large barrage balloon (or weather balloon) covered in the colored silicone goop for shots where people are actually consumed by the Blob. The 1972 sequel additionally used a preposterous rotating spit covered in red plastic, mounted in front of the camera, to provide the Blob's point-of-view as it steamrolled toward its victims. The 1988 remake used much more sophisticated practical effects such as robotics, latex prosthetics, pneumatic tentacles, et cetera, which were directly inspired by John Carpenter's 1982 special-effects-heavy horror flick, "The Thing." For the last couple of decades, there has also been talk of a major CGI reboot of "The Blob," but it has yet to materialize.
Charles Austin Miller