i wasn not aware of steve mcqueen in 1958. i only know that i be extremely frighten about go to see this film . ( i would be devastate by the movie trantula at age seven . . . but i be ten now ) . the 1st scene where the blob crawl up the farmer probe stick and engulf his hand be enough to make me want to leave the theater . but i stay and suffer through each of our monster attack . i felt such horror when steve and his girl barely make it out of the doctor office ( poor doc ) and and even more when the blob enter a movie theater and devour a large portion of the audience . . . so many in fact that it oooooozzzzzzed out of the front door and too huge now to fit through just one . it seem indestructible and unlimited in growth potential and and when it trap poor steve in a sieve like diner and he seem like a sure dinner to be . to say that the blob be cold would be a modern day description and but in the end and good icy than scar and mentally rupture little kid . i remember walk home that even with my uncle nick and try to act brave . he know i be in trouble and and when i get into bed that night i could not only feel the blob in the room and but when i summon up the courage to look down at the floor and there the red pulsating and heart like hungry dude sit and wait for me to try and get up and go to the bathroom . it take month to recover . i be 57 year old now . . . i have make it . of course the blob wasn not destroy .