Cast member Del Close later appeared in the 1988 remake of The Blob.
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It starts by eating a fly, then a kitten, Chester's wife, and then Chester himself (while he is watching a television broadcast of the film The Blob).
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The Blob (alternately titled as Beware the Blob, Son of Blob, Son of the Blob or The Blob Returns) is a 1972 (copyrighted 1971) sequel to horror science-fiction film The Blob.
Linaker used her married name (Kay Phillips) as a screenwriter, notably for the cult movie hit The Blob (1958).
McQueen was mainly noted at the time for the television series Wanted: Dead or Alive and the horror movie The Blob.
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He also appeared in The Blob, The Incident, Looking for Mr Goodbar and The Stepford Wives (1975).
The monsters are based on popular movie monsters such as The Blob, Mothra, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and Epyx was able to secure licensing for Godzilla.