“This mineral,” Yeaworth suggested, “if you get involved with it, can absorb your flesh.”
Harris suggests that the idea was born from his desire to “make a movie monster that is not a guy dressed up in a suit some kind of a form that’s never been done before.”Īfter a few days of pitching ideas back and forth, Yeaworth apparently rang Harris with an idea. According to Kim Newman’s wonderful liner notes for The Blob’s Criterion release, the story came from one Irvine H Millgate. And if they did it right, we’d do it again and the more notice they got, the more Word they’d be able to transmit…”Īnd so it was that a group of devout Christians ended up making one of the most successful sci-fi films of the 1950s.Īccounts seem to vary as to who came up with the idea for The Blob. I convinced them that we could take what facilities they had and come up with films that a lot of people would come and see. “They were doing that pretty well, but starving to death at the same time. “Their basic mission was to promulgate the Word,” Harris recalled in Tom Weaver’s book, Interviews with B Science Fiction And Horror Movie Makers. Remarkably, Harris managed to convince Valley Forge, along withMethodist minister and filmmaker Irvin S Yeaworth, to direct his sci-fi horror project.
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