As It Was In The Beginning, So It Shall Be In The End Times: Phoenixville Taken Over By Annual Blob Fest
Since we’re so partial to blobs here at Philebrity — Food Blob, Art Blob, any ol’ kinda blob, really — so it seems only right and natural that we should tip our hats to the O.G. blob, which is The Blob. Especially given its local roots in Downingtown, PA, and the fact that it’s celebrated every year at Blobfest at the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville. From July 11-13 this year, there’ll be all kinds of Blob-doings: A short film contest, a Steve McQueen look-a-like contest, a screaming contest, a tinfoil hat contest, the Blob Ball, and perhaps best of all, a re-enactment of the famous running-out-of-the-theater scene. Oh yes, and at some point, they actually show The Blob as well which, as it happens, we caught on cable this year, and kitsch aside, really was kind of scary. But truth be told, it also kind of looked delicious.
ColonialTheater: The Blobosphere
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:22 am
Downingtown? It was filmed in Phoenixville! (I was born there, so I care about these things.)
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
pretty sure the diner in the original film is in D-town….but i could be wrong.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:55 am
The Colonial Theater, which is in Phoenixville, is in the film. I lived there as a child so I care about these things. Maybe other parts were filmed in D-Town?
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I’m so skipping the All Star game for this instead.
July 5th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
yeah a couple at my work lives in pheonixville & they were teling me about the Blob fest and how it was filmed there but i’m 99% sure it was filmed at the diner in Downingtown where i’m from & it’s changed many times but it’s still there