Was the Steve McQueen horror movie The Blob (1958) produced by a fundamentalist Christian cabal to advance a right-wing agenda? Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, says yes. Rudy Nelson, who helped write the script for that film, says no, in one of the more fascinating and bizarre articles on politics, religion and pop culture that I have read in a while. Check it out.
OCT 31 UPDATE: I just discovered that one of The Blob‘s producers was Russell S. Doughten Jr., who went on to produce, write and act in the end-times series that began with A Thief in the Night (1972), among other films. Curiouser and curiouser.
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