re: The Blob (1988)

I lived in Abbeville (Abby-ville) and worked for the local paper and got an up close look at the making. Nice little Sci-Fi/horror flick. Cool, cute actors. Good special effects. Still have a piece of the “frozen blob” as a souvenir.

Learned that movie making is a slow, rather boring process.

They pumped nearly a million dollars into the local economy and kept residents awake for a few nights with gunfire and explosions. And it stayed on schedule and finished on time.

As for the football scenes, it was played as both teams’ LHSAA-sanctioned Spring football games and pitted Abbeville High vs. Vermilion Catholic for the first (and perhaps only) time ever. Both teams took the game seriously except for when certain scenes were orchestrated for the film.

The whole town’s football fan base turned out for the game played at VCHS.

Also, the early ravine and motorcycle jump scenes were filmed in California. Everything else in Abbeville.

The only complaint was they had to severely trim some big oak trees in front of the courthouse for the closing scenes.