10 Unnecessary Horror Movie Details You NEED To Know

10. The Blob - Supposedly Based On A True Story.

Supposedly, according to a lot of epilogues in the horror movie genre, many of the maleficent acts that begin taking place shortly after the opening's culmination are "based on actual events". A lot of notable films follow this trend. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (which is loosely based on serial killer Ed Gein), The Strangers (which centres around an eerily realistic home invasion) and, erm, The Blob? A picture about a gluttonous blob of space jelly that devours people by absorption and becomes ostensibly bigger by doing so.

With a premise as ludicrously divergent as that, one would suspect that the filmmakers are likely riffing films that surround it in its respective genre. They're not. The Blob is in all actuality based on a real-life phenomenon. Not one that saw a gelatinous mutant space goo dining on citizens, however.

The real life occurrence that gave The Blob's sludge a bit of texture took place on September 26, 1950 - a full eight years before Steve McQueen would be frantically fighting it on-screen - when officers Joe Keenan and John Collins claimed to have discovered something otherworldly in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. They claim to have seen it falling from the sky and, when searching the area, they found an ooze dangling from a telephone which apparently began to move.

When one man reached out to touch it - which if you've ever seen a horror movie you know is not the best move - and it left behind a sticky residue. Instead of covering him head to toe and consuming him like a hungry orphan at an all-you-can eat buffet, the ooze simply evaporated.