Plant monsters are making a comeback , with The Ruins giving us an ancient Mayan flora affair in theater of operations and M. Night Shyamalan about to try our patience again with his outgoing plant toxin movie The Happening . But there ’s a long chronicle of evil plants on film , which seemingly has been draw a blank in these new offer . Now it ’s sentence to irrigate the grime of the scary plant genre , and cue you how plant life slayers in history have vote down their chlorophyl - loving foes .
Boil them , electrocute them . Those are the suggestion that one of the skillful scientists makes when fight the giant carrot in The Thing from Another World , the picture show that John Carpenter ’s The Thing is loosely based on . In this early-1950s flick , free-base on a short chronicle , a cluster of scientist accidentally melt out an ancient ancestry - nurse alien which is mostly made of vegetable matter . ( Carpenter dispensed with the veggie parts of his alien in The Thing . ) have sex it ’s a vegetable , the scientists first seek to kill it by cooking — they literally illumine it on ardour with kerosine . It gets by , but they finally electrocute it with electrical energy .
Keep them at true laurel with electric fence . In Day of the Triffids , a British series ( base on a ledger ) , a shooting star blinds every human being on the planet and unloosen shuffling , human - eating plant citizenry to munch on the defenseless primates . The blinded human race finally defeat the encroacher by building a giant electrical fence which does n’t kill the buggers but at least keeps them far away .
Call Godzilla to help out . My personal favourite plant demon is Biollante , a giant mutant rose from the mid-1990s with tooth and special anti - nuclear business leader whose terrorise tusky mouth is partially the issue of an extract of Godzilla DNA . When Biollante starts rampaging and squirting people with deadly sap , or take hold of them with vine ( some of which have mouths on them ! ) , Godzilla step in to help oneself . Or maybe he just step in to step in . There ’s a jumbo fight , and finally Godzilla demolish Biollante with a thermonuclear clap from his breath arm , which dissolves her into spore that go up into space .
Do n’t vanquish ’em — link ’em . You ca n’t really beat the plant in Little Shop of Horrors , a train of movies ( and a musical ) about an evil , blood - drinking flower that wants to take over the worldly concern . In the 1960 Roger Corman flick , the plant feed Seymour , the master character , but somehow Seymour manages to overcome it once he ’s been consumed . In the early eighties musical , however , the plant eat everybody in the cast and eventually does take over the mankind . And in the amazing eighties translation of the flick guide by Frank Oz , Seymour fry the flora and gets away — but it ’s too latterly . He travel to the suburbs but as the film ends we see a lilliputian blood - drink plant grow in his front yard . Frank Oz afterwards made a shortlived revivify spinoff of the picture , about a teenager and his human - wipe out industrial plant .
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