Description

Plant horror. The fear of flora, fungus and intelligent, mobile trees and vines has filled cinema screens for decades. From the vicious attacks of the triffids to the terrors of airborne spores, film makers have postulated a wide variety of eco-terrors to try and take over or decimate the human population of Earth.

In this book, Lauren Jane Barnett and Tony Mardon strap on their hazmat suits and wield their weedkiller to venture into the fascinating world of arborial monsters. Along the way they consider flora from outer space; man made monsters; mushrooms and fungi; killer trees; naturally evolved threats; grasslands and cornfields; and a cornucopia of other films related to the genre.

Step inside and discover a wealth of cinematic delights dedicated to what happens when the plants take over!

Includes entries on the following films:

Films covered include: The Thing From Another World, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Little Shop of Horrors, The Day of the Triffids, Creepshow, From Hell It Came, Twice-Told Tales, Die, Monster, Die, Maneater of Hydra, The Mutations, Adéla Jestě Nevečeřela, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Swamp Thing, Godzilla vs Biollante, The Rift, Little Joe, The Unknown Terror, Matango, Splinter, Shrooms, The Hallow, The Girl With All The Gifts, The Spore, The Superdeep, In The Earth, Gaia, Das Privileg, The Navy vs The Night Monsters, The Brides of Blood Island, Tales that Witness Madness, The Evil Dead, Poltergeist, The Crawlers, Otesánek, Womaneater, The Guardian, Sleepy Hollow, Acacia, Trick 'r Treat, The Forest, Suicide Forest Village, Voodoo Island, Dr Terror's House of Horrors, The Gardener, Creepshow 2, The Ruins, The Happening, Onibaba, Children of the Corn, Signs, Husk, The Fields, In the Tall Grass, Escape the Field, Dark Harvest