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October 15th, 2012: Matango aka Attack of the Mushroom People

Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Drama, Horror, Killer Plants, Movie of the Day Tagged addiction, AIP, Akira Kubo, allegory, Eiji Tsuburaya, fungi, hallucinations, Hiroshi Koizumi, insanity, Ishiro Honda, it's not over, James H. Nicholson, Japan, Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, lone survivor, movie stars, mushrooms, musical interlude, radiation, sailors, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, shipwrecks, Takeshi Kimura, temptation, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, transformations, twist, William Hope Hodgson

October 2nd, 2012: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)

Oct2 by David Cole

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Comic Strip, Ghost, Holiday, Killer Plants, Made for TV, Movie of the Day Tagged Ann Altieri, Bill Melendez, Charles M. Schulz, Christopher Shea, Emmy nominee - Outstanding Children's Program, Emmy nominee - Special Classifications of Individual Achievements, Gabrielle DeFaria Ritter, Glenn Mendelson, Kathy Steinberg, Lisa DeFaria, Peter Robbins, Sally Dryer, Vince Guaraldi

September 14th, 2012: Creepshow (1982)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Aliens, Animals Attack, Anthology, Based on a Comic Book, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black Comedy, Comedy, From Beyond the Grave, Horror, Killer Plants, Monster, Movie of the Day, Revenge, Spoof, The Original, Thriller, Zombies Tagged Adrienne Barbeau, alcoholic, beach, before they were famous, Christine Forest, college, college students, comic books, doctor, Drive-In, E.C. Comics, E.G. Marshall, Ed Harris, evil businessman, father-daugther relationship, father-son relationship, Fritz Weaver, Gaylen Ross, George A. Romero, Hal Holbrook, homage, incompetent doctors, insects, it's not over, Leslie Nielsen, low-budget, nightmares, ocean, overbearing father, patricide, professors, rednecks, scientists, shrew, Stephen King, Ted Danson, Tom Atkins, Tom Savini, unfaithful spouse, voodoo doll, Warner Brothers

August 22nd, 2012: Children of the Corn (1984)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Cults, Demons, Horror, Independent, Killer Kids, Killer Plants, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, The Original Tagged "murder the adults", before they were famous, cash-in, child death, child killer, Cinema Group, corn, Drive-In, farmer, farmers, fields, gods, Hal Roach Studios, Linda Hamilton, low-budget, New World Pictures, Peter Horton, R. G. Armstrong, Stephen King, teens, wrath of the gods

August 5th, 2012: Mothra (1961)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Killer Plants, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Akihiko Hirata, allegory, atomic, atomic testing, evil businessman, gods, insects, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Kenji Sahara, kidnapping, music summons the monster, musical interlude, natives, newspaper, nightclub, radiation, radiation mutation, reporter, Robert Dunham, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, shipwrecks, stowaway, Takashi Shimura, telepaths, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, twins

November 2nd, 2011: The Thing from Another World (1951)

Nov2 by David Cole

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Aliens, Based on a Book, Black and White, Horror, Killer Plants, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Douglas Spencer, Howard Hawks, James Arness, Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, National Film Registry, Robert O. Cornthwaite

August 31st, 2011: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Disaster, Independent, Killer Plants, Movie of the Day, Musical, Slapstick, So-Bad-It's-Good, Spoof, The Original, Whodunnit Tagged advertising, before they were infamous, California, cyborg, disguise expert, feminist, it's not over, low-budget, music kills the savage beast, Olympic athelete, President of the United States, Rick Rockwell, San Diego, scientists, team of experts, tomatoes

May 7th, 2011: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Based on a Book, Black and White, Body Snatchers, Independent, Killer Plants, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Allied Artists, conspiracy, doctor, Don Siegel, Drive-In, flashback, insanity, Kevin McCarthy, low-budget, narration, nurse, paranoia, Sam Peckinpah, town doctor, Walter Wanger Productions, Whit Bissell

May 6th, 2011: Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

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Leave a comment Posted in Period Film, Comedy, Black Comedy, Based on a Play, Movie of the Day, Musical, Killer Plants Tagged Warner Brothers, Bill Murray, Best Song Nominee, Frank Oz, John Candy, Steve Martin, Tischa Campbell-Martin, Levi Stubbs, Christopher Guest, Rick Moranis, David Geffen, Howard Ashman, Charles B. Griffith, Vincent Gardenia, The Geffen Company, Best Visual Effects Nominee, James Belushi

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