Scare Me On Fridays: April 2020

Friday, April 24, 2020

Killer Plants 7: The Girl With All The Gifts

Killer Plants 6: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

Killer Plants 5: Day of the Triffids (1962)

Killer Plants 4: The Evil Dead

Killer Plants 3: Annihilation

Alex Garland's Annihilation is a gorgeously shot horror that, among many highly stylized scary incarnations, includes all manner of plant mutations that clearly...well, annihilate any humans in contact with them within what the movie calls "the shimmer." In my opinion, Rob Hardy, Garland's cinematographer out-did himself on this; but, so did the entire production team (check out the full credits here).

Killer Plants 2: Little Shop of Horrors

Well, as killer plant films goes, this is one (along with the original) that everyone knows. We now even has a kitty named "Mushnik." This is also an excellent alien invasion monster flick and an even better musical!

Killer Plant 1: Godzilla vs. Biollante

It's kind of fitting that the following clip was posted to Dailymotion 10 years ago, as this is the ten year anniversary of my Friday live blog! Killer plants are basically the mascot of this blog too! Biollante is one of my all time favorites--she (yes, it's a "she") is a giant mutant rose bush and has to be one of the all time largest killer plant creatures out there (bigger even than Audrey Jr!). And speaking of Little Shop of Horrors, I've noticed that Boillante's design is actually pretty close to the original "Audrey" design from the original 1960 Roger Corman film.

Released in 1989, this Kaiju mash-up certainly has all the trappings of a 80's film, with cheesy computer noises and cheap looking panels with blinking lights....and some real 80's sounding music in parts! All the monster goodness that a gal like me could possibly want!