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plant monsters

How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster

Plant monsters are making a comeback, with The Ruins giving us an ancient Mayan plant thing in theaters and M. Night Shyamalan about to try our patience again with his forthcoming plant toxin movie The Happening. But there's a long history of evil plants on film, which seemingly has been forgotten in these new offerings. Now it's time to water the soil of the scary plant genre, and remind you how plant slayers in history have defeated their chlorophyl-loving foes. More »

10:42 AM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Annalee Newitz
9,227 views, 31 comments

Latest by n/a: And The thing was also remade as a 5 page UNIT backup in the Doctor Who comic featuring the zygons, and talking of Who what about the Krynoid which was blown up twice. more »

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Blind People Are Super Scary In "Triffids"

The creepiest moment in the 1981 BBC miniseries of Day of the Triffids has nothing to do with rubber monsters. Instead it involves a huge crowd of desperate blind people. Almost everybody in the world has gone blind thanks to some trippy lights, and our still-sighted hero gets caught in a huge crush of people trying to drag him out of his car. See an actual rubber monster clip, and find out the Triffids-Doctor Who connection, below the fold. More »

11:55 AM on Fri Jan 18 2008
By charliejane
1,534 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: This BBC version is great, and unlike the earlier film version actually follows the book (which I read more or less once a year - great post-apocolypse stuff), rather than making a load of stuff up and getting that guy more »