<![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> 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.

kevinjwoods

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> Zapp Brannigan's Girdle

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @dOk: Both are based on the story, but Carpenter clearly tips his hat to the flick with his title, "The Thing," which is not a reference to anything in the story but is a reference to the title of the first movie.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @Annalee Newitz

"The Thing from Another World, the movie that John Carpenter's The Thing is loosely based on.

Untrue... John Carpenters "The Thing" is based on John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There", which is the story both films are based on.

And might I add that the John Carpenter version is much closer to the original story than the 1950's version. Mainly because I doubt they could have handled creating the effects needed to make the movie resemble the book, so they simplified the concept. ( and did a very good job of it too )

dOk

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> Aquanet+Zippo+Boiling the remains+Vegan cookout = Profit

BlindKarma

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @Slatz_Grobnik: Ooooh~! GOATZILLA!!

Grey_Area

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> "When the world attacks with giant plants, develop a mutant strain of giant herbivores," or so my grandfather used to say.

Slatz_Grobnik

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> I love the "day of the triffids" novel, movie, BBC tv series, you name it, if it has triffids, I'm there.
But the triffids were only a part of it. The idea of an entire world being blinded and society crashing down because of it is a lot greater part than the triffids themselves. Basically, the triffids were opportunists. They sit and wait, sting, and then shamble out and consume. If you can see them soon enough, chances are you really won't have a problem...

...if you can see them.

steven522

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @BloggyMcBlogBlog: I am surprised that Mansanto and the folks over at Roundup aren't all over the tie-ins right now.

How else are you going to make someone feel good about defoliants? Make them the savior of mankind when the plant monsters come a munching!

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> I said it before and I'll say it again:
Triffids vs. Vegan Zombies, the ultimate in shambling horror entertainment.

Grey_Area

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @SeeingI: [bluegobo.com] There you go. :)

Don't feed the plants.

Lizzie24601

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> Bah! Let's let the Monolith Monsters take care of the plant monsters. ([www.imdb.com]) They'll suck the silicon out of the plants, and that will be that.

Saw that movie years ago on late night TV. Great concept. Stupid title.

Roy Jacobsen

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> No, Seymour didn't defeat the plant in the original. He climbs into the pod with a machete, but is digested, and his face appears in one of Audrey Junior's flowers.

The 80s movie was originally filmed with the stage ending - Audrey II eats Audrey and Seymour, little cuttings are sold in flower shops and supermarkets all over the country, and the little Audreys turn into Godzilla-sized monsters and take over the world. Nice! They cut it out cause of the preview audience, and this insanely great footage has been languishing in a vault ever since.

I have a photo gallery of images from the scene were giant Audrey IIs stomp the living shit out of a burning Manhattan. Check it out! And write to Warner Brothers and / or Geffen demanding a director's cut DVD!

[mondomusicals.blogspot.com]

SeeingI

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @B:
Dear me, I see the makings of quite a movie there.
"We have the technology to beat them, thanks to you, Dr. Ronco! ...but can we find a thousand gallons of balsamic vinegrette in time!"

Miranda Kali

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> Aphids. We need mutant Aphids.

To the Nuclear Power plant! ... Then the Botanical garden!

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @Annalee Newitz: Then replace the chainsaw with a salad shooter.

B

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> Just put googley eyes on the scary plant to make it look more like friend. Or at least that's what Christopher Walken says to do: [www.nbc.com]

bonniegrrl

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @Miranda Kali: That works for any kind of monster, not just plants!

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @B: Exactly. Al Gore could Cameo as the gandalf-esque sage that helps the hero shut down the local factory, since the plant monster feeds off of pollution.

Gann

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @Jackson West: Correct, that was the 1962 film adaptation by Steve Sekely starring Howard Keel. I think it was in the tv serial that they had the electric fence, but I never got to see it.

expired_coupon

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> Hmmmm, a breed of herbicide resistant plants, evolved as a reaction to the overuse of roundup? Sounds like a great idea on the movie, and it doubles as a metaphor for environmental abuse and the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

B

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> ...Or there's always Ash's method.
Step 1. Chop off hand.
Step 2. Replace missing hand with chainsaw.
Step 3. Adopt cheese-eating grin and catch phrase. (It's the Arbor Day Massacre, baby!)
Step 4. Go to town.

Miranda Kali

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> You can always take the Power Puff Girls lead and just eat them. They're veggies! They're good for you!
Mmmmm. I will eat your invasion force with some fava beans and a fine chianti. (yeah! and some gum, too!)

Miranda Kali

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @B: To obvious. Anyway, it's not a far stretch to say that a plant monster would have evolved a resistance to conventional herbicides. These days the solution would have to be some sort of environmental commentary, like harnessing nuclear or solar power to tame the out of control envronment. Or you could go negative and kill it by drowning it in oil, or choking it with cfc's.

Gann

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> Actually, if I remember correctly, the triffids can be killed with salt water.

Jackson West

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> Considering how badly "The Ruins" bombed, I don't really think "comeback" is the right word.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @B: Yeah Roundup.

BloggyMcBlogBlog

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @B: I'm waiting for a movie about a roundup-ready plant monster.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> @Lizzie24601: Oh crap. Right you are. Fixed now.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> If you're fighting a killer plant, why not just get as many bottles of weed killer as your local hardware shop has in stock?

B

]]> <![CDATA[How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster]]> You have your Little Shop timeline mixed up. The 1960 movie came first, and was straight horror (well, relatively). In 1982, the musical version by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (later to become household names with The Little Mermaid and Beauty & The Beast) opened Off-Broadway, which used doo-wop and other musical styles of the 50s, hence your confusion.

Fun fact: the functional and harmonic similarity between the ballad "Somewhere That's Green" from Little Shop and "Part of Your World" from Little Mermaid was not unnoticed by the composers - while writing it, they called Ariel's number "Somewhere That's Dry."

Lizzie24601

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