Monster of the Day #494

Heeeey babeeee, they call me the luuuuuuuuuuuv machine.

I adore man-eating plant movies and deeply resent the fact that there are so few of them.

The funniest thing about The Relic was the bizarre attempt to replicate the July 4 beach closing crisis from Jaws in a museum.  “We can’t close the museum!”

WOMANEATER, a sadly obscure number from 1950′s England. Could have benefited from the more lively pace of an American exploitation picture, but an intriguing entry in the frightfully underfed genre of killer plant monsters just the same. I’ve always loved this genre, never understood why there were so few killer trees on the screen. 

I love plant monsters myself but it is difficult to make something sedentary like a plant into an effective threat so I can see why so few attempt the challenge.

Yup. Unless it’s a Triffid or a Night Monster, you average vegatable beastie just waits for a meal to come along. Not unlike a Congressman or a ‘reality Show’ star.

Was Audrey already used?

I thought that giant fungus that almost got Scully and Mulder was a good monster, but maybe that wouldn’t be a good subject.