Episode 43: Botanical Terror Part II - Horrific Horticulture

In Part II of our Botanical Terror Series we are talking some Horrific Horticulture by means of the many The Day of the Triffids and The Little Shop of Horrors influences and remakes. We also get into the atmospheric Japanese classic Matango aka Attack of the Mushroom People. Then, last but not least, after many side tangents, the segment Creeping Vine in the Amicus anthology film Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors gets discussed.

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Sources for todays episode include Trouble with the Trees: The Growth of Plant Horror by: Richard Newby in January 2023’s Volume 2 Issue 18 of Fangoria Magazine (fangoria.com) and Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film (amazon.com/Plant-Horror-Approaches-Monstrous-V…), Edited by Dawn Keetley and Angela Tenga.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro

0:36 Welcome to the Last Three Rows of Horror!

1:06 Upcoming Days of the Dead Con

1:59 Plant Blindness

4:44 Sources and The Thing

14:21 John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids

17:04 The Day of the Triffids (1962)

48:13 The Day of the Triffids BBC Limited Series (1981)

53:23 The Day of the Triffids BBC Limited Series (2009)

58:51 The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

1:31:50 Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

1:51:34 Matango (1963)

2:10:50 Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors

2:22:46 Wrapping Up / Late Night with the Devil