Day # 15 of the 30 Days of Halloween Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day #15 of the 30 Days of Halloween Challenge.

The prompt is A horror film that features an animal or insects or plants in either the title or as the main threat.

One rule: DO NOT PICK A FILM WITH SPIDERS! I don't want to see it or know about it. You can pick anything else with animals, insects, or plants. I'm an arachnophobe. Please be mindful of my high blood pressure, thank you.

Mine is Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. It's adapted from a short story by Daphne Du Maurier. She did another one that was adapted into a film...but I won't list it in case someone else picks it.

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I love this film. And it's close to the short story, but in some respects far more disturbing. Hitchcock was a bit like Kubrick, everyone thought he was brilliant, but he drove actors nuts. The man liked to torture his actors.

Comments

[shadowkat]

The awful one is kind of impossible to guess - since I don't like any of the evil plant movies.

I'm trying to think of one I did like...drawing a blank. You're going to have to provide some more clues.

[cjlasky7]

Ok, one more clue:

"Night"

(And it's not referring to the time of day.)

[shadowkat]

Well, according to the internet there's a movie entitled "Nightshade" that the critics couldn't stand. I never heard of it though..

[cjlasky7]

Since you've gone on to next day's challenges, it's time to stop teasing you:

The Happening (written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan)

I think I called this movie a "retro scifi suspense thriller," except:

-- it's not retro enough
-- it's only minimally scifi
-- it's not suspenseful (or thrilling)

It's The Birds, only with plants. That don't move.

Yeah.

[shadowkat]

Oh, I've never seen it - and didn't know the threat was plants..that don't move. How can they be threatening, if they don't move?

[cjlasky7]

They emit a hallucinogenic spore that makes people kill themselves.