Kevin Candela – Weedeaters The Complete Acropalypse Cinema of Awesomeness
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Name: Kevin Candela – Weedeaters The Complete Acropalypse Cinema of Awesomeness
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Title: Weedeaters: The Complete Acropalypse (Cinema of Awesomeness Book 1)
Author: Kevin Candela
Language: English
Year: 2016
Subjects: Action & Adventure, Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Survival
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1533332908
Total pages: 244 Click to expand…
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When I was nine years old my father took me and my younger brother to see The Day of the Triffids. He had a demanding workload at NASA, and every so often would take time out from troubleshooting wind tunnel calibration data collection to share something with his sons that we could all enjoy equally: some healthy attachment-promoting bonding time.
It scared the living crap out of our tiny minds.
It turns out there were some good reasons for this.
The British production holds up over time. The triffids are lovingly constructed masses of spines and tentacles and gaping maws that snap nastily at Howard Keel and Janette Scott running headlong through a comet-blinded world. They were so good that the Rocky Horror Picture Show gave them their own line in the opener: "And I really got hot when I saw Janette Scott fight a triffid that spits poison and kills…"
Plants are an unsettling concept to us meatbags. They don’t have brains or blood or muscle or bone. By what stretch of the imagination would you call that living? They were here long before us, which some might consider an a priori right to the planet. If we step back from our everyday blind acceptance, which includes sadistic pruning and slaughtering them for food, we start to recognize them as the ultimate Other, living right in our own backyard.
While carnivorous plants have fascinated us as a film horror trope from Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Little Shop of Horrors, Weedeaters by Kevin Candela is enjoyably rooted in the Roger Corman drive-in school of rousing action coupled with Rick Baker The Thing (another great plant-based movie monster) stretch-and-splatter effects. No matter if the men talk tough and the women talk tougher, it won’t save them from a glorious gore-soaked death by plant ingestion.
My nine year old head would have exploded.
What I remember most about the triffids were the sounds. They produced a rubbing, tuberous cricking, that unfortunately for me and my brother, my father could perfectly reproduce by rubbing his thumb against the inside of his index finger.
When he looked in on us after the movie that night, safely tucked up in our beds, he turned out the lights, said goodnight, and left us listening to the silent house…
And a triffid quietly cricked out in the hallway.
We screamed bloody murder.
It is my fervent hope that this story does the same for you.
Eric Luke
Writer of Explorers Click to expand…
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