Plant horror. The fear of flora, fungus and intelligent, mobile trees and vines has filled cinema screens for decades. From the vicious attacks of the triffids to the terrors of airborne spores, film makers have postulated a wide variety of eco-terrors to try and take over or decimate the human population of Earth.
In this book, Lauren Jane Barnett and Tony Mardon strap on their hazmat suits and wield their weedkiller to venture into the fascinating world of arborial monsters. Along the way they consider flora from outer space; man made monsters; mushrooms and fungi; killer trees; naturally evolved threats; grasslands and cornfields; and a cornucopia of other films related to the genre.
Step inside and discover a wealth of cinematic delights dedicated to what happens when the plants take over!
Includes entries on the following films:
Films covered include: The Thing From Another World, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Little Shop of Horrors, The Day of the Triffids, Creepshow, From Hell It Came, Twice-Told Tales, Die, Monster, Die, Maneater of Hydra, The Mutations, Adéla Ještě Nevečeřela, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Swamp Thing, Godzilla vs Biollante, The Rift, Little Joe, The Unknown Terror, Matango, Splinter, Shrooms, The Hallow, The Girl With All The Gifts, The Spore, The Superdeep, In The Earth, Gaia, Das Privileg, The Navy vs The Night Monsters, The Brides of Blood Island, Tales that Witness Madness, The Evil Dead, Poltergeist, The Crawlers, Otesánek, Womaneater, The Guardian, Sleepy Hollow, Acacia, Trick ‘r Treat, The Forest, Suicide Forest Village, Voodoo Island, Dr Terror’s House of Horrors, The Gardener, Creepshow 2, The Ruins, The Happening, Onibaba, Children of the Corn, Signs, Husk, The Fields, In the Tall Grass, Escape the Field, Dark Harvest
253pp. 6×9 paperback
ISBN: 978-1-84583-264-3
Published 14 April 2026
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Lauren Jane Barnett is an author and screenwriter known for the first walking guide to London’s horror films, Death Lines: Walking London’s Horror History; her sci-fi novella Occam’s Dream; and her award-winning horror short, Darner. She also shares her love of horror co-hosting the London Horror Movie Club podcast and appearing in indie horror films such as Video Shop Tales of Terror 2, and the upcoming The Witches of the Sands
Tony Mardon is an actor, writer, and director best known for Beyond Fury, Ted Lasso, and the upcoming horror feature The Witches of the Sands, which includes the most extensive cast of ’70s and ’80s horror stars of any film to date. In addition to writing his own scripts, he was a film reviewer for Surf magazine, and his writing has appeared in The Dark Side, It Came from the Darkness, and Hot off the Press.
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