Seedpeople

 


Seedpeople (1992)

The Plot: Evil alien plant spores crash to earth and start taking over the bodies of the local populace 

Seedpeople. The title kind of tells you almost everything you need to know. There are seedpeople here. Alien plants from outer space arrive on earth. They are plants but they spawn what looks like mammals and bird/insects. I'm not totally sure the alien biology makes mush sense at all. There really wasn't much time to study these kind of things in a controlled scientific manner. Fortunately, the town has its crazy, but harmless scientist. 

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It's the crazy scientist, (a role that would've been awesome if played by Dennis Hopper, but her is played by a lesser Hopper) who does most of the experimenting on finding a way to destroy the alien plant things. He does discover UV light is their weakness and naturally wears UV lights powered by a battery he totes around with him. He wonders why no one believes him. He also guzzlers whiskey constantly. That probably hurt his credibility too. 

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Despite the drunkenness and shoddy workmanship with his science, it actually turns out that every thing crazy drunk scientist theorizes, despite how outlandish, comes to be true. There are alien plants creating beasts that mind control humans in order to take over the earth. Our other hero is the reluctant hero Tom, who eventually, despite his best judgement, must also come to the conclusion that the UV light wearing  mad scientist is indeed correct with his alien plants spawning beasts that can mind control people theory. HE does take matters into his own hands, destroying the aliens by driving their truckful of spores off a cliff as he rode int he bed swinging an ax into the seeds before lighting it on fire and jumping of before it crashes off a cliff in a humongous fireball. True bad ass stuff. Until the twist ending. It was the plants afterall! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!

It was earth, afterall

Seedpeople is pure unadulterated silliness. It's hard to dislike this movie despite its obvious flaws. But it does have spunk, and rubber suited plant aliens, so what else do you need? I give Seedpeople 7 UV light hats. 


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