ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES
A film review by Ken Johnson
Copyright 1992 Ken Johnson
This review is part one of a series which, in order, includes ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES, RETURN OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: THE SEQUEL, and KILLER TOMATOES STRIKE BACK!.
87 min., PG, Comedy, 1978 Director: John De Bello Cast: David Miller, George Wilson, Sharon Taylor, Jack Riley, "Rock" Peace, John De Bello, Ernie Meyers, Ron Shapiro, Jerry Anderson, Eric Christmas, Al Sklar, Robert Matzenauer
Across the Unites States tomatoes start attacking people. The U. S. government forms a special group of "specialists" to go and stop the tomatoes. The tomatoes grow in size and threaten the U.S. The "specialists" aren't doing the best job.
ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES could, quite possibly, be the worst movie ever made, but then again what can you expect from a film that has the quote "Surely ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES has to be some kind of camp classic" (H. J. Weeks - ARTWEEK) on the back of the video box. I can't recommend this film to anyone, even fans of B movies, which I am. This is the type of film that gives B movies a bad name. I doubt this is any kind of camp classic. This film was followed by two sequels, RETURN OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: THE SEQUEL, and KILLER TOMATOES STRIKE BACK! (and maybe one called KILLER TOMATOES EAT FRANCE). On a scale of zero to five, I give ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES a zero (unfortunately my scale doesn't go any lower). ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES is rated PG for explicit language.
I don't think I can think of anything good about this film. There were exactly two scenes which I liked, the master of disguise hanging out with the tomatoes and the carrot joke. I laughed three times during the entire film. The acting in the film is pathetic. The actors/actresses show no talent at all. The story is horribly written, and isn't even funny. At the very least the film could have been minutely amusing, but it was just stupid. The idea of tomatoes eating people is preposterous, they don't have any mouths. Two big questions crossed my mind while I was watching this film, "How do the tomatoes move without any feet?", and "Why am I watching this horrible film?" Then when the movie was over a third question crossed my mind, "Why did John De Bello make this film?" At least I came up with an answer to that one, obviously he wanted to punish his audience.
Ken J. blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu
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