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Jul 27, 2020richmole rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
The DVD cover brags "Fiendishly Unsettling" and "Masterful psychodrama." I say, "Boring High-School Effort." If you're going to "retread" an established sci-fi plot (vegetation as a threat to humanity; a la Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Day of the Triffids or even the musical, Little Shop of Horrors), you'd better be darn good. In this case: scary as heck, or at least genuinely funny. This is neither. Instead, this movie is just ... pathetic. For some reason, (low budget?) the writer/director opted to "heighten suspense" or "provide atmosphere" through music bits on the soundtrack. Ham-handedly. Result: irritating, rather than suspenseful. It's tough to do that audio stuff--best example, sound work in Coppola's Apocalypse Now. (Which ironically, I'd watched a couple of days earlier--the difference is stunning). Emily Beechham, for some reason, won Best Actress award at Cannes for her work in this movie. I can't understand why. No competition last year?