Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 musical black comedy horror film directed, produced, edited, scored and cowritten by John DeBello and cowriter David Miller, who also starred as the lead role. The film is a spoof of B movies. Made on a budget of less than US100,000, the story involves tomatoes becoming sentient by unknown means and revolting against humanity. Writing credits were shared by DeBello, Costa Dillon, and Stephen Peace.

The film opens with a scroll saying that when Alfred Hitchcocks film The Birds 1963 was released, audiences laughed at the notion of birds revolting against humanity, but when an attack perpetrated by birds occurred in 1975, no one laughed. This is followed by a precredits sequence of a tomato rising out of a womans garbage disposal unit. Her puzzlement turns into terror as the tomato draws her into a corner. Following the credits, the police investigate her death. One officer discovers that the red substance she is covered with is not blood, but tomato juice.A series of attacks perpetrated by tomatoes occur including a man dying by drinking tomato juice made from a killer tomato, a boy heard being gobbled up by a killer tomato, and a sequence where the tomatoes attack innocent swimmers, in a parody of Jaws. While the Presidents press secretary Jim Richardson tries to convince the public that there is no credible threat, the president puts together a team of specialists to stop the tomatoes led by a man named Mason Dixon. Dixons team includes Sam Smith, a disguise expert who is seen at various points dressed as, among other things, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler Navy diver Greg Colburn Olympic swimmer Gretta Attenbaum and parachutetoting soldier Wilbur Finletter. ........

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