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So, my co-worker is telling me he's half way through the 81 TV version of DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.
 Next thought...how many Killer Plant movies are there anyhoo?
 
I think we should keep it to where the plant is the central threat, or we'll get 'bogged' down is side dishes.
Soooo...here's my start.

GODZILLA VS. BIOLANTE.
DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (3 Versions)
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.
PLEASE DON'T EAT MY MOTHER.
D'oh...gotta go. More later.

The Thing From Another World (1951)

TFAW...D'OH! Big carrot with a blood fixation.

in one of those old portmanteau horrors from 60s there was one story about a strange plant that takes over and (iirc) kills people

remember one scene had a scientist putting a section of the plant under a microscope and saying  "look...brains!"

cant remember what film, ring any bells?


edit found it, it's from Dr Terror's House Of Horrors (1965) and that segment is called 'The Creeping Vine'

All I can think of is an OUTER LIMITS episode called "Specimen Unknown".

(http://content7.flixster.com/movie/10/95/91/10959133_det.jpg)

thought of another one. :teddyr:

[From Hell It Came] Killer Tree Attacks! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiP6W0ZCQRg#ws)

"And to Hell it can go!" Ed Naha's classic six word review for that baby!

Yeah, that was the one I was thinking about.

I think this film is the first portmanteau I ever saw (I wish they make more of them) and it is still one of my favorites. Maybe because it stars those grand old men of British horror cinema: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Michael Gough. And it is only Donald Sutherland's 2nd credited film appearance in a theatrical film.

What I did not know at that time, but later found out, if the victim of "the vine" looks familiar, it might be cause he was played by Bernard Lee, who was Sean Connery's boss in the James Bond series.

Wonder if INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS counts, since they are alien pods.

Doesn't The Navy vs. The Night Monsters have walking trees?  :teddyr:

Attack & Return of the Killer Tomatoes.

TROLL and TROLL 2. Well-the victums turn into plants.
GARDEN OF DEATH (1974) aka the GARDNER. Joe Dallesandro turns into a tree.
The WOMAN EATER.
KONGA has a man eating plant.
the man eating plant in the ANGRY RED PLANET.
CREEPSHOW-Stephan King turns into a moss monster.
DIE,MONSTER DIE has Karloff turned into a glowing plant monster.
the REVENGE OF DR.X (1970) aka VENUS FLYTRAP-the Ed Wood penned opus has a ridiculous Venus Flytrap monster killing scanty clad Japanese girls.

http://youtu.be/nkLgRNaXApA (http://youtu.be/nkLgRNaXApA)

I've got that on a Mill Creek 50 pack - I actually made it to the end lol  :smile:

Hey, that makes five separate films right there!

The Happening?

me too, I'm a fan of every one that I've come across....

Steve Coogan did a really good spoof of portmanteau horrors with an episode of his tv series called (appropriately enough) Dr. Terrible's House Of Horrible. The episode's called 'And Now The Fearing'

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet had an attack sequence from a giant flytrap. The Angry Red Planet had similar as well.

THE RUINS (2008)
THE LONESOME DEATH OF JORDY VERRILL segment in CREEPSHOW

Is there any movie where the Bamboo torture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_torture) is shown?

there's one i used to have in the blood island box, where they sacrificed sweet young things to maneating vines, i think it's called brides of blood?

The villain in Men In Black 2 was a plant monster as well.

The Evil Dead (1981) has some trees that make use of their, er, roots.

And the Tom Baker era Dr Who story The Seeds of Doom (1976) is a fantastically Hammer-horror style production about an alien plant pod infecting someone and turning them into a giant killer plant, known as a Krynoid.  This plant is able to telepathically control other plants, so you see many scenes of rustling foliage and masses of vine engulfing people.

The Krynoid grows at an immense pace and becomes larger than a stately home.  It's eventually taken out by an airstrike!  Meanwhile there is a psychopathic millionaire who chops up bodies in his industrial composter and wants the Krynoid to cleanse the Earth of human life.  It's pretty stern stuff for a supposed children's program!