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| I'm sure quite a few of you are already familiar with this film, one of the all time classics of course. So you're all used to people running away from the camera and someone rolling tomatoes (real or large papier-mache') after them? Oh good. We also have a zany cast of characters to keep us going, including Sam Smith who dresses up as Adolf Hitler at one point. Now this would be all well and good except he's black, belting out ENTIRELY RANDOM phrases in German doesn't help either. He's my favorite character, unlike Lois... ...yech - let's hope her makeup kit includes a paper bag. Mason Dixon and his team are assembled after numerous incidents of tomatoes, well, killing people. As a task force they leave something to be desired, probably have a hard time finding out why toilets flush let alone ambulatory tomatoes. In addition, Lois is on their heels trying to decipher what's going on. Just when it seems there is no hope Mason stumbles onto something, a song. A song like few others, take Tiffany (Remember her? Hehehehe!) and Donny Osmond, put them both into a blender and hit frappe. Now drain off any residual talent and make a singer out of what's left. Trying baking it or something, jeez... ...what I'm trying to get at is this song "Puberty Love," is the tomatoes weak point. They can't stand it, I can't stand it, you're going to hear it quite a few times during the film, you probably can't stand it. The Killer Tomatoes are eventually stopped by this song and a horde of mentally disturbed people with big feet. Oh yeah, Mason and Lois fall in love (shudder). The tomato attack scenes are amazing, the news reports are just as bad. "Today a man was eaten by a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich."
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 | Tomatoes are capable of mumbling, self locomotion, and horrible violence.
| | Killer Tomato juice is deadly.
| | When attacked by fruits or vegetables use a shotgun.
| | Never leave a SCUBA diver in the middle of a field.
| | Blind traffic cops don't last long.
| | There once was a "Steroids" cereal, still on the market in China by the way.
| | People meat comes in three types: white meat, dark meat, and arm.
| | Never ask Killer Tomatoes to pass the ketchup.
| | No one sits so close to power without touching it as the President's press secretary.
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| 14 mins - Wow, so many Dillons with the same initials.
| | 16 mins - Now how did a tomato take out a helicopter?
| | 21 mins - A dubbed over Japanese scientist! Who just knocked a picture of the USS Arizona into a fishtank!
| | 25 mins - Killer swimming tomatoes! It's actually a pool, not the ocean. (Look low on the screen and notice the lines.)
| | 45 mins - Sam is actually dressed like a tomato.
| | 49 mins - Tomato bondage!
| | 73 mins - Some red substance on the ground and he tastes it?
| | 76 mins - Parachute caught in the car door! Not good!
| | 81 mins - RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST THE UPS MAN!
| | 88 mins - Hehehehe! Tomato ear muffs!
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Richardson: Richardson: "Incredible! Kamikaze tomato!"
G-Man: "Tomatoes can't fly!"
Richard: "Yeah? They can't eat people either, but they're doing one heck of an impression!"
Swan: "First we have to convince the little housewife out there that the tomato which ate the family pet is not dangerous."
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| Old Man: "Look at the giant tomato, Martha."
Old Woman: "I didn't know they grow them so big, Jess."
Old Man: "I wonder where he's going. He got little Timmy."
Old Woman: "Poor Timmy."
Old Man: "He ate him all up."
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| Radio Newscast: "And in other news today: in Newark, New Jersey, a man was eaten by a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich."
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| Mason: "I'm Mason Dixon, and this..."
Finletter: "My, God! It's Adolf Hitler!"
TWENTY SECONDS OF CHAOS
Mason: "This is Sam Smith; he's our undercover expert. He's only disguised as Adolf Hitler."
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| Puberty Love. (You should not listen to this. In fact, nobody should have to listen to this.)
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| This dude just wanted to kill some time racing his dirt bike, but he wiped out in front of a hungry tomato. Bye, dude!
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| Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Reply #1. Posted on February 13, 2005, 04:11:16 PM by giant claw
They(the killer tomatos)should go after all those insensitive vegetarians who hack up their kind i mean just imagine a bunch of these things rolling into a PETA meeting and having a time munching these dip-wads SQUAWK gotta fly now bye
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Reply #2. Posted on April 22, 1999, 08:50:34 PM by
I like to put in some stuff for you.first Sam Smith was not killed by the tomatoes.he shows up for the seqel Return of the killer tomatoes.It stars george clooney.I also know about the guy who sung that song which put an end to the tomatoes.He is the drummer in Soundgarden,Matt Cameron.
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Reply #3. Posted on June 27, 1999, 02:56:23 PM by
And to think, the company that made KT is still in business. They were serious when they decided to make this movie and they thought they were making a legitimate comedy. When everyone told them the movie was worse than a highschool film project, they claimed they were intentionally making a bad movie, hoping to excuse their lack of talent and obvious stupidity. John DeBello, the director, still can't direct. The problem is, he still doesn't know it. The name "Four Square Productions" came from the shape of his head.
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Reply #4. Posted on November 25, 2006, 05:10:12 PM by Swamprat
The first time I saw the title of this film was on the Marquee of the Skyview drive-in in Belleville Illinois. I was certain someone had sneaked up there with a box of yardsale letters and had pulled off a master pratical joke. I was, of course, wrong. I didn't really know what to make of this beast when I finally saw it. I was thrilled to see Jack Riley...one of the best character actors on TV through the sixties and seventies, remember him from the first Bob Newhart Show? I was also tickled to find out years later that the wild, near disasterous, helicopter landing scene he was in was real, not scripted. He was so good at being wild eyed and totally freaked out in that scene because he wasn't acting! Other than that, the film wasn't that funny. To me it felt like a deliberate attempt at a Plan 9 type bad film. A deliberate attempt at a "bad" movie just turns me off flat. Yeah, I laughed, here and there, it was stupid, and occasionally funny...but it just felt so dishonest. I'm a military buff, and I always enjoy seeing over the top parodies of the military. I also loved the idiot in the parachute, especially when he screws up after infiltrating the tomatoes inner circle. The ending with the San Diego Chicken saving mankind to the tune of "Puberty Love" was just lame. Like CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS this movie is probably rented more for it's terrific sounding title than for it's description on the back of the box. I have to admit, it looked spectacular up there on that Marquee years ago...that will always be my fondest memory of this overrated turkey.
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Reply #5. Posted on October 21, 1999, 11:29:54 AM by Paul Westbrook
The movie that takes a common garden-variety vegetable, and transforms it into a thing of utter horror is a first rate B-Movie classic of the first order. I laughed, I cried, I almost died. This film can inspire any low budget director to great, or not so great heights.[more like LOWS] By the way, I really enjoy this site. Keep up the good work. ATTACK OF THE BAD MOVIES. Now there is a name for a site.
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Reply #6. Posted on March 20, 2000, 08:53:10 AM by raspeez@hotmail.com
This was a cute film, aware of its own b-grade nature and exploiting it. I love ketchup so Im sorry that no one called me to help clean up the set.
I couldnt sit through the sequel. it was C grade.
and I thought george clooney had only "the facts of life" to be ashamed of!
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Reply #7. Posted on April 21, 2000, 07:46:01 PM by Prof. Jason M. Grivas
This is the Prof. Jason Grivas. I have to say that this site is the best place to show your support about a movie that has touched many people, and should be seen across this great nation. A great classic that can only be apperciated by very few.
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Reply #8. Posted on June 01, 2000, 10:05:27 PM by Jedi Jawa
Not sure if any of you know this, but for a few seasons there was a very, very, VERY funny saturday morning cartoon titled "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." The guy with the parachute was a main character, and the guy in scuba gear has cameo appearances. I was a faithful viewer, because it has all the elements of a B-movie in a saturday morning cartoon. And always remember the best line from that cartoon . . . I'm not a mad scientist. I'm an ANGRY scientist!
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