{"product_id":"9781626177673","title":"Squids","description":"\u003cp\u003ePurchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Thread, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, List of Fictional Plants, Plant Creatures, Flora of a Series of Unfortunate Events, Triffid, Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, List of Plants of the Edge Chronicles, Red Weed, Chuck the Plant, Cotati, Fern Flower, Flower of Life, H'ylthri, Plant Men of Barsoom, Moly, Tree-Of-Life, Volodni, Korok. Excerpt: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 comedy cult film directed by John De Bello and starring David Miller. The film is a spoof of B movies . Made on a budget of less than US $ 100,000, the story involves tomatoes becoming sentient by unknown means and revolting against humanity. Writing credits were shared by John De Bello, Costa Dillon , and Stephen Peace . The concept of Killer Tomatoes was created by Dillon.Plot The film opens with a scroll saying that when Alfred Hitchcock 's 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 pre-credits sequence of a tomato rising out of a woman's garbage disposal unit . Her puzzlement turns into terror as the tomato draws her into a corner. Following the credits, we see the police investigating 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 and a sequence where the tomatoes attack innocent swimmers, in a parody of Jaws ). While the President's 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. Dixon's team includes Sam Smith, an Afr...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bellwether Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031836082416,"sku":"9781626177673","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781626177673_p0.jpg?v=1763861600","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781626177673","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}