An "Airplane"-esque satire on horror movie cliches," "Tomatoes" is a sometimes-funny look at frights and laughs. Meant as a direct response to Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," which is noted in a foreward, there are several nods to Hitchcock, including a musical cue to "Psycho" in the famed theme song to "Tomatoes," a sequence where characters repeatedly duck as a crop duster flies overhead, and one where a character battles tomatoes ala Tippi Hedren (there is also one pretty big reference to "Jaws," and plenty of others).
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
An "Airplane"-esque satire on horror movie cliches," "Tomatoes" is a sometimes-funny look at frights and laughs. Meant as a direct response to Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," which is noted in a foreward, there are several nods to Hitchcock, including a musical cue to "Psycho" in the famed theme song to "Tomatoes," a sequence where characters repeatedly duck as a crop duster flies overhead, and one where a character battles tomatoes ala Tippi Hedren (there is also one pretty big reference to "Jaws," and plenty of others).