Horror is supposed to be pretend

[urbpan]

Last night I watched Food of the Gods, a 1976 movie based on a fragment of an H.G. Wells story. Some folks on a remote farm discover a mysterious substance that, when fed to animals, causes them to grow to giant size. Rats and wasps get into the stuff and begin killing people

Comments

[kryptyd]

Thanks for the warning. I like watching cheesy old horrors and this would have really upset me if I saw it.

[elainetyger]

I get what you mean about what did you breed them for. These were actors so it was sort of a smut film

[urbpan]

I think you mean "snuff film" which was a phrase I almost used in this piece. I certainly don't agonize over every animal death--I agree that many of those sad pet cases should be resolved with a speedy dose of euthanasia solution.

[cottonmanifesto]

dude. what the fuck.

[roaming]

"destructive non-native pests that we should all feel an obligation to destroy"

Yeh, let's get rid of all those immigrants who don't belong here because they weren't here *first.*

[urbpan]

We fail to do so at the expense of native North American species. They aren't immigrants, they're unintended stowaways--not their fault, but why should the native species suffer extinction for our mistakes? Do we want to live in a world where the only songbirds are sparrows and starlings?

[roaming]

Aaarrrggghhh! No matter what we do, something gets killed! Nature is too cruel.

[urbpan]

I'm sorry, it's true. :(
Ever since the first predatory microbe evolved it's been true. We are cursed with knowing and feeling about it.

[weofodthignen]

Oh ewww.

I picked up a book in a bookstore once, or maybe it was a mailer trying to get money - a guy writing about how he trained cats to appear in a movie and the director filmed them being terrified and running off into the desert - without telling the trainer of course, because he would never have agreed to this. And how this is illegal now but he is still brokenhearted about it and has never trained animals for a movie again. That may have been what happened here :-(