Plant horror. The fear of flora, fungus, and intelligent, mobile trees and vines has filled cinema screens for decades. From the vicious attacks of the triffids to the terrors of airborne spores, filmmakers have postulated a wide variety of eco-terrors to try, and take over or decimate the human population of Earth.
In this book, Lauren Jane Barnett and Tony Mardon strap on their hazmat suits and wield their weedkiller to venture into the fascinating world of arborial monsters in horror cinema
Lauren Jane Barnett is best known as the author of Death Lines: Walking London’s Horror History, the first walking guide to London’s role in the evolution of horror cinema, which Kim Newman called “the London A to Z horror fans need”.
Her short horror fiction and non-fiction work in magazines including 'BFS Horizons', 'Horrified', 'Audience Askew' and anthologies including Superstition, LISTEN, and Bloody Good Horror.
She co-hosts the London Horror Movie Club with her brother, Chris.