Killer Tomatoes

The Killer Tomatoes are the chief antagonists of the sci-fi comedy series of films, cartoons and video-games and are, as the name suggests, tomatoes of a deadly nature that seek to take over the world. The tomatoes have the ability to kill a human, but it is unknown how they kill humans in the first film. In the 1st movie, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, they do not have any mouths or even faces (which they had in the 3rd and 4th films Killer Tomatoes Strike Back and Killer Tomatoes Eat France) to eat humans. Also in the 1st film, the tomatoes have the ability to create explosions and roll quickly to chase humans. However, they were defeated when the song "Puberty Love" was played, which was so horrible that the tomatoes shrink to miniature size and are squashed on.



Although abscent from the first film the mad scientist known as Professor Mortimer Gangreen would act as the creator/caretaker of the Killer Tomatoes in the series following the Return Of The Killer Tomatoes movie.

In the original movie no explaination is given to how or why the tomatoes became sentient and evil but in all future movies and cartoons they are genetically-altered by Professor Mortimer Gangreen as henchmen of sorts in his many evil schemes.

Reception
The Killer Tomatoes movies were critically bashed, earning very negative reviews from critics. However, the films were made on purpose to be bad (known in the theatrical circles as "camp comedy" - another good example of this type of genre is in the Toxic Avenger series or the Nukem High films).

Remake Film
A remake of the 1978 original film is currently in production. The remake will probably be released in 2011 or 2012, but there has been no sign yet of the movie's campaigning. The film is possibly using computer imagery to create the tomatoes while in the original, props were designed and when using actual tomatoes at different angles to make them look bigger.