Thursday, January 6, 2011

STALKED BY A STALK

With the passing of Anne Francis earlier this week, she joined a very exclusive club in Pop-Culture Valhalla, along with Michael Rennie, Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Leo G. Carroll, Dana Andrews & George Pal: Non-fictional People Who Are Mentioned By Name In The Opening Song of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. That means that lovely Janette Scott (“…I really got hot/When I saw Janette Scott/Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills…”) is the last person standing in this earthly realm from this category.

So…

Monster-of-the-Week: …this week let’s recognize the predatory plant that menaces Ms. Scott in the 1962 British film version of John Wyndham’s classic novel:

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