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Looking for a few sci-fi movies with unusual plots? Well look no further! Very Happy

One is about experiments to turn people into people-plants The next one is about roaring rampaging rabbits who gobble up the citizens of a small town. And the third one is a story about pollution causing a virus that kills the world's crops so that everybody starves to death.

Wow, those are some wild story ideas.

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The Mutations (1972 England)

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Donald Pleasence came close to playing a genuine Mad Scientist in "Fantastic Voyage" (he was a psychotic saboteur) and in "You Only Live Twice" (he was an ego-maniacal arch-villain), but this time he's bang on target as a crazy college professor who decides that mankind's only hope for survival is to merge its gene pool with the plant world.

He abducts students to use as guinea pigs, turns them into horrible freaks, and then cleverly sells them to a freak show exhibitor. The ones who die during the experiments are fed to his human Venus Flytrap.

Famous small-person Michael Dunn plays the operator of the sideshow. Real freaks were used as the "mutations" (a policy of questionable integrity). Tom Baker is Pleasence's warped (physically and mentally) assistant.

Julie Ege ("The Creatures that Time Forgot") and Jill Haworth provide attractive screaming heroines. Also starring Brad Harris. Directed by Jack Cardiff.

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Night of the Lepus (1972)

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For all those film critics who claim that Hollywood is scared to try new ideas, here's proof that Hollywood will try anything. After making monster movies which featured every imaginable kind of vermin and pest, Hollywood got desperate and made one about monster rabbits.

(Monster rabbits?)

That's right, the word "lepus" means rabbit. The story concerns a group of scientist who try to solve a rabbit over-population problem in the Midwest by injecting the bunnies with a hormone intended to decrease their breeding abilities.

Instead, the hormone increases the rabbits' growth rate until they weight 150 pounds, stand four feet tall, and roar.

(Roaring rabbits?)

Right! That's what makes them "monster" rabbits. The special effects involve a combination of real rabbits on miniature sets and actors in monster rabbit suits.

(Monster rabbit suits!?)

The National Guard is called in to battle this menace to mankind.

(The National Guard battles big bunnies!!?)

Yes, indeed. Producer A. C. Lyles and director William F. Claxton knew full-well that a distinguished cast was needed to lend credibility to this bold and risky venture, so they hired Stuart Whitman ("City Beneath the Sea"), Janet Leigh ("Psycho"), Deforest Kelly ("Star Trek"), Rory Calhoun ("The Texan"), and Paul Fix ("The Rifleman").

These fine stars did their best . . . but alas it wasn't enough, and "Night of the Lepus" is considered a failed experiment. What the film needed was Morris Ankrum as an army general who uttered profound lines such as —

"Good Lord, if we don't stop these monsters, there won't be a single carrot left on the planet!"

Now THAT I would love to see!

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No Blade of Grass (1970)

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Industrial pollution creates a virus which destroys the world's crops, resulting in world-wide famine and the collapse of civilization.

Cornel Wilde directed this grim tale about an English family's struggle to survive in an ecologically ruined world in which savage motorcycle gangs pursue, threaten, rape, rob, and pillage.

Screenplay by Sean Forestal and Jefferson Pascal from a novel entitle "Death of Grass" by John Christopher. Also starring Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace (Mrs. Cornel Widle), Lynne Frederick, and George Coulouris.

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