It's a vegetal plot fit for
a bad zombie flick: desperate to make their produce look fresher, bigger and mature faster, some Indian farmers are injecting their veggies with hormones on the sly.
Neither more nor less than that, Planet Terror is about how silly and
badly - made were those old
zombie / military terror
flicks, punctuated by snickering asides and wet indulgences in Greg Nicotero's F / X work.
Like Happy Death Day, many of the year's highlights, which toyed with or injected life into often - tired subgenres, came in smaller packages, such as the home - invasion thrillers Better Watch Out, The Babysitter (another Netflix original), and Jackals; the clever
zombie - in - the - desert
flick It Stains the Sands Red (much better than the silly cannibal - in - the - desert -
flick The
Bad Batch); the flesh - eating family drama Raw; the blood - sucking confused - teen drama The Transfiguration; the sci - fi / fantasy / horror hybrids The Void, The Untamed, and The Lure, which also had elements of the musical; and the ultra-disturbing tale of youth Super Dark Times, about the unraveling of a group of friends after the accidental killing of a classmate, which offers a significantly more satisfying experience than It.