After Girdler's lawsuit over film rights and his subsequent death in 1978, there was no big rush to make a sequel. Eventually someone did, although it had more than its share of plights.
They put together a big cast of nobodies to be attacked by the monster. These nobodies: Charlie Sheen, Laura Dern, John Rhys-Davies and George Clooney.
The bulk of the non-monster portion was filmed, but production problems and money issues put an end to the film. The film equipment was seized by the Hungarian government and everyone just moved on...until a work-print was discovered of it in 2007. Portions of it are on YouTube, but good luck trying to figure out what is going on. Work-print film squeezed into YouTube encoding does not make for good picture.
It's good to know that Clooney did a horror film before Return of the Killer Tomatoes, even if it never actually got finished. Stay tuned...
Damnit that would have been hella sweet.. Leave it to Hungary to fuck it up for everyone.. Was RETURN TO HORROR HIGH before RotKT?
ReplyDeleteYou got me there, actually, as 'High' is listed as being made in 1987 and 'Tomatoes' is from 1988. It is a close one though.
ReplyDeleteFor my money, 'Tomatoes' truly conveys what a silly 80s film should be. God bless it!