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Monday, May 4th, 2026

LIVE POLL: Plant Movies That Will Leaf You Terrified

Which of these select* feature-length movies# or short films that prominently feature carnivorous plants and/or contain important plot points where forms of vegetation are a threat to humanity is your favorite one?

World Carnivorous Plant Day is held annually on the first Wednesday of May, falling on May 6th, in 2026. In celebration of this international day, a movie poll that focuses exclusively on movies that slay from within the plant-horror subgenre.

Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/auDnpjxwWN8/

Poll List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls063935536/

QuickView List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls063935536/copy/

Notes

* Answer pool is limited to one representive answer choice per film franchise. 

# Feature-length movies having a running time of 45 minute or more longer. The two Triffids remakes were initially shown as limited miniseries, but their total running times are feature-length with both being released later as a single titles. Both are listed in the related franchise film answer notes.

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@Jessica​ Thanks, this poll suggestion is mostly ready and publishable. I am still open to title suggestions and notes. It is public now.

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Honorable Mentions (Plant Horror Subgenre)

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,short,video,tv_movie,tv_special,tv_short&keywords=carnivorous-plant&sort=num_votes,desc/

HM# Jumanji 7.1  (413K) 1995 1h 44m PG Plant Types: "Yellow/Pink Pods" & "Purple Flowers" are two of more lethal fictional plants of the Jumanji game. The pods have vines that can be used to drag their prey into the pod's jaws, while the purple flowers have poisonous barbs that can be projectile shot. In the film, Judy Shepherd was shot in the neck, causing her body to convulse, and resulted in her death. Related Franchise Films: Jumanji: Next Level (2017) 

HM# Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 6.9  (286K) 2009 1h 34m PG   

HM# Batman & Robin (1997) 3.8 (282K)  PG-13 2h 5m Plant Type: "Poison Ivy" aka Dr. Pamela Isley, a half-woman and half-plant hybrid who proclaims her desire for a new world order, which is dominated by the floral world.

HM# The Evil Dead 7.3  (251K) 1981 1h 25m NC-17 Plant Type: "X", demonic tree roots attack a woman in segment of The Evil Dead.

HM# Poltergeist (1982) 7.3 (195K) 1982 1h 54m PG

 

HM# The Croods: A New Age 6.9  (61K) 2020 1h 35m PG Plantasaurus Tonguesaurus Tailasaurus Carnivorous Flower, a giant beautiful red flowers who eat anything that comes their way.

HM# Troll 2 3.0 (36K) 1990 1h 35m PG-13

HM# The Mutations 5.3  (2.3K) 1974 1h 32m R

HM# The Crawlers 2.9  (1.8K) 1990 1h 31m R

HM# Seedpeople 4.4  (1.6K) 1992 1h 21m R

HM# Habitat 4.7  (1K) 1997 2h R

HM# The Navy vs. the Night Monsters 3.7 (951) 1966 1h 27m Not Rated 

HM# B.C. Rock (1980) 5.9 (760) 1h 24m R 

HM# The Woman Eater 4.6  (755) 1958 1h 10m Not Rated Plant Type: "The Woman Eater", a carnivorous tree capable of resurrecting the dead, but requires feeding on women for sustenance.

HM# Please Don't Eat My Mother! 3.7  (619) 1973 1h 38m Plant Type: "Adam" & "Eve", a pair of oversized Venus Flytrap plants are featured in this sexploitation spoof of the film, 'Little Shop of Horrors'. 

HM# Forest of Death 4.2  (612) 2007 1h 38m R 

HM# The Blood Rose 5.6  (587) 1970 1h 32m R 

HM# Island of the Doomed 4.6  (464) 1967 1h 28m Plant Type: "Maneater of Hydra", a hybrid plant bred by an eccentric baron with monstrous tendencies. 

HM# Trees (2000) 4.8  (172) 2000 2h 27m 

HM#.Trees 2: The Root of All Evil 4.4  (146) 2004 1h 41m 

HM# Venus Flytrap 5.6  (130) 1987 1h 4m 

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@urbanemovies​ ,

Now I have the song "Feed Me, Seymour" playing my head. 

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@urbanemovies​ ,

For Little Shop of Horrors please change:

... insatiable blodthirst.

to

... insatiable bloodthirst.

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@dan_dassow​ Thanks, corrected.

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falling on May 6th, in 2026

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#14:

Bio-Engineered

parasitic fungus

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@Jessica​ Thanks, corrected.

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@Peter_pbn​ Thanks, both corrected.

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@Jessica​ & @Peter_pbn​ & @dan_dassow​ 

I went through the text in the answer notes and they should be much cleaner now. But, it still needs a re-push since it went live before I finished the edits. I put in a request, by adding the two I have outstanding.

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@dan_dassow​ Thanks.