It’s the
flower’s turn to pick you in this cross-pollination of The Ruins and Little
Shop of Horrors. An Orchid thief, a la
Adaptation picks an alluring batch of rare roses from a secluded field,
ignoring how insistently the thorns prick him.
He manages to make it all the way into town and sell the flowers to a
local florist, before going home and suffering from horrific seizure-like
attacks and then anaphylactic shock caused by the flowers growing out of his
throat. Meanwhile in the florist’s shop
the rogue flower mingles and spreads its seeds amongst the other flowers.
The next
day is… of course… valentine’s day, and the florist is appalled when he sees
that all of the flowers in his shop have transformed to look quite a bit more
like the one from the day before. He
makes lemonade of the situation and manages to sell the exquisite flowers to
many of his clients. Deaths by flower
begin occurring all over the city and police investigators trace the roots
(chuckle chuckle) of the crime back to the flower shop, where they observe the
florist, now sporting sunglasses and smashing all of the different, unaffected
flowers in the front of the shop.
The
officers are drawn away from the shop for a few minutes to rescue a family
trying to escape from an over-flowered apartment, and when they return, the
florist is nowhere in sight. Armed with
weed-killer, the officers burst into the flower shop and fight their way to the
back, where they find the florist, now a plant puppet with petal eyes, ready to
defend his carnations incarnate to the death.
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