Director: Philip Kaufman
Writer: W.D. Richter based on a book by Jack Finney
Release Year: 1978
A conservative’s dry dream: San Francisco tamed!
The film opens with what looks like ephemeral intestines floating through the void of space looking to spread their mischief on the innocent population of some unsuspecting planet. Luckily they come to Earth where no one is innocent; they end up in San Francisco, California, where people are less innocent still. When the intergalactic spooge settles upon the town of San Francisco it forms nasty little buds with awful red flowers on them….
