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Released
1978 · FILM

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

A government task force must stop a bizarre outbreak of killer tomatoes that are attacking and devouring people and pets across the country.

“A new musical-comedy-horror show!”

Directed by
John De Bello
Written by
Costa Dillon, John De Bello
Runtime
87 min
AdventureComedyHorror

Synopsis

Following a series of reports detailing strange incidents in which people and pets were attacked and consumed by typically harmless fruit, a specialized government task force is established to look into the aggressive behavior of the fruit and halt their killing spree.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John De BelloShot by John K CulleyScored by Gordon Goodwin

Box Office

1978 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$567K

Budget$100K
Worldwide gross$567K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Angriff der Killertomatende
  • El ataque de los tomates asesinoses
  • L'Attaque des tomates tueusesfr
  • L'attacco dei pomodori assassiniit

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