Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

The film opens with a scroll stating that when Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds (1963) was released, audiences laughed at the notion of birds revolting against humanity. However, when an attack perpetrated by birds occurred in 1975, no one laughed. This is followed by a pre-credits sequence of a tomato rising out of a woman's garbage disposal. Her puzzlement turns into terror as the tomato draws her into a corner. A series of attacks perpetrated by tomatoes occurs, including a man dying by drinking tomato juice made from a killer tomato, a boy heard being gobbled up by a killer tomato, and a sequence where the tomatoes attack innocent swimmers in a parody of Jaws. Mason Dixon, played by David Miller, leads a team of specialists to stop the tomatoes. The team includes Sam Smith, who infiltrates the tomatoes at a campfire; scuba diver Greg Colburn; Olympic swimmer Gretta Attenbaum; and parachute-toting soldier Wilbur Finletter, played by J. Stephen Peace. The President sends Jim Richardson, played by George Wilson, to the fictitious ad agency Mind Makers to develop ploys to stop the tomatoes. A human is revealed to be also plotting to stop Dixon when a masked assassin attempts to shoot him but misses. Dixon and his team eventually corner the tomatoes in a stadium, where they use music to distract them and allow the people to stomp on them repeatedly.