How dare you tease me like this sir I was expecting to listen to this video while I went to work shame on you. JK, JK lol excited for this one not often you address the biology of plant like creatures usually animal with the occasional fungi.
Can you do a video for The Ripley, which was a complex parasitoid alien macro virus that appear as primary antagonists of the Stephen King movie Dreamcatcher released in 2003?💡💡💡
In the deleted scenes Amy dies shortly after and one of the plants is found growing out of her grave luring a graveyard keeper in by mimicking his whistling. Meaning Amy doomed everyone.
@@t2nwolf yep, I was surprised the channel didn't mention this. She clearly doesn't survive it. But I do wonder how the vine got in there. For Matthias and Trace I understand, they both had bad wounds, but Amy?
@@bigkabuto i was wondering that as well. I could only come up with two ideas. Either the blood that was wiped on her face or the spores that seemed to be growing on them throughout the movie. One or both could be wrong but it was the only things i could think of because she didnt have any injuries that i seen. I wish we could have an origin story of the plant. Like was it a invasive plant brought by the spanish or was it a mayan curse on it. It would also be cool to see if that plant was responsible for the disappearance of the mayan civilization by eating them, in the movie universe of course.
@@RoanokeGaming Interesting thing is that she didn't survive it. As she drives away, you can see a vine in her eye and in a deleted scene it shows that she doomed everyone because a vine grew from her grave
Well, that was in the release cut of the film. In the book/source material (that the film is based on), none of the tourists gets to escape the premises of the ruin mound (let alone, survive); and, in fact, it is Eric, and Stacy who die last: the book's Eric is the film's Stacy, while Stacy cuts (open) her wrists' veins (at the foot of the ruin mound), in an attempt to warn off the other two (incoming) Greek tourists (who arrive at the ruin mound only three days later, long after the vine had consumed Stacy's body).
I like this idea better than the actual movie ending because she knows she’s such a pos because she got everyone else killed. Including that kid. Instead of being the host for plant 2.0.
You kind of misunderstood the goals of the Mayans. They shout at them when they get there in an attempt to prevent them from going onto the temple, but as soon as they cross the safe barrier that have to kill them in order to keep it from spreading. Same with their own kid that they kill, it isn't superstition, they are just following zombie infection protocols.
@@hollowempty6086 some things can't be culled, even though we tried - foxes, rats, mold, flu, ragweed, indian jump grass(i don't know how it's actually called, just tranlated it from german - Indisches Springkraut) and many many more
@@hollowempty6086 Given how the plant is able to survive without light growing out of the walls of a temple interior means that it's a Hardy and persistent plant. I doubt they'd be able to exterminate it entirely, it just growing back out of the walls. Plus they're fairly primitive, a lot of them were just using bows and Spears with only a few firearms. So they just wouldn't have the access to the technology they need to eradicate it.
but then as roanoke brang up why havent they napalmed molotoved or otherwise fired bombed the temple? which would have burned and killed the plant or weakend it enough to cover the outside in salt then fill the central hole with salt killing the plant entirly.
@@drabnail777 no survivalists do that vegans get other people to beat up the plants then deilver them its like tying someone to a chair then beating there ars and saying you won
I liked one of the alternate endings where Amy escaped, but didn't realize she was already infected by the plant. It then cuts to a scene where a caretaker is working at a cemetery, whistling "Frere Jacques", only to find the plant having grown out of Amy's grave whistling back at him.
@@RobertMcBride-is-cool Yes because she's the one that causes the plant apocalypse because you can see a vine under her eye and you can see vines growing from her grave. Just like the book.
The main characters really never picked up that the people outside didn’t want the plant to spread, Amy escaping just means the spores are going to spread very far. Also none of them learned Mayan for their trip.
Exactly! that's why they dome the kid and burn him and the vines immediately. The plants touching any part of you spreads the spores. The alternate ending has Amy die and when they bury her body the plant starts growing from her grave.
I mean those plants are more like fungi, they seem to communicate through a network and the way their spores work is close to that of a fungus, so with that being said. A strong dose of antifungal medication would definitely kill those plants if they got on you
There’s two alternate endings: 1: As Amy is driving away we can clearly see the vines growing across her face 2: we see Amy’s grave and growing around the grave are the same vines
no, there is an ending where she is driving aways and we see a close up of her eyes, then there is another ending where she is driving away and we see the plants moving in her face, if you don't believe me go search in youtube, "the ruins ending scene" you have to try at least 3 different videos to find the one, so please don't come and tell me that you didn't found it after just one try.
@@3rd-eye-peeper It's a reference to shows and movies like Breaking Bad. Whenever scenes take place in Mexico there saturation is a lot higher and makes it more orange than the rest of the show.
Honestly, that "security" had better have the reach and resources of a militia. Deadly plants are the last thing somebody would expect, but there's a ton of dangers in the Americas even before you count humans and predatory plants. Working as security, I unintentionally said out loud "Ha, sounds like a job for the cops." As soon as they found the tribal Mayans, many of them would disagree. In reality, this is probably a job for the men in black
Haha right I was thinking erm no one is looking for you atleast not for a good while. Hotel security wouldn't even save you if it happened across the street. Once you leave the building they say "that's a you problem"
Amy is the kind of person who will tell her horrifying story to everyone and how it affected her, get on prescriptions meds and do nothing about the plant or stop anyone from going there ever again.
To be fair, Amy died in the forest in the book and in the original movie ending, she died after getting back home because she was also infected with the plants.
I just finished the book and wow... it's much better and far darker. Amy was the first to die, and the film left out out discussions of catabolism, the fact that the vines sap caused sever burns, and also played numerous mental tricks on them.. Smith also wrote the book 'A Simple Plan' that was also adapted to film. In this case the book is again much much darker.
The vines inside her body were part of a cunning strategy. The victim would try to remove the vines. It leads to having more flesh wound and weakening.
If you look closely at Amy's face in the end you see that she has the plant inside her too as it like slivers away under her skin. It's very subtle but basically saying the sucky person is out to doom more people lol
There's also an extra ending that shows a grave yard grounds keeper notice red blooming flowers growing out of a grave..as he looks we see that it's A Amys grave
If you burn the vines they will release spores and it will infect you if you breathe it. Many plants do this in response to forest fires so that they can grow again elsewhere. In fact the hot air currents would only help to carry the spores further. So in this case, killing it with fire is not the answer. A chemical solution would be better or just containing as the villagers have done, just more thoroughly until it starves.
I don't think the spores of this plant capable of airborne. The local seems has been guarding it and keep it contained for how long maybe hundreds of years, judging by the temple's age. Think of it logically, the temple is way above ground, if the spores capable of airborne, all it needs to do is wait for a strong wind, release the spores and let it ride the wind. By that logic it would already have spread to the surrounding area, but it hasn't. So yes the spores definitely not airborne type or it would already took over the forest and destroyed the village long time ago.
Looking at how much the plant evolved, i doubt it would be easy to kill it, even with fire, it showed to be at least a bit resistant to fire when it grabed the torch. Its easy to say "call a napalm strike and destroy everything", but i dont see the military helping someone that just said "there is a plant that eats everything it touches and we need you to napalm it". As for some points raised about the plant: It showed to be not just sentient, but intelligent, because it did not just produce any noise, it produced the noise that would make them go down. It only atacked at night, when they were asleep or distracted, so it behaves like a predator, not something that waits for the food to come to it. Looking at how the mayans acted, they were trying to containing it, keeping everything far away enough to not let the plant spread. I think they did not kill everyone at the start, just so that the plant did not have a reason to stretch away from the temple and they did not have to get close to it to get the bodies. As long as the people stay and die in the temple, the plant will not spread outside of it.
Weed killer, root killer, shovel salt down that hole, plant killer. Chemical warfare is what I'm suggesting here. It wouldn't take but a handful of sacrifices and a couple of days to see if those work....That or build a dome over the area then set the bitch on fire with napalm.
@Clanner Bob Well if the choice was my life or this crap spreading and endangering the world then yes I volunteer. Ideally anyone doing this would be wearing hazmat suits or something which might spare them but if I'm already up there and its too late for me I'm taking as much of it as I can with me.
I would use a small nuke. I mean a very small nuke. For the explotion to destroy the plants and where they live and the ratiation to give the rest of the plants plant cancer or so
@@jumo2670 very bad idea.... Have you seen images of Chernobyl or Hiroshima? Nuclear radiation is not that bad for plants, and if the explotion did not kill it... well....
@@sakbromely I think the best bet would be just using helicopters to dump seawater on it. But that could lead to spreading it. So the solution would just be dumping truckloads of salt on top of the temple. Since it seems salt prevents it from spreading out then it may kill the stuff easily.
"Wow, an abandoned temple not found on any map! This would be the find of a century!" *Locals tell you to avoid the area, as only death finds those foolish enough to enter* "... Amazon drone?" "Amazon drone!" *Roll credits*
Plots of these sorts of movies tend to go along that line. Tourist go to bad place. Locals warn of bad place. Tourist ignore locals and go into bad place. Horror trope hijinks ensue.
YES LMFAO. Horror movies would've lasted around 2-5 seconds if they properly used technology to exchange/obtain information. it's always "Ooooooh scary abandoned old building/sewer/cave 😩😩😵😵😵. Let's get inside lmao😂😂😂"
I can work with this scenario. Send drone in, drone gets dusted in spores at it enters the temple, later they retrieve the drone, come into contact with spores Someone cuts their hand on a beer bottle, spores enter blood stream Spores grow throughout body, killing person, plant blooms from corpse, spores begin infecting everyone at the resort. Now we got a plantpocalypse without everyone being dumb as a sack of hammers.
@@jimmywoolever798 Shit that would work and also make Everyones deaths incredibly horrific and tragic as it really damn was not their conscious fault at all.
Want to hear a Joke, Two plants are standing next to each other. One of them says: "What did you have for lunch?" The other says: "Oh, just a Light meal"
If I remember right it was one of the free on demand movies I could watch on old cable. Of course I watched it, then had a slight fear of vines for a while
I watched this with my mom when I was like 8. I had to walk out when the vines went in to that person at the end. I couldn't watch it. I literally walked out on my own.
Spoilers The plants in the book are way more terrifying and the book showed how sentient they are. In addition to mimicking the cell phone sounds, it turns out that they can mimick any sound they hear and they also understand the concept of languages as when Jeff died the plants taunt Matthias in German using his brother voice to tell him that Matthias's brother as well as Jeff were dead. Also when Eric (he was the one with the plants inside him in the book) started trying to cut it out Matthias tried to stop him and got knifed in the heart. The plants immediately took him but left Eric to taunt Stacy by making her watch Jeff die which shows that they are sadistic as well.
didn't they also mimic smells as well? it's been a while since i read the book, but i vaguely remember something about strawberry cake or something like that
Theory: The origins of the plants might be this: The plants could be in a temple dedicated to Yum Kaax, the Mayan god of plants, and the god could be using the plants to protect his place of worship.
I really want to point out that the first thing this video criticized was the groups motive in going to the ruins, which heavily deviated from the book and IMO tarnished the films version of the story. In the book, the German (Mathias) asked them to help find his brother who went to the ruins with an archeologist woman he met and became smitten with. The brother took off and has yet to return, and they're flight home is in a few days. So Mathias is worried, and asks Jeff for his help because Jeff has shown himself to be a grounded, down to earth person, with a logical and medical background. So the group goes on this adventure to be helpful, also under the impression that these ruins are the location of an official archeological dig site. While it seems like a minor change, the films motive of "bored at the resort and want to see some real off the grid ruins" asks too much suspension of disbelief and leaves us saying "why would anyone be that stupid" The movie also cuts out an entire character (Pablo, one of 3 Greeks) who is whith them and is actually the one who falls down the shaft. It's his friends (the repeatedly referenced 'greeks') who they are hoping will show up eventually. There's also a lot of details about the plants and the Mayans that were cut out, as well as darker material the producers felt would be too intense for the film. The ending of the book also (spoilers) did not leave any 'hopeful' survivors. The book is honestly a pretty short read (I just finished it and it took me maybe a week) and it is well worth it. The author Scott Smith also wrote 'A Simple Plan' that was later adapted for film, but again the film version was greatly softened and portrayed a happier ending than the book.
Soo true. The book had a look more detail and the overall tone was really chilling. Also the fact that the plants were somewhat sentient and highly sadistic was also quite shocking. Although I understand why they toned it down. If they adapted it page for page then only hardcore horror lovers would've finished it. One thing I never understood was why they removed Pablo and switch some of the character based events
Unless the book described them getting weapons and backpacks with rations/water/rope/survival items, it's still stupid plot point. You don't go on a RESCUE OPERATION in a fucking jungle with no preparations and in flip-flops....you are just adding to the bodies needing rescue at this point.
@@Kay-dk3jk suffocated to death by the vines. it’s been a while since i read the book so this could be a little off. basically her and jeff get in an argument because she got drunk/stole water and he goes into the tent leaving her on the ground facing away from him, crying and reaching for him while gagging. he’s still mad at her and thinks she’s manipulating him so he doesn’t help her. the next morning the others find her still there, dead, with vines down her throat. she was reaching towards him for help and gagging on the vines.
these are probably planned and made ahead of time, there's most likely going to be a small period of no videos in a week or two, depending on how fast Roanoke's turnover is.
You know, when I was watching this movie I couldn't help but think that simple signs saying "don't touch the plants, they will kill you, they will infect you, eventually they will eat you," would have sufficed as a solid deterrent to go towards the pyramid.
Then when you read the book, you realize that the plants are not stupid enough to let a warning sign stand in front of them. Those bastards know humans like the back of their leaves. It's not the first time they've attacked them. Those things had to have attacked humans, even before the Mayans and the Greeks.
@@highlordlaughterofcanada8685 if tourists listen to signs saying "dont go near corpse flowers they reek" im pretty sure theyd listen to a sign telling them "these plants are hyper posionus do not touch"
The plant always seemed like a hive mind to me. The central mass inside the temple may act like a brain, and the sheer number of them together add up to an intelligence.
Seriously she sucks. After seeing what those plants do. I'd just walk down get on my knees and mime shooting myself in the head. Then close my eyes and wait for the quick and painless end.
I love the concept of this movie. I'd love a sequel where the man eating carnivorous plants spreads out of control into the jungle, and starts changing into other varieties of the plant!
@@vaporean_boylove.0w083 Humans: Oh no, our Greek friend is paralysed! We can't let the plants take him! Plants: What about his legs? He don't need those. They look tasty...
Roanoke something you missed, as Amy was escaping she looks in the mirror and sees that she actually has the plant inside of her as well, meaning she could possibly spread this around the world
You got that right. Amy is infected with the plant spore and there is an after credit scene that Roanoke missed showing the plant growing on Amy's burial site.
If you read the novel that the movie was based on the implications are kind of different. The temple is referred to as more of a mine, and the vines inside are pale. I think the Mayans uncovered the vines and then have been keeping them contained generation after generation.
Reminder that "survival of the fittest" was not actually proposed by Darwin. It was Herbert Spencer, i.e. the grandaddy of the god-awful concept known as Social Darwinism.
As much as I enjoy hearing your thoughts on the science behind these movies, my favourite thing about this movie might be your sheer and absolute hatred of Amy
I mean, can you blame him? She doomed everyone not just by stepping on the plants first, but doomed the planet by escaping since she was carrying the plant spores
@@hewhobattles8869 It would be most-likely classified as Safe - The SCP foundation rate the anomalies based on how hard they are to contain rather than how dangerous they are - Because the plant is stuck to the one place, and can be stopped by common salt and isolation of human subjects would place it in the safe catagory.
all you need is a couple trucks of salt and a crane and you could kill this just cover the outside of the temple in salt then fill the central hole with salt BOOM dead plant monster
This reminds me exactly of a manga from an 80s-90s sci-fi writer named Hoshino Yukinobu. I can't remember the exact short stories name, but it involves finding an overgrown Mayan city in the jungle that was wiped from the maps and trying to be kept secret by a native. And in the city it's found that everyone died mysteriously and all at once, where we find out that it's the plants in the city that killed them all. By over growing the city, devouring them, or infecting them with fungal spores. It's a really good read, so are the rest of his works, I highly recommend checking them all out.
did the book explain why the plants never spread beyond the city? one thing i can give the movie is the inclusion of the salt circle surronding the temple which explained how the plants didnt spread outwards and conquer the entire jungle ecosystem
@@larryjohnston9204 I actually have found it again since I first mentioned it. Its Hoshino Yukinobu's short story Outburst, in his Sea of Fallen Beasts short story collection. I'm sure you can find it on a few sites, but I mainly use Mangadex, its chapter 4 on there.
We actually had the director at my school, we got an q/a. The alternative ending was that the camera zoomed by her eye to show a vine and she was infected before roll credits. Nobody survived, and we don't know if she actually made it to civilization before the plant killed her. They cut it to "give a sense of hope". But I liked the bad end better. There was also alot more deleted scenes, but trust me, that was a good thing (mostly raunchy nonsense, if I recall ) .
I admit, bad endings like that totally ruin it for me. I love movies where there's at least hope for humanity, possibly because irl I fell so little hope for our species' long-term survival.
@@amberkat8147 Considering the plant is basically an Old God, there really is no hope for humanity. Remember the ending of the Cabin in the Woods remake?
honestly since the f ing dudes couldnt be botherd to throw a rock with a note on it explaining what was going to me id assume they were sacrficing me to some plant demon as a cult so id probably spitfully charge at them and take as many of them down with me or just start ripping up clumps of plants and throwing them at them like amy did but from the top of the temple
@@drabnail777 youtubers advertise them and run out of stock all the time so plenty of people buy them... unless they just say its low on stock to trick people into getting it
@@cyber_xiii3786 The T-shirt stocks from places like T-spring and so on are limited small batch runs. TH-camrs don't have the money to mass produce a T-shirt design through another company and keep a large stock on hand.
That jab at naked yoga was hilarious. I don't get how people are showing full nudity "for education" but if you show literally anything for actual educational purposes you get the hose again lol
because twatch and now youtube chasing trends wants the money from being a hidden pron site without actually saying they are which would drive away all the youths using there parents credit card and swearing there "just watching games mom"
@@wilmagregg3131 but if you do search naked yoga none of the videos are even getting that many views n almost all of the channels have less than 10k subs
Because they created an algorithm that either doesn't work as intended if you believe tech companies when they say "it's completely fair and unbiased." Or, it works exactly as intended and targets content that goes against whatever agendas they have, but leaves everything else alone seemingly regardless of the content, until that, too, falls into the category of being counter to one of their agendas if and when their agendas shift.
@@benmiller5015 I don't know if they started cracking down on it, but up until just a couple months ago naked yoga, as well as a few others like naked news, were getting millions of views a video. It's good if youtube finally started taking that stuff down, but it has been a known issue for years that they had been outright ignoring. Edit: Just searched it up since I wasn't entirely sure, and they are still getting a ton of views. Top 2 are 1.5-ish million in the last month, and there's one a bit older with 3.6 million in two months.
I know you mentioned being bummed Amy survived, but remember the plant has contact spores, and they weren't washing off possible contamination with the alcohol; so odds are she still doomed the slow painful death, but also inadvertently causing a plant-based apocalypse lol.
According to a lot of other comments, a cut scene involved Amy dying with a plant growing from her grave so this was more or less suppose to happen at one point.
Christ, I remember this film. I need to get the novel - This shit traumatized me at like... 12. I got this shit at Walmart out of a $5 bin. Surprised you didn't mention the alternate ending - Amy got infected, perished, and got buried up in America where it was growing out of her grave.
Ah yes, I remember this movie from when I was a preschooler and my older brother forced my family to watch it. Around the part when lady began cutting away her own flesh I covered up my ears, closed my eyes and sat that way until my mom shook me after movie finished.
Honestly your preschool self had good fucking instincts considering how traumatic this movie would be for someone that age. Then again that sucks and I'm sorry you had to see that shit.
@@foxcheetah6035 i saw some really gory shit as a child same as OP, but I knew it was a movie so I was just like "whoa that's some good cgi" while my family was shaking in terror
@@RoanokeGaming oh wow i wasnt expecting so many likes! and yeah its certainly interesting. especially the interactions between the plant seeds and roots in a warm wet environment. brings up questions for certain.
This movie was partial inspiration for a character I use in DnD. A druid infested with this plant, which acts as her link to the nature spirits. Because it is a druidic version, and not the wild one, it is symbiotic, not predatory. With careful cultivation, she can create a grove infested with the tame version, or with a cutting and a single spell, she can forcibly and instantly consume a structure, making entrance nigh impossible.
I seem to remember when Amy escapes that you can see in her eyes that she's infected with vines and then movie ends . At least that's the version I saw
@@getschwifty5537 I don’t know if she doomed the entire world. At a certain point they’ll just turn the plants into a hellscape of napalm and fire. She’s defiantly doomed hundreds, thousands if not tens of thousands of people. Maybe even hundred thousands.
@@Predatornc1 wouldn't be surprised if it took out a chunk of America and a few other places if it infects a plane or boat, it would be dealt with eventually but the effects would leave quite a few places inhospitable.
In the books the plants were a lot more animated. They would taunt the remaining victims by telling them asking where their friend was and answering that he was dead in German. The characters were more annoying in the book. They kept acting irresponsibly, the person in charge didn't want to be in lead and tried to sneak out, one of them got drunk despite the danger, etc..... All died in the end, but I think the movie was hoping for a sequel. I think they are either alien or some type of radical mutation. I could see them evolving to feed off of sacrifices but it brings up questions as to when it was discovered/cornered or how long it took for them to become aggressively predatory.
Imagine if plants learned to mimic sounds to lure people nowadays. You're just out walking when you hear "yo dude, you wanna clap some cheeks tonight?" And you're just like "boy howdy do I?" and book, you're dead! Being snacked on by your rhododendron
I absolutely LOVE the ending that shows Amy to be infected after she escapes. It’s so memorable, because it implies that the world is doomed (something the natives were clearly trying to prevent), because of our main protagonist
My guess is this. The reason they haven’t burned the plant down is because maybe they don’t want to risk the chance of the spores escaping the temple. It obviously has them. So what if burning the spores could spread the plant and cause more of them. They obviously grow rapidly.
I think that idea, I like to image the leaves are somewhat flame retardant or damp to the touch. The vines were able to grab the torch, and put it out quickly by what assume was smothering.
Except plants don't reproduce through spores. The only plants that some close are ferns and their spores are still pretty big. This magic plant is more like a magic fungus.
@@vyor8837 very true, however who tf would think to bring napalm into the jungle when hiking? And I highly doubt any military besides America would take the time to napalm a sacred temple in another country. Not to mention the blow back from actually doing something like that with the explanation “human eating plants that kill idiots who get too close”
Idk why I loved this movie so much as a teen. I even made a clay sculpture in art class of one of the flowers sitting atop the ruins with vines wrapped around. Just a weird fascination with plants, I suppose. I am a tree hugger after all! Lol
I thought the movie showed that Amy had a bit of vine under her skin too at the end, showing that the plant spores got into her even without a wound (or a major one). That being the case, once you got into that situation, you're already pretty much toast. Also, she's gonna spread it to the wider world.
Honestly, through this whole movie I was rooting for the Maya dudes. GOOD JOB keeping this thing contained. GOOD JOB understanding that anything and anyone that gets touched by this thing DIES. The only bad job? Not doming the idiots the second they crossed the salt circle. One really good rule of thumb is listen to the locals. If they are not concerned, you do not need to be concerned. If they are concerned, be concerned and try to understand why- and do what they ask or tell you to do. They know whatever the potential threat is, whether it's carnivorous plant monster or "if you sleep on the ground the poop scratcher will crawl up your butt". What's the poop scratcher? No bloody idea. Going to sleep on the ground? Hell no, the poop scratcher will crawl up my butt.
I saw this movie at a sleep over when i was nine because my friends parents thought it was a B movie horror like sharknado i was traumatized for a month and had to sleep with one of my three dogs in my room.
No way, I actually had to talk about how the sundew works for my A level assignment on the carbon and nitrogen cycle XD I get so happy every time you post, I learn so much in these videos. Thank you so much Roanoke! :)
oh by the way, in the final shots where Amy "escapes" you can see the vine things moving inside her face, indicating that she was infected and was going to die. there's also an alternative ending scene that confirms it, involving a gravekeeper inspecting her tomb stone because it has the vines and mimicing flowers growing all over it. so not only did Amy mess up on every level, but she might just have started the plot to "The Last Of Us" in the process.
You are absolutely right mr roanoke Amy is literally the worst character in the horror movies Oh Great Scott! I remembered this movie! *Damn!* It was one of the few horror movies that genuinely creeped me out! I especially remember how the plant *mimicked* the sound it sensed as well as the indigenous population were as much as scarier as the 2005 Kongs skull island!
The fact that no one has commented about Roanoke using the RackaRacka twins video at 1:45 makes me sad, but I appreciate that this man, is clearly one of culture. Keep up the killer videos brother!
Your videos are so amazing. I've been working on a scifi plants story for years and never considered any real biology to support the story - it was just "yeah so plants eat people." Your vids are awesome. Thank you!
Movie is based of a book and I think in the book Amy (or whoever survives) realises that they are infected and gona die and decide to die along the path in order to serve as a warning sign, but the plants just yeet her back
Yup, that's exactly what happened 🤣 then about 2 or 3 days later the Greeks showed up with more people and was halfway up the hill before the sentinel/lookout spotted them and ran to get help 🤦🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
7:15 and again at 14:09 you can see some of the vines along the lighted part of the wall reacting to her presence as she's lowered down into the shaft. Thats a neat little touch
I was hoping you made a video on this movie! I watched the ruins years ago, when it came out, but only once. I couldn't for the life of me remember the name but I remember those vines, terrified me as a child (I'd watched Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Paranormal Activity, etc by then and none of them effected me quite like this one). I've been wanting to watch it again, but looking up "vines that invade in the body" didn't bring up what I was looking for. So, thank you for the video!!!
@@zetokaiba5867 ah yes nationality=race, this is a big brain moment. Also, there is a very high chance that there is a absolutely terrible person from your country
found this channel yesterday, binged a ton of the content, and now subscribed too :) im not a big fan of movies, due to disliking the "having to sit still and watch" part, but i love these sort of channels giving a simplified version of "what happened" but also add fun stuff like "what did they do wrong , and how could they do better" and the sciency bits behind the movies as well
Amy isn't coming back. the film had 2 alternate endings: an extended ending where it's shown that she the vines growing inside her, and an ending where the plants were growing out of her grave
This is such a neat concept. Whatever this plant is, it's clearly been here for long enough to have a significant impact on its environment. It's massive, even on the inside where there isn't much benefit to leaves and flowers, which means it is getting an abundance of nutrients. Something like that has definitely reshaped the way its local ecosystem has developed.
There was this movie called mortuary, and the main method of infection was someone puking black liquid into your mouth, watched this sucker back in elementary school and I did not open my mouth for a whole week and was paranoid for the month
I'm gonna comment as a Wildlife Biology major, the "plant" would have to be a non botanical alien, plain and simple. There are too many conflicting mechanisms in action, in ways that have never evolved in any other species. In order to exist in this isolated state it has to be a convergent trait, because we see no other ivy or vine species demonstrating similar derived traits. The mayans are definitely an old civilization, but not old enough for these mechanisms to coevolve, let alone evolve at all. Further more, the amount of energy an animal burns relative to a plant is staggering, and in order for a plant to move like these vines do (and not die out the way venus fly trap leaves do) they would need more nutrients than what a human body can provide. So a more accurate representation would not be able to move anywhere close to this fast. On the topic of movement, it would be so monumentally painful for a vine or ivy to invade a wound, as most climbing plants utilize small cell-surface hairs for thigmotropism (growth from mechanical stimulus), these hairs also generally evolve to be abrasive and prevent potential predators from consuming the plant. Unless the plant is constantly excreting a wildly potent narcotic (which as far as excretion is concerned is well established in thr plant kingdom) thus numbing the skin, the second it even tickled you, youd know. Furthermore (on movement) specific muscle structures need to evolve in animals like grasshoppers in order to produce sound. Again as with muscle energy, this would be too intensive to complete in a dark space. The fastest plants you could compare this too are telegraph plants and sensitive plants, both of which only do rudimentary up-and-down movements, and nowhere near fast enough to produce sound. On sound itself, many animals utilize a voice box to make sound, but that requires a breathing mechanism and specific muscle tissues, of which for a plant there are no incentives to develop. The movie could have portrayed this by having the inside of the temple filled with large air bladders, which expand slowly during the day and then compress during the night (when there isnt stimulus from hormone signals from the sunlit sections) and push air through a very primitive set of flaps, making making a very very low whistle that only small animals could hear. Furthermore, salting the grounds outside of the temple would eventually restrict and kill off the vines entirely, especially if these vines have been there for thousands of years. So the mayans would have been able to simply salt the steps of the temple and then boom, contained. On mimicry, outside of aposomatic coloration, it's just not possible in this instance. Even aposomatic mimicry relies on avoiding animals, which this plant supposedly needs to eat. There is no nerve center shown in the film which would indicate an ability to selectively modify reactions per victim. Maybe across thousands of generations of plants they could develop a passive mimicry of something to entice humans, but since humans can teach their kids not to go near the temple, it would starve if relying on this method. It is also inconceivable that the plants would have absolutely no natural predators, its just so implausible its downright funny. Like not even a moth? Or a bacterial infection? It's an interesting film, and I give them props for the originality and for not giving Mexico the orange filter treatment, but the thrill of body horror for me was outdone by my confusion. Good video 👍🏻
My thought was what if people used CO2? Burning it would make it release spores, but if you had enough CO2 that could solve it as well (yes a more complex and expensive solution compared to yours).
this movie is based off a book; which i’ve heard to much better and scarier, still, it is fiction but it explains more about the civilization and the plants, i kinda wanna read it, seems fun!
@@TruePT The spores are OBVIOUSLY not airborne as the plant hasn't been able to spread over a small circle of barren land for centuries....So burning it with napalm is fine.
I thought this is just some obscure movie...and then I realized I watched this in university like almost 10 years ago. I miss friends, I miss families, I think I'm in cabin fever mode now
Everyone who hates Amy say Yah! Hope y'all enjoy the breakdown! have a good weekend!
How dare you tease me like this sir I was expecting to listen to this video while I went to work shame on you. JK, JK lol excited for this one not often you address the biology of plant like creatures usually animal with the occasional fungi.
Can you do a video for The Ripley, which was a complex parasitoid alien macro virus that appear as primary antagonists of the Stephen King movie Dreamcatcher released in 2003?💡💡💡
What i really hate are these thumbnails where I think you have a new video out but its like nah tricked you, gotta wait.
Pog
I haven't seen this movie buy I hate Amy anyways so yah!
In the deleted scenes Amy dies shortly after and one of the plants is found growing out of her grave luring a graveyard keeper in by mimicking his whistling. Meaning Amy doomed everyone.
also don't we see a vine crawling around under her eye as she drives away in the main movie?
She killed everyone even after death
@@t2nwolf yep, I was surprised the channel didn't mention this. She clearly doesn't survive it. But I do wonder how the vine got in there. For Matthias and Trace I understand, they both had bad wounds, but Amy?
@@bigkabuto i was wondering that as well. I could only come up with two ideas. Either the blood that was wiped on her face or the spores that seemed to be growing on them throughout the movie. One or both could be wrong but it was the only things i could think of because she didnt have any injuries that i seen.
I wish we could have an origin story of the plant. Like was it a invasive plant brought by the spanish or was it a mayan curse on it. It would also be cool to see if that plant was responsible for the disappearance of the mayan civilization by eating them, in the movie universe of course.
@@Enough_Tumbleweed same
"Jeff comes up with a terrible plan, because it involves Amy surviving." XD I'm DONE.
glad you enjoyed that!
So was Jeff 😂
@@RoanokeGaming Interesting thing is that she didn't survive it. As she drives away, you can see a vine in her eye and in a deleted scene it shows that she doomed everyone because a vine grew from her grave
Well, that was in the release cut of the film. In the book/source material (that the film is based on), none of the tourists gets to escape the premises of the ruin mound (let alone, survive); and, in fact, it is Eric, and Stacy who die last: the book's Eric is the film's Stacy, while Stacy cuts (open) her wrists' veins (at the foot of the ruin mound), in an attempt to warn off the other two (incoming) Greek tourists (who arrive at the ruin mound only three days later, long after the vine had consumed Stacy's body).
@@mariusmatei2946 Wow, that sounds so much better. This movie really is ass.
The reason Amy survived is because even the plants couldn't stomach her.
Lol
I like this idea better than the actual movie ending because she knows she’s such a pos because she got everyone else killed. Including that kid. Instead of being the host for plant 2.0.
@@Vindictator1972 She died some time after returning home and her burial site has one of these plants growing in there
😂😂
Not in one of the other endings, where a vine starts burrowing into the skin around her eyes as she's driving away.
You kind of misunderstood the goals of the Mayans. They shout at them when they get there in an attempt to prevent them from going onto the temple, but as soon as they cross the safe barrier that have to kill them in order to keep it from spreading.
Same with their own kid that they kill, it isn't superstition, they are just following zombie infection protocols.
Exactly, it was tough love
So why keep it alive anyways?
@@hollowempty6086 some things can't be culled, even though we tried - foxes, rats, mold, flu, ragweed, indian jump grass(i don't know how it's actually called, just tranlated it from german - Indisches Springkraut) and many many more
@@hollowempty6086 Given how the plant is able to survive without light growing out of the walls of a temple interior means that it's a Hardy and persistent plant. I doubt they'd be able to exterminate it entirely, it just growing back out of the walls. Plus they're fairly primitive, a lot of them were just using bows and Spears with only a few firearms. So they just wouldn't have the access to the technology they need to eradicate it.
but then as roanoke brang up why havent they napalmed molotoved or otherwise fired bombed the temple?
which would have burned and killed the plant or weakend it enough to cover the outside in salt then fill the central hole with salt killing the plant entirly.
"The Science of why I could beat up a plant" -Roanoke the legendary weed wacker
My legendary experience of mowing lawns will come in handy
He minored in Extreme Lawn Mowing, didn't you know?
Vegans beat up and eat plants all the time. And get healthier at the same time too.
@@drabnail777 no survivalists do that vegans get other people to beat up the plants then deilver them its like tying someone to a chair then beating there ars and saying you won
No need for that just set it all on fire
I liked one of the alternate endings where Amy escaped, but didn't realize she was already infected by the plant. It then cuts to a scene where a caretaker is working at a cemetery, whistling "Frere Jacques", only to find the plant having grown out of Amy's grave whistling back at him.
This movie scared the shit outta me as a kid, especially the part where the plants imitate the cell phone
What about now? Does Amy being the sole survivor scare you?
@@RobertMcBride-is-cool yea it does actually
@@shaunconnally4794 me too.
@@RobertMcBride-is-cool
Yes because she's the one that causes the plant apocalypse because you can see a vine under her eye and you can see vines growing from her grave.
Just like the book.
@@Raccon_Detective. I could've sworn that was only in the deleted scenes
The main characters really never picked up that the people outside didn’t want the plant to spread, Amy escaping just means the spores are going to spread very far. Also none of them learned Mayan for their trip.
There's an after credits scene in this movie, Amy dies a while after going back home and one of the flowers is seen sprouting from her burial site
They did, they just didnt care because they wanted to live.
you mean they picked up on it or that they learned mayan? I assume the first part
Exactly! that's why they dome the kid and burn him and the vines immediately. The plants touching any part of you spreads the spores. The alternate ending has Amy die and when they bury her body the plant starts growing from her grave.
I mean those plants are more like fungi, they seem to communicate through a network and the way their spores work is close to that of a fungus, so with that being said. A strong dose of antifungal medication would definitely kill those plants if they got on you
There’s two alternate endings:
1: As Amy is driving away we can clearly see the vines growing across her face
2: we see Amy’s grave and growing around the grave are the same vines
isnt that the same alternate ending
@@hevic1446 basically
no, there is an ending where she is driving aways and we see a close up of her eyes, then there is another ending where she is driving away and we see the plants moving in her face, if you don't believe me go search in youtube, "the ruins ending scene" you have to try at least 3 different videos to find the one, so please don't come and tell me that you didn't found it after just one try.
When the movie takes place in Mexico but doesn't have an orange filter: Reality is often disappointing
I was literally thinking the same thing 🤣
ooh damn you right
You mean like post processing orange filtering?? I would be embarrassed not to understand this reference 😅
I think they used a blue filter at times even. I thought this was Mexico, not Canada.
@@3rd-eye-peeper It's a reference to shows and movies like Breaking Bad. Whenever scenes take place in Mexico there saturation is a lot higher and makes it more orange than the rest of the show.
Them: "We're hours away from the hotel and miles into a dangerous jungle. Surely hotel security will come for us!"
Hotel security: No es mi problema
So true. They don't pay security enough to deal with bullshit.
Honestly, that "security" had better have the reach and resources of a militia. Deadly plants are the last thing somebody would expect, but there's a ton of dangers in the Americas even before you count humans and predatory plants.
Working as security, I unintentionally said out loud "Ha, sounds like a job for the cops." As soon as they found the tribal Mayans, many of them would disagree. In reality, this is probably a job for the men in black
@@remen_emperor
Hostile Mayans: You need the cops
Hostile Plants: You need Jesus
these people are the root command for stupid.
Haha right I was thinking erm no one is looking for you atleast not for a good while. Hotel security wouldn't even save you if it happened across the street. Once you leave the building they say "that's a you problem"
Amy is the kind of person who will tell her horrifying story to everyone and how it affected her, get on prescriptions meds and do nothing about the plant or stop anyone from going there ever again.
I remember watching this movie a few years ago and it’s nice to know my hatred of Amy’s character wasn’t that irrational
Both female leads annoyed me thy where alot reason I never finished 5his movie
@@GhostFire455 That’s fair
@@neotheresa no it isn’t
@@GG-kn2se how so?
It's like they went out of their way to create the most unlikeable characters possible.
Anyone watching this movie would be rooting for the plants.
To be fair, Amy died in the forest in the book and in the original movie ending, she died after getting back home because she was also infected with the plants.
Book's ending was way darker and fit the Lovecraftian theme better. Still liked the movie though. Rare example where I like both versions.
There was a book?
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 right? I didn't know that, time to go read it
@@fullsun8415 it’s a good and easy read. Halfway through, it hit me; ‘I’ve seen this movie!’
I just finished the book and wow... it's much better and far darker. Amy was the first to die, and the film left out out discussions of catabolism, the fact that the vines sap caused sever burns, and also played numerous mental tricks on them.. Smith also wrote the book 'A Simple Plan' that was also adapted to film. In this case the book is again much much darker.
The vines inside her body were part of a cunning strategy. The victim would try to remove the vines. It leads to having more flesh wound and weakening.
If you look closely at Amy's face in the end you see that she has the plant inside her too as it like slivers away under her skin. It's very subtle but basically saying the sucky person is out to doom more people lol
where is it?
@@flygawnebardoflight on her face i think
There's also an extra ending that shows a grave yard grounds keeper notice red blooming flowers growing out of a grave..as he looks we see that it's A Amys grave
@@jamesshyla Is there a time stamp, at least in this video? because I looked and couldn't see it, but also I don't know where to look.
@@metamaxis no but it's on TH-cam,it's either an alternative ending or a scene shown after the end of film credits
If you burn the vines they will release spores and it will infect you if you breathe it. Many plants do this in response to forest fires so that they can grow again elsewhere. In fact the hot air currents would only help to carry the spores further. So in this case, killing it with fire is not the answer. A chemical solution would be better or just containing as the villagers have done, just more thoroughly until it starves.
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Burning it with radiation
@@milimuller3348 way easier and less dangerous just to burn it with chemicals.
Napalm burns in excess of a thousand degrees. No plant spore is surviving that. Napalm use has left areas of the Earth completely barren.
@@milimuller3348 Agent Orange, the fire that doesn't burn
really good herbicide
I don't think the spores of this plant capable of airborne. The local seems has been guarding it and keep it contained for how long maybe hundreds of years, judging by the temple's age. Think of it logically, the temple is way above ground, if the spores capable of airborne, all it needs to do is wait for a strong wind, release the spores and let it ride the wind. By that logic it would already have spread to the surrounding area, but it hasn't. So yes the spores definitely not airborne type or it would already took over the forest and destroyed the village long time ago.
Looking at how much the plant evolved, i doubt it would be easy to kill it, even with fire, it showed to be at least a bit resistant to fire when it grabed the torch.
Its easy to say "call a napalm strike and destroy everything", but i dont see the military helping someone that just said "there is a plant that eats everything it touches and we need you to napalm it".
As for some points raised about the plant:
It showed to be not just sentient, but intelligent, because it did not just produce any noise, it produced the noise that would make them go down.
It only atacked at night, when they were asleep or distracted, so it behaves like a predator, not something that waits for the food to come to it.
Looking at how the mayans acted, they were trying to containing it, keeping everything far away enough to not let the plant spread.
I think they did not kill everyone at the start, just so that the plant did not have a reason to stretch away from the temple and they did not have to get close to it to get the bodies. As long as the people stay and die in the temple, the plant will not spread outside of it.
Weed killer, root killer, shovel salt down that hole, plant killer. Chemical warfare is what I'm suggesting here. It wouldn't take but a handful of sacrifices and a couple of days to see if those work....That or build a dome over the area then set the bitch on fire with napalm.
@Clanner Bob Well if the choice was my life or this crap spreading and endangering the world then yes I volunteer. Ideally anyone doing this would be wearing hazmat suits or something which might spare them but if I'm already up there and its too late for me I'm taking as much of it as I can with me.
I would use a small nuke. I mean a very small nuke. For the explotion to destroy the plants and where they live and the ratiation to give the rest of the plants plant cancer or so
@@jumo2670 very bad idea.... Have you seen images of Chernobyl or Hiroshima? Nuclear radiation is not that bad for plants, and if the explotion did not kill it... well....
@@sakbromely I think the best bet would be just using helicopters to dump seawater on it. But that could lead to spreading it. So the solution would just be dumping truckloads of salt on top of the temple. Since it seems salt prevents it from spreading out then it may kill the stuff easily.
"Wow, an abandoned temple not found on any map! This would be the find of a century!"
*Locals tell you to avoid the area, as only death finds those foolish enough to enter*
"... Amazon drone?"
"Amazon drone!"
*Roll credits*
Plots of these sorts of movies tend to go along that line.
Tourist go to bad place.
Locals warn of bad place.
Tourist ignore locals and go into bad place.
Horror trope hijinks ensue.
YES LMFAO. Horror movies would've lasted around 2-5 seconds if they properly used technology to exchange/obtain information. it's always "Ooooooh scary abandoned old building/sewer/cave 😩😩😵😵😵. Let's get inside lmao😂😂😂"
I can work with this scenario.
Send drone in, drone gets dusted in spores at it enters the temple, later they retrieve the drone, come into contact with spores
Someone cuts their hand on a beer bottle, spores enter blood stream
Spores grow throughout body, killing person, plant blooms from corpse, spores begin infecting everyone at the resort.
Now we got a plantpocalypse without everyone being dumb as a sack of hammers.
What would the drone see? A overgrown ruin nobody seems to know. "Meh, just some vines. Lets go check it out, seems safe to me."
@@jimmywoolever798 Shit that would work and also make Everyones deaths incredibly horrific and tragic as it really damn was not their conscious fault at all.
Want to hear a Joke,
Two plants are standing next to each other.
One of them says:
"What did you have for lunch?"
The other says:
"Oh, just a Light meal"
Hah... food
Here’s a better joke
Two plants are standing next to each other
One of them says:
“It’s hot out here huh.”
The other says
“Holy fuck a talking plant”
Ba dum tss
Haha, lawn mower goes vroooom
Haha Fotosinsathis
In Aztec mythology the earth was a primordial being that consumed everything in her path until the gods ripped her in half creating this world.
Technically it's a Mayan ruin and Mayans were different from Aztecs.
@@sicksadworld997 true, although both did participate in human sacrifice as humans owe their existence to the gods and must feed them.
Sounds like Earth alright.
Ah yes another one of my favorites from: I was definitely too young for this, but that’s never stopped anyone before
If I remember right it was one of the free on demand movies I could watch on old cable. Of course I watched it, then had a slight fear of vines for a while
I watched this with my mom when I was like 8. I had to walk out when the vines went in to that person at the end. I couldn't watch it. I literally walked out on my own.
Cool picture, a fan of lovercraftian horror?
@@TheOldWarden kinda! Mostly a big fan of monster movies in general
Spoilers
The plants in the book are way more terrifying and the book showed how sentient they are. In addition to mimicking the cell phone sounds, it turns out that they can mimick any sound they hear and they also understand the concept of languages as when Jeff died the plants taunt Matthias in German using his brother voice to tell him that Matthias's brother as well as Jeff were dead. Also when Eric (he was the one with the plants inside him in the book) started trying to cut it out Matthias tried to stop him and got knifed in the heart. The plants immediately took him but left Eric to taunt Stacy by making her watch Jeff die which shows that they are sadistic as well.
didn't they also mimic smells as well? it's been a while since i read the book, but i vaguely remember something about strawberry cake or something like that
@Dexter clarence Fongkot yeah, they are 😳
I own the book too. You're right they are scarier in the book, then again most books are scarier than the movie. Gotta give it up to imagination man 🤯
@@mikeenglish2318 is the plant immune to fire?
The only other fictional thing I would compare that with is The Flood
Forgot to mention that Amy has the plant inside her at the end, so the killer cannabis from outer space has escaped it's containment pyramid.
Theory: The origins of the plants might be this: The plants could be in a temple dedicated to Yum Kaax, the Mayan god of plants, and the god could be using the plants to protect his place of worship.
have you not seen unsolved mystery's that's you if you go to the myan ruins muhahahahahaha
OOH.
I'm stealing all this for a dnd campaign
@@alexinfinite7142 as long as you name it, ‘Mr. Plant’
@@JoshuaAndres LOL this is too good to pass up
I really want to point out that the first thing this video criticized was the groups motive in going to the ruins, which heavily deviated from the book and IMO tarnished the films version of the story. In the book, the German (Mathias) asked them to help find his brother who went to the ruins with an archeologist woman he met and became smitten with. The brother took off and has yet to return, and they're flight home is in a few days. So Mathias is worried, and asks Jeff for his help because Jeff has shown himself to be a grounded, down to earth person, with a logical and medical background. So the group goes on this adventure to be helpful, also under the impression that these ruins are the location of an official archeological dig site.
While it seems like a minor change, the films motive of "bored at the resort and want to see some real off the grid ruins" asks too much suspension of disbelief and leaves us saying "why would anyone be that stupid"
The movie also cuts out an entire character (Pablo, one of 3 Greeks) who is whith them and is actually the one who falls down the shaft. It's his friends (the repeatedly referenced 'greeks') who they are hoping will show up eventually. There's also a lot of details about the plants and the Mayans that were cut out, as well as darker material the producers felt would be too intense for the film. The ending of the book also (spoilers) did not leave any 'hopeful' survivors.
The book is honestly a pretty short read (I just finished it and it took me maybe a week) and it is well worth it. The author Scott Smith also wrote 'A Simple Plan' that was later adapted for film, but again the film version was greatly softened and portrayed a happier ending than the book.
Soo true. The book had a look more detail and the overall tone was really chilling. Also the fact that the plants were somewhat sentient and highly sadistic was also quite shocking. Although I understand why they toned it down. If they adapted it page for page then only hardcore horror lovers would've finished it. One thing I never understood was why they removed Pablo and switch some of the character based events
Actually the ending of the movie was worse because you could see a vine moving under Amy’s skin, meaning she spread the plants
@@normalhuman9878 that’s an alternate ending. The theatrical version is identical, but no vines in her.
Yeah who'd be stupid enough to go off the grid to see some old ruins... guess I'm dying.
Unless the book described them getting weapons and backpacks with rations/water/rope/survival items, it's still stupid plot point. You don't go on a RESCUE OPERATION in a fucking jungle with no preparations and in flip-flops....you are just adding to the bodies needing rescue at this point.
Loved the book why more, especially b/c Amy dies brutally…though she’s less annoying in the books overall.
How does she die?
@@Kay-dk3jk suffocated to death by the vines. it’s been a while since i read the book so this could be a little off. basically her and jeff get in an argument because she got drunk/stole water and he goes into the tent leaving her on the ground facing away from him, crying and reaching for him while gagging. he’s still mad at her and thinks she’s manipulating him so he doesn’t help her. the next morning the others find her still there, dead, with vines down her throat. she was reaching towards him for help and gagging on the vines.
Fun fact: the author of the novel wrote wrote screen play for the movie.
The absolute madlad was going to take a break after planet of the apes and didnt. Legend
roanoke is a fucking beast
Roanoke: "Probably gonna take a break next week."
Also Roanoke: So here's two new videos.
these are probably planned and made ahead of time, there's most likely going to be a small period of no videos in a week or two, depending on how fast Roanoke's turnover is.
It's messed up but I laughed so hard when he said way to go Amy your responsible for the death of a child.
I feel like most horror movies have very simple real world solutions like this. "Just burn it, it's a plant." :)
How to survive a horror movie advice no 1.: Have a flamethrower.
no it is outright shown that fire releases airborne spores. a flamethrower would save you but doom the whole world
@@jdlucree A flamethrower is broad enough that any spores would get burned up before they could go anywhere.
@@jdlucree I think if the spores traveled that well and were that durable, the salt wouldn't stop it.
@@jdlucree oh well, if I’m going down, I’m taking as many people with me
You know, when I was watching this movie I couldn't help but think that simple signs saying "don't touch the plants, they will kill you, they will infect you, eventually they will eat you," would have sufficed as a solid deterrent to go towards the pyramid.
Ever meet any real people? Danger signs are basically bait.
People would likely think it's a prank, and the sign likely wouldn't be in English for idiot tourists
"Stay off grass. Seriously."
Then when you read the book, you realize that the plants are not stupid enough to let a warning sign stand in front of them. Those bastards know humans like the back of their leaves. It's not the first time they've attacked them. Those things had to have attacked humans, even before the Mayans and the Greeks.
@@highlordlaughterofcanada8685 if tourists listen to signs saying "dont go near corpse flowers they reek" im pretty sure theyd listen to a sign telling them "these plants are hyper posionus do not touch"
The plant always seemed like a hive mind to me. The central mass inside the temple may act like a brain, and the sheer number of them together add up to an intelligence.
It could absorb the knowledge of who/what ever it eats growing more intelligent over time I mean it had to know that the cell phone was perfect bait
@@azeria1 Sounds alot like the Flood to be honest. Then again, they both use spores...
Roanoke's unveiled dislike of Amy really does the humor bit for me lol
Critics HATE her, find out why!
Seriously she sucks. After seeing what those plants do. I'd just walk down get on my knees and mime shooting myself in the head. Then close my eyes and wait for the quick and painless end.
Moss good
@@Pelle-Peanut-bRain-World owo
You didn't hate her? Every action she made screwed everyone.
I love the concept of this movie. I'd love a sequel where the man eating carnivorous plants spreads out of control into the jungle, and starts changing into other varieties of the plant!
The plants in this movie when people come to visit: *LOOKS LIKE MEATS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS*
They'll be cracking a headache with da boys now
@@vaporean_boylove.0w083 Humans: Oh no, our Greek friend is paralysed! We can't let the plants take him!
Plants: What about his legs? He don't need those. They look tasty...
Pretty sure this thing was basically a full blow SCP level abomination the Mayan's were keeping contained.
Euclid
@@Anthonybrother Safe
Good job Mayan good job
The Mayan SCP needs a lot of backup for this crap.
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I remember watching this and thinking that this was the most badass-nearly-completely stationary plant monster ever.
Roanoke something you missed, as Amy was escaping she looks in the mirror and sees that she actually has the plant inside of her as well, meaning she could possibly spread this around the world
You got that right. Amy is infected with the plant spore and there is an after credit scene that Roanoke missed showing the plant growing on Amy's burial site.
That’s an alternate ending. The theatrical ending is identical, but there’s no vine.
@@viclorenzo5016 those are alternate endings.
@@DeOneandLonelyThe vine in the eye is the standard ending.
This movie has an alternate extended ending with Amy in the hospital
Wiht the spores...
@@snakekiller667 yep
@@snakekiller667 it's the plant apocalypse
@@snakekiller667 canon ending
@@Kainan723 craziest plant vs zombies universe that I've ever seen
If you read the novel that the movie was based on the implications are kind of different. The temple is referred to as more of a mine, and the vines inside are pale. I think the Mayans uncovered the vines and then have been keeping them contained generation after generation.
With the end of the movie, Charles Darwin is spinning in his grave seeing who survived.
you could power the whole of San Francisco using the rotational energy from how fast he's spinning rn
@@yoboikamil525 He's spinning like an alligator.
@@yoboikamil525
he's a beyblade now.
Reminder that "survival of the fittest" was not actually proposed by Darwin. It was Herbert Spencer, i.e. the grandaddy of the god-awful concept known as Social Darwinism.
@@Raccon_Detective. you spin me right round baby right round...
As much as I enjoy hearing your thoughts on the science behind these movies, my favourite thing about this movie might be your sheer and absolute hatred of Amy
Amy's a Child killer yay
I mean, can you blame him? She doomed everyone not just by stepping on the plants first, but doomed the planet by escaping since she was carrying the plant spores
Interesting that the spores have never been picked up by wind or other creatures passing in close proximity to the temple.
hey it's a movie the rules do not have to follow those of real plant spores and seeds
the spores probably just require direct contact and any animal that get close enough to touch get eaten
they probably have people guarding the temple 24/7 making sure nothing gets near the plants and leaves
@@InitialPC what about wild animals, birds, insects, the wind etc.
@@Montasir125 you can read right?
i feel like this is something the SCP Foundation would be interested in.
Yep sounds like something they would contain
Probably gonna be Classified as Safe
This would probably be in Euclid class. But assuming it grows around to whole world, it has potential to be in Keter.
@@hewhobattles8869 It would be most-likely classified as Safe - The SCP foundation rate the anomalies based on how hard they are to contain rather than how dangerous they are - Because the plant is stuck to the one place, and can be stopped by common salt and isolation of human subjects would place it in the safe catagory.
all you need is a couple trucks of salt and a crane and you could kill this just cover the outside of the temple in salt then fill the central hole with salt BOOM dead plant monster
This reminds me exactly of a manga from an 80s-90s sci-fi writer named Hoshino Yukinobu. I can't remember the exact short stories name, but it involves finding an overgrown Mayan city in the jungle that was wiped from the maps and trying to be kept secret by a native. And in the city it's found that everyone died mysteriously and all at once, where we find out that it's the plants in the city that killed them all. By over growing the city, devouring them, or infecting them with fungal spores. It's a really good read, so are the rest of his works, I highly recommend checking them all out.
did the book explain why the plants never spread beyond the city? one thing i can give the movie is the inclusion of the salt circle surronding the temple which explained how the plants didnt spread outwards and conquer the entire jungle ecosystem
Hey, I know this comment is five months old, but do you remember the name of the Manga? It sounds neat and I'd like to check it out...
@@larryjohnston9204 I actually have found it again since I first mentioned it. Its Hoshino Yukinobu's short story Outburst, in his Sea of Fallen Beasts short story collection. I'm sure you can find it on a few sites, but I mainly use Mangadex, its chapter 4 on there.
@@WolfStar08 awesome!! Thank you so so much
We actually had the director at my school, we got an q/a. The alternative ending was that the camera zoomed by her eye to show a vine and she was infected before roll credits. Nobody survived, and we don't know if she actually made it to civilization before the plant killed her. They cut it to "give a sense of hope". But I liked the bad end better. There was also alot more deleted scenes, but trust me, that was a good thing (mostly raunchy nonsense, if I recall ) .
I admit, bad endings like that totally ruin it for me. I love movies where there's at least hope for humanity, possibly because irl I fell so little hope for our species' long-term survival.
@@amberkat8147 Considering the plant is basically an Old God, there really is no hope for humanity. Remember the ending of the Cabin in the Woods remake?
Honestly, if I knew I was gonna die anyways I would just go down, and ask the Jungle people to make it painless.
Once infected it seems unstoppable , so that's the best option .
I agree with you and Andy. Once I knew I was infect I would gone down the stairs and mock shooting myself in the head
honestly since the f ing dudes couldnt be botherd to throw a rock with a note on it explaining what was going to me id assume they were sacrficing me to some plant demon as a cult so id probably spitfully charge at them and take as many of them down with me or just start ripping up clumps of plants and throwing them at them like amy did but from the top of the temple
@@wilmagregg3131 no.
@@juansan2406 well if i knew they doing it for quartine i wouldnt do it but if i didnt know that i would think its a cult thing and would be spitefull
You need to make some merch of these force multipliers. That is going to be a legit community insider
Its 100% not a "community insider" its a very general term that pretty much all TH-camrs frequently use to avoid de-monitization.
@@yohanscold2149 doubt it
Who actually buys TH-camrs lameass t-shirts lmao
@@drabnail777 youtubers advertise them and run out of stock all the time so plenty of people buy them... unless they just say its low on stock to trick people into getting it
@@cyber_xiii3786 The T-shirt stocks from places like T-spring and so on are limited small batch runs. TH-camrs don't have the money to mass produce a T-shirt design through another company and keep a large stock on hand.
' they should have thrown amy down there '
You have some kind of HIGH hate for Amy and I am living for it
That jab at naked yoga was hilarious. I don't get how people are showing full nudity "for education" but if you show literally anything for actual educational purposes you get the hose again lol
because twatch and now youtube chasing trends wants the money from being a hidden pron site without actually saying they are which would drive away all the youths using there parents credit card and swearing there "just watching games mom"
@@wilmagregg3131 but if you do search naked yoga none of the videos are even getting that many views n almost all of the channels have less than 10k subs
Because they created an algorithm that either doesn't work as intended if you believe tech companies when they say "it's completely fair and unbiased." Or, it works exactly as intended and targets content that goes against whatever agendas they have, but leaves everything else alone seemingly regardless of the content, until that, too, falls into the category of being counter to one of their agendas if and when their agendas shift.
@@benmiller5015 maybe youtube doesn't know they exsist not impossible considering how big they are
@@benmiller5015 I don't know if they started cracking down on it, but up until just a couple months ago naked yoga, as well as a few others like naked news, were getting millions of views a video. It's good if youtube finally started taking that stuff down, but it has been a known issue for years that they had been outright ignoring.
Edit: Just searched it up since I wasn't entirely sure, and they are still getting a ton of views. Top 2 are 1.5-ish million in the last month, and there's one a bit older with 3.6 million in two months.
I know you mentioned being bummed Amy survived, but remember the plant has contact spores, and they weren't washing off possible contamination with the alcohol; so odds are she still doomed the slow painful death, but also inadvertently causing a plant-based apocalypse lol.
Agent orange: it’s showtime!
According to a lot of other comments, a cut scene involved Amy dying with a plant growing from her grave so this was more or less suppose to happen at one point.
Vegan apocalypse
can confirm, there's a deleted scene where the vines grow from Amy's tombstone. she did indeed cause the apocalypse.
Christ, I remember this film. I need to get the novel - This shit traumatized me at like... 12. I got this shit at Walmart out of a $5 bin.
Surprised you didn't mention the alternate ending - Amy got infected, perished, and got buried up in America where it was growing out of her grave.
Ah yes, I remember this movie from when I was a preschooler and my older brother forced my family to watch it. Around the part when lady began cutting away her own flesh I covered up my ears, closed my eyes and sat that way until my mom shook me after movie finished.
Honestly your preschool self had good fucking instincts considering how traumatic this movie would be for someone that age. Then again that sucks and I'm sorry you had to see that shit.
@@foxcheetah6035 i saw some really gory shit as a child same as OP, but I knew it was a movie so I was just like "whoa that's some good cgi" while my family was shaking in terror
@@yoboikamil525 complete immunity
That's messed up bro, your bro sounds like a douche
@@Wyvernlord6 that immunity didn't come too fast I'm still scared shitless of the ring
omg the wait is gonna kill me! no one talks about this movie!
It was an interesting one for sure lmao
Some people I know don’t care for it, but the unique setting and story was good and warranted.
@@RoanokeGaming hey Roanoke showed up at the wrong moment how are you
@@RoanokeGaming oh wow i wasnt expecting so many likes! and yeah its certainly interesting. especially the interactions between the plant seeds and roots in a warm wet environment. brings up questions for certain.
I believe Ryan Hollinger did a horror retrospective on it.
This movie was partial inspiration for a character I use in DnD. A druid infested with this plant, which acts as her link to the nature spirits. Because it is a druidic version, and not the wild one, it is symbiotic, not predatory. With careful cultivation, she can create a grove infested with the tame version, or with a cutting and a single spell, she can forcibly and instantly consume a structure, making entrance nigh impossible.
this movie is one of the reasons i never want to got exploring or adventuring anymore
Well Mayan temples have always been off my radar too haha
I used to be an adventure like you, till I took an arrow to the knee
@@ahardworker2154 im sorry to hear that
I would love to explore an abandoned temple.
Causing a Mayan themed apocalypse is on my bucket list
@@RoanokeGaming please review the tanker bug
I seem to remember when Amy escapes that you can see in her eyes that she's infected with vines and then movie ends . At least that's the version I saw
yeah that's what I remember too. So Amy sucks so much she effectively doomed the entire world by escaping.
Ya I remember that too and though since that wasn't mentioned i started thinking it was a fever dream for a moment
So many horror movies/games/comics end that way, don't they
@@getschwifty5537 I don’t know if she doomed the entire world. At a certain point they’ll just turn the plants into a hellscape of napalm and fire. She’s defiantly doomed hundreds, thousands if not tens of thousands of people. Maybe even hundred thousands.
@@Predatornc1 wouldn't be surprised if it took out a chunk of America and a few other places if it infects a plane or boat, it would be dealt with eventually but the effects would leave quite a few places inhospitable.
In the books the plants were a lot more animated. They would taunt the remaining victims by telling them asking where their friend was and answering that he was dead in German.
The characters were more annoying in the book. They kept acting irresponsibly, the person in charge didn't want to be in lead and tried to sneak out, one of them got drunk despite the danger, etc..... All died in the end, but I think the movie was hoping for a sequel.
I think they are either alien or some type of radical mutation. I could see them evolving to feed off of sacrifices but it brings up questions as to when it was discovered/cornered or how long it took for them to become aggressively predatory.
Imagine if plants learned to mimic sounds to lure people nowadays.
You're just out walking when you hear "yo dude, you wanna clap some cheeks tonight?"
And you're just like "boy howdy do I?" and book, you're dead! Being snacked on by your rhododendron
Lmaooo🤣🤣 Totally underrated comment 😂😂
Lol
Best comment I've read all day lol
Not clap some cheeks 💀😩😂😂😂
Warhammer 40k has a very pleasant planet for you.
"The science of why I could beat up a plant" as the last phase of this video
Roanoke, marauder of lilies
I absolutely LOVE the ending that shows Amy to be infected after she escapes. It’s so memorable, because it implies that the world is doomed (something the natives were clearly trying to prevent), because of our main protagonist
"The science of why I could beat up a plant" has the same aura as "i could kick your ass scientifically"
You may be pleased to know there's a postcredit scene where those plants are coming out of her grave!
I don't think he'd be pleased, Roanoke would be even more pissed at Amy for fucking thing up for everyone else even in death.
It’s been 2 years and I still watch this video on occasion when I need a laugh. Roanoke is sooo annoyed with Amy the whole time, it’s hilarious
My guess is this. The reason they haven’t burned the plant down is because maybe they don’t want to risk the chance of the spores escaping the temple. It obviously has them. So what if burning the spores could spread the plant and cause more of them. They obviously grow rapidly.
I think that idea, I like to image the leaves are somewhat flame retardant or damp to the touch. The vines were able to grab the torch, and put it out quickly by what assume was smothering.
@@TheSMG130 that fits with this plant probably being related to the sundew which has a sticky fluid on its little bug grabbing tentacles
Except plants don't reproduce through spores. The only plants that some close are ferns and their spores are still pretty big. This magic plant is more like a magic fungus.
that could never happen, napalm is way too hot for spores to survive. It can literally melt steel.
@@vyor8837 very true, however who tf would think to bring napalm into the jungle when hiking? And I highly doubt any military besides America would take the time to napalm a sacred temple in another country. Not to mention the blow back from actually doing something like that with the explanation “human eating plants that kill idiots who get too close”
Flammenwerfer: *exists*
Mayan Plant Monster: Why do i hear Boss music?
Drop a couple hundred napalm bombs to clean up and we're good
@@gajspalt hundreds? Do you eant zo clear the whole jubgle? Heck a well placed canister of gasolin should be enought
Did you watch the Ahoy video before this one too?
@@Blutwind Well better safe and sorry, and hey, who knows whats in that jungle, might've gotten rid of a few dangerous species.
I hear that will just cause it spread more as some spores are lifted away.
Idk why I loved this movie so much as a teen. I even made a clay sculpture in art class of one of the flowers sitting atop the ruins with vines wrapped around. Just a weird fascination with plants, I suppose. I am a tree hugger after all! Lol
I thought the movie showed that Amy had a bit of vine under her skin too at the end, showing that the plant spores got into her even without a wound (or a major one). That being the case, once you got into that situation, you're already pretty much toast. Also, she's gonna spread it to the wider world.
Yeah I remember something like that before and thinking... Oh shit the plant escaped...
They smeared her with blood from an infected person. Her infection was inevitable.
"Why cant one of the men go?"
"Can you girls lift us up?"
"....no..."
"There you go."
Great view and info on carnivorous plants. You took this very far and still connected it all together. Great carnivorous plant footage as well.
Oh, do the zombie-infection from Contagion! it was from plants, turning people into photosynthetic cannibals. Basically mobile human venus fly--traps
Interesting, I'll have to check that out!
My older brother told me to watch it before, he made it sound good.
Contagion the game? I can't find a zombie film by that name.
I’m pretty sure that from fallout New Vegas
Caontagen was a pretty good not zombie zombie movie.
I could either sleep a bit more before work, or I can stay up and catch the premiere for one of my favorite channels. Better go grab my coffee cup.
Honestly, through this whole movie I was rooting for the Maya dudes. GOOD JOB keeping this thing contained. GOOD JOB understanding that anything and anyone that gets touched by this thing DIES. The only bad job? Not doming the idiots the second they crossed the salt circle. One really good rule of thumb is listen to the locals. If they are not concerned, you do not need to be concerned. If they are concerned, be concerned and try to understand why- and do what they ask or tell you to do. They know whatever the potential threat is, whether it's carnivorous plant monster or "if you sleep on the ground the poop scratcher will crawl up your butt". What's the poop scratcher? No bloody idea. Going to sleep on the ground? Hell no, the poop scratcher will crawl up my butt.
I saw this movie at a sleep over when i was nine because my friends parents thought it was a B movie horror like sharknado i was traumatized for a month and had to sleep with one of my three dogs in my room.
You should go vegan to get revenge on the plants.
And get healthier at the same time
@@drabnail777 CoNsUmE PlAnT
It's a properly done Lovecraftian tale. i.e. mankind bumbling into an aspect of the universe we all hope to never see or understand. =w=
@@drabnail777 I wouldn't say healthier but it would be a good form of revenge.
@@solisprime2669 I'm no vegan, but they do typically seem more physically fit, by which I mean less so morbidly obese
No way, I actually had to talk about how the sundew works for my A level assignment on the carbon and nitrogen cycle XD I get so happy every time you post, I learn so much in these videos. Thank you so much Roanoke! :)
oh by the way, in the final shots where Amy "escapes" you can see the vine things moving inside her face, indicating that she was infected and was going to die.
there's also an alternative ending scene that confirms it, involving a gravekeeper inspecting her tomb stone because it has the vines and mimicing flowers growing all over it.
so not only did Amy mess up on every level, but she might just have started the plot to "The Last Of Us" in the process.
In terms of the SCP universe, I guess we'd call this an XK-class end-of-the-world scenario!
The last of us has a Fungus
This is a plant
You are absolutely right mr roanoke Amy is literally the worst character in the horror movies
Oh Great Scott! I remembered this movie! *Damn!* It was one of the few horror movies that genuinely creeped me out! I especially remember how the plant *mimicked* the sound it sensed as well as the indigenous population were as much as scarier as the 2005 Kongs skull island!
Dana from Cabin In The Woods could give her a run for her money.
Can I just say I fucking love your chapter names?
(at least I think that's what youtube started calling the splits along the progress bar)
I didn't know many people would read those haha glad you like them man!
@@RoanokeGaming yeah they are hilarious
Psychoghost gaming has funny chapter names occasionally as well
I really want more of the concept of this movie! A sentient plant that gets under your skin both literally and figuratively, how awesome is that!
The fact that no one has commented about Roanoke using the RackaRacka twins video at 1:45 makes me sad, but I appreciate that this man, is clearly one of culture. Keep up the killer videos brother!
I love how evolved this creature is and how well it has adapted. But at the same time it’s a frickin plant
Your videos are so amazing. I've been working on a scifi plants story for years and never considered any real biology to support the story - it was just "yeah so plants eat people." Your vids are awesome. Thank you!
Movie is based of a book and I think in the book Amy (or whoever survives) realises that they are infected and gona die and decide to die along the path in order to serve as a warning sign, but the plants just yeet her back
Yup, that's exactly what happened 🤣 then about 2 or 3 days later the Greeks showed up with more people and was halfway up the hill before the sentinel/lookout spotted them and ran to get help 🤦🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
7:15 and again at 14:09 you can see some of the vines along the lighted part of the wall reacting to her presence as she's lowered down into the shaft. Thats a neat little touch
Didn't catch that the first time.
I was hoping you made a video on this movie! I watched the ruins years ago, when it came out, but only once. I couldn't for the life of me remember the name but I remember those vines, terrified me as a child (I'd watched Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Paranormal Activity, etc by then and none of them effected me quite like this one). I've been wanting to watch it again, but looking up "vines that invade in the body" didn't bring up what I was looking for. So, thank you for the video!!!
bruh the scene with: "a german dude doesnt say no to a drink". bruh this is so true as a german guy i can proudly say we like somw good drinks
I'd be a alcoholic too if Hitler came from my race 🙊
@@zetokaiba5867 bruh what💀😂
i can say most of the people arent alcoholics tho lol, we just like a good drink thats it😂
@@zetokaiba5867 ah yes nationality=race, this is a big brain moment. Also, there is a very high chance that there is a absolutely terrible person from your country
Then you probably havent heard about the russians ? Da ?
@@zetokaiba5867 Seems like he sadly missed one of your grandparents before they procreated and got one of your poor parents
found this channel yesterday, binged a ton of the content, and now subscribed too :)
im not a big fan of movies, due to disliking the "having to sit still and watch" part, but i love these sort of channels giving a simplified version of "what happened" but also add fun stuff like "what did they do wrong , and how could they do better" and the sciency bits behind the movies as well
Amy isn't coming back. the film had 2 alternate endings: an extended ending where it's shown that she the vines growing inside her, and an ending where the plants were growing out of her grave
'ate plants
'ate Amy
'ate Mayans
Luv da boyz
Simple as
Lmfao
ngl i thought you ate amy for a second
CUM UN INGERLAND
This is such a neat concept. Whatever this plant is, it's clearly been here for long enough to have a significant impact on its environment. It's massive, even on the inside where there isn't much benefit to leaves and flowers, which means it is getting an abundance of nutrients. Something like that has definitely reshaped the way its local ecosystem has developed.
Have a great one man, subscribed when you were just starting out and you’ve done nothing but do quality and amazing content. Great respect for ya man.
With Fronds like these, who needs Enemies.
Really cool concept for a threat in this one. I've always imagined something like this existing.
0:37 that is actually a really good point
I remember this movie traumatizing me when I was a kid. Just the thought of bloodthirsty vines slithering through my skin made me feel sick.
There was this movie called mortuary, and the main method of infection was someone puking black liquid into your mouth, watched this sucker back in elementary school and I did not open my mouth for a whole week and was paranoid for the month
@@craftysmithkeith3653 oh like the evil dead puke scene?
The book was truly frickin' amazing.
I'm gonna comment as a Wildlife Biology major, the "plant" would have to be a non botanical alien, plain and simple.
There are too many conflicting mechanisms in action, in ways that have never evolved in any other species.
In order to exist in this isolated state it has to be a convergent trait, because we see no other ivy or vine species demonstrating similar derived traits.
The mayans are definitely an old civilization, but not old enough for these mechanisms to coevolve, let alone evolve at all.
Further more, the amount of energy an animal burns relative to a plant is staggering, and in order for a plant to move like these vines do (and not die out the way venus fly trap leaves do) they would need more nutrients than what a human body can provide. So a more accurate representation would not be able to move anywhere close to this fast.
On the topic of movement, it would be so monumentally painful for a vine or ivy to invade a wound, as most climbing plants utilize small cell-surface hairs for thigmotropism (growth from mechanical stimulus), these hairs also generally evolve to be abrasive and prevent potential predators from consuming the plant. Unless the plant is constantly excreting a wildly potent narcotic (which as far as excretion is concerned is well established in thr plant kingdom) thus numbing the skin, the second it even tickled you, youd know.
Furthermore (on movement) specific muscle structures need to evolve in animals like grasshoppers in order to produce sound. Again as with muscle energy, this would be too intensive to complete in a dark space. The fastest plants you could compare this too are telegraph plants and sensitive plants, both of which only do rudimentary up-and-down movements, and nowhere near fast enough to produce sound.
On sound itself, many animals utilize a voice box to make sound, but that requires a breathing mechanism and specific muscle tissues, of which for a plant there are no incentives to develop. The movie could have portrayed this by having the inside of the temple filled with large air bladders, which expand slowly during the day and then compress during the night (when there isnt stimulus from hormone signals from the sunlit sections) and push air through a very primitive set of flaps, making making a very very low whistle that only small animals could hear.
Furthermore, salting the grounds outside of the temple would eventually restrict and kill off the vines entirely, especially if these vines have been there for thousands of years. So the mayans would have been able to simply salt the steps of the temple and then boom, contained.
On mimicry, outside of aposomatic coloration, it's just not possible in this instance. Even aposomatic mimicry relies on avoiding animals, which this plant supposedly needs to eat. There is no nerve center shown in the film which would indicate an ability to selectively modify reactions per victim. Maybe across thousands of generations of plants they could develop a passive mimicry of something to entice humans, but since humans can teach their kids not to go near the temple, it would starve if relying on this method.
It is also inconceivable that the plants would have absolutely no natural predators, its just so implausible its downright funny. Like not even a moth? Or a bacterial infection?
It's an interesting film, and I give them props for the originality and for not giving Mexico the orange filter treatment, but the thrill of body horror for me was outdone by my confusion.
Good video 👍🏻
My thought was what if people used CO2? Burning it would make it release spores, but if you had enough CO2 that could solve it as well (yes a more complex and expensive solution compared to yours).
this movie is based off a book; which i’ve heard to much better and scarier, still, it is fiction but it explains more about the civilization and the plants, i kinda wanna read it, seems fun!
Maybe it didn't evolve naturally, but is a supernatural manifestation of a vengeful Mayan deity?
I absolutely loved all that info. Thanks for sharing.
@@TruePT The spores are OBVIOUSLY not airborne as the plant hasn't been able to spread over a small circle of barren land for centuries....So burning it with napalm is fine.
I thought this is just some obscure movie...and then I realized I watched this in university like almost 10 years ago. I miss friends, I miss families, I think I'm in cabin fever mode now
Authoritarian government got you down?
@@DonFatherTrump seems to be a lot of that going around...