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Ketchup With Vegetable Mayhem in Zany 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence' Trailer

Horror outlet Bloody Disgusting spotlights the zany first trailer for the fifth Killer Tomatoes film.

Bloody Disgusting July 28, 2026 2 min read

Bloody Disgusting covered the trailer under a headline about ketchupping with vegetable mayhem, which is roughly the correct register for this franchise.

A young biotech prodigy develops a revolutionary genetically engineered vegetable designed to solve humanity’s problems. When the experiment spirals out of control, it unleashes a new generation of killer tomatoes.

— Official synopsis

The piece runs the full company — John Astin returning as Professor Gangreen, with David Koechner, Eric Roberts, Catherine Corcoran, Dan Bakkedahl, Myrna Velasco, Vernée Watson and Paul Bates — and notes the film blends the original’s deliberately cheap absurdity with a modern satire of biotech and artificial intelligence.

In select US theaters August 7, 2026.

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