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Costa Dillon and Steve Peace on where all this came from

FabTV gets the history from the two men responsible for starting it — the student short, the low budget, and the franchise that would not stop.

FabTV August 26, 2026 3 min watch

FabTV sat down with Costa Dillon and Steve Peace to go through the history of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes — a franchise that began as a 15-minute short the two of them made for a film class at UC Davis and has now produced five features across five decades.

They are the reason any of this exists, which makes them the only people who can say how it happened without secondhand embellishment.

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