‘Little Joe’
Similar to Little Shop of Horrors, the indie thriller Little Joe follows a monstrous plant. Instead of eating people, though, the Little Joe plant hypnotizes humans into keeping it alive and helping it grow to mammoth size. When botanist Alice (Emily Beecham) gifts one of the plants to her son, he begins to act violently against her. Fearing the plant’s mind control abilities, Alice tries to convince her fellow plant scientists to kill the beast — but they’re already under its spell. As the plant seduces more and more humans, the film gets creepier and creepier. Little Joe will leave you unsettled and afraid of your houseplants for weeks.