1. Rachel Carson Silent Spring and its influence on Eco-Terror films By Austin Mitchell (Who is not ashamed to admit he's a fan of really bad science fiction movies )

2. Rachel Carson changed the world with her book, Silent Spring, in 1962. Her warning about the adverse environmental impacts of pesticides helped launch both the environmental movement and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

3. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring also helped launch a wave of horror films about nature running amok after man upsets the delicate balance of nature with the overuse of pesticides and pollution of the earth. These Eco-terror films began in the 1950s when concern over atomic testing led to a slew of movies about giant monsters. But in the 1970s, shortly after Silent Spring was published, these films focused on the destruction of the environment from pollution Let's take a look at some of these films (click on picture to see each film clip)

4. Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) In Kingdom of the Spiders, pesticides have destroyed the tarantula's place in the food-chain, so they turn to humans for food.

5. Grapes of Death (1978) A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into killer zombies.

6. Shark Swarm (2008) A fisherman and his family fight to take down a greedy real estate developer who has released toxins into the ocean, turning the area's sharks into bloodthirsty hunters. "Humanity's going to need a bigger boat." ~ Austin Mitchell

7. As Rachel Carson herself said: "The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man... It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also tuned them against the earth."

8. Is this the End?