Ben Wheatley's In The Earth finds horror in fungi
Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth finds horror in fungi An unsettling film that evades the genre’s usual tropes Share this story The way that we segment history can be divided into two eras: before the advent of penicillin and after — or, in other words, pre-antibiotics and post-antibiotics. Penicillin, the first antibiotic, was discovered in 1928 by Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming, who found that the juices from the Penicillium fungi were able to destroy harmful bacteria. Medicine was transformed forever, and to this day, penicillin is prescribed for everything from lung infection...