Pretty much everyone can rattle off a dozen romantic comedies where a dashing gent extends his arm and offers a bouquet to the lady he’s a-wooing. But, once you get beyond the traditional “flowers as a gift” standard, it’s rare that they lend much weight to the film. However, the following nine movies use flowers in a way that is either unique, bizarre, or downright bad-ass.

9. American Beauty - Rose Petals Emerge From Mena Suvari’s Chest

Whether you love or hate the film, the sexualized dance Mena Suvari performs for Lester that culminates in her slowly unbuttoning her top to reveal thousands of rose petals presents a striking image. Plus, when the imagery becomes ingrained enough that Family Guy uses it for a cheap laugh it has pretty much established itself as a part of pop culture.

8. The Ruins - The Flowers Mimic, Maim, and Kill

At first glance it would seem like your standard horror fare: a group of tourists travels out to a remote destination, things go horribly wrong, and they are slowly and methodically picked off. However, since the typical local psychopath is replaced by vines whose flowers can mimic voices in a creepy Predator-like fashion, The Ruins somehow manages to seem slightly more preposterous than a Sci-Fi Channel original movie.

7. Batman (1989) - The Joker Shows off his Acid Corsage

Sure, Heath Ledger’s Joker is darker, edgier, and more realistic, but Jack’s had the classic “fake corsage” gag to fall back on. Squirting someone in the face with water isn’t really that funny to begin with, but once you decide to use acid you’ve officially graduated to major d-bag status.

6. Little Shop of Horrors - A Flower Shop is Overrun by a Carnivorous Plant

Though it’s not really a flower, the fact that it’s a plant that feeds on blood and resides in a flower shop is more than enough to justify Audrey II butting his way onto the list.

5) Anacondas: The Search for the Blood Orchid - Snakes Eat Magic Flowers and Become Huge

Magic flower = giant snakes. It’s that simple. Jennifer Lopez must have rubbed some of that blood orchid on her ass. (Get it? Her ass is huge. Huge and fat.)

4. The Fountain - Hugh Jackman Becomes One with the Earth…Literally

As an ultimate eff you to Hugh Jackman in his epic quest for the fountain of youth, he is granted immortality. Unfortunately for him, it comes in the form of being transformed into some sort of flowery ground cover. The next time you’re hiking and you wander off to take a leak, remember, you could be peeing on Wolverine!

3. 40 Days and 40 Nights - Flower Petals Serve as Vibrator Substitute

You know the scene. Sworn to 40 days of celibacy, a frustrated Josh Hartnett resorts to props and uses the petals of a flower to bring his newfound love to a ridiculous (albeit somewhat impressive) climax.

2. Adaptation - The Ghost Orchid is Used as a Drug

Aside from Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Kaufman points out that there hasn’t really been an entire movie about flowers. By the film’s action-inspired third act, Meryl Streep is snorting a ground up orchid to get high, Nicolas Cage is being chased through a swamp, and a toothless Chris Cooper gets eaten by an alligator. Ghost Orchid is a hell of a drug.

1) Terminator 2 - T-800 Pulls a Shotgun from a Box of Roses

There is very little that could be cooler than Arnold as the Terminator just casually walking down a hallway with a lame old box of roses, only to remove a shotgun from the box, stoically say “Get down,” and then blast a shell right into some robot torso. Yes, Hard Boiled had a similar scene first, but no human can come close to the engineered awesomeness of something from Cyberdyne Systems.