Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

bnjmn-41183 Innuendo bingo throughout. " You almost touched my giant......gardenia. As for the makeup artist(?)... the eyebrow pencil is a bit excessive on the men! Fun movie tho.

dbborroughs Cameron Mitchell is a mad botanist on an island in the Mediterranean where he is raising weird carnivorous plants and hybrids. He is visited by some tourists who have been brought over to tour the island (and become lunch). As time goes on and the tension between the tourists rise, the bodies begin to accumulate, will anyone be safe? Weird and wacky (in a good way) Euro-horror film about killer plants. This is the definition of guilty pleasure. Its the sort of Late night schlock film that is just too of the wall to be believed. Actually the film is mostly played rather straight as a typical thriller with something weird going on. Its only in the later stages, when we really see the plants in action that things turn surreal. Give the film points for giving us at least three victims we want really badly to die (wife of the older gentlemen, visiting botanist and annoying American with a camera) Its a scary movie but at the same time these people really do deserve to die. I found myself cheering when each bought it. Of course this film has some great beasties in the hybrid plants and hey are the sort of things that may cause you to second guess the next time you go by your house plants. Worth a look see for those loving wild monster movies. (perhaps as a double feature with the Revenge of DR X aka Devil's Garden aka any number of any other titles)

jim riecken (youroldpaljim) Back in seventies a lot of obscure European movies mostly from the sixties used turn up lot on late night television and then seemed to vanish, going back under the rocks they seemingly came out from under. However, recently many of these films have recently surfaced on small video labels. Often these film starred either European casts unknown in the U.S.A. with anglicized names in the credits and/or as in this case, American stars who had fallen on hard times. In this film Cameron Mitchell, whose voice appears to have been dubbed by another actor, plays Baron Van Wiser, an evil scientist who has been creating monstrous plant mutations. He invites an assorted group of characters to visit his island estate, where one by one the guests become meals for his creations.The film was shown on American television as MAN EATER OF HYDRA, although the plants really don't eat anyone, they suck their victims blood like a vampire. The murderous plant, which we really never get a good look at (perhaps we can be thankful) resembles a yew tree with weeping willow like branches. At the end of the branches are flowers whose stamens do the blood sucking. The killer trees are apparently able to walk, but we never see them walking. It's unclear why the baron invited the visitors, but apparently he wanted them as food for his creations. The baron tells a botanist visitor the he wants to keep his discoveries secret. The baron seems to think having a group of visitors to his island all end up dead isn't going arouse any suspicion, even though the island would be crawling with police once word got out the hapless visitors were reported missing. Why is it these mad scientists/crazed maniacs never lure people who go un-missed like tramps, cheap hookers, homeless bums for their evil purposes? MAN EATER OF HYDRA (or ISLAND OF THE DOOMED) is one of dozens of cheaply made 1960's shockers from Europe. This film is slightly more entertaining then most these films. The film tries to drum up some atmosphere, throws in a little sex, and provides a few good shocks, but like most of these cheap sixties European shockers, there is an air "lets get this thing over with" attitude prevailing over the film.

Geisterzug The heroine in the clutches of a vampire tree, the hero leaping to her aid with an axe - slashing at blood-sucking branches with his weapon - then being attacked by the mad scientist who created the tree, also with an axe!An axe battle between the two, under the writhing blood-sucking branches, in the middle of a rain-drenched thunderstorm. GREAT staging! What happens next is bloody (incredibly bloody, in fact), outrageous, melodramatic, over-the-top, and (dare I say?) EXCITING!Now come on - isn't that last ten minutes worth the previous hour and 20 minutes of bad dubbing and odd characterisation?And what the HELL is that old German woman gibbering on about?Fans of Man-Eating Plants should check out the Mel Welles site.