Starring James Craig, Atsuko Rome, James Yagi, Al Ricketts, Tota Kondo
Directed by Norman Earl Thomson
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
After successfully launching a rocket into space, an irascible scientist takes a vacation in Japan, where he performs experiments with carnivorous plants.
A daffy plot and screenplay which IMDB credits to Ed Wood are at the heart of this effort produced by Japan's Toei studio which also goes by the titles Venus Flytrap and Body Of Prey. Star James Craig, who I always thought to be a polished leading man in the 1950s, overacts his way through the ludicrous plot, as his character tries to prove his theory that man evolved not from apes, but from plants. His attempts to patch together a living plant man including raising it to the roof to catch lightning, a la Frankenstein are truly bizarre. Rome is appealing and intelligent as the lovely assistant he takes on, distinguishing herself despite the low-grade production, and I have to admit I kind of enjoyed the music score, which is about as loopy as the story. The film is badly lit, and very slow-moving, and I wonder if a unnecessary sequence with topless female divers was included to keep the audience awake. If you like bad cinema, this one's for you.
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