In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

"Venus Flytrap" AKA "Revenge of Doctor X" AKA "Body of the Prey".What an awful film but it is strangely entertaining! I couldn't help but to get a few giggles out of this one. The first hour or so of the film you will find "Dr. X" going to Japan & meeting his new beautiful female Japanese assistant who's father has several resorts but one that is abandoned with a greenhouse way up in the mountains. He and his assistant move into the resort and start building the greenhouse back up again. He has a Venus Flytrap that he carried with him from the U.S. and he decides to cross it or hybridize with another Flytrap that lives in the ocean in order to prove that all life, including mankind, has come from the ocean from evolution! In the meantime he and his assistant are falling in-love. It's the last half hour in Frankenstein style that "Dr. X" brings energy to the plant via lightening and that is when we get to see the Plant Creature! The creature can walk and ends up terrorizing a local village. This is where the film will remind you more of Frankenstein: the villagers go after the creature with torches! The film is simply fun and sometimes funny. When the film first started, I thought I was either going to turn it off or fast-forward to watch it but I got caught up in the movie - I found it oddly entertaining yet awful at the same time.6/10

How this movie ever came to be is a mystery. Unlike the days of "Manster", nobody by 1970 would have thought low budget American/Japanese movie would make any money. It would have been a novelty at best. How the producer ever got to convince people at Toei to cooperate is another mystery, but Toei must have gotten enough money from the producer, since the movie was made.Anyways, you can see the similarity between the monster in this movie to the monsters seen in the original Kamen Rider series (1971) since both were made by Toei movie studio. Something that was just passable for kid's TV program doesn't work in a movie made for adults.It's a weird movie, and who came up with the idea is another mystery.

Revenge of Doctor X, The (1970) * 1/2 (out of 4) A doctor from NASA moves to Japan where he tries to mix a Venus Fly Trap with a man, which ends up turning into a monster. This is a rather weird horror film written by the one and only Edward D. Wood, Jr. and it's probably his best written screenplay but that means we don't get any of that zany dialogue, which made his films "so bad they're good". Overall the film is rather lame with way too much dialogue and not enough action. The look of the monster is pretty good and it's somewhat nice hearing Wood's use of dialogue from the early Universal horror films.

This is so bad it's fun. The main character, who has a fascination with carnivorous plants, brings a Venus fly trap to Japan on a vacation. He proceeds to cross breed it and comes up with a silly looking thing with big fly trap paws. It apparently walks around, leaving path of destruction. The beauty of this mess, is the incredible overacting by it's principle character. There is also an assistant, a Japanese woman, who helps with his needs while in Japan. He becomes obsessed. He continually abuses her verbally, but she sticks by him. It's the old story. I created it; I'm not destroying it. There is one ridiculous scene where a group of Japanese female divers stand around topless. No one pays any attention to this fact but they go on with their conversation like the girls were fully dressed. It's just about as idiotic as it gets. I know no one ever intended this to be serious and it is laughable when Craig emotes and shouts out preposterous comments. But it doesn't get much dumber than this.