Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

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

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.

Bezenby n upbeat, typically sixties animated credits sequence leads us into this strange but not totally successful flesh-eating plant film. If you're going to deliver a weird plant film – give us more weird plants and less inter-personal drama!A group of rubes are talked into taking a short cruise an a botanical tour of an almost deserted island. Amongst those travelling are a drunken slutty wife and her boring husband, a lady who loves talking pictures of everything, a young girl (Elisa Montes – a regular Western actress), a young guy, and a botanist, who is the only person who would realistically want to go on a tour like this. Things take a turn for the worst almost right away when an old man covered in weird wounds stumbles in front of the car and dies. Cameron Mitchell shows up as the Baron who own the usual big scary mansion and tells everyone not to worry about the dead guy as he was insane and sick anyway (the old woman takes a picture of the corpse for good measure). Cameron, who is dubbed by someone else, explains that he's got all sorts of weird plants everyone can have a look at (and I admit I drifted away from his botanical jibber jabber – and I have an allotment!). He's still gibbering on about nitrogen in the soil or what not during dinner, but at least he dishes up a cucumber that tastes like beef! This leads to more jibber jabber, plus there's the twin brother of the dead guy that frightens the crap out of people, and apart from the strange porcupine plants he shows them, the film settles in for people bickering for a while when we should have more footage of whatever strange plant is sucking people's blood out.I guess people go on about the ending as it's the only really interesting part of the film. Turns out there's this huge tree that attacks people and Cameron wanted to feed it the tourist, plus the thing spews blood everywhere when you hit it with an axe. It's very possibly that I would have liked this film more if the print wasn't full screen, jerky and twitchy, but then again the film did say 'Starring Cameron Mitchell' so what was I expecting?Killer plants will return to Euro-cinema in Contamination .7!Cameron Mitchell will return to crappy films as a mad doctor in Nightmare In Wax, a crappy overacting criminal in Greek giallo Medusa, a member of the KKK in the Klansman, as whatever he was in the slasher film Haunts, a terrible psychic in shitty South African slasher film The Demon, a cop versus Satan in The Nightmare Never Ends, a mumbling cult leader in Martial Arse film Low Blow, a grizzled bar owner in great eighties action film Codename: Vengeance, and also as a crooked country park owner in Memorial Valley Massacre – and those are just the Cameron Mitchell films I own!

kevin olzak "Maneater of Hydra" (1966) was a delirious Spanish-German horror tale that aired 5 times on Pittsburgh's CHILLER THEATER from 1969-1972 (I missed it, too young). The dubbing isn't as bad as it could have been, and Cameron Mitchell does not dub his own voice, but it certainly had a weird atmosphere that 1962's "The Day of the Triffids" couldn't match. Obscure in its day, and even more so now, this is a perfect example of the types of features that we enjoyed in the days of late night movies-till-dawn, replaced by dull-as-dishwater paid programming and network gabfests indulging pseudo-hipsters with rabid young audiences that have never experienced anything else. These titles can be difficult to find, and this one was no exception, with a starring role for Cameron Mitchell, who gets to dominate the screen from start to finish. It doesn't work as a mystery because we already know that Baron v. Weser is up to something with his carnivorous plants, feeding a mouse to one, while a fellow botanist steals a cute bunny rabbit to do the same with an unseen creation outside. The director is veteran Roger Corman actor Mel Welles (working behind the camera primarily in Europe), immortalized for his marvelous turn in 1960's "The Little Shop of Horrors," which also dealt with a bloodthirsty plant (he would later direct 1972's "Lady Frankenstein" for Corman's New World Pictures). Welles had just finished an acting part in 1965's "The She-Beast," shot in Italy and Yugoslavia by 21 year old cult director Michael Reeves, and remained in Europe for the remainder of the decade. Cameron Mitchell was coming off a starring role in "Nightmare in Wax," another CHILLER THEATER regular, no stranger to European cinema, whose best work came in the Swedish "Face of Fire" (1958), in a rare sympathetic turn. This must rank as one of his best horrors, with a remarkably grisly climax for its period. He remained busiest in Italy, and frequently collaborated with genre pioneer Mario Bava, particularly on the 1964 cult classic "Blood and Black Lace," which aired 6 times on CHILLER THEATER (quite a showcase for rabid horror fans like myself). "Maneater of Hydra" may not be a classic, but I never found it dull, definitely worth a look.

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.