Body of the Prey

Despite this movie's alleged contributions by the immortal Ed Wood, THE DOUBLE GARDEN is an often soporific and ordinary project, lacking in Wood's monogram naive charms. Still, it's not undeserving of certain bad-movie encomiums...for instance, the pitiful creature costume is an utter riot, an upright-walking, turnip-headed rubber monstrosity with flytrap feet and hands which occasionally mewls like a baby. Similarly amusing is the stereoypically subservient Asian female lead who seems obsessed with serving mad doctor James Craig coffee and cocktails. Craig's role is pretty laugh-inducing, as well...he goes zero-to-sixty bonkers almost instantly, and the film is entirely unable to keep up with his unchained, ham-in-orbit thespian rampage.

While THE DOUBLE GARDEN isn't a total washout, it's mostly slow-going, and there's not really much to it. 4/10

Sometimes you have to see a movie to believe it. This mad scientist tries to create a man eating plant to prove that the origin of the human race comes from the sea. " The earth is your mother, lightning is you father, rain is your blood" says the madman who creates the thing as the Baron Frankenstein, with a Japanese hunchback. The non stop music is hilarious, as is the fake volcano. In a strange world, this movie could have spawned a sequel.

Incredibly corny, but so much fun !

"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

James Craig plays a scientist in need of a vacation in this Ed Wood scripted b-movie masterpiece. He takes one in Japan and decides to make a monster plant while there. For fans of Wood this movie is a must see as it's full of that familiar over the top Wood dialogue. "I refuse the word impossible." "Unless I miss my guess.My creation is so powerful now it could devour anything." Good luck tracking it down and don't be fooled by the Regal Video version box art which identifies a whole different movie (MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND). This lost Wood classic deserves to be seen by his fans and anyone who enjoys so-bad their good films.

This is a really weird Japanese movie about a scientist forced to take time off because he's so stressed out. Then it gets really weird. It's about what you expect based on the poster and title and is hard to find a DVD of but easy to get online because it has fallen into the public domain.