ksf-2 Doctors have landed on "the south sea island", to help the natives with illness, but the local witch doctor doesn't appreciate the interference. and of course, there is the witch doctor's love triangle issue. one of the native villagers DOES co-operate with the medical doctors, and it doesn't go well for him. Now there is a walking tree stump (!) walking the island, knocking people off one by one. it's quite amusing... it walks so slowly, a child could easily outrun (out-walk) it, and yet it's still killing people. Stars Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, and Linda Watkins. It's all pretty silly, but plays well enough. It's rated 3.5, after only 900 votes on imdb, but it's really not so bad. There are so many worse horror films rated higher than this! it's all played a little tongue in cheek. Not so bad. Shows on Turner Classics now and then. This appears to be one of only THREE films that Dan Milner directed... looks like he spent most of his career editing films. The script is a bit silly, and some of the acting is cheesy, but its all in good fun.

soulexpress On a South Seas island, a tribal prince named Kimo (therapy?) is wrongfully executed for his father's death. Before he dies, Prince Kimo vows that he will return from Hell to make his executioners pay for their crimes. He does, indeed, return from Hell—as a murderous tree called Tabanga, or the Spirit of Revenge. There's also a sub-plot involving political intrigue in the native tribe, but it's not worth getting into.In many ways, this is your classic low-budget '50s sci-fi loser: wafer-thin plot, wooden acting (pun intended), dull dialogue, the requisite dumb-looking monster, the usual made-up science (radiation, of course, is the culprit); the non-existent directing and production values…. What makes this one stand out, though, is that I found myself rooting for the tree monster. After all, Prince Kimo died over a crime for which he was framed by his cheating wife and her scheming boyfriend (who wants to the tribe's next king). As such, I applauded when Tabanga threw his widow into the quicksand and watched her die. That's not the reaction this type of film is supposed to elicit!Additional items of note: a native hurls a spear at Tabanga from about three feet away but still misses; the Australian character Mrs. Kilgore, a middle-aged widow who is perpetually horny and outright annoying (not to mention extraneous to the plot); the Polynesian natives are all played by white people with New York accents; and conveniently for Tabanga, his victims all faint the moment they set eyes on him. Makes 'em easy to kill, doesn't it?As one reviewer wrote: "From Hell It Came, and to Hell it can go!"

Leofwine_draca Fans looking for absurd, cheesy entertainment from the 1950s will be well served by this cheap and schlocky B-movie, forever remembered in the hearts of bad film buffs as the one about the "killer tree". Forget THE GIANT CLAW, this is the real stuff. Anybody who's seen one of those old-fashioned low-budget 'jungle' movies made on a set in Hollywood will find FROM HELL IT CAME packed full of the stock clichés present from the period, from 'witch doctors' throwing magic exploding powder into flames, to strangely American-looking natives padding out the cast of village extras, to a script which vainly tries to make scientifically-plausible sense of the chaos whilst keeping a healthy level of mumbo-jumbo native superstition bubbling merrily away.At the end of the day, the film concerns the activities of a walking tree to kill people. The special effects used to animate said tree are appalling; basically it's just some unlucky guy in a silly rubber suit, completed with a goofy face and painted-on eyes. The flexibility of the suit is zero, with just a couple of rubber arms sticking out from each side, so at any point the monster is required to perform an action, it just ends up looking ridiculous. The cast isn't much better; aside from dependable (but ageing) male lead Tod Andrews, there don't appear to be many real actors in the cast list. Most annoying of all is Linda Watkins' character. The American Watkins speaks with a truly grating Cockney accent all of the time, then later on turns out to have supposedly come from Australia! It beggars belief, it really does. Just another whacked-out element to an already incredible movie. An immortal delight for bad-film buffs everywhere.

mark.waltz "Oh, Apples!", Judy Garland stated with glee just right before finding a sort of monster on her own with the Tin Man. Imagine if those talking trees were part of some curse of the wicked witch, then Dorothy would be heading towards swamp land rather than Oz. Obviously, somebody had just seen the first T.V. viewing of "The Wizard of Oz" when they put this delightfully silly Allied Artists horror/sci-fi together. This is one of those films that is so bad, it's good, starting off with a chilling scene of a South Seas prince being executed for apparently murdering his father then cursing his assassins. With various American English accents of every kind, these natives seem to be of the baseball/hot dog variety than those you'd see even in the worst Maria Montez movie. A woman screams and all of a sudden, the action switches to a science laboratory (in a grass hut no less) where Tina Carver has just arrived and has to calm down the very cockney Linda Watkins who witnessed the horrific sight. The ground underneath the gravesite begins to buckle, and before long, there is a stump there that somehow resembles a young Benjamin Button just after he was born. The laughs had already started, but by this point, they move up to howls. It is up to Carver and scientist love interest Tod Andrews to find out what this non-apple tossing stump is all about.Deliciously stupid, this is one of the most entertaining bad movies ever made. Every scene features one unintended laugh after another, whether it be Carver's decision to try to give this growing tree with a heartbeat life (with a skeleton handled knife in its trunk) or the cat-fight between two native women which leads into an encounter with the walking tree monster. Attacks of the evil natives who killed what the tree used to be offer a few moments of horrific tension, but the damage has already been done. The final confrontation with the monster is so wonderfully over the top that by this time, you might be crying. Then, there's the final line at the very end which is the cherry on the top of this outlandish sundae which I warn you, don't take a sip of anything. Your T.V. just might end up soaked.