Rainey Dawn "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

wbswetnam I've seen a lot of monster movies before but this is the first one where the 'monster' is an 8 foot tall houseplant! "Venus Flytrap" (aka "The Revenge of Dr. X" although there's no revenge and no Dr. X) is another hokey monster movie with a Frankenstein theme. Overworked Dr. Bragan takes a vacation in Japan, where he goes to stay in a a remote, run-down hotel inhabited by a young Japanese woman named Noriko and a hunchback grounds keeper. Dr. Bragan brings with him a venus flytrap plant, and he becomes obsessed with the idea of grafting carnivorous plant parts together and powering them up with lightening and vitamin injections. His creation comes to life and begins terrorizing the local villagers.The acting is wooden by all of the Japanese actors, and James Craig's acting is thoroughly over the top, with him doing a lot of shouting and occasionally laughing hysterically. Noriko, his assistant, plays the stereotypical subservient Japanese female. There's a hunchback that appears from time-to-time, and a scene with some topless women who Dr. Bragan consults to ask the location of an underwater carnivorous plant. In reality it was an excuse by the screenwriter (none other than Ed Wood!) to throw in a lingering view of some (seriously nice!) titties to spice up the movie a bit.The best part is the creature of course. I am a devoted fan of low budget creature-feature movies and I have to say this is one of the best! This creature has got to be seen to be believed. Be prepared for venus flytrap hands and feet, a humanoid type body, and a head that somewhat resembles an upside-down onion with thick roots for hair. This movie is public domain and can be downloaded for free from http://www.archive.org/details/TheRevengeOfDr.X

lemon_magic The version of this movie which I saw (from the "Nightmare Worlds" 50 pack) was a terrible print - watching it was like watching the movie underwater and also through several layers of gauze. That may not have been the movie makers' fault, so I added an extra star out of sheer pity. This one really takes the cake. A Rent-A-Center version of Clark Gable stars as a mad scientist who relaxes from his regular job as an astrophysicist/mathematician by going on vacation in Japan and trying to build a new form of humanoid life out of a Venus Flytrap and thereby proving that "man descended from the sea". I think. Along the way he picks up an (uncredited) Japanese woman assistant and a hunch backed assistant whom he alternately patronizes and berates and makes a whole bunch of speeches that were obviously written by someone (Ed Wood, Jr?) who may have had the worst tin ear for dialog in the history of screen-plays. The monster he creates gets loose (of course) and a mob of torch wielding Japanese villagers seem to spontaneously generate out of thin air within 30 seconds after he goes for his little walk.Events happen, people say "things" to each other, and the doctor and his plant man perish together for no apparent reason other than the screen play is trying to mimic the Frankenstein monster story. The end.I can't imagine what the director and the editor thought they were doing when they finally pieced this thing together and released it. They were lucky that they didn't get their own torch wielding mob of movie goers demanding payback and destruction of every copy of the film ever made.

Zeegrade Written by Ed Wood, Revenge of Dr. X is an abysmal story about a verbally abusive NASA a-hole, James Craig as Dr. Bragan NOT Dr. X, who grunts and screams his way into an emotional breakdown. With a much needed vacation coming up, hopefully permanent, Dr. Nakamura suggests to the loudmouth Bragan that he should visit his home country of Japan. After the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the arrival of Dr. Bragan becomes the third greatest foreign tragedy on Japanese soil. Dr. Bragan uses this time to pursue his true passion of botany with Dr. Nakamura's niece Noriko. His piece de resistance is a Venus's flytrap he procured from a backwater snake salesman's lot in North Carolina. Using the "rain as your mother" and "lightning as your father" the bad doctor descends into insanity as he creates, quite possibly, the dumbest creature in movie history. This Frankenstein ripoff even comes with a Japanese hunchbacked assistant. James Craig not only allows the viewer to watch him chew the scenery but also to defecate it out as well. I've never seen a character so abrasive to everyone around him. He constantly screams at his assistant Noriko who in turn offers him coffee to placate him in every instance. I know some Asian women are subservient to their male counterparts but I was begging her to liberate his fat head from his body via a samurai sword. The creature is definitely of the Horror at Party Beach caliber. The only reason this did not receive a rank of one star is the out of nowhere scene of topless female divers that is thrown into the movie almost to say we know this movie sucks so here's some boobs, please don't turn this movie off! For Ed Wood fans that are gluttons for punishment only.