Very well executed

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I saw this film and wondered, could it really be a masterpiece? I mean I have seen some great movies in my day, Citizen Kane, Moonrise, To Kill a Mocking Bird, and The Ox Bow Incident....but this film..wow..just wow! On the cover of the DVD was a scantily clad Swedish woman being ingested by a giant Venus Flytrap, and usually when you see this kind of cover, it is done by an artist who will draw only to titillate the senses. Knowing that you would assume that the film inside is inferior to the artist's rendition..but not here. Be prepared for a journey into the mind of madness. The doctor; brilliantly portrayed by James Craig, brings us inside the psyche of a brilliant scientist caught in a spire of emotion, rife with the challenges of a society moving too fast and cultures caught in the machinations of his ritualistic need to become something greater than the world will allow.This cinematic mastery blends the inner fear of mankind against the violent inner and outer workings of a world pressing in with unrelenting fury.Craig rages against the machine of societal norms and asks the questions most humans only dare think about if they are under the influence of illegal narcotics. Atsuko Rome deftly plays a Japanese woman of the time seeking her rightful place in a world which considers her voice and opinion to be invalid and with good reason. Her portrayal of Noriko is equal to Streep's performance in Sophie's Choice. The creature, the Venus Flytrap Man,is a wonderfully made rubber suited nightmare that looks like a sex toy for the deranged , which I believe is purposefully manufactured that way to represent the violent repressive hostilities that Americans have towards sexuality. Yes this movie is not for the weak, nor is it for the brave, it's really not for anyone. It was created never to be seen and hidden away, an intellectual forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. One that can only be fully understood by a higher evolved human that we.Like that fruit in that fairy tale, once you eat it, you are doomed with the curse of self awareness and you'll be cast out of from the garden of man and into the the reality of being and nothingness for 1 hour and 34 minutes.

Watching an actual plant grow from a seed into a colorful flower would be far more exciting than struggling through this horribly inane and ultimately boring movie about an overworked rocket scientist transforming into a deranged and mad-raving horticulturist during his vacation in Tokyo. Okay, say what now? I kid you not, "The Revenge of Dr. X" – most inaccurate title ever, by the way – revolves on a NASA professor who's forced to take some time off whilst his latest missile project floats around in outer space. Dr. Bragain reluctantly accepts a holiday in Japan, but not before picking up a near-dead Venus Flytrap he intends curing. Along with his personal assistant (a woman who never should have even considered starting an acting career) he looks after the sickly plant, but it quickly becomes a new obsession. Dr. Bragain turns into a loony amateur Frankenstein when he wants to offer his plant a human mind and uses thunder and lightening to achieve this. The only remotely fun and oddly curious moments in this movie are the opening credits … since they belong to another film! See the trivia-section for more details but, unfortunately, Eddie Romero wasn't involved in this production. It was no one less than Ed Wood who penned down this crazed Fauna & Flora adventure, and that actually makes sense because who else could have come up with such nonsense? The "monster" resembles an exploded banana-tree, the dialogs and particularly James Craig's one-liners are horrendous and 99% of the sequences are just plain boring. One to avoid at all costs.

The only fault I can find with any of the other reviews here is that they understate the truly appalling quality of this movie, and don't even mention the puppy-swallowing! But the most outrageous part is the score, which mixes everything from ragtime to mazerkas while remaining totally irrelevant to on screen events. Lead (pronounced "led") actor(?) James Craig not only chews the scenery, he re-chews it more often than a cow with cud.The monster looks like a carrot on steroids, but still manages to out-act the rest of the cast. And what's with the entirely pointless opening sequence involving a space launch? There's no Dr. X, no revenge, no logic, and no reason to see this unless your head is in the vicinity of a gun.

For it's good badness that is pure signature Ed Wood I will give this film seven stars. The only reason that this does not get a full ten like any other Ed Wood movie is because he did not direct it and it is sad because this is a film that would have been great for him and might have even got him out of his slump in the 70's that eventual led to his untimely demise. When the reveal the plant creature I just pictured Wood in a writers chair (if he was even allowed on set I don't know) staring with his wondrous gaze that made him look so child like and thinking that this film would be the one. It is a sad statement to the integrity of his career at this point that they felt the need to put four naked Asian women in this film. I mean what purpose it does it serve for these ladies to be naked. I'm all for nudity in film if it serves a purpose but in this film it is not even done to be sexy it is just there and the film would have been better without it. Ed Wood fans seek this out. Casual movie people avoid.