Strong and Moving!

Simply A Masterpiece

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

WOMANEATER is a film that has much in common with the American-made B-flick FROM HELL IT CAME, as both movies are about carnivorous trees that demand sacrificial human victims. However, this is by far the worse movie, as it's just too cheap and stodgy to entertain. Scenes of the tree attacking people only occur a couple of times during the film, and for the most part it's talky and dull.It's certainly of interest to British horror aficionados, as I enjoyed the colonial background of the tale which has some stylistic similarity to THE REPTILE and THE GHOUL; malign foreign influences corrupt otherwise decent British folk and lead them to murder and madness. It's a shame, then, that the execution is so lacklustre and the horror moments so limited.Still, B-movie freaks might still enjoy this one, and it's not all bad. B-movie king Charles Saunders contributes brisk and efficient direction, although he can't disguise the problems with the script. George Coulouris (CITIZEN KANE) is fine in one of those down-on-his-luck-famous-actor-makes-a-B-movie type roles. Vera Day is the very definition of the blonde and buxom '50s starlet. But for WOMANEATER to really shine, I needed more cheese, more dodgy effects, and simply more action, as that way it would have been more fun overall.

*Spoiler/plot- The Women Eater(Womeneater), 1958. A scientist hears about and travels to the Amazon jungle to find about a legendary tree of life. He finds the tribe and tree. He takes the tree home to England for experiments that cause disastrous crimes and disappearances.*Special Stars- George Coulouris, Vera Day, Peter Wayn, Joyce Gregg, Jimmy Vaughn.*Theme- Wanting to re-animate the dead has its problems.*Trivia/location/goofs- British. Soft sex-ploitation, where film male roles are vicious, misogynist jerks. To review another killer/monster tree from the Amazon, view 'From Hell it Came'.*Emotion- An odd combination of horror and sexual exploitation elements contains in this film with an very obvious exploitation title. Every lead role of the film is harshly presented in gross extremes. The villains are very unlikeable and the victims are very innocent. With the roles that heavily defined and presented there are many times the viewer will find this film to be campy or laughable in the wrong plot points. This film became unbelievable and very comic-book from the beginning for me and so I found it more humorous that scary. I'm not sure that response is what the producers wished from their audience.

British horror flick that reminds me of Saturday double features as a child. Not a great movie; definitely not a bad movie. Very predictable, but fun to watch. Dr. Moran(George Coulouris)returns from South America with assurance he has found a serum to rejuvenate life. He hides a stolen flesh eating 'tree' in the basement of his mansion. There is also the native Tanga(Jimmy Vaughn)that puts women in a trance with a bongo solo. The victim is fed to the arm waving tree that is suppose to produce the essence of life. After five years or so, the mad professor becomes disillusioned with the hideous ritual.Obviously low budgeted with just enough substance to keep you to the end. It doesn't hurt having some beautiful women in the cast. Other players: Vera Day, Peter Wayn, Joy Webster, Sara Leighton, Edward Higgins and Marpessa Dawn.

IMPORTANT NOTE--Despite the title, this is not a pornographic film but a cheesy horror film. The title is unfortunate, nonetheless.George Coulouris was not a bad actor and he had a long string of credits to his name. In this film, his performance is pretty good--but this is about the only good thing about this stinking British horror film. How they roped him into starring in this stinky pile of cheese, I have no idea.The film begins with Coulouris going to the Amazon and experiencing some sort of horror--though the film blacks out--leaving the audience to wonder what happened. He's just suddenly back in merry old England several years later. Now he's spending all his time on his estate doing really stupid experiments that call for a native drummer from South America and a really, really silly tree that obviously has actors inside it. This tree was not the cute apple pie tree from McDonalds or the cranky tree like in the WIZARD OF OZ. No, it was a life-stealing, moving tree that was sure to elicit laughs from everyone seeing this film. How the film makers thought any of this could be scary or even that interesting is beyond me. I think their decision was perhaps based on the abuse of some drug or a head injury.Supposedly, the same tree that takes lives ultimately has the power to restore life--but the mad doctor spent so much time killing young women that he only had time to try out the life-giving properties at the end of the film. But, instead of working, the bad guys started trying to kill each other and the tree was set ablaze and the audience felt very thankful this stupid mad scientist film was finished!! Dumb and rather boring--this one isn't quite cheesy enough to elicit many laughs, so it's probably one best left to masochists like myself to watch.