Venus Flytrap (film)

Venus Flytrap
Directed by Norman Earl Thomson
Produced by Norman Earl Thomson
Written by Ed Wood
Starring See below
Cinematography Arnold Dibble
Distributed by Toei Company
Release date
 1970
Running time
 94 minutes
Country USA
Japan
Language English

Venus Flytrap (filmed 1966, released 1970) is an American horror film shot partly in Japan. The plot features a mad scientist who uses thunder and lightning to turn carnivorous plants into man-eating creatures. It is known variously as Body of the Prey, and The Revenge of Doctor X (American video box title). Although the film is based on a 1950s screenplay by Ed Wood, he remained uncredited. The film was directed, scripted and produced by Norman Earl Thomson (1915-2000), a pulp fiction writer known for his "Kill Me In" series of paperback novels, published under his pen name Earl Norman. The film is often credited to film editor Kenneth Crane, who had directed the famed 1961 Japanese horror film, The Manster. Confusingly, the American video release erroneously features the major credits for 1969 Philippines production The Mad Doctor of Blood Island.[1]

Syndicated movie mocking series Cinema Insomnia featuring this film in an episode that premiered on October 31, 2011,[2]

Plot summary

Dr. Bragan (James Craig) is a NASA mathematician working on a mission to outer space. The stress of the mission causes him to have a mental breakdown, so his assistant, Dr. Paul Nakamura (Yagi), suggests he takes a vacation in Japan to recuperate.

In Japan, Dr. Bragan stays at a hotel with his beautiful assistant, Dr. Hanamura (Kami), to begin experiments on a plant he brought from America. The plant is a Venus flytrap, and the scientist crosses it with a Japanese carnivorous plant to create a creature that is almost human.

Cast

  • James Craig as Dr. Bragan
  • Tota Kondo as Customs officer
  • Lawrence O'Neill as American at airport
  • Al Ricketts as Gas station owner
  • Atsuko Rome as Noriko Hanamura (billed as Ako Kami)
  • Edward M. Shannon as Dr. Shannon
  • John Stanley as Dr. Stanley
  • James Yagi as Dr. Paul Nakamura

See also

References

  1. ↑ Venus Flytrap on IMDb
  2. ↑ FRED Entertainment. "How Lobo Can You Go?".



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