Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Leofwine_draca THE REVENGE OF DR. X is a very obscure and low grade US/Japanese exploitation horror flick about a mad scientist who creates in his laboratory a man-size flesh-devouring plant very much like a Venus Flytrap. The main character is American but he heads off to Japan early on and gets a Japanese assistant and supporting cast. This is a Z-grade trash classic with poor picture quality that's only suitable to be laughed at. The killer plant is an obvious man in a suit and looks ansolutely hilrious - a masterpiece of design. The script was written by an uncredited Ed Wood by all accounts, but the whole thing is confused by credits stolen from THE MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND. There's a random scene of gratuitous nudity and lots of cheese. The British B-flick THE MUTATIONS is a much more fun version of this story.

ebiros2 How this movie ever came to be is a mystery. Unlike the days of "Manster", nobody by 1970 would have thought low budget American/Japanese movie would make any money. It would have been a novelty at best. How the producer ever got to convince people at Toei to cooperate is another mystery, but Toei must have gotten enough money from the producer, since the movie was made.Anyways, you can see the similarity between the monster in this movie to the monsters seen in the original Kamen Rider series (1971) since both were made by Toei movie studio. Something that was just passable for kid's TV program doesn't work in a movie made for adults.It's a weird movie, and who came up with the idea is another mystery.

Hitchcoc This is so bad it's fun. The main character, who has a fascination with carnivorous plants, brings a Venus fly trap to Japan on a vacation. He proceeds to cross breed it and comes up with a silly looking thing with big fly trap paws. It apparently walks around, leaving path of destruction. The beauty of this mess, is the incredible overacting by it's principle character. There is also an assistant, a Japanese woman, who helps with his needs while in Japan. He becomes obsessed. He continually abuses her verbally, but she sticks by him. It's the old story. I created it; I'm not destroying it. There is one ridiculous scene where a group of Japanese female divers stand around topless. No one pays any attention to this fact but they go on with their conversation like the girls were fully dressed. It's just about as idiotic as it gets. I know no one ever intended this to be serious and it is laughable when Craig emotes and shouts out preposterous comments. But it doesn't get much dumber than this.

phdyr51 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.