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The Woman Eater | Year: 1959 Classification: Science Fiction Directed: - Charles Saunders A mildly enjoyable waste of time WOMANEATER is a mildly enjoyable waste of time. The rather humdrum storyline has been covered before and in better pictures. So many elixirs to discover and so little time! Thankfully, the picture is only 70 minutes. How many "scientist gone awry" pictures do we need? Looking for cooky special effects to entice you? Well, if you find a man in plant suit cooky, then you will see this as a great achievement. For others looking for camp value, there is little to see here. As for the technical qualities of this DVD, the sound is actually quite clean and brilliant. The picture suffers from an aged print and some visual artifacts (though these are not terribly distracting, just annoying). As for the price of this DVD, its a bit steep for what you get. No extras on this disc. But with such a terrific cover, you might be able to forget this. Fun for a late night view once and a while. He loves the ladies Actor George Coulouris stars as the demented mad scientist in this little known and seldom seen British Horror from 1957. Coulouris who featured in Citizen Kane is pretty much wasted in this production but thats still no reason to put you off. Compare it with other Horror/Sci-fi/Adventure plot lines from the same era and with the same budget (The Monster from Green Hell / Mesa of Lost Women / Teenage Caveman) and you will get a good idea of what you are letting yourself in for, but this has to be one of the best of a crop of English and American productions from the same time. Trying to distill the formula that would produce a vaccine for death or even better bring the dead back to life our happy go lucky doctor set's up his lab and goes to work. Like most Scientist's however he doesnt call up the wholesalers and ask for assorted minerals and vitamins, no that mass produced rubbish cant hold a candle to the freshest things that he can get his hand's on and sadly for the locals it happens to be the ladies of the town. Formula mayhem ensues but if you like your films a bit wierd and twisted, have a good sense of humor and don't mind the set moving when the door's a shut this is a must for you. Needs One More Scene George Coulouris and Vera Day star in this silly tale of obsession and plant monsters. British explorers witness an African tribe sacrifice a maiden to a plant monster. Five years later, with no explanation, one of the explorers has the monster and priest on his estate where he is doing experiments on raising the dead. Women are given to the plant (it apparently does not like men) and fluid is drawn that become the elixir of life. The explorer, actually a doctor, falls for a new employee at his estate and appears to go slightly mad as his experiments near completion. But add the girl's boyfriend (possible fiancé), madness, love, hate, a fanatic priest and a killer plant and you wind up with a film that climaxes and stops suddenly. It could have been better by simply explaining how things went from jungle to estate. One scene would have done it. It would have been in character for the doctor to gloat some more and give the explanation of his genius. The ending is not what one expects but it does work into what little story there is. A must see movie for fans of bad monster films as this is one of the worst, but don't expect much. Buy The Woman Eater at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on The Woman Eater Search with the Priority Search Engine on The Woman Eater This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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