Doctors have landed on "the south sea island", to help the natives with illness, but the local witch doctor doesn't appreciate the interference. and of course, there is the witch doctor's love triangle issue. one of the native villagers DOES co-operate with the medical doctors, and it doesn't go well for him. Now there is a walking tree stump (!) walking the island, knocking people off one by one. it's quite amusing... it walks so slowly, a child could easily outrun (out-walk) it, and yet it's still killing people. Stars Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, and Linda Watkins. It's all pretty silly, but plays well enough. It's rated 3.5, after only 900 votes on imdb, but it's really not so bad. There are so many worse horror films rated higher than this! it's all played a little tongue in cheek. Not so bad. Shows on Turner Classics now and then. This appears to be one of only THREE films that Dan Milner directed... looks like he spent most of his career editing films. The script is a bit silly, and some of the acting is cheesy, but its all in good fun.

A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed and returns as a walking tree stump.They write it out on the screen,then you actually see it happen.Just one example of the time filling in this short movie.20 minutes could have easily been cut out and no one would have noticed. Definitely a very cool looking monster but not much of a fighter. He walks extremely slow and leans to one side so of course it's nearly impossible for the natives to escape him. He lovingly tosses one girl into quicksand,then murders a guy by gingerly rolling him down a hill. It never looks like they are on a tropical island,I'd guess southwest US. It's basically a movie about how dumb the natives are and how the great Americans save them and teach them the error of their primitive ways. Plus they have a girl do the worst Australian accent you will ever hear. The plot almost makes sense and the acting isn't half bad.This is a must see for fans of the genre.

An island native is executed by some fellow natives and then resurrected as a rubbery looking walking tree, almost but not quite like the talking trees in "Oz." As the tree walks along, very slowly, his eyelids and mouth flap a bit. He seeks revenge on those who wrongly had him killed and then carries off not one but two blonde female visitors before meeting his demise. One of the blondes, an American, has a very nice backside. The other, a Brit, has those classic 1950s car bumper bosoms. That's probably why the tree thing carries them around instead of killing them. Scientists and doctors from America actually revive the creature, having found it growing from the native's grave. A small child will find the tree's face scary, but everyone else is likely to have a good laugh watching it in action. Interestingly, not too many years later, American actor John Ashley would star in a loose remake as one of several drive-in flicks he shot in the Philippines.

GOD HELP ME-- This was the most dangerous monster of all time because it almost killed ME when I watched the movie-- I almost DIED laughing! I was maybe ten years old at the time, and I keep thinking that I could have killed this "monster" by clubbing it with a wiffle ball bat! Chester, the actor who played the "monster", was actually wearing slippers when he was filmed. How I know this is because he unintentionally lifted his costume so that I could see his feet underneath. Where did they come up with this costume-- Walmart or K-Mart?To say that this movie was the stupidest of all time would be putting it lightly.If they wanted more wooden humor, the tree stump should have been played by Woody Allen or by Woody Woodpecker.