How can a film so awful be so awful, if you know what I mean? We've got a terrible rubbery monster, a hypertensive mad scientist and his lovely ethnic assistant, and some boobs, but for some reason this film feels as if it's as long as Barry Lyndon and much less eventful.Overworked, cranky scientist guy gets sent from NASA to Japan for some R and R and ends up instead trying to prove that mankind is descended from plants by getting a Venus flytrap and some underwater plant and sewing them together to make a man-plant that feeds mainly on dogs, it seems.Now look at that last paragraph - that's gold to a bad movie guy like me! But in reality this film will send you into a coma. An awfully long time is spent by the scientist talking botany with his assistant (and as a guy who has an allotment, keeping a plant in a box away from sunlight don't seem like such a good idea, plus I only use lightening on my carrots and only feed dogs to my onions. Hollywood eh?) If you can stay awake long enough for them to reveal the beeping man-plant (the inclusion of boobs might help), then the last third of the film isn't so bad, but there's no gore whatsoever and you might miss the ending if you blink. Yes, the monster looks ridiculous but I felt cheated by the lack of blood and sauce. I watched this years ago and thought it was crap then. Wish I'd written an IMDb review back then and saved myself the time of watching it again.

Written by Ed Wood, Revenge of Dr. X is an abysmal story about a verbally abusive NASA a-hole, James Craig as Dr. Bragan NOT Dr. X, who grunts and screams his way into an emotional breakdown. With a much needed vacation coming up, hopefully permanent, Dr. Nakamura suggests to the loudmouth Bragan that he should visit his home country of Japan. After the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the arrival of Dr. Bragan becomes the third greatest foreign tragedy on Japanese soil. Dr. Bragan uses this time to pursue his true passion of botany with Dr. Nakamura's niece Noriko. His piece de resistance is a Venus's flytrap he procured from a backwater snake salesman's lot in North Carolina. Using the "rain as your mother" and "lightning as your father" the bad doctor descends into insanity as he creates, quite possibly, the dumbest creature in movie history. This Frankenstein ripoff even comes with a Japanese hunchbacked assistant. James Craig not only allows the viewer to watch him chew the scenery but also to defecate it out as well. I've never seen a character so abrasive to everyone around him. He constantly screams at his assistant Noriko who in turn offers him coffee to placate him in every instance. I know some Asian women are subservient to their male counterparts but I was begging her to liberate his fat head from his body via a samurai sword. The creature is definitely of the Horror at Party Beach caliber. The only reason this did not receive a rank of one star is the out of nowhere scene of topless female divers that is thrown into the movie almost to say we know this movie sucks so here's some boobs, please don't turn this movie off! For Ed Wood fans that are gluttons for punishment only.

A stressed NASA scientist, Dr. Bragan(James Craig), who finally saw the launch of his space shuttle from Cape Canaveral, takes a much needed vacation to Japan at the behest of his assistant, Paul Nakamura(James Yagi), working with his relative of Tokyo, using a Venus Fly Trap he dug from a swamp in North Carolina as part of a botany experiment trying to prove that human life started from plants. Nakamura's female relative(..I have no information on the actress who portrayed this role) who assists Bragan, provides him with a secluded resort, abandoned by her father because it was in too threatening a location, surrounding a possibly dangerous volcano, bad roads with frightening curves, and mountains which avalanche rocks. Using the resort's greenhouse as a lab, and the hunchbacked grounds keeper as an assistant, Bragan will embark on his mission to create the greatest creature in the Universe. Finding a carnivorous plant in the Japanese ocean, Bragan will graft it together with the Venus Fly Trap, creating a hideous amalgamation which will soon threaten a nearby village.Crummy, leaden-paced mad scientist movie with a loud, cranky, moody, bossy, rude lead character performance from Bragan, who is imbalanced from the moment the movie starts until it ends..Craig is never likable even when his character attempts to kindly approach Nakamura's relative, a real sport who has to tolerate his unruly behavior, often sustaining his nasty shouting and barking when she questions his intentions and motives. The film is obviously made on the cheap in Tokyo with a few scenes possibly shot in America. The monster is a ghastly rubber suited creation with tentacles as hair, no eyes, arms and legs carrying Venus Fly Trap mouths with sharp teeth. When the creature reaches for a victim, the screen turns blood red. We do see, on occasion, the "hands" capturing a victim's head in it's grasp, but this is never gory because the teeth aren't convincing in the least. The version I watched was titled Revenge of Dr X, but it's actually called The Double Garden. An abandoned sub-plot had Bragan hiding his hand zippered in a black glove after cutting/infecting his finger during the grafting experiment..we can only guess(..after he put a mouse in the glove, zipping it back)that his hand was turning into a Venus Fly trap.

Now here is a wonderful premise for a film. A scientist from NASA goes on holiday to Japan and while there takes up his old interest in botany. Going on the theory that because life started in the sea thus all humanity is descended from plant life (come again?) the scientist cross breeds a venus fly trap with a Japanese equivalent and creates an artificial man-plant thing.To make it like a Frankenstein film the thing is hauled up to the roof while lightning is conducted down.("The earth is its mother, the sky will be its father!" says the scientist) Then of course the monster gets loose and encounters a child which it murders and aggrieved villagers go around with torches, just like those great Universal films of yore. This almost makes it sound exciting but it isn't. To accompany all this nonsense is a very jolly music score that is totally inappropriate. The version I saw was called "The Revenge of Doctor X" which is about as misleading to the story as you could get. Again it sounds just like an old horror title Universal would use in the 1930s. The monster itself looks hilarious.