I've seen a lot of monster movies before but this is the first one where the 'monster' is an 8 foot tall houseplant! "Venus Flytrap" (aka "The Revenge of Dr. X" although there's no revenge and no Dr. X) is another hokey monster movie with a Frankenstein theme. Overworked Dr. Bragan takes a vacation in Japan, where he goes to stay in a a remote, run-down hotel inhabited by a young Japanese woman named Noriko and a hunchback grounds keeper. Dr. Bragan brings with him a venus flytrap plant, and he becomes obsessed with the idea of grafting carnivorous plant parts together and powering them up with lightening and vitamin injections. His creation comes to life and begins terrorizing the local villagers.The acting is wooden by all of the Japanese actors, and James Craig's acting is thoroughly over the top, with him doing a lot of shouting and occasionally laughing hysterically. Noriko, his assistant, plays the stereotypical subservient Japanese female. There's a hunchback that appears from time-to-time, and a scene with some topless women who Dr. Bragan consults to ask the location of an underwater carnivorous plant. In reality it was an excuse by the screenwriter (none other than Ed Wood!) to throw in a lingering view of some (seriously nice!) titties to spice up the movie a bit.The best part is the creature of course. I am a devoted fan of low budget creature-feature movies and I have to say this is one of the best! This creature has got to be seen to be believed. Be prepared for venus flytrap hands and feet, a humanoid type body, and a head that somewhat resembles an upside-down onion with thick roots for hair. This movie is public domain and can be downloaded for free from http://www.archive.org/details/TheRevengeOfDr.X

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.

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.

and i thought the mighty gorga was bad,this is worse.i heard ed wood wrote this dreck.James Craig stars as a mad scientist who goes to japan and creates a monster plant man.even though his Japanese female co-star is very attractive it doesn't save this extremely poorly made sci fi horror.James Craig as you recall was in the 1957 Bert i Gordon film;the cyclops.this is one of the movies on the 50 chilling classics DVD movie pack.which had many stinkers on it,this being one of them.its a rip off of frankenstein and day of the triffids.it features the most inane dialog ever.and the most ridiculous plant monster that looks like it wandered off the set of hr pufnstuff.one of ed woods last movies.makes plan 9 from outer space look like gone with the wind. the original title is weird; the double garden.sounds,even revenge of Dr.x doesn't sound right,people will think its a sequel to the Lionel atwill/fay wray film;Dr.x from 1932.this is'nt even a so bad its good movie.its so bad its really bad,its 90 minutes too long.awful!!!