Donald Pleasance is a Very Cherman professor of biology at an American campus. At home in the family mansion, he is conducting experiments to reunite the animal and plant kingdoms, so humans can live on air, and not go anywhere, leaving them time to think about how to solve problems. Like termite, I suppose. Meanwhile, a thoroughly nasty Tom Baker runs a freak show.
There are references to Tod Browning's FREAKS, and Pleasance's great achievement so far is to have devised a mobile, carnivorous plant beast with suckers. Like most movies of this sort, it's probably thoroughly muddled, or perhaps my attention wandered for five minutes at a time, while I wondered why Jack Cardiff, arguably the finest Technicolor cameraman ever, was directing, and directing clunkers like this.
Well, it was his last time as a director, and he went back to the work that he did well. With Michael Dunn and Jill Haworth. Now, there's a pair to lead a movie!
There are references to Tod Browning's FREAKS, and Pleasance's great achievement so far is to have devised a mobile, carnivorous plant beast with suckers. Like most movies of this sort, it's probably thoroughly muddled, or perhaps my attention wandered for five minutes at a time, while I wondered why Jack Cardiff, arguably the finest Technicolor cameraman ever, was directing, and directing clunkers like this.
Well, it was his last time as a director, and he went back to the work that he did well. With Michael Dunn and Jill Haworth. Now, there's a pair to lead a movie!