IMPORTANT NOTE--Despite the title, this is not a pornographic film but a cheesy horror film. The title is unfortunate, nonetheless.
George Coulouris was not a bad actor and he had a long string of credits to his name. In this film, his performance is pretty good--but this is about the only good thing about this stinking British horror film. How they roped him into starring in this stinky pile of cheese, I have no idea.
The film begins with Coulouris going to the Amazon and experiencing some sort of horror--though the film blacks out--leaving the audience to wonder what happened. He's just suddenly back in merry old England several years later. Now he's spending all his time on his estate doing really stupid experiments that call for a native drummer from South America and a really, really silly tree that obviously has actors inside it. This tree was not the cute apple pie tree from McDonalds or the cranky tree like in the WIZARD OF OZ. No, it was a life-stealing, moving tree that was sure to elicit laughs from everyone seeing this film. How the film makers thought any of this could be scary or even that interesting is beyond me. I think their decision was perhaps based on the abuse of some drug or a head injury.
Supposedly, the same tree that takes lives ultimately has the power to restore life--but the mad doctor spent so much time killing young women that he only had time to try out the life-giving properties at the end of the film. But, instead of working, the bad guys started trying to kill each other and the tree was set ablaze and the audience felt very thankful this stupid mad scientist film was finished!! Dumb and rather boring--this one isn't quite cheesy enough to elicit many laughs, so it's probably one best left to masochists like myself to watch.
George Coulouris was not a bad actor and he had a long string of credits to his name. In this film, his performance is pretty good--but this is about the only good thing about this stinking British horror film. How they roped him into starring in this stinky pile of cheese, I have no idea.
The film begins with Coulouris going to the Amazon and experiencing some sort of horror--though the film blacks out--leaving the audience to wonder what happened. He's just suddenly back in merry old England several years later. Now he's spending all his time on his estate doing really stupid experiments that call for a native drummer from South America and a really, really silly tree that obviously has actors inside it. This tree was not the cute apple pie tree from McDonalds or the cranky tree like in the WIZARD OF OZ. No, it was a life-stealing, moving tree that was sure to elicit laughs from everyone seeing this film. How the film makers thought any of this could be scary or even that interesting is beyond me. I think their decision was perhaps based on the abuse of some drug or a head injury.
Supposedly, the same tree that takes lives ultimately has the power to restore life--but the mad doctor spent so much time killing young women that he only had time to try out the life-giving properties at the end of the film. But, instead of working, the bad guys started trying to kill each other and the tree was set ablaze and the audience felt very thankful this stupid mad scientist film was finished!! Dumb and rather boring--this one isn't quite cheesy enough to elicit many laughs, so it's probably one best left to masochists like myself to watch.