9/10
From the Makers of JUNGLE STREET
7 November 2021
Producer Guido Coen and director Charles Saunders, before making the risque neo noir JUNGLE STREET created WOMANEATER about a killer African plant that mad scientist George Coulouris takes back to England for a serum to revive the dead...

A plot harboring two suspenseful deaths as only beautiful women can be eaten by this tree with a lethal hug while an imported native plays bongos,...

Thus making British scream queen Vera Day the Final Girl while her romance with a mechanic coincides with the scientist's lethal experiments and problems with his middle-aged secretary's envy about hiring Day, whose spooked innocence the entire story's based around...

Also featuring another cute British starlet Joy Webster, a shunned lush both here and in JUNGLE STREET (as well as Hammer's THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL)...

Her and Coulouris's subtle hunter/hunting sequence along the actual London Streets' Piccadilly Circus (like something from a vintage Jack the Ripper tale) contrasts neatly with the gloomy mansion exteriors, all befitting a maligned, mostly forgotten yet completely entertaining science-fiction/horror curio.
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