How can you go wrong? A walking tree monster on a South Seas island with kookaburra birds crying in the background (they are from Australia....do they even inhabit the South Sea atolls??), pine trees growing in profusion on the atoll (uh??), oak trees (I ain't no botanist, but I can't recall if oaks grow there, either), the maiden who betrayed the Tabonga literally swimming herself out to the middle of the quicksand, and the Tabonga threatening to throw the good doctor into the quicksand, despite she's the one who revived the dying tree (I thought the myth of the Tabonga was a creature of revenge....what's he upset with her for? The acting in this film?).
I saw this as a kid and recently picked up a DVD of it. Still a hoot, a wonderful romp in Saturday afternoon "B" sci-fi movies. Dig this, it will grow on you....
I saw this as a kid and recently picked up a DVD of it. Still a hoot, a wonderful romp in Saturday afternoon "B" sci-fi movies. Dig this, it will grow on you....