ksf-2 Doctors have landed on "the south sea island", to help the natives with illness, but the local witch doctor doesn't appreciate the interference. and of course, there is the witch doctor's love triangle issue. one of the native villagers DOES co-operate with the medical doctors, and it doesn't go well for him. Now there is a walking tree stump (!) walking the island, knocking people off one by one. it's quite amusing... it walks so slowly, a child could easily outrun (out-walk) it, and yet it's still killing people. Stars Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, and Linda Watkins. It's all pretty silly, but plays well enough. It's rated 3.5, after only 900 votes on imdb, but it's really not so bad. There are so many worse horror films rated higher than this! it's all played a little tongue in cheek. Not so bad. Shows on Turner Classics now and then. This appears to be one of only THREE films that Dan Milner directed... looks like he spent most of his career editing films. The script is a bit silly, and some of the acting is cheesy, but its all in good fun.

hwg1957-102-265704 A Pacific island prince Kimo is put to death by his people even though he is innocent. After he is buried he comes back as a walking tree and wreaks his revenge on those who betrayed him. Great premise, poor film. It is quite slow, the acting is bland to say the least and the music score amusingly over the top. There are no notable actors. Linda Watkins as Mrs. Mae Kilgore for some reason has a hilarious Cockney accent easily on par with the legendary Dick Van Dyke accent in 'Mary Poppins'. As for the monster itself, Tabanga, I thought it was quite cute. One wonders why Tabanga dolls or models were never sold (with dagger in chest of course) at the time.

O2D A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed and returns as a walking tree stump.They write it out on the screen,then you actually see it happen.Just one example of the time filling in this short movie.20 minutes could have easily been cut out and no one would have noticed. Definitely a very cool looking monster but not much of a fighter. He walks extremely slow and leans to one side so of course it's nearly impossible for the natives to escape him. He lovingly tosses one girl into quicksand,then murders a guy by gingerly rolling him down a hill. It never looks like they are on a tropical island,I'd guess southwest US. It's basically a movie about how dumb the natives are and how the great Americans save them and teach them the error of their primitive ways. Plus they have a girl do the worst Australian accent you will ever hear. The plot almost makes sense and the acting isn't half bad.This is a must see for fans of the genre.

mark.waltz "Oh, Apples!", Judy Garland stated with glee just right before finding a sort of monster on her own with the Tin Man. Imagine if those talking trees were part of some curse of the wicked witch, then Dorothy would be heading towards swamp land rather than Oz. Obviously, somebody had just seen the first T.V. viewing of "The Wizard of Oz" when they put this delightfully silly Allied Artists horror/sci-fi together. This is one of those films that is so bad, it's good, starting off with a chilling scene of a South Seas prince being executed for apparently murdering his father then cursing his assassins. With various American English accents of every kind, these natives seem to be of the baseball/hot dog variety than those you'd see even in the worst Maria Montez movie. A woman screams and all of a sudden, the action switches to a science laboratory (in a grass hut no less) where Tina Carver has just arrived and has to calm down the very cockney Linda Watkins who witnessed the horrific sight. The ground underneath the gravesite begins to buckle, and before long, there is a stump there that somehow resembles a young Benjamin Button just after he was born. The laughs had already started, but by this point, they move up to howls. It is up to Carver and scientist love interest Tod Andrews to find out what this non-apple tossing stump is all about.Deliciously stupid, this is one of the most entertaining bad movies ever made. Every scene features one unintended laugh after another, whether it be Carver's decision to try to give this growing tree with a heartbeat life (with a skeleton handled knife in its trunk) or the cat-fight between two native women which leads into an encounter with the walking tree monster. Attacks of the evil natives who killed what the tree used to be offer a few moments of horrific tension, but the damage has already been done. The final confrontation with the monster is so wonderfully over the top that by this time, you might be crying. Then, there's the final line at the very end which is the cherry on the top of this outlandish sundae which I warn you, don't take a sip of anything. Your T.V. just might end up soaked.