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Poster tagline: SEE THE DANCE OF DEATH THAT WILL SHAKE YOUR NERVES!!! LOOK AT THE WOMAN-EATER WHO CAPTURES BEAUTIES ON TWO CONTINENTS!!! BEHOLD THE HIDEOUS TENTACLES THAT ENGULF WOMEN IN A DEADLY EMBRACE!!! Surprisingly good for a low-budget British B-movie. Of course, if I were to compare it to Hammer's output at the time, it wouldn't hold up. Hammer produced visually sumptuous horror films, full of colour and beautiful props, while The Womaneater is black and white and not as visually appealing. But I appreciate that it was filmed outdoors (although in the scene when the main villain Dr. Moran is looking for his victim on the street, the surrounding pedestrians throw direct curious glances at the camera, which is quite disturbing), George Colouris plays his villain brilliantly, and the carnivorous plant hidden in his basement is amusing and nice to look at, it looks like a hairy tree with tentacles that move in different ways, and in two scenes it clutches screaming women with them, accompanied by the tam-tams of the doctor's henchman. The plot is, of course, one big cliché, the natives speak in Caucasian English (a cliché typical even today), but the actors are fine, the runtime is reasonable, so you don't feel the urge to look at your watch and the whole thing didn't offend me with its stupidity. I've seen a lot more nonsense from the Golden Age, and Saunders, a mediocre craftsman, didn't disgrace himself here.
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