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Some South Seas-paradise: Prince Kimo (Gregg Palmer) is executed by his
tribe for having killed his father, even though all he did was take him,
who was suffering from the plague, to the white doctor, Arnold (Tod
Andrews), at the trading post for treatment. The man was too far gone to
be saved though. And actually, he was poisoned by the witchdoctor (Robert
Swan) and the new chief (Raynes Barron) because he was too friendly with
the white folks. Without knowing it though, the natives have every
reason of the world to be angry at the white folks on their island,
particularly the Americans - who have tested an atom bomb on an island not
too far away, and now the nuclear fallout has reached their island and
might be the cause for the plague. However, Kimo finds no peace in
death, and thus a weird tree grows out of his grave in rapid time, with a
weird face and the knife Kimo has been executed with sticking out of what
appears to be its heart. Dr Arnold's girlfriend, scientist Terry (Tina
Carver), gets so excited about the weird tree that she insists to unroot
it and bring it to her lab for examination. Turns out the tree actually
has a heartbeat, but it's weakening ... so she suggests to try a new serum
she has developed that is supposed to trigger heart activity. The next
day, the tree thing is gone. It has in fact turned into a walking tree
monster, called Tabanga by the natives, that now goes after all those who
have wronged Kimo, starting with the chief and his wife (Suzanne
Ridgeway), who's actually Kimo's ex who has betrayed him. the witchdoctor
tries to spin things and use the appearance of the Tabanga to go against
the white folks, but then he too is killed as well as a few others, and
ultimately the (according to this film) helpless natives ask the great
white men what do - and Arnold, Terry and friends really find a way to
destroy the monster, even if it tries to drag Terry off before it can be
killed. Great drive-in fare! Now don't get me wrong, this is
not a good film: It has South Seas natives that look way too Caucasian to
come across as convincing, wearing stupid costumes that do not suggest
much research on the subject, and when it comes to the monster, you'd be
hard-pressed to find any funnier-looking monster this side of children
books. Plus, the attempts to make the sets look South Seas like can be
labeled feeble at best, while the science in this film doesn't exactly
seem highly scientific, and the theories of white supremacy touched upon
throughout the film sound a bit out-of-date even in the 1950's. And all
of this makes the film so enjoyable, at least to trashfilm afficionados
like myself. Sure, all of this is trash - but it's also so much fun!
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