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Maneater of Hydra (1967)

Maneater of Hydra poster
Original title
La isla de la muerte
Directed by
Mel Welles
Genre
horror film
Country
Germany, Spain
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
16
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mad scientist on a remote island creates hybrid trees that need human blood to survive. A group of visitors arrives and becomes trapped with the killer plants.

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What happens

Maneater of Hydra (German: Das Geheimnis der Todesinsel, lit. 'The Secret of Death Island'; Spanish: La isla de la muerte, lit. 'The Island of Death') is a West German–Spanish co-production released in 1967 directed by American expatriate Mel Welles. The alternate titles include Island of the Doomed and The Blood Suckers (U.K. title). The horror film is set on a remote island off the shore of an unidentified European country, in which the central character is a mad scientist (Cameron Mitchell) who creates hybrid trees that feed on human blood. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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