Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

John T. Ryan WILLIAM HENRY PRATT had a long and highly prolific career in both the Legitimate Theatre, as well as in Film. His was an immense talent, which was somewhat under-appreciated for his successes in the Horror Film Genre. This is quite unfair, as his on-screen and on-stage characterizations embraced just about every type.IT IS OF course no secret that the English born thespian changed his professional name while touring Canada in theatrical companies. The chosen moniker was (Drum Roll!!) Boris Karloff. This then was a name that would become synonymous with the fright film and even up to this day, some 75 years after its original release, is so closely identified with the Monster in FRANKENSTEIN & sequels.UPON COMPLETION AND release of FRANKENSTEIN 1970 in 1958*, it was the veteran actor himself who commented that we have forgotten how to make Horror Movies. Having witnessed an early showing of the movie on WNBQ TV, Channel 5 in Chicago. It was this NBC wholly owned subsidiary and local outlet that screened the picture circa 1962, being a scant 4 years or so after its release. (This is perhaps a testimonial to the level of the movie's content) IN MUCH THE same manner as the productions of the British company, Hammer Films, the danger and horror of the Monster is given a secondary role to that of a truly evil, very mad scientist. In this case, it's one Victor Frankenstein XXVII, last of the von Frankenstein descendants.THE MOVIE TRULY misses those excellent pseudo-scientific electrical instruments of Kenneth Strickfadden, which added so much to the original Universal FRANKENSTEIN pictures. The were reprised in Mel Brooks' YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974).AS TO THE ing cast, we have Don "Red" Barry, Jana Lund, Charlotte Austin, Rudolph Anders and Tom Duggan.** Pro Wrestler, Mike Lane, is seen in a dual-role as both servant/victim Hans Himmler and as the Monster, not that one could tell; as he wore some super-gauze wrap mummy type costume that looks much like a huge tampon.*** THE OVERALL LOOK of the production is that of a 1930's "B" Picture; for which it was perfectly situated. It was an Allied Artists Productoion, which had formerly been poverty row studio, Monogram. Its main tenet about the Dr. Frankenstein wanting to continue his family's image is an element that would be at home in an old, 1930's detective story or an "Old Dark House" type of potboiler.SHOT IN A SORT of retro-futuristic motif, the story is and was disappointing to us, even as kids in the early 1960's. But it did have its moments of even a flirtation with being worthwhile.AT LEAST OUR buddy Schultz and myself saw it that way. "Was you there, Charlie?" NOTE * This makes it one of those movies & TV series where the seemingly long in the future date looses its appeal with the ing of time. Consider if you will: ROLLERBALL, 2001: A SPACE ODYSEY, 1984, SPACE 1999, etc. (No Schultz, not THE JETSONS!)NOTE ** Tom Duggan had been a crusading newsman in Chicago, who had built up a great following in that City (including our Dad, Clem Ryan, 1914-74). He had relocated to the West Coast and took jobs like this as a means of earning extra $$$$.NOTE *** Big Mike Lane, ex Footballer & Pro Grappler was fresh from his great role as Boxer Toro Moreno in THE HARDER THEY FALL (Columbia, 1956); which was Bogart's last picture.

AaronCapenBanner Boris Karloff(at the low-point of his brilliant career) plays Victor Von Frankenstein, last-surviving descendant of the original Baron Frankenstein(though NOT connected to the Universal Studios series Karloff had starred in!) who, because of financial necessity, allows a film crew to make a movie of his ancestors in his castle; the money he receives he plans to use to create a new monster, this time by using atomic energy generated by his own reactor. The actors from the film will make very convenient parts to compose the new monster, much to their surprise and horror... Pathetic attempt at a "futuristic" Frankenstein film is an abject failure, both poorly made and written, with Karloff looking embarrassed about the whole thing; thankfully, his career would pick up soon when he was chosen to host "Thriller"...

GL84 While allowing a film crew to make a movie at his castle, the Baron decides to use the opportunity to finish his ancestor's brain-swapping experiments and lets the hulking creation loose upon the unsuspecting filmmakers.Actually not all that bad of an entry, definitely has it's moments and features some good stuff from time to time, namely in the beginning where the film-crew twist makes the action a bit jolting, and the times spent in the lab trying to reanimate the body are pure old-school sci-fi goodness. The location works nicely as well, being the kind of grand Gothic design that manages to have all it's usual theatrics played up rather nicely. It's just marred by a criminal lack of energy and enthusiasm when it's not dealing with the baron's antics, as the film-crew aren't that interesting and hardly ever do anything, the monster is a joke and looks retarded (in concept, not execution) and the entire thing is over so hurriedly it's impossible to realize what's happened until the credits start to roll. A real missed opportunity since this one could've been decent.Today's Rating: Unrated/PG: Mild Violence

sol ***SPOILERS*** Desperate for money with the Frankenstein Family fortune almost completely depleted in his attempt to to finish what his decedents from his great great grandfather Henry Frankenstein on up tried to create, life out of dead matter, Baron Victor Von Frankenstein Boris Karloff, goes along with allowing the Frankenstein Mansion to be uses for a TV special called "The Frankenstein Variety Hour" on cable- this is in the future not 1958 when the movie was released-TV.The Baron who was brutalized by the Nazis for refusing to help them create a super Aryn master race that would win them the war is now on track to create man in his own image but he needs money in him obtaining an atomic reactor to do it. It's the TV network who'll provide the Baron with the much needed cash but he's so hung up in creating his masterpiece that he ends up murdering a number of the crew as well as his both good friend from Nazi days Wihelm Gottfried, Rudolph Anders, and his simple minded butler Sluter, Nobert Schiller, to do it!It's non other that the TV director of the Frankenstein TV special Douglas Row, Don "Red" Barry, who gets whiff of what the Baron is up to and attempts to stop him before he ends up murdering the entire TV crew together with Row in order to get spare human parts to create his new and improved Frankenstein Monster.**SPOILERS**** As things turn out the monster that the Baron created despite having the feeble minded Sluter's brain implanted into his skull had a mind of his own and didn't go along with the Baron's insane and murderous plans and took matters into his own hands! As the movie ends we as well as Row and the police who arrived at the scene find out that the Baron did indeed finish what he started to do! The only drawback in his crazed and insane master-plan was that the Baron didn't live long enough to see it!