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| Frankenstein's Daughter (1958) | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 6 2009, 07:54 AM (141 Views) | |
| Laughing Gravy | Jun 6 2009, 07:54 AM Post #1 |
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Maybe I'm just gettin' old, but films I used to enjoy even in their badness are starting to piss me off. Case in point: Frankenstein's Daughter comes close to my current definition of "unwatchable". Donald Murphy is ridiculous as Dr. Oliver Frank, grandson of the original mad scientist. He has "nutjob cuckoo-boy" written all over his face. He turns Sandra Knight (future Mrs. Jack Nicholson) into a monster in a nightie, and gets tired of that and builds a woman monster from dead bodies instead. Felix Locher is another scientist and Wolfe Barzell is the Igor character, and both of them speak English so poorly that half the time we couldn't make out what they were saying and the other half we didn't give a shit. The Monster is wearing what appears to be a raincoat decorated with reflective duct tape. There are some nice, gory body parts laying around, and Harold Lloyd, Jr. does not scale the side of a building but he DOES sing a song or two, as if this film needed any more padding. We spent the rest of the picture bursting out into the song in inappropriate moments, which was my fave part of the evening. Oh, John Ashley is the male lead and HE doesn't sing, and I wonder why. Did he always wear striped shirts? He wears, like, 6 of 'em in this movie, and when we saw him in Bikini Beach a few weeks ago he was wearing striped shirts THERE too. Same ones, maybe. You can all feel free to skip this one, which is 85 minutes long(!) and seems at least an hour longer. If you don't take my advice, though, you'll enjoy the daffy scenes with the two detectives who do little but stand around in an office, take phone calls, and obsess about bathing suits(!)... |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Jun 6 2009, 06:13 PM Post #2 |
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I didn't remember this movie until you mentioned the detectives. Would it be fun to make a DVD of "greatest hits" scenes like that one? AIP flicks always seem to have 'em. There was another horror flick, maybe released by Allied Artists, that had a sinister lab assistant who wore shades and acted terminally cool. Turned out he had nothing to do with the story, just trying to get a little attention, I guess. All the other actors were of the Gee Whiz School. Anybody remember that? I loved him but can't remember the name of the fillum. The character's name was something like Norman or Albert or maybe Stanley -- anyway, it didn't fit such a cool customer. I agree, getting old makes awful movies less fun. Wonderfully awful movies like The Alligator People and Spider Baby stand up, but lots of critter flix from the Fifties don't hold my attention the way they did. Dunno why, maybe life seems shorter and I want to see the classics before I blow this pop stand. |
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| Vornoff | Jun 7 2009, 09:10 AM Post #3 |
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"Skip this one"! Are you kidding me! From your description, I burn to watch it. So I snuck a sneak peek over at Radiation Cinema & looked at the trailer. WoW! Looks great to me: http://www.radiationcinema.com/2009/04/richard-cunha-and-power-of-moment.html Also, I noticed Voltair Perkins was in the cast. I remember him as the judge on "Divorce Court" back in the old tv days and this, in itself, makes the movie something to look forward to. Also, do not confuse this with... Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966) Santo vs. la hija de Frankenstein (1972) or La Figlia di Frankenstein (1971) |
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| AndyFish | Jun 19 2009, 05:18 AM Post #4 |
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Got this at the dollar store and I have to agree with Gravy-- I wanted my buck back. |
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