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Frankenstein 1970 (1959)
Topic Started: Aug 18 2015, 03:35 PM (157 Views)
GL84
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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.

What did everyone think of this one?
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Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs.

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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.
Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs.

My review blog: http://donshorrormovieblog.blogspot.com/
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I finally made the effort to watch this the whole way through the other day. It's kind of just middle of the road. The opening scene is really good. It is disappointing that the fake movie scenes are more frightening than the real scares. I love that they chose to film it in black and white. The script is clever, but the execution is lacking. It isn't one of Karloff's best performances, but it's still Karloff. At points, it seems like you can see him trying to make the movie work, since it is almost entirely on his shoulders. I still like it more than a lot of the Frankenstein sequels.
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