Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 25, 2021 7:58:31 GMT -8
1967’s Frankenstein Created Woman is better than it’s dorky, b-movie title suggests…at least for the first half. It eventually degenerates, not into a horror film, but into what you might consider a mediocre Twilight Zone episode.
Peter Cushing clearly is just showing up to collect a paycheck playing Baron Frankenstein. But then, the lines he’s given aren’t very good.
The real interest is in the passionate, high-tempered young man, Hans, played very well by Robert Morris. He’s attract to the disfigured barmaid, Christina, also played above b-movie standards by Susan Denberg.
The fun begins when three “gentlemen” asses enter the bar and begin heckling the barmaid in the presence of Hans. It eventually doesn’t end up well for any on them.
Thorley Walters plays a Dr.-Watson-like Doctor Hertz, the befuddled sidekick of Baron Frankenstein. He’s a competent enough doctor but can’t begin to understand the experiments of Dr. Frankenstein which, of course, have to do with bringing dead people back to life. Or something. The pseudo-science aspect of this is written so badly, I don’t blame the good doctor for not understanding. Even the confident explanations of Peter Cushing can’t make any of this clear or plausible.
And that’s where the movie does become a b-movie as it devolves into a simply matter of the soul of one person getting combined into another person and both taking revenge.
If you watch this (also on the free Movieland TV channel), you’ll see two standard actors of British TV. The one I immediately saw as looking-like an actor I knew from a well-known series. But I just thought it was a resemblance. I didn’t think it was him. And after ten minutes on the screen, I finally caught a glimpse of the other actor who I then knew had to be this other well-known actor from another standard British series. But I won’t spoil the fun in case you watch this. You figure it out.
Overall, it was fun to watch for what it is.
Peter Cushing clearly is just showing up to collect a paycheck playing Baron Frankenstein. But then, the lines he’s given aren’t very good.
The real interest is in the passionate, high-tempered young man, Hans, played very well by Robert Morris. He’s attract to the disfigured barmaid, Christina, also played above b-movie standards by Susan Denberg.
The fun begins when three “gentlemen” asses enter the bar and begin heckling the barmaid in the presence of Hans. It eventually doesn’t end up well for any on them.
Thorley Walters plays a Dr.-Watson-like Doctor Hertz, the befuddled sidekick of Baron Frankenstein. He’s a competent enough doctor but can’t begin to understand the experiments of Dr. Frankenstein which, of course, have to do with bringing dead people back to life. Or something. The pseudo-science aspect of this is written so badly, I don’t blame the good doctor for not understanding. Even the confident explanations of Peter Cushing can’t make any of this clear or plausible.
And that’s where the movie does become a b-movie as it devolves into a simply matter of the soul of one person getting combined into another person and both taking revenge.
If you watch this (also on the free Movieland TV channel), you’ll see two standard actors of British TV. The one I immediately saw as looking-like an actor I knew from a well-known series. But I just thought it was a resemblance. I didn’t think it was him. And after ten minutes on the screen, I finally caught a glimpse of the other actor who I then knew had to be this other well-known actor from another standard British series. But I won’t spoil the fun in case you watch this. You figure it out.
Overall, it was fun to watch for what it is.