Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster

[lordofdance]

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Evil space invaders

A stock footage extravaganza if I ever saw one, Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster hardly follows through with what the title suggests. True, a being resembling Frankenstein's monster appears in the movie and he does fight with a space monster, but the match up barely gets any screen time. There is far more footage of tanks and soldiers and rockets padding out the movie than titanic creature clashes.

The story involves a space princess (played by Playboy Playmate Marilyn Hanold) and her advisor, Doctor Nadir trying to gather Earth women to use for breeding. The Frankenstein of the title is a human-like robot designed for a mission to Mars. The space invaders shoot him down thinking that his space shuttle is a missle, and he ends up with half his face burned off. He wanders around for much of the movie killing innocent people until his designer finds him just in time to fight the aliens.


Abducted for breeding


Space Monster unleashed

There's some swinging music and amusing stupidity to help things along, but I wish the space monster played a more prominent role. I mean, "Frankenstein" is supposedly a good guy, but he kills more innocent bystanders than the space monster does. When the two finally come to blows, most of the fight is obscured by smoke.

Cruelty **
Grossness *1/2
Overall Disturbing Content *1/2
Nudity None (bikinis only)
Film Quality **1/2


A relaxing end credits motor scooter ride

[Evan]

oh, how I love this movie. I got it on a whim (it was the title that got me) and it turned out to be a very enjoyable movie. The story: there is barely one. Just aliens kidnapping beautiful women for breeding "purposes". One of my favorite things about this movie is the music. Thankfully I found the song "Thats the Way it Gotta Be" by the Poets on a file-sharing program. Sadly I cant find any other songs. In my opinion the funniest thing in this movie is this: there is no frankenstein monster. Just a robot named "Frank" (it could stand for something, who knows?) whos face/brain are damaged by alien ray guns. I definently reccomend this movie to anyone dosn't mind having a hour and a half of mindless, sci-fi, fun

[lordofdance]

I was irritated that "Frankenstein" barely meets the space monster at all. The title is seriously misleading. I think that my expectations for a big fight not being met kind of soured my overall opinion of the movie. The music is good, most certainly, and the rest of the movie is funny, but why cheat the viewer out of a good battle?

[ie]

lordofdance said:

I was irritated that "Frankenstein" barely meets the space monster at all.

Oh man, that was hilarious. ;D ;D

[lordofdance]

Stuff like that just kind of comes out when I attempt to seriously discuss this kind of movie.

[criterionmaster]

haha, yeah, which is one of the reasons I love talking about these movies though. Most of these films I would have never heard of in a million years, so it is cool that people tell me about them, so I at least know about them. The title must have just been used to get people into the theater, saying "Frankenstein" in the title was probably a big draw back in the day.