The creator of IT! (1966) also made this preposterous but slightly more enjoyable precursor to the "Nazi Zombie" sub-genre earlier that same year and, funnily enough, I came across both these hitherto rare movies almost simultaneously from different sources
which is why I ended up watching them back-to-back. Actually, THE FROZEN DEAD had previously been available on a low budget DVD double-feature with the similar (but clearly crazier) THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN (1963) that soon went out-of-print so I am certainly glad to have stumbled upon the former via alternative channels that, curiously (since I have no recollection of it ever being shown on Italian TV in the past 25 years), sports a second audio track in Italian (which, ironically, is much cleaner than the garbled original)!! Anyway, THE FROZEN DEAD stars waning Hollywood star Dana Andrews (sporting an inadvertently amusing German accent that, together with his silent 'r' pronounciation, makes him sound as if he is slurring his lines
and, being aware of his past battles with alcohol, I wonder!) as a former Nazi scientist who has, since the end of WWII, relocated to a large estate in the English countryside to conduct revivification experiments on 12 cryogenically frozen top Nazi officials (including his own brother Edward Fox)! In fact, the latter's anguished cries open the film as 8 of these subjects are shown to have failed in regaining their normal mental capacities and, consequently, are treated much like unwanted pets, taken out for their daily stroll by Andrews' whip-wielding assistant Karl (Alan Tilvern). Karl's own zeal and blind faith in the Party has made him (unwisely, as it turns out) invite his impatient superiors to witness Andrews' non-existent breakthrough with his first 'success': a hulking, bald manservant named Joseph. To complicate matters further, 3 innocent bystanders (Andrews' niece, her ill-fated best friend, and Andrews' younger colleague) soon take up residence in Andrews' mansion, obviously unaware of the sinister goings-on beneath in his secret laboratory or his past political affiliations. Ever eager-to-please, Karl impulsively injects the visiting friend with a mortal substance and has Fox strangle her for good measure! so as to provide the disillusioned Andrews with a live brain specimen for him to study (in an attempt not to muck up any more of the remaining frozen dead)! A complex charade that also involves Karl's facially-scarred secret female relative who lives nearby is set in motion to appease Andrews' niece from worrying for (or delving deeper into) her friend's sudden disappearance
but this does not stop the niece from finding out about the former within hours! The young scientist who, naturally, has fallen for the niece on first sight is in on the friend's murder (since he was brought here specifically to help Andrews successfully complete his experiments) but only decides to do something about it following a couple of failed murder attempts (courtesy of the increasingly demented Karl) on the niece's person! Ever the dedicated sadists, the 2 Nazi superiors (who seemingly appear and disappear at the mansion at random) torture Karl for his clumsiness and force Andrews to throw him in with the frozen dead for the ultimate punishment! The last (and most outlandish) pieces of the jigsaw puzzle to be found in this lurid shocker are 'the living head' belonging to the niece's friend, of course, within which resides the all-important live brain
although Andrews is never shown doing much with it apparently dreading her scowling countenance! and the remarkably Cocteauesque wall of severed arms whose real use is never fully explained (unless some of the frozen dead had been maimed or something) but their potential is certainly not wasted when, in the film's climax, the head telepathically (don't ask) fatally wraps them around the necks of Andrews and the older of the Nazi superiors (Karel Stepanek)! The very last shot of the film, then, has the head pleading with the surviving niece and her doctor companion to give it that much-denied burial! 2 final things: director Leder must have seen the works of horror maestro Tod Browning one time too many because, both here and and IT!, he displays the latter's frustrating knack of cutting away at the most inopportune moments and having much of the key action take place offscreen!; besides, while the version I acquired came from an open-matte color print (making the boom mike clearly visible a couple of times!), the film was apparently originally released to theaters in black-and-white
which, I suppose, must have robbed the living head of her creepy bluish pallor!
43 Reviews
Ludicrous, nonsensical, but deadly dull Nazi-Sci Fi-Horror Flick
jbridge-19913 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
One of two low budget horror-fantasy type movies made in the UK in the mid-60's by American professor turned filmmaker Herbert J. Leder, "The Frozen Dead" has a silly and idiotic storyline involving a mad Nazi scientist (Dana Andrews) keeping a number of fellow fanatics frozen in a secret laboratory deep in the English countryside in the hope of thawing them out to begin a new attempt at reviving The Third Reich two decades after their defeat, with further plot complications involving Andrews' niece (Anna Palk). Her friend (Kathleen Breck), whose decapitated head is used for his dastardly plans, two fellow Nazis (Basil Henson and Karel Stepanek) and an American doctor (Philip Gilbert).
With such a premise as this, one thinks the film could be enjoyed as high camp, but virtually all the performances are as dreary and wooden as the verbose script, not helped by Leder's tedious, lethargic direction, who on this evidence should have stuck to teaching film theory at an American university, as other titles in his sparse filmography were just as, if not more, undistinguished as this one. Some fun is to be had by deciding who employs the worst German accent; a clearly bored and disinterested Andrews is in there pitching, as is Alan Tilvern and Basil Henson, but my nomination is Ann Tirard, known initially as Mrs Smith, but later revealed to be Mrs Schmidt, who pronounces her V's and Z's with extra zeal to emphasize her Teutonic credentials.
So anyone looking for hammy acting and rampantly over the top dialogue will be disappointed, though under the circumstances, Kathleen Breck actually gives a decent performance despite the inherent stupidity of her role as a disembodied head in a box, using facial expression and pathos, making her plight quite pitiable, but she is about the only performer in the film who can hold her head up high (sorry for the pun) as all other cast members look embarrassed at taking part in such shenanigans, though the film livens up just a little in the last ten minutes or so for fans of unintended campy humour, with the dismal sets and poor special effects achieving some hysterically funny moments, particularly when Andrews (what a comedown from 'Laura', 'The Best Years of Our Lives', and the like during Classical Hollywood's best years) and Stepanek get their comeuppance via a wall of arms (with a bespectacled technician lurking in the background for some reason) and Edward Fox, in his first credited film role (which is doubtful he talked about at dinner parties) as one of the mute, thawed-out Nazis, who turns out to be Andrews' brother and Ms Palk's father, attempting to strangle the latter.
So "The Frozen Dead" is not recommended as a riotous laugh fest despite the sheer idiocy of the plot, as it is too tediously paced and over-earnest to be so, but as stated, you may get a few decent chuckles towards its conclusion, if you are awake by that time, that is.
RATING:3 and a half out of 10.
With such a premise as this, one thinks the film could be enjoyed as high camp, but virtually all the performances are as dreary and wooden as the verbose script, not helped by Leder's tedious, lethargic direction, who on this evidence should have stuck to teaching film theory at an American university, as other titles in his sparse filmography were just as, if not more, undistinguished as this one. Some fun is to be had by deciding who employs the worst German accent; a clearly bored and disinterested Andrews is in there pitching, as is Alan Tilvern and Basil Henson, but my nomination is Ann Tirard, known initially as Mrs Smith, but later revealed to be Mrs Schmidt, who pronounces her V's and Z's with extra zeal to emphasize her Teutonic credentials.
So anyone looking for hammy acting and rampantly over the top dialogue will be disappointed, though under the circumstances, Kathleen Breck actually gives a decent performance despite the inherent stupidity of her role as a disembodied head in a box, using facial expression and pathos, making her plight quite pitiable, but she is about the only performer in the film who can hold her head up high (sorry for the pun) as all other cast members look embarrassed at taking part in such shenanigans, though the film livens up just a little in the last ten minutes or so for fans of unintended campy humour, with the dismal sets and poor special effects achieving some hysterically funny moments, particularly when Andrews (what a comedown from 'Laura', 'The Best Years of Our Lives', and the like during Classical Hollywood's best years) and Stepanek get their comeuppance via a wall of arms (with a bespectacled technician lurking in the background for some reason) and Edward Fox, in his first credited film role (which is doubtful he talked about at dinner parties) as one of the mute, thawed-out Nazis, who turns out to be Andrews' brother and Ms Palk's father, attempting to strangle the latter.
So "The Frozen Dead" is not recommended as a riotous laugh fest despite the sheer idiocy of the plot, as it is too tediously paced and over-earnest to be so, but as stated, you may get a few decent chuckles towards its conclusion, if you are awake by that time, that is.
RATING:3 and a half out of 10.
B-u-r-y me...b-u-r-y me..!
naseby25 September 2008
Warning: Spoilers
Ordinary, another take on 'Frankenstein' with dismembered body parts being given a new lease of 'life', this film remains ensconced in my head, (If you'll pardon the saying) since I last saw it about thirty years ago (not sure it's been repeated here in the UK or out on video/DVD).
Disgustingly yet sort of delightfully so, horrible with Elsa's exposed brain and chopped off head, the last line in the film - my title above, gave me nightmares at twelve when I last saw it. A true kitsch horror flick that just has to be seen. It's not totally a turkey even if it sort of looks that way. Dana Andrews at the end of his career, still puts in a good performance helping neo-Nazis produce a new kind of 'master-race' with telepathic waves from his niece's chum's (Elsa's) chopped off bonce. she looks amazingly under-nourished and decomposed to boot, to add to the horror, whispering (yes, no vocal chords, or at least they couldn't be ably connected) and lots of nice tubes connected to her only remaining body part. She uses her telekinesis or telepathy whatever, to kill those who brought her condition to a head (sorry, couldn't resist!!!)
However, just for that line, in my title, which is the end line of the film, uttered by her good self, I'd like to see it again. Nostalgia and nothing more! (And to see if it still seems as disgusting as I remember it!) * Since this review, I found it on Youtube, in nauseating low-key colour to add to the kitschness of it! Check it out!
Disgustingly yet sort of delightfully so, horrible with Elsa's exposed brain and chopped off head, the last line in the film - my title above, gave me nightmares at twelve when I last saw it. A true kitsch horror flick that just has to be seen. It's not totally a turkey even if it sort of looks that way. Dana Andrews at the end of his career, still puts in a good performance helping neo-Nazis produce a new kind of 'master-race' with telepathic waves from his niece's chum's (Elsa's) chopped off bonce. she looks amazingly under-nourished and decomposed to boot, to add to the horror, whispering (yes, no vocal chords, or at least they couldn't be ably connected) and lots of nice tubes connected to her only remaining body part. She uses her telekinesis or telepathy whatever, to kill those who brought her condition to a head (sorry, couldn't resist!!!)
However, just for that line, in my title, which is the end line of the film, uttered by her good self, I'd like to see it again. Nostalgia and nothing more! (And to see if it still seems as disgusting as I remember it!) * Since this review, I found it on Youtube, in nauseating low-key colour to add to the kitschness of it! Check it out!
Emotionally ugly with a sense of dread
exoticafan14 April 2003
Warning: Spoilers
Another reviewer mentioned torture and pity as key elements to this movie, and I would like to support this idea. There is a grim, sleazy venear to this movie that is not easily forgotten. I too (like another reviewer) saw this when I was kid, and the feeling of depression and dread followed me for days. It was one of the few movies that when it was repeated on the Saturday afternoon program Theater X, I declined to watch it; not that it was a bad movie, but because of the feelings of fear and pity it generated in me (not valuable emotions for one so young).
Unlike other "keep-the-head-alive-in-a-box" movies, this one effectively makes you empathize with the victim forced to submit to Nazi torture. You cannot distance yourself and enjoy slummy "fun" like you can with The Brain That Couldn't Die, which had the head scheming from the outset for revenge; it takes a while for this victim to come to terms with her power and state in life (?). The almost subliminal, eerie, atonal score that accompanies the various "unveiling" sequences puts nerves on edge as well. This is a truly unsettling movie.
The final words of the various "heads" in both movies are telling as well: Brain... has the disembodied exclaiming, "I told you to let me die!", followed by a vengeful cackle, while the Frozen... victime rasps in barely intelligible tones, "Bury me."
Disturbing.
Unlike other "keep-the-head-alive-in-a-box" movies, this one effectively makes you empathize with the victim forced to submit to Nazi torture. You cannot distance yourself and enjoy slummy "fun" like you can with The Brain That Couldn't Die, which had the head scheming from the outset for revenge; it takes a while for this victim to come to terms with her power and state in life (?). The almost subliminal, eerie, atonal score that accompanies the various "unveiling" sequences puts nerves on edge as well. This is a truly unsettling movie.
The final words of the various "heads" in both movies are telling as well: Brain... has the disembodied exclaiming, "I told you to let me die!", followed by a vengeful cackle, while the Frozen... victime rasps in barely intelligible tones, "Bury me."
Disturbing.
The Frozen Dead: Very underwhelming stuff
Platypuschow1 November 2018
The Frozen Dead is not the zombie movie you'd probably assume, in fact it's not even what it makes itself out to be based on the cover.
A British horror film it tells the story about a Nazi doctor hidden away in England who is working on re-animating cryogenically frozen soldiers. Alas his attempts thus far have failed, though he can bring the body back the mind appears to be broken. All he needs now is a live brain to experiment on!
Shot in colour but broadcast black and white in the cinema this is an incredibly underwhelming title.
The plot appears so neutered, even though the idea behind the concept is shocking the execution is lacking to the degree that almost all impact is lost.
Poorly paced, no likeable characters and just an all round borefest The Frozen Dead demonstrates why 1966 was a dreadful year for film.
The Good:
Some interesting ideas
The Bad:
Painfully slow
Really doesn't go anywhere
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
The creators did little to no research on cryogenics
A British horror film it tells the story about a Nazi doctor hidden away in England who is working on re-animating cryogenically frozen soldiers. Alas his attempts thus far have failed, though he can bring the body back the mind appears to be broken. All he needs now is a live brain to experiment on!
Shot in colour but broadcast black and white in the cinema this is an incredibly underwhelming title.
The plot appears so neutered, even though the idea behind the concept is shocking the execution is lacking to the degree that almost all impact is lost.
Poorly paced, no likeable characters and just an all round borefest The Frozen Dead demonstrates why 1966 was a dreadful year for film.
The Good:
Some interesting ideas
The Bad:
Painfully slow
Really doesn't go anywhere
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
The creators did little to no research on cryogenics
Where were the heads of the people who made this?
PeterJackson27 January 2001
20 years after WW2 has ended, a German scientist living in London, attempts to revive the frozen bodies of several Nazi leaders. Of course, there are some problems along the way (especially "woman problems")... The main problem however with this film is that it has absolutely nothing to say. Besides a ludicrous story, this film also contains some very "unintended-funny" scenes. Especially the dead girl's head is great! "It seems as though the head forced this glass of water out of my hand!" Needless to say that the dialogue, especially near the end of the film, is superb. This alone makes the film worthwhile. There are films that are far worse than this one (and with worse actors), but this comes pretty close too. Oh, and watch out for Edward Fox as one of the crazed Germans in the basement(!). 3/10
the best neo-Nazi transplant movie ever!
planktonrules26 February 2006
Okay, okay,...I'll admit it,...this is probably the ONLY neo-Nazi transplant movie ever, so I guess that makes it the best--by default! Some might think that THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN might be a better example of the genre, but THE FROZEN DEAD looks like Shakespeare compared to that horrible film. Okay, I'll also admit that the movie still stinks. It's true that the production values and writing are terrible, but at least the movie has Dana Andrews and he does a decent job. It's sad that at this point in his career he was beginning to take ANYTHING that was offered to him. Later he admitted to being an alcoholic and this would explain why he chose to be in this turkey. So who would like this film? Well, lovers of campy schlocky horror films will get a few laughs. However, lovers of Mr. Andrews might recoil in horror to see this handsome leading man resort to acting in THIS! So, beware and try it if you dare. And, on the positive side, Mr. Andrews got sober and talked about this--and was an inspiration to many and went on to better things.
Sad, creepy, silly. A good time if you're into this sort of thing.
Hey_Sweden24 June 2017
A delightfully schlocky premise is given straight faced treatment here, as a Nazi scientist named Norberg (a slumming Dana Andrews) goes about the business of keeping various Nazi characters on ice and experimenting on them so that they can, one day, be resurrected successfully. A problem arises when his visiting niece Jean (the gorgeous Anna Palk) becomes VERY concerned about the sudden disappearance of her friend / traveling companion Elsa (Kathleen Breck).
While somewhat disappointing - this doesn't play out the way that some people might want it to - it's an okay forerunner to the "Nazi zombie" genre that eventually flourished. There might be too much talk and too little action for some audience members, but everything is played with admirable sincerity, and the movie isn't completely lacking in memorable imagery. Writer / producer / director Herbert J. Leder ("Pretty Boy Floyd", "It!") gives us a pitiable decapitated head on a table, and the sight of severed arms attached to a wall. Filmed in Britain, this is limited in its color palette, and in fact was apparently originally shown in theatres in black & white. It features a wonderful schlock movie score composed by Don Banks.
The cast is fun to watch, especially Andrews, as he makes an attempt at a German accent. Palk is an appealing leading lady, but Philip Gilbert is rather bland as the nice guy American scientist who becomes party to the machinations of our bad guys. Karel Stepanek and Basil Henson are entertainingly malevolent as Nazi goons. Alan Tilvern delivers a standout performance as Norbergs' crazed assistant. A young Edward Fox pops in and out of the story as one of the unfrozen dead. Breck is ultimately quite the sight, and she does earn ones' sympathies.
An amusing, diverting bit of rubbish that may be worth a look for schlock enthusiasts looking for golden oldies of decades past.
Seven out of 10.
While somewhat disappointing - this doesn't play out the way that some people might want it to - it's an okay forerunner to the "Nazi zombie" genre that eventually flourished. There might be too much talk and too little action for some audience members, but everything is played with admirable sincerity, and the movie isn't completely lacking in memorable imagery. Writer / producer / director Herbert J. Leder ("Pretty Boy Floyd", "It!") gives us a pitiable decapitated head on a table, and the sight of severed arms attached to a wall. Filmed in Britain, this is limited in its color palette, and in fact was apparently originally shown in theatres in black & white. It features a wonderful schlock movie score composed by Don Banks.
The cast is fun to watch, especially Andrews, as he makes an attempt at a German accent. Palk is an appealing leading lady, but Philip Gilbert is rather bland as the nice guy American scientist who becomes party to the machinations of our bad guys. Karel Stepanek and Basil Henson are entertainingly malevolent as Nazi goons. Alan Tilvern delivers a standout performance as Norbergs' crazed assistant. A young Edward Fox pops in and out of the story as one of the unfrozen dead. Breck is ultimately quite the sight, and she does earn ones' sympathies.
An amusing, diverting bit of rubbish that may be worth a look for schlock enthusiasts looking for golden oldies of decades past.
Seven out of 10.
Raw
ctomvelu129 September 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Extremely creepy movie about a mad scientist trying to revive dead Nazis and start World War III. Dana Andrews plays the nutball scientist with an appropriately Nazi-like accent and demeanor. Unfortunately, as he revives these corpses, they go mad, so he locks them away in his castle dungeon. The scenes with these twitching, drooling stiffs are right out of an old-time circus sideshow. Meanwhile, the scientist still has several corpsesicles to play with (shown standing stiff as boards in a freezer, like so many fast-food hamburgers). But he also realizes he needs a fresh, live brain to work on. Just about then, his niece and her friend come to visit, and the scientist's equally nutty assistant takes it upon himself to strangle the niece's friend and offer up her head to his master. Pretty soon, they have a living head in a box, sort of like Senor Wences. The head's skull is cut away and the brain exposed, all the better to tinker with it, and the gal -- who in earlier scenes was a hot little number -- now looks like my deceased mother-in-law. Oh, did I mention the scientist keeps a bunch of severed arms dangling from a wall that he likes to play with? This is truly one sick film, surprising for a British kiddie flick of the time, and for a child of the time, it had to be the stuff of nightmares. Adults will get a hearty laugh out of the campy shenanigans, I suspect. Everything comes to a very bad end. The movie pulls no punches and is as sadistic as a Saturday afternoon matinée flick could possibly have been. Today, it's a hoot, of course. For those too young to remember Andrews, in his prime he was an A-list movie star.
The rise and fall of the thawed Reich
jamesrupert201431 October 2018
One of the triumvirate of iconic '60s disembodied head movies and thematic intermediate between the heady love story of "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" (1962) and the neo-Nazi delirium of "They Saved Hitler's Brain" (1968), "The Frozen Dead" finds former Third Reich scientist Doktor Norberg (Dana Andrews) attempting to revive frozen members of the master race two decades after the end of the war. Unfortunately, the thawed übermensch are mentally defective and without a living human brain to study, Norberg suspects that resuscitating the rest of the Nazicles is doomed. Hoping to head off failure, his whinging assistant Essen (Alan Tilvern) kills Norberg's visiting niece's friend (Kathleen Breck), whose head the pernicious but resourceful doktor manages to keep alive in a box in the lab (complete with an cranial observation dome). The niece gets suspicious, a romance blossoms, more Nazis show up, Norberg wires up the head to a wall of arms...it just gets better and better! The movie effectively evokes a sense of trapped helplessness - you can almost feel the disembodied head's powerless anguish or the panic of the poor henchman left to freeze to death amongst the icy Nazis. While not great art, "The Frozen Dead" is a well done, low-budget shocker that deserves an extra rating point for being surprisingly creepy despite the inherent silliness of the premise.
Ice Reich Baby!
hitchcockthelegend18 October 2014
British sci-fier that's utterly mad and quite awful at times, yet for fans of "B" movie schlockers from days of yore there's enough boldness and charm to warrant a look.
In short order the plot entails a nutty scientist planning to revive frozen Nazis to kick start a new world order. Dana Andrews is the name actor in the lead role, complete with bad German accent, and Kathleen Breck is the star performer playing a head in a box; a victim of the mad scientists moving throughout the madness. It's all very silly and the fact that Andrews and company are taking it serious further induces the mirth factor. The effects work is a very mixed bag, but always fun, while there are some genuinely great scenes involving the frozen corpses, a wall of moving arms and every scene that Breck's head is involved in. None more so with the latter for the truly haunting ending. 2/10
In short order the plot entails a nutty scientist planning to revive frozen Nazis to kick start a new world order. Dana Andrews is the name actor in the lead role, complete with bad German accent, and Kathleen Breck is the star performer playing a head in a box; a victim of the mad scientists moving throughout the madness. It's all very silly and the fact that Andrews and company are taking it serious further induces the mirth factor. The effects work is a very mixed bag, but always fun, while there are some genuinely great scenes involving the frozen corpses, a wall of moving arms and every scene that Breck's head is involved in. None more so with the latter for the truly haunting ending. 2/10
The Frozen Dead Can Be A Chilling Film!
ClassixFan22 March 2004
Warning: Spoilers
OK, so this isn't the greatest of horror films and perhaps there are moments when the film slows to a crawl, but it also has some truly chilling moments! I first saw this film on late-night TV as a young one and I'll always remember the creepy ending and the decapitated head pleading to be killed. Dana Andrews heads the cast and does a nice job as the Nazi Dr trying to bring the frozen soldiers of the Third Reich back to life. I was thrilled to find this film on DVD as part of a double-feature with the truly horrid film, 'They Saved Hitler's Brain'. If you have an opportunity to watch this film, you really should give it a try.....it's not nearly as bad as some would have you believe!
Soft porn previews were shown during this!!!
CatRufus559118 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Yes, I was a mere 11 years old when I saw 'Frozen Dead' on a double bill with 'It' starring Roddy McDowell (not the Stephen King 'It')
in 1966. My little friends and I had just enjoyed 'It', a film about a terrifying golem brought to life, and were watching the previews for coming attractions. Suddenly,
before our inexperienced eyes was a naked woman onscreen as the trailer for a foreign film called 'I, a Woman' was shown (This was before previews were approved for general audiences). Wow. Anyway, The Frozen Dead was very creepy and morbid with a disturbing
soundtrack. Still holds up that way. "Dana Andrews?" my mom said. "What's happened to his career?" You were right, mom. Watch at your own peril!!!
Nazis on ice.
BA_Harrison2 November 2018
According to The Frozen Dead, not all Nazi top brass escaped to South America at the end of WWII, and not all of their scientists were snapped up by the Russian and American governments: Dana Andrews plays Nazi boffin Dr. Norberg, who has spent twenty years living undetected in the UK, waiting for orders from his superiors (who have been living who knows where) to thaw out the Arian elite frozen during the fall of the Third Reich.
Norberg's attempts at reviving the cryogenically preserved Nazis have so far been unsuccessful, but when his assistant Karl (Alan Tilvern) murders Elsa (Kathleen Breck), close friend of the scientist's niece Jean (Anna Palk), Norberg gets a chance to keep the dead girl's head alive and study her brain (which he keeps exposed by replacing her cranium with a clear plastic dome).
Nazis and mad scientists go together like cookies and milk, and with such a macabre premise, The Frozen Dead cannot fail to deliver at least a couple of memorable moments. Unfortunately, writer/director Herbert J. Leder provides too few chills overall, while the lifeless performances mean that it's a struggle to remain conscious at times. I don't want to be too harsh towards such a mean-spirited movie - I appreciate its attempts to shock - but The Frozen Dead left me cold for the most part.
4/10. Not as bad as They Saved Hitler's Brain (but then not much is), but for a slightly more entertaining 'living head' film watch The Brain That Wouldn't Die.
Norberg's attempts at reviving the cryogenically preserved Nazis have so far been unsuccessful, but when his assistant Karl (Alan Tilvern) murders Elsa (Kathleen Breck), close friend of the scientist's niece Jean (Anna Palk), Norberg gets a chance to keep the dead girl's head alive and study her brain (which he keeps exposed by replacing her cranium with a clear plastic dome).
Nazis and mad scientists go together like cookies and milk, and with such a macabre premise, The Frozen Dead cannot fail to deliver at least a couple of memorable moments. Unfortunately, writer/director Herbert J. Leder provides too few chills overall, while the lifeless performances mean that it's a struggle to remain conscious at times. I don't want to be too harsh towards such a mean-spirited movie - I appreciate its attempts to shock - but The Frozen Dead left me cold for the most part.
4/10. Not as bad as They Saved Hitler's Brain (but then not much is), but for a slightly more entertaining 'living head' film watch The Brain That Wouldn't Die.
Yep, Decapitated Head and Nazis
Athanatos7 August 1999
The Nazis' finest (who, in my opinion, couldn't possibly be all that fine) are corpsicled in preparation for the future, apparently a couple of decades downstream. Dana Andrews, a top German scientist, is now trying to thaw them out, but he just gets one basket case after another; brain damage seems to be a major problem. His henchman, knowing that Andrews wants a fresh head with which to work, kills the visiting friend of his daughter, who becomes the head-in-the-box. Naturally, she's a bit angry about this state of affairs. Naturally, all the Nazis end up dead. At the end of the movie, there's the problem of what do do with the head-in-a-box. No one suggests grad school. Instead, sans lungs, she says "Bury me!" Well, that probably is better than grad school. Actually, though it's easy to make fun of this movie, it's not a bad flick.
Shame on Dana Andrews!
moonspinner5521 May 2001
Handsome, square-jawed Dana Andrews--star of such classics as "Laura", "Elephant Walk", and "The Best Years of Our Lives"--finds himself in tragic circumstances here. It's a jaw-droppingly tasteless, would-be horror-thriller about frozen members of the Third Reich being revived by a Hitler-loving scientist. Oh yes, there's also a sub-plot about a woman's severed head that is either gruesome or hilarious depending on your point of view. Written and directed by Herbert J. Leder, who shows a tiny bit of competency behind the camera but absolutely no class. Why else would Andrews and the other cast members appear in this dreadful Nazi garbage other than for money? Tacky and exceedingly crass; view at your own risk. * from ****
Headless frozen Nazi's
The_Void22 June 2008
Frozen Dead is basically just a twist on the classic Frankenstein story; except instead of a brilliant doctor trying to reanimate a corpse, we get a not so brilliant doctor continually trying and failing to bring the dead back to life. I have no problem with films like this; in fact, I'd even say that this one was slightly pioneering - but the main problem with it is simply that it's boring. The plot moves at snail pace and despite some interesting ideas, none of them are put forward in an interesting way; and the film has no point to it. The plot focuses on the idea of bringing key members of the Nazi party back to life. A crazy scientist kept the frozen heads of several party members and has been keeping them safe until a chance to bring them back to life presents itself. He finally finds a way to bring them back by attaching their heads onto new bodies; but finds himself in need of a fresh body to experiment on. His niece's friend who is staying with him provides the perfect solution, until the niece decides to look into the disappearance of her friend.
The sixties and seventies were something of a golden period for UK horror; the Hammer and Amicus films are, of course, the main standouts; but there was some good stuff coming from elsewhere also. There were also a lot of very bad horror films being made around this period, and Frozen Dead is certainly one of the latter. The ideas regarding the doctor's failed experiments could have provided some interesting moments; but they don't and the film continually fails to generate any interest from the viewer. It's actually quite a shame that this film is so woeful because we do get some ideas that are original considering the time period; the whole 'Nazisploitation' genre was still a few years away, while the macabre way certain body parts are brought back to life goes a bit further than the Frankenstein films that were made before this one did. There's nothing special about the atmosphere or the acting about the film; both are serviceable considering the type of film but neither is anything to write home about either. Overall, Frozen Dead is a miserable example of a British sixties horror film and I would not recommend it.
The sixties and seventies were something of a golden period for UK horror; the Hammer and Amicus films are, of course, the main standouts; but there was some good stuff coming from elsewhere also. There were also a lot of very bad horror films being made around this period, and Frozen Dead is certainly one of the latter. The ideas regarding the doctor's failed experiments could have provided some interesting moments; but they don't and the film continually fails to generate any interest from the viewer. It's actually quite a shame that this film is so woeful because we do get some ideas that are original considering the time period; the whole 'Nazisploitation' genre was still a few years away, while the macabre way certain body parts are brought back to life goes a bit further than the Frankenstein films that were made before this one did. There's nothing special about the atmosphere or the acting about the film; both are serviceable considering the type of film but neither is anything to write home about either. Overall, Frozen Dead is a miserable example of a British sixties horror film and I would not recommend it.
truly a classic bad movie
malcolmgsw28 February 2015
I was quite startled when I came to this page to see that people had actually taken this film seriously.It really has to be one of the funniest "horror" films that I have ever seen.once Dana Andrews opens his mouth to speak everything seems to fall apart.He must have the worst ever German accent.What possessed the director to ask him to attempt it.Unfortunately for Dana he came rather cheap at this time and was going through a bad time with the drink.This film seems to try to incorporate all the clichés from these type of films.It has to be said that the supporting cast aren't much better so the level of ineptitude of Dana is matched.The film is so bad it is extremely entertaining.
Pretty good little sci-fi/horror programmer
Woodyanders12 October 2020
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Determined and persistent mad scientist Dr. Norberg (a respectable performance by Dana Andrews) tries to reanimate the frozen bodies of various Nazi officers and soldiers so the Third Reich can once again rule over the world.
Writer/director Herbert J. Leder relates the enjoyable and engrossing story at a steady pace, treats the rather absurd and farfetched premise with admirable seriousness, and offers some genuinely creepy and unnerving bits of business that include a wall of sentient disembodied arms on a wall, a hulking mute butler (the imposing Oliver MacGreevy), and, most memorably, an angry and wretched living head (well played with snarling aplomb by Kathleen Breck) imprisoned in a box. This film further benefits from solid acting from Anna Palk as Norberg's sweet niece Jean, Philip Gilbert as dashing nice guy Dr. Ted Roberts, Karel Stephanek as the austere General Lubeck, and Alan Tilvern as loyal assistant Karl Essen. Although a bit on the slow and talky side, this movie overall still rates as a perfectly satisfying B-grade affair.
Writer/director Herbert J. Leder relates the enjoyable and engrossing story at a steady pace, treats the rather absurd and farfetched premise with admirable seriousness, and offers some genuinely creepy and unnerving bits of business that include a wall of sentient disembodied arms on a wall, a hulking mute butler (the imposing Oliver MacGreevy), and, most memorably, an angry and wretched living head (well played with snarling aplomb by Kathleen Breck) imprisoned in a box. This film further benefits from solid acting from Anna Palk as Norberg's sweet niece Jean, Philip Gilbert as dashing nice guy Dr. Ted Roberts, Karel Stephanek as the austere General Lubeck, and Alan Tilvern as loyal assistant Karl Essen. Although a bit on the slow and talky side, this movie overall still rates as a perfectly satisfying B-grade affair.
Great idea... not so great follow through
smileybleyle18 July 2009
Warning: Spoilers
When I read about this movie I thought it was going to be an amazing horror movie that must have just been skipped over by thousands of viewers. Frankenstien is one of the most gripping, as well as one of the most richly ambiguous stories ever written, and I figured this movie was just about to show me exactly how beautifully malleable it was. Unfortunately, this movie exists better as a trailer or even a synopsis. I have to agree with what a lot of other reviewers have written... its just kinda boring. How could a movie about the literal re-materialization of the 3rd Reich be boring? Frozen Nazis coming back to life... That is some bold, offensive stuff especially in the 60s. I'll tell you how(don't read if you are a masochist and actually want to watch it)... it never actually happens!!! The movie never climaxes and the only part that is memorable is the hilarious expressions on the headless female's face whenever the doctor enters the room (not frightening at all unless you're 5). But seriously... this movie is not even worth watching ironically. its just pretty bad.
Elsa Uses Her Head
ferbs546 February 2019
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The film career of Mississippi-born Dana Andrews seemed to undergo some kind of metamorphosis as the actor entered his third decade before the cameras. During the 1940s, the characters that Andrews brought to life were in the main sympathetic and likeable, whether they were such all-American Joes as in "The Ox-Bow Incident," "State Fair" and "The Best Years of Our Lives," or troubled cops as in "Laura" and "Where the Sidewalk Ends." He managed to maintain that sympathetic demeanor throughout the '50s (I particularly like him in the exceptionally fine, 1957 horror film "Night of the Demon"), but come the 1960s, and as Andrews entered his 50s and his features coarsened a bit, his roles gradually segued into personges who were alarmingly less sympathetic. In 1965, in the sci-fi thriller "Crack in the World," his Dr. Sorenson character was so pigheaded and mistaken in his experiments that he caused the planet Earth to split in two, and that same year, in "Brainstorm," he portrayed a husband so vile that the audience cheers when he is murdered in cold blood by his wife's lover. But it was in one of his 1966 offerings, the British production "The Frozen Dead," that Andrews portrayed a character with even less likeability, if possible, than any other that he had ever attempted. In this film, Dana plays the part of one Dr. Norberg, an ex-Nazi now living in England, who is working on a method of bringing back to life the dozen or so cryogenically stored soldiers of the Third Reich who have been entrusted to his care. Originally released in October of '66 in the U.K. and over a year later in the U.S., the film is a surprisingly solid one that is immensely bolstered by Andrews' performance in the lead role; a somewhat daring one for the formerly sympathetic Hollywood leading man.
In the film, we learn that Dr. Norbert has indeed perfected his method of bringing the Nazi corpsicles back to life but that one major problem remains: All the soldiers who have been successfully thawed out after 20 years of deep freeze are mentally unhinged; their bodies function but their minds, after having been prodded by the doctor, remain fixed on the one mania that has been hit upon. Thus, one of the soldiers can do nothing but bounce an imaginary rubber ball; another endlessly combs his hair; another thinks of himself as an old man; one sits and cowers in perpetual fear; and still another counts beads on a rosary. And then there is "Prisoner 3" (played by Edward Fox, in his first credited role), who just happens to be Norberg's brother and the father of his niece, and who is now homicidally violent in nature. Norberg's travails grow even more complicated with the arrival at his country estate of Nazi general Lubeck (Czech actor Karel Stepanek) and Capt. Tirpitz (Basil Henson), who inform him that his experiments must be stepped up and his problems with the corpsicles' minds overcome posthaste, as 1,500 more Nazi soldiers are awaiting their turn to be unthawed! Norberg declares his desire for a living human brain to study, and his wish soon attains fulfillment with the unexpected arrival of his niece Jean (Anna Palk) and her good friend Elsa (Kathleen Breck). Norberg's weasly assistant Essen (Alan Tilvern) drugs the lovely Elsa in her sleep and later slays her, blaming the deed on Prisoner 3. Norberg decides that since the poor girl is dead anyway, he might as well use her brain as a means of study. Thus, we soon see Elsa's severed head in a wooden box, nourishing tubes attached to her noggin, her brain exposed but covered with some kind of transparent dome for study. And as if matters could not grow any more complex, the distraught Jean immediately starts snooping around in search of her friend; an American scientist named Dr. Roberts (a nod to the Beatles' just released song "Doctor Robert"?), played by Philip Gilbert, arrives to help Norbert in his work; and poor Elsa begins to evince the ability to communicate telepathically with Jean and send messages into her dreams! It would seem that it is only a matter of time until Jean discovers what her uncle is up to in his basement laboratory, and that her father did NOT in fact die in a Nazi concentration camp decades before....
Those viewers who sit down to watch "The Frozen Dead" expecting some kind of Grade Z spectacle might be a bit surprised at what they wind up getting instead. The film, despite its outrageous premise, is very much a class production--this is decidedly not a shlock movie--and director/producer/writer Herbert J. Leder, who had previously been responsible for the script for the great sci-fi film "Fiend Without a Face" and who would go on to write and direct the Roddy McDowall/Jill Haworth film "It!,"does a fine job in all three departments here. What a double feature this film and "It!" must have made, when the two first appeared together here in the States in November '67! The film looks terrific, even sumptuous in parts, and was shot in beautiful Eastmancolour, but strangely enough, when shown here in the U.S., it was screened in B&W; I am very glad that I recently got to see it in its original color, so as to better appreciate its often surprising visuals. Plus, in B&W, the audience never got to see that Elsa's head, in that wooden box, was the strangest shade of aqua blue--a most disconcerting visual, indeed--or the bizarre tints in that wall of living arms (!) that Norbert has in his basement. In the lead female role, Anna Palk (who had previously appeared in such horror affairs as "The Earth Dies Screaming" and "The Skull") is both lovely and shapely, and Kathleen Breck is surprisingly effective as that living head, making the most of mere eye movements and grimacing expressions. Her final words as the film closes--"Bury me, bury me"--should linger long in the viewer's memory. As for Andrews, he is rock solid here, playing his role absolutely straight and even--dare I say it--bringing a note of sympathy to his character. Here is a crazed Nazi scientist who balks at killing--he would never condone murder to obtain his living brain, which is why Essen feels compelled to do the dirty deed himself--and who is shocked to the core when he learns of what Essen has done. (Andrews is such a terrific actor that we can tell his reaction via his eyes alone.) "The Frozen Dead," of course, was just one of many offerings in the curious horror subgenre that might be called "Nazi zombie films." It is assuredly superior to the legendary camp classic "Madmen of Mandoras" (1963), which was recast as "They Saved Hitler's Brain" in 1968, and more fun than 1977's "Shock Waves." (I still have not gotten around to seeing such Nazi zombie films as 1981's "Zombie Lake," 1982's "Oasis of the Zombies" and 2009's "Dead Snow.") As regards the subgenre of films that I suppose might be called "living heads," "The Frozen Dead" is not nearly as deliriously crazy as "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" (1962) or as startlingly bizarre as the 1959 German film simply entitled "The Head," but is still capable of stunning the viewer with any number of outre segments, and indeed, the final fates of Dr. Norberg and Gen. Lubeck must be seen to be believed! I'm not sure that even 1,500 revived Nazi soldiers would have made an effective army in the nuclear era of 1966, but thank goodness that Elsa here was still capable of using her head!
In the film, we learn that Dr. Norbert has indeed perfected his method of bringing the Nazi corpsicles back to life but that one major problem remains: All the soldiers who have been successfully thawed out after 20 years of deep freeze are mentally unhinged; their bodies function but their minds, after having been prodded by the doctor, remain fixed on the one mania that has been hit upon. Thus, one of the soldiers can do nothing but bounce an imaginary rubber ball; another endlessly combs his hair; another thinks of himself as an old man; one sits and cowers in perpetual fear; and still another counts beads on a rosary. And then there is "Prisoner 3" (played by Edward Fox, in his first credited role), who just happens to be Norberg's brother and the father of his niece, and who is now homicidally violent in nature. Norberg's travails grow even more complicated with the arrival at his country estate of Nazi general Lubeck (Czech actor Karel Stepanek) and Capt. Tirpitz (Basil Henson), who inform him that his experiments must be stepped up and his problems with the corpsicles' minds overcome posthaste, as 1,500 more Nazi soldiers are awaiting their turn to be unthawed! Norberg declares his desire for a living human brain to study, and his wish soon attains fulfillment with the unexpected arrival of his niece Jean (Anna Palk) and her good friend Elsa (Kathleen Breck). Norberg's weasly assistant Essen (Alan Tilvern) drugs the lovely Elsa in her sleep and later slays her, blaming the deed on Prisoner 3. Norberg decides that since the poor girl is dead anyway, he might as well use her brain as a means of study. Thus, we soon see Elsa's severed head in a wooden box, nourishing tubes attached to her noggin, her brain exposed but covered with some kind of transparent dome for study. And as if matters could not grow any more complex, the distraught Jean immediately starts snooping around in search of her friend; an American scientist named Dr. Roberts (a nod to the Beatles' just released song "Doctor Robert"?), played by Philip Gilbert, arrives to help Norbert in his work; and poor Elsa begins to evince the ability to communicate telepathically with Jean and send messages into her dreams! It would seem that it is only a matter of time until Jean discovers what her uncle is up to in his basement laboratory, and that her father did NOT in fact die in a Nazi concentration camp decades before....
Those viewers who sit down to watch "The Frozen Dead" expecting some kind of Grade Z spectacle might be a bit surprised at what they wind up getting instead. The film, despite its outrageous premise, is very much a class production--this is decidedly not a shlock movie--and director/producer/writer Herbert J. Leder, who had previously been responsible for the script for the great sci-fi film "Fiend Without a Face" and who would go on to write and direct the Roddy McDowall/Jill Haworth film "It!,"does a fine job in all three departments here. What a double feature this film and "It!" must have made, when the two first appeared together here in the States in November '67! The film looks terrific, even sumptuous in parts, and was shot in beautiful Eastmancolour, but strangely enough, when shown here in the U.S., it was screened in B&W; I am very glad that I recently got to see it in its original color, so as to better appreciate its often surprising visuals. Plus, in B&W, the audience never got to see that Elsa's head, in that wooden box, was the strangest shade of aqua blue--a most disconcerting visual, indeed--or the bizarre tints in that wall of living arms (!) that Norbert has in his basement. In the lead female role, Anna Palk (who had previously appeared in such horror affairs as "The Earth Dies Screaming" and "The Skull") is both lovely and shapely, and Kathleen Breck is surprisingly effective as that living head, making the most of mere eye movements and grimacing expressions. Her final words as the film closes--"Bury me, bury me"--should linger long in the viewer's memory. As for Andrews, he is rock solid here, playing his role absolutely straight and even--dare I say it--bringing a note of sympathy to his character. Here is a crazed Nazi scientist who balks at killing--he would never condone murder to obtain his living brain, which is why Essen feels compelled to do the dirty deed himself--and who is shocked to the core when he learns of what Essen has done. (Andrews is such a terrific actor that we can tell his reaction via his eyes alone.) "The Frozen Dead," of course, was just one of many offerings in the curious horror subgenre that might be called "Nazi zombie films." It is assuredly superior to the legendary camp classic "Madmen of Mandoras" (1963), which was recast as "They Saved Hitler's Brain" in 1968, and more fun than 1977's "Shock Waves." (I still have not gotten around to seeing such Nazi zombie films as 1981's "Zombie Lake," 1982's "Oasis of the Zombies" and 2009's "Dead Snow.") As regards the subgenre of films that I suppose might be called "living heads," "The Frozen Dead" is not nearly as deliriously crazy as "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" (1962) or as startlingly bizarre as the 1959 German film simply entitled "The Head," but is still capable of stunning the viewer with any number of outre segments, and indeed, the final fates of Dr. Norberg and Gen. Lubeck must be seen to be believed! I'm not sure that even 1,500 revived Nazi soldiers would have made an effective army in the nuclear era of 1966, but thank goodness that Elsa here was still capable of using her head!
This is the worst kind of bad movie...boring
Vigilante-40725 January 2001
Dull. Dreadfully boring. That's the main problem with The Frozen Dead. Nothing much really happens, which is a shame, since Dana Andrews stars in it. The star of Laura and Curse of the Demon apparently really needed the money or something, because his is really the most inspired performance in the movie, and that is not saying much at all.
I supposed I shouldn't have expected much from a tired old schtick (defrosted Nazis wanting to take over the world), but even I was surprised at how dull this film is. If you like this kind of movie, check out They Saved Hitler's Brain, which is fun to laugh at...this one doesn't even have bad comedy to recommend it.
I supposed I shouldn't have expected much from a tired old schtick (defrosted Nazis wanting to take over the world), but even I was surprised at how dull this film is. If you like this kind of movie, check out They Saved Hitler's Brain, which is fun to laugh at...this one doesn't even have bad comedy to recommend it.
not easy to forget
jay_bondrock5 October 2005
I just read the other user comment saying this film was not easily forgotten and I felt compelled to comment. I too saw this movie when I was young.. about ten years old... and here I am thirty years later and I suddenly felt compelled to Google it out of the blue. It really did haunt me and obviously still crosses my mind from time to time. I would not watch it again, either - there was something very sickening about it. I guess if I watched it now, used to the modern age of special effects and film techniques I would not be terribly impressed... but at the time it left it's mark. For that I give it positive rating even though I wish I'd never seen it in the first place.
I guess even a dead Nazi demands some peace.
mark.waltz7 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
If you look up stills of this film before you watch it, do not confuse it with "The Brain that Wouldn't Die". It is as far from that movie as the original "Little Shop of Horrors" is from the musical version. This actually is a very serious film dealing with Nazi scientist Dana Andrews living now in England and experimenting on humans to see if it is possible to transfer their head from one body to another so Nazi leaders will eventually be able to have their frozen heads moved to a younger body.
On the surface, it does sound comical, but it is written to be quite different than how it sounds. Unfortunately, there is an innocent victim of a rape attempt who is murdered, and she ends up having her head removed so it can be later put onto another body. This means that her brain is still alive and she is aware of what is going on around her. However she is not the wisecracking woman from the brain that wouldn't die. In fact, she is quite panicked and desperate to really be dead. Her best friend (Anna Palk), who happens to be Andrews' niece (and unaware of his past), comes across the secrets of her family legacy, and is determined to save her, or at least give her a peaceful rest.
Yes, Dana Andrews switches sides in this colorful science fiction / horror film that takes the hero of "Foreign Correspondent" and other war movies and turns him into a member of one of the most hated political parties in world history. He keeps his accent throughout, and even though his character has evil intentions, it is very apparent that Andrews was trying to instill a conscience inside his evil soul. So when he looks on at the murdered girl with pity, you are almost too tempted to sympathize with him even though his ultimate goal is to return the Nazi party to life through the dead who are seen in their frozen stage as well as briefly unfrozen.
The only comical element is unintentional when a shot of the had held statically on a table is extremely blue. In fact, blue is a major color in this film, being utilized greatly in the hand drawn credits which are gorgeous, reminding me of Charles Addams drawings. This film has many disturbing elements among it themes, but it is not one that you will soon forget. The shot at the finale of the villains getting their comeuppance and the last line are both eerie and touching, and it's the type of film where I bet the audience left the theater in complete silence.
On the surface, it does sound comical, but it is written to be quite different than how it sounds. Unfortunately, there is an innocent victim of a rape attempt who is murdered, and she ends up having her head removed so it can be later put onto another body. This means that her brain is still alive and she is aware of what is going on around her. However she is not the wisecracking woman from the brain that wouldn't die. In fact, she is quite panicked and desperate to really be dead. Her best friend (Anna Palk), who happens to be Andrews' niece (and unaware of his past), comes across the secrets of her family legacy, and is determined to save her, or at least give her a peaceful rest.
Yes, Dana Andrews switches sides in this colorful science fiction / horror film that takes the hero of "Foreign Correspondent" and other war movies and turns him into a member of one of the most hated political parties in world history. He keeps his accent throughout, and even though his character has evil intentions, it is very apparent that Andrews was trying to instill a conscience inside his evil soul. So when he looks on at the murdered girl with pity, you are almost too tempted to sympathize with him even though his ultimate goal is to return the Nazi party to life through the dead who are seen in their frozen stage as well as briefly unfrozen.
The only comical element is unintentional when a shot of the had held statically on a table is extremely blue. In fact, blue is a major color in this film, being utilized greatly in the hand drawn credits which are gorgeous, reminding me of Charles Addams drawings. This film has many disturbing elements among it themes, but it is not one that you will soon forget. The shot at the finale of the villains getting their comeuppance and the last line are both eerie and touching, and it's the type of film where I bet the audience left the theater in complete silence.
Put this one in the deep freeze.
bkoganbing30 October 2018
I think you can make a good case for The Frozen Dead being the worst movie
Dana Andrews ever starred in. Was this the best offer he got in 1966?
Replete with phony German accent where he tries to sound like Kurt Katch or any other number of actors who played Nazis during World War II, Andrews is a Nazi scientist who kept his party affiliation a secret. Meanwhile over in the United Kingdom he's been conducting Frankenstein like experiments keeping frozen the bodies of several Nazi war criminals so he can revive them and get back to business as usual for Nazis.
To do that and don't ask me how he needs to study a human brain and one becomes available when Kathleen Breck who is a friend of his visiting niece from America Anna Palk gets killed by Andrews's demented brother. Of course the niece gets suspicious and therein lies the plot to this turkey.
Who could believe there were so many Nazis of the German variety operating in Great Britain in the 60s. Andrews who at that time was having his struggles with alcoholism must have been deeply inebriated to have signed for The Frozen Dead.
Replete with phony German accent where he tries to sound like Kurt Katch or any other number of actors who played Nazis during World War II, Andrews is a Nazi scientist who kept his party affiliation a secret. Meanwhile over in the United Kingdom he's been conducting Frankenstein like experiments keeping frozen the bodies of several Nazi war criminals so he can revive them and get back to business as usual for Nazis.
To do that and don't ask me how he needs to study a human brain and one becomes available when Kathleen Breck who is a friend of his visiting niece from America Anna Palk gets killed by Andrews's demented brother. Of course the niece gets suspicious and therein lies the plot to this turkey.
Who could believe there were so many Nazis of the German variety operating in Great Britain in the 60s. Andrews who at that time was having his struggles with alcoholism must have been deeply inebriated to have signed for The Frozen Dead.
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