The film starts with a silly looking "monster" running around a suburban neighborhood scaring the locals. The special effects artists involved spared no expense--giving an actress a set of hillbilly teeth and a giant uni-brow (like Bert from Sesame Street). At first, I thought this was Frankenstein's daughter, but instead she was just a diversion--a DIFFERENT experiment by the doctor. No, apart from creating a formula to make people look like they could use a bit of dental work and electrolysis, he also was secretly working on making a monster--just like his father. You see, this sexually frustrated man is trying once again to prove the Frankenstein name and come up with his own freakish experiment. The problem is, the lady he creates looks more like a melted candle than Boris Karloff and she just didn't get around to doing all that much. And in the end, it pretty much wraps up as you'd expect--with no twists or turns to provide any interesting diversions or subplot. In fact, there's very little to like about this movie unless you enjoy seeing bad films and laughing at them (which I occasionally like to do). In this case, then this film is for you! Horrible acting, a horrid script and some of the worst makeup I have ever seen on a monster combine to make a truly horrible horror film.
Review of Frankenstein's Daughter
Frankenstein's Daughter
(1958)
Not quite the worst horror movie ever,...but it came pretty close!
22 April 2007
Warning: Spoilers