Roger Corman is a director with a bad reputation as one of the worst in the whole film industry. I've actually done more research and found out that he did make some better recent movies. Then again, he might have just been an extra or something in them. Anyway, this movie takes place in the future and features a scientist being sent back to the past to the days of Frankenstein. I actually really do like certain scenes in this film. The scenes with Mary Shelley are actually really well done. She is portrayed very nicely in this film and I like how they tie her role to the actual book. John Hurt has died in more movies than any other actor (is it because of his name?) that I was surprised he survived this one.
Raul Julia looked like Tim Curry in this movie. What weighs this film down, however is that the Frankenstein Monster is very poorly designed. I like how he can talk, but the finale of this film is really bad. It features everyone going to some barren wasteland by the thing that travels through time. We see Benjamin (Julia) and the monster go to some laboratory that Benjamin apparently made? Then he declares him to be Frankenstein. The monster is killed by lasers but survives and lives in his mind? It got really confusing. I feel bad, because this film could have been good with some interesting ideas, but the climax is so bad I can't recommend it. This film at least had potential, so I'll give it that. At the end, it turned into a "Doctor Who" episode. **
Raul Julia looked like Tim Curry in this movie. What weighs this film down, however is that the Frankenstein Monster is very poorly designed. I like how he can talk, but the finale of this film is really bad. It features everyone going to some barren wasteland by the thing that travels through time. We see Benjamin (Julia) and the monster go to some laboratory that Benjamin apparently made? Then he declares him to be Frankenstein. The monster is killed by lasers but survives and lives in his mind? It got really confusing. I feel bad, because this film could have been good with some interesting ideas, but the climax is so bad I can't recommend it. This film at least had potential, so I'll give it that. At the end, it turned into a "Doctor Who" episode. **