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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This Frankenstein grows out the Hiroshima bombings. It involves a boy who ingests radioactive material and who begins to grow dramatically. He is a sad figure who is left to fend for himself, and, of course, bothers the locals. Nick Adams (Johnny Yuma, the Rebel) is the only American actor and finds his talents wasted. I have a feeling he was a decent actor who had to grab on to junk like this so he could keep eating. I believe he eventually took his own life. He isn't asked to do much and doesn't. It's not an awful movie, but it isn't really very memorable.

Wow, just when I thought I've seen it all. This 1965 Toho classic brings the reanimated corpse to the world of giant monsters and elaborate miniatures, an oddball idea. Believe it or not, Frankenstein was originally suppose to fight the likes of Godzilla at the time, but the concept was sorta dropped and instead Godzilla ends up fighting King Kong, Mothra, and Ghidorah. Without wasting the basic idea, however, Toho created this film and the result was "Frankenstein Conquers the World aka Frankenstein vs Baragon." Plot: During WW2, the Nazis deliver the still-beating heart of the Frankenstein monster to Japanese scientists in Hiroshima who plan to use it for medical purposes. However, the heart was presumed lost in the nuclear explosion that destroyed Hiroshima. Years later, scientists discover a strange wild boy running around and find out soon that the missing heart grew a new body resistant to radiation. With greater access to food in captivity, Frankentein grows rapidly and soon escapes. Then, mysterious, destructive incidents have occurred and everyone's quick to blame Frankenstein. That's not the case as it turns out that Baragon, a subterranean fire-breathing dinosaur, is the real culprit. Soon a battle between Frankenstein and Baragon commences and the fate of Japan hangs by a thread.Overall, this is an interesting film. It's pretty scientifically accurate and the miniature sets are fairly impressive seeing as how the monsters are smaller that their larger kaiju brethren. The story is also good and the music by Akira Ifukube is a real treat to listen. Frankenstein does look a little goofy with his buck teeth and unsettling shriek.The monster that steals the show, however, is Baragon. Arguably one of my favorite monsters, Baragon has a great design, cool roar, and a nice set of abilities. The movie starts out a little slow, but once Baragon shows up things get pretty exciting, especially when Franky and Baragon have their awesome lengthy fight. They pretty much beat the living crap out of each other, making this one of my favorite kaiju battles.This is a fun edition to Toho's roster of creature features. Baragon became so popular thanks to this film that he actually now stars in a few Godzilla films and video games. If you're a fan of giant monsters, then check this action out. I recommend getting the 2-disc special edition for this one. Enjoy!

Before I even started watching this film, I had a very, very strong impression that the film would suck--and boy, was I right! With such titles as "Frankenstein Versus the World" and "Frankenstein Verses Baragon", it was obvious it wasn't going to be Shakespeare. What surprised me, though, is that not only was this a cheesy Japanese Frankenstein story, but this time the monster was almost Godzilla-sized!! And this was never really fully explained in the longer international version (the DVD also had a shorter American version that I skipped)! The film begins with Nazi scientists sending something to Japan in the final says of World War II--though what exactly it happens to be is unknown. However, it must be important because the Germans risk a sub to get this secret to Japan. Well, it turns out the sub is carrying a box containing Frankenstein's indestructible heart and the idea is to research into how to make more so they Japanese can have an entire army of indestructible soldiers. However, just after they take the heart out of the box in Hiroshima, the city is nuked and 15 years pass. Now, for reasons completely unknown, this heart somehow got transferred into a feeble-minded teenager who looks like a cross between a caveman and a Japanese kid with an over-sized Frankenstein wig. Oddly, the scientist who examines him declares that the freaky boy "is a Caucasian", though he looks about as Causcasian as Gary Coleman! Oddly, this feral child is already pretty big but starts to quickly grow to gargantuan proportions. This leads the audience to wonder: 1. How the nuked heart survived Hiroshima and magically appeared in a caveboy's chest.2. Why the kid has been doing just fine eating pets and roadkill for years and only when he is rescued does he begin to grow.3. Is the scientist who examined him in his right mind? 4. When the Frankencritter escapes, the first person called is the comely Japanese lady scientist. However, while she is learning about it on the phone, Nick Adams (the token Western actor) announces he's going to find the boy and bring him back to the lab. But how did Adams know this BEFORE the lady? Did he have esp or did he just read the script? After all, SHE was on the phone and he was with her.Regardless of all these important unanswered questions, none are adequately answered and the script is a mess. Instead of trying to make a real horror film, it soon becomes a battle of giant monsters as two ugly brutes appear from nowhere to battle Frankie. It's the typical stupid Toho Studios fare--with tiny buildings and tanks being stomped. My favorite was the boar--that was so obviously fake it made me laugh. However, the first challenger to Frankenstein looked a lot like a dog in a rubber lizard costume! You have to see it to believe it.Despite the movie totally stinking, it is worth seeing if you are a "bad movie fan" who LIKES seeing inept and stupid films. Plus, thankfully, despite being really, really dumb, at least the film is better than the god-awful Gamera films--with that annoying brat who loves and believes in the monster. YECCCHH!!FYI--After writing this deservedly scathing review, I checked out the other reviews for this film and found three people who gave it a positive review AND a score of 10. Apparently, they must now be encouraging mental patients to post reviews.

If King Kong got to do battle with Godzilla, I guess that a Frankenstein vs. Baragon match is not that much of a stretch! We open with a crazy WWII prologue in which Nazi troops (on the verge of defeat) storm into a mad doctor's lab, steal the container with Frankenstein's heart still a-pumpin' and drop it into the lap of their still-kicking Japanese allies stationed at Hiroshima!! The creature (referred to as Frankenstein by virtually everybody throughout – even though it is made clear from the outset that this was in fact the name of its creator) starts off at normal size but grows to be a massive giant by the end of the film, which may be a new angle to the Frankenstein theme but seems to have been allowed simply in order to make the final showdown between the titans plausible! As can be expected, the latter delivers plenty of action but it goes on far too long; even worse, this (in which Baragon emerges the loser) is followed by yet another combat between the Frankenstein monster and a giant octopus (presumably the "Devilfish" referred to in one of the film's alternate titles) – which creature comes out of nowhere (this sequence was actually cut from the U.S. release version)! American star Nick Adams is once again the hero (as was the case with Honda's own MONSTER ZERO [1965]) – he and a couple of other scientists (one of them a beautiful girl, naturally, and whom the creature seems to trust most of all) spend most of the running-time trying to convince the authorities that the Frankenstein monster is a testament to the art of science and that he should be allowed to live. Throughout the course of the film, it's accused of being the perpetrator of a good deal of mayhem – until it transpires that Baragon is the real culprit! One of the funniest moments in the film is when the creature tries to catch a bird by hurling a tree at it(!), misses the target and lands on a cabin which is summarily flattened (to the gasping reaction of its owner standing nearby)! As with a few of the other Hondas I watched recently – presented in the original Japanese language and accompanied by Italian subtitles – I missed out on a sizeable chunk of dialogue because the translated lines weren't given sufficient time to register! Finally, watching the film I was reminded of other vulgarizations of classic horror myths made around this same time – such as BILLY THE KID VS. Dracula (1966), the various Paul Naschy werewolf entries, and even Jess Franco's Dracula – PRISONER OF FRANKENSTEIN (1971) and THE EROTIC RITES OF FRANKENSTEIN (1972)...