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Frankenstein's Daughter
Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.
Release : | 1958 |
Rating : | 4.2 |
Studio : | Layton Film Productions Inc., |
Crew : | Director of Photography, Makeup Artist, |
Cast : | Donald Murphy Sandra Knight John Ashley Wolfe Barzell Harry Wilson |
Genre : | Horror Science Fiction |
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Wonderful character development!
Very well executed
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Trudy Morton (Sandra Knight) has been having bad dreams, in which she runs around w/ buck teeth and poodles for eyebrows. Oh no! Evidence mounts that may mean that her dreams are real! Meanwhile, Trudy's kindly uncle, Professor Carter Morton has been in his basement lab, working on a cure for all disease. His assistant, Oliver Frank (Donald Murphy- SWAMP GIRL) seems to have plans of his own. Plans having nothing to do w/ any miracle cure. He needs a human head, dammit! A head! Enter Elsu (Wolfe Barzell), Frank's henchman, who secures the various parts he needs. Sandra just might be a subject of Frank's inhuman experiments. That would explain the whole big teeth / eyebrow thing, along w/ her new hard-boiled eggs for eyes! Trudy's swinging boyfriend, Johnny Bruder (John Ashley- MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND) remains unconvinced, but helps Trudy anyway. Murder ensues, when Frank grows impatient for body parts. Will Trudy ever figure out what Frank is up to, or shall bug-eyed, snaggletooth be her "forever" look? Annnd, just what is that thing that just sat up in the lab? It strongly resembles a swaddled potato in a rubber jogging suit w/ a toaster on each foot! Dear lord! Whatever it is, it's on a spontaneous spree of spud-ly spunk! Obviously, it's time for a pool party! Whoo! Rock on! Is this a musical? Where the hell is that monster?! FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER hurts real good! Hyper-schlock such as this is the reason I live and breathe...
This was probably the film that changed my life the most. It sparked my obsession with terrible films. I saw it on a television rerun as a teen-ager and my life was never the same. I realized that a film can be just as enjoyable, if not more so, if it is ineptly made. soon I was watching such classics as 'plan 9 from outer space', 'manos, the hands of fate', 'santa clause conquers the martians', 'space mutiny', 'laserblast', 'warning from space', and countless other b-movies, for I realized that an unintentional comedy is far superior to most intentional ones.
When Universal gave Dracula a daughter, Gloria Holden was quite genuinely creepy in Dracula's Daughter. But the franchise of Frankenstein got away from Universal and when Frankenstein got a daughter she was just the subject of a horribly bad movie, not a good horror picture.Sandra Knight's uncle Felix Locher is a scientist doing some home experiments with a new lab assistant Donald Murphy aiding him. But Murphy is a descendant of those Frankensteins back in Europe and you know what they were experimenting with. He works for Locher so he can use the lab facilities for some experiments of his own. He's got a human body stitched together, but if he only had a brain.We learn here that the Frankensteins were nothing if not male chauvinists. Murphy thinks why not try a female brain and the brain he gets is a friend Locher's niece Sandra Knight, Playboy centerfold Sally Todd.This one ranks right down there among the worst films ever made. The monster's just as gruesome even if one of Hugh Hefner's monthly delights is the brain. But she does kill on command and the end confrontation between Murphy and his creation and Knight and boyfriend John Ashley will have you rolling up the aisles.It occurred to me that since he only got the idea for a female brain and the original monster was a male, Frankenstein may have created the first deliberately made transgender individual. If the monster had lived the sexual reassignment surgery would have truly been historic.Transgender rights however were certainly not advanced with Frankenstein's Daughter. Nor was film entertainment in general.
Take a screenplay written with every monster movie cliché imaginable and from any other genre that came in handy, an unimaginative director, $60,000, and you'll get a movie like Frankenstein's Daughter. Really, the actors, several of which I recognize from TV shows of the time, gave performances as good as any others could have done with the material given them. There isn't a believable situation in this lovable, laughable turkey. This one had me smiling, laughing under my breath, or laughing out load throughout.Oliver Frank is quite a piece of work. He pushes his boss, Prof. Morton, around, and patronizes him. When he isn't hitting hard on Morton's granddaughter, Trudy (played by Sandra Knight, who can also be seen in "The Terror"), he's dosing her with a drug that makes her horrible looking. Everyone patronizes her. Frank's also carrying on the Frankenstein tradition in Morton's laboratory. He runs down a girl who brushes his high school masher moves off, takes her brain, and puts it into his monster. The monster moves spastically, like a battery operated robot I had as a kid, though mine tipped over all the time. The monster's only victims had to help by standing still or cornering themselves. As per formula (Teens to the rescue!), Trudy's boyfriend (played by John Ashley, who costarred in the equally funny "The Eye Creatures") destroys the monster, and Frank dies in the hilarious climatic scene in the laboratory.I downloaded a copy from The Internet Archive. It's full-frame (4:3) rather than at the original aspect ratio. I looked around for a copy for sale at the original aspect ratio without luck.