SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

mark.waltz I've seen clips and stills of this film before but discovered it quite by accident, and am perplexed by many things about it. This shows how invaders from Mars (one ridiculous looking effeminate Martian, and their queen, who looks like she's wearing bad Maria Montez drag), determined to swipe women off of the face of the earth to help repopulate their planet, face up with a robot monster, half human, half vacuum cleaner parts, and somehow land in Puerto Rico where they begin their mission. The military made robot monster, the supposed Frankenstein of the title, has half of a man's face and the rest is computerized or vacuumized, making a rather silly looking creature with hoses sticking out of his chest, and not quite prepared for tackling the martians as he makes victims out of some Puerto Rican natives he meets when he lands there accidentally. A good half of this movie is dialog free, covered up with goofy 60's style music and a rock song that repeats throughout the film. A pool party scene goes on far too long before anything really happens, making you wish that the Queen Martian and her queeny assistant would return for some idiotic dialog in their quest that seems to have been ripped off for the really bad TV movie "Mars Needs Women". Then, there's the monster that the Martians utilize, a combination of every bad monster from "It! That Conquored the World!" to the vacuum cleaner monster that swallowed up women with big bottoms hole, leaving only their shoes, in some other 1960's hideously bad campfest. This fanged creature comes pretty much out of nowhere and seems to be the cousin of the hot dog toothed monster that popped up in various forms as well in other cheapo films. I'd say that this deserved to be collected for obsessive fans of the sci-fi genre and seen once by the more choosy fans of that genre, as in its 75 minutes only has 25 minutes worth of unintentional laughs (or were they?) and lengthy sequences where I had to slap my face to keep me awake.

poe-48833 Saw this one on TV when I was but a lad and I don't remember it being THIS violent (not that I have anything against Violence; it's just that the version I saw must've been censored by the folks who broadcast it); it harks back to those pre-Code Horror comics in every way. While Nadir, the second-in-command, comes across as one of those aliens looking to probe someone's anus, the Princess is out of this world... All this woman has to do is take a slow, deep breath and... James Karen does a great job in his first At Bat, too. LUST IN SPACE- uh, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACEMONSTER boasts some no-holds-barred makeup and a caged Monster worthy of Paul Blaisdell (in fact, it looks like a cross between THE SHE-CREATURE and IT!, THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE). My biggest gripe is that the "meeting" of the two is so brief so late in the movie that we don't get to see either combatant really showcase his wares. The ship is VERY impressive for such a Low Budget feature, and excellent use is made of tons of stock footage. The practical effects all around are impressive: this is one of those hand-made movies that puts to shame the cgi crap we see Today.

Scarecrow-88 Aliens from a planet devastated by an atomic war seek Earth women for new breeding stock to re-populate their nearly extinct species(..looking human with costumes reminiscent of the old Flash Gordon serials from long ago)landing in their little space pod on a stretch of land in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Princess Marcuzan(Marilyn Hanold, wearing a funny hat) & her lieutenant Dr. Nadir(Lou Cutell, with an applied dome and pointy ears)have their men interrupting NASA's series of take-offs by blowing their space vehicles to pieces. One such interruption messes up scientist Adam Steele's(a young James Karen of "Return of the Living Dead" fame)mandroid operating the vessel, creating a fusion of hysteria, confusion, and mania, while also badly damaging one side of Frank's(Robert Reilly)face. Frank comes across several innocent bi-standers trying to defend themselves, killing the folks by strangulation or machete(..one fellow was chopping wood, attempting to defend himself and being hacked to death in the process, off-screen)while traveling incoherently from one place to the next with seriously troubled programming that needs repairing. Steele and his assistant Karen(Nancy Marshall, who cares for Frank)travel with military man, General Bowers(David Kerman)to San Juan where Frank was located..the exact same place where the alien ship had landed. While kidnapping bikini-clad hotties touring the beaches or go-go dancing, Princess and Nadir test their captive women for "purification" while Steele and Karen find Frank really in a worsening state. Karen is told to go for help while Steele works on his creation but she is kidnapped by Pricess' men and caged near their pet furry monster Mull. Seeking information from Karen, soon Steele and Frank find the whereabouts of the alien ship. Steele will have Frank stay near the ship as he goes to call Bowers to cease firing on the aliens for fear of killing innocent women inside. But, Princess' men drag Frank inside(why?)and leave him on a table unguarded while they plan to blast off in fear of suffering major damage. But, Frank has other plans and a battle with the beasty Mull will commence with hopes of Karen and the other captured girls hoping to escape.Terrible make-up effects, cheap sets, badly inserted archival footage, clumsy dubbing, and hilarious monster are either a glutton of punishment or amusement for the viewer. Hanold and Cutell seem to know what kind of movie they're stuck in, and, as the evil alien leaders, play their roles with a sense of fun..a tongue-in-cheek attitude by them, with Hanold stuck in a funny costume and Cutell in silly alien make-up, they are able to chew scenery. I especially enjoy the homo-erotic sequence where Hanold's Princess is getting a good look at one of her collected specimens as Nadir grins widely. Reilly walks around in a stooper, with a silly-putty face disfigurement for a large portion of the film, when he isn't attacking some poor soul. His fight with the monster is a real hoot. Fans of Ed Wood and Grade-Z schlock will get a kick out of this more than anyone else. There's no reason why Frankenstein's name should even be mentioned in this movie or it's title. Used probably to sucker viewers to the drive-ins to see it.Some 60's songs and odd musical arrangements are layered throughout this disaster of a film. This is indeed a turkey sure to delight fans of rancid cinema.

sol1218 (Some Spoilers) Updated and modernized version of Mary Shelley's classic "Frankenstein" where the monster is a NASA constructed astronaut named Frank Saunders,Robert Reilly.Frank is slated to be the first "Man" to both travel and land on Mars but things get a bit haywire for him when his rocket is shot down by an alien craft outside the earth's atmosphere. The alien craft contains the last remnants of the Martian civilization that was destroyed in an atomic war. The captain of the craft is Princess Marcuzan, Marilyn Hanold, who's the only surviving woman of the Martain race. With her is the cue-ball headed and giggling Doctor Nadir, Lou Cutell, who's the mastermind in the Princess' plan to kidnap scores of sexy shapely and child-bearing earth women and use them, with the help of the surviving Martians males, to replenish the dying Martian race.Crash landing in Puerto Rico Frank is attacked by a number of Martian spacemen trying to take him captive. Escaping from the Martians with the left side of his head blown away Frank mindlessly roams the Puerto Rican beaches and countryside trying to get help only to scare to death anyone he runs into. Meanwhile the Martians are quickly grabbing, on the beaches and from tourist hotel swimming pools, dozens of sexy and bikini clad young women to take back home for breeding purposes.It when Frank's creator NASA engineer Dr. Adam Steele, and Frank's human girlfriend also a Nasa employee Karen Grant, Nancy Marshall, track down the confused and frightened brain damaged astronaut that they set him straight. It's then when Dr. Steele reconnects Franks damaged electoral circuit's, that he finally get his act and head together.The highlight of the movie is when Frank in his attempt to save the kidnapped young women is confronted, as a last resort by the Martians, by the space monster a hairy looking creature with what looks like crab or lobster claws. The fight between Frank and the space monster goes on unabated as the women, that includes Karen, make their escape from the spaceship. Grabbing a ray gun from one of the Martian crew members Frank breaks into the captains quarters and finishes off both Princess Marcuzan and Doctor Nadir who are desperately trying to get back to the safety of their home planet Mars. In the end Frank like selfless and brave hero that he is gives up his life by blowing the Martian spacecraft to pieces and thus prevent another Martian invasion of earth in the not so distance future.This is the first and only movie that I can remember where the Frankenstein Monster, Captain Frank Saunders, was actually shown in a positive light where he ends up saving lives instead of taking them. Frank, before he got his head almost blown off, was unlike in the previous Frankenstein movies a fairly good looking guy not the tall nut bolted Golem that were used to seeing since he made his inaugural appearance back in 1931. It's just too bad that in "Frankenstein meets the Spacemonster" like in all the other "Frankenstein" movies the big guy had to be killed off at the conclusion of the film. It would have been a far better ending if he, after getting his damaged head fixed, would have ended up marrying Karen, thus she becoming the Bride of Frank or Frankenstein, and live happily ever after.