Diagonaldi Very well executed

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

thejcowboy22 This schlock Monster flick is eye catching from the Get go as petite brunette Trudy Morton (Sandra Knight) our leading lady, jumps out of the bushes and scares a woman after her date drops her off. Trudy looks hideous complete with fangs matted hair and darkened eye shadow. The story flashes back to a laboratory with the abominable, undaunted, scheming Doctor Oliver Frank (Donald Murphy) and his assistant, the weathered foreign helper Elsu (Wolfe Barzell) who spends his days and nights searching for body parts to satisfy Dr. Frank's experiments to create a modern Frankenstein monster. The owner of the premises is craggy, elderly Professor Morton who is days away from being sent to a assisted living facility. Old man Morton doesn't approve of Frank's experiments and is unaware of Dr. Frank's motives for eternal life. Earlier Dr. Frank slipped Trudy, who by the way is Professor Morton's Niece, a mickey which transformed her into that fore- mentioned creature at the beginning of the film. Enter Actress and former Playboy pin-up Sally Todd who plays Trudy's best Suzie. Doctor Frank noticed her swimming in the family pool and took an interest in her body parts. Dr. Frank flirts with Suzie as she excepts a date with the evil Doctor.The two are sitting in Doctor's car as an evening of necking gets out of control. The Good Doctor wanted more. Suzie runs out of the car and Doctor Frank runs her down. After cleaning up what's left of Suzie, Elsu and the Doctor tape and sew her back together again and add some lipstick to create Frankenstein the woman? The rest is sure to make you laugh so sit back and enjoy a period piece of fifties music and horror.

MARIO GAUCI In time for last Halloween (which I subsequently skipped!), I acquired scores of horror/sci-fi fare from the genre's Grade-Z heyday; this, obviously, was one of them – which I decided to get hold of in spite of Leonard Maltin's unflattering BOMB rating! Anyway, the late 1950s saw favorite Gothic/fantasy themes being brought up to date and mixed with such topical fads as juvenile delinquency (I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF [1957]) or, as here and in BLOOD OF Dracula (1957), rock'n'roll music! Curiously enough, in the space of a year we had a number of films on the same theme (and they were also comparably substandard): I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN (1957), FRANKENSTEIN - 1970 (1958) and, the last to be released, FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER itself! Incidentally, there are some definite points of interest to the title under review but these do not make it a good picture. First of all, we have not one but two monsters – and they are both female and incredibly ugly (like the afore-mentioned BLOOD OF Dracula and DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL [1957], one of them – played by Sandra Knight, the future Mrs. Jack Nicholson! – is drugged into turning hideous and, frankly, it is simply a case of the makers having their cake and eating it…since these scenes basically serve to pad out the running-time and little more)! The official, titular creature is one of the most memorable of the era for all the wrong reasons: one, the fact that the make-up was devised to be applied on to a man (so what transpires has nothing at all to do with who the character, a luscious girl, had been beforehand!) but also because she is attired in a spaced-out costume (complete with robotic motions) as Michael Jackson would frequently adopt during his performing tours some 30 years later!! The last and, possibly, most entertaining thing is the trio of dabblers in the unknown (one is the heroine's elderly uncle who is not above stealing vital ingredients from the government in his search to stall the aging process, the others a direct descendant of the Frankenstein name and his condescending aide and the latter's forebears' own assistant now passing off as the old man's gardener) who spend so much time at each others' throat one wonders how they ever got anything cooking at all in the lab! Interestingly, Frankenstein has a secret workspace within where he is assembling yet another creature from dead body parts: missing only the head, he mows down the heroine's sluttish friend (who, in the very first scene, comes face to face with the one Knight herself had inadvertently become!) with his car…but no sooner has the monster been revived that it runs out of control and out of the house! Knight suspects the truth about her 'sleep-walking' activities (since she wakes up each morning with a hazy recollection of events but sporting the clothes described in the papers as having been worn by the monster) yet she never fingers the sleazeball Frank as the culprit…while her thick-headed boyfriend merely (and continually) scoffs at her nightmarish accounts! The rock'n'roll element comes into play here during a barbecue given at Knight's house (even if her uncle had just suffered a near-fatal heart attack!) and incorporates a couple of tunes sung by, of all people, Harold Lloyd Jr.(!) who, naturally, also handles the intentional comedy-relief angle throughout the film (but, as I said, the lab antics provide the real giggles here!).Also on hand are a couple of cops who have their hands full trying to cope with the many misdeeds (not to mention, egos and anxieties). The film is noted for not skimping on the gore front: we get to see a couple of severed hands, the mangled legs of the monster's last donor, and even the villain's face being ravaged by acid when the hazardous liquid thrown at the creature by the hero (whom he had somehow been keeping at bay with the lame, repeated shoving of a stretcher!) misses its mark completely…after which the monster expires, too, when clumsily setting itself on fire when coming in contact with an active Bunsen burner!P.S. Now...where to get hold of an English-friendly copy of SANTO VS. FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER (1972)?

dbborroughs Drive in classic about a decedent of Frankenstein turning a woman into a monster.Painful bad movie used to be a staple on late night TV and in the drive ins across the country. I've seen this film I don't know how many times and every time I do I can't believe I'm actually sitting through it. Don't get me wrong its great fun in a bad movie sort of a way, but at the same time there is no way to get around the fact that the film is a stinker. Its silly and goofy and everything you really don't want in any sort of movie. And yet there is a certain amount of charm that makes this the sort of thing that in the right frame of mind or with a bunch or witty friends can be a great deal of fun.Recommended for bad movie lovers

babeth_jr I love this take on the "man creates monster" tale. This 1958 movie stars Donald Murphy as Oliver Frank (short for Frankenstein), grandson of the original monster maker. It is 1958, Los Angeles, and he is living with Dr. Carter Morton (Felix Locher) and assisting him with his experiments. Unbeknownst to Dr. Morton, Oliver is using the lab for not just legitimate experiments, but to try to carry on the "family business", creating a human being from body parts.Sandra Knight portrays Trudy Morton, Dr. Morton's teenage niece. John Ashley is her good guy boyfriend, Johnny. To make a long story short, Oliver creates a woman monster using the head of Trudy's va va voom friend Suzy (played by 1957 Playmate of the Year, Sally Todd) who was killed by Oliver in a jealous rage, and various other body parts, mostly male. The resulting monster with a female head, all be it butt ugly, and male body is hilarious to say the least. There is also a side story where Oliver is drugging Trudy with a drug that turns her into a monster because she won't play hide the salami with him. The monster make up on both monsters is not scary, but laughable.All teen oriented movies in the 1950's had to have a few dance/song sequences with that new music, rock and roll, and this movie is no exception. Surprisingly enough, John Ashley doesn't perform (he was a singer and sang in several 1950's movies, most noticeably to 50's scary movie fans in the movie "How to Create a Monster"). Instead, Harold Lloyd Jr. sings two songs with the Page Cavanaugh Trio. The songs are funny although I think they were meant to be serious back when the movie was released.This movie has everything you would expect from a 1950's low budget horror movie...cheap sets, grade b actors, crapola make up and cheezy song and dance routines. In other words, everything for a fun movie!