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9 1 0 Frankenstein This film was a
silent Kinetoscope made by Edison Films. The first film
version of "Frankenstein" is celebrated for being unseen. Long
considered lost, the sole surviving print belongs to a private collector who has
only allowed a few screenings. 1
9 3 1 Frankenstein
The original
classic! Bela Lugosi had originally
been asked to play the monster in the film.
He turned it down and instead did Murders In The Rue Morgue. An Englishman by the name of William Henry Pratt was selected
because the director noticed him in the studio commissary and thought his head
had an interesting shape. The actor
spent hours with special effects makeup man Jack Pierce to become the monster.
He later said that any extra could have grunted his way through the role
and that the true credit belonged to Pierce.
While Pierce did have a lot to do with how the monster looked, anyone who
has ever seen the classic knows that all the credit goes to Pratt for how well
the monster was portrayed. Pratt
wasn’t even invited to the premier and the studio gave the credit to “?”;
both were a publicity stunt. By the
way, if you haven’t figured it out yet, William Pratt is the birth name of
Boris Karloff. 1
9 3 5 Bride Of
Frankenstein Karloff reprised
his role as the monster with the gorgeous Elsa Lanchester as the bride.
By now Karloff was so well known he was billed simply as “Karloff”. 1
9 3 9 Son Of
Frankenstein The third movie in
the series is notable for having Bela Lugosi play Ygor, the assistant to Dr.
Frankenstein. Of course Karloff was
back to play the monster. 1
9 4 2 T This was the sequel
to Son Of Frankenstein. Lugosi was
back as Ygor but this time the monster was played by Lon Chaney Jr. 1
9 4 3 Frankenstein
Meets The Wolf Man This movie picks up
where both The Ghost of Frankenstein and The Wolfman left off.
Chaney Reprised his role as the wolfman and Lugosi made his only
appearance as the monster. 1
9 4 4 House Of
Frankenstein This was a
combination Dracula/Frankenstein movie. The
first half deals with Dracula and the second half picks up where Meets The Wolf
Man left off. Both Karloff and
Chaney are in the film, but neither plays the monster!
Glenn Strange plays the monster. John
Carradine played Dracula. 1
9 4 5 House Of Dracula In this sequel to
House of Frankenstein Chaney, Carradine and Strange all returned in their
previous roles. 1
9 4 8 Abbott And
Costello Meet Frankenstein Also known as:
Abbott And Costello Meet the Ghosts, The Brain Of Frankenstein and Meet The
Ghosts. The title is a
little misleading on this one. Chick
(Abbott) and Wilbur (Costello) meet the wolfman and Dracula too!
Lugosi is Dracula, Chaney is the wolfman and Strange is the monster.
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9 5 7 The Curse Of
Frankenstein This was the first
in the Hammer Films series of Frankenstein movies. Peter Cushing is Dr. Viktor Baron Von Frankenstein.
Christopher Lee plays the monster. I Was A Teenage
Frankenstein Also Known as:
Teenage Frankenstein. In this cheesy B
movie, Gary Conway is the monster/teen who gets put back together after a car
crash. 1
9 5 8 Frankenstein
1970 Karloff plays the
Baron Von Frankenstein in this one. Frankenstein's
Daughter Also known as:
She Monster Of The Night. Harry Wilson is the
monster in this one. The Revenge of
Frankenstein This was the second
film Hammer did and the sequel to Curse. Cushing
returned as the Doctor and the synthetic man was played by Michael Gwynn (not to
be confused with Fred Gwynne who was Herman Munster). 1
9 5 9 The Teenage
Frankenstein Donald Glut is the
monster in this one. The Teenage
Frankenstein Meets The Teenage Werewolf Around the same
time Teenage Frankenstein came out was a companion movie called The Teenage
Wolfman, with Paul Klug as the Werewolf. Well,
these kids just had to get together! Klug and Glut reprised their roles. 1
9 6 4 The
Evil Of Frankenstein This was the third
Hammer film. Cushing was again the
Doctor and this creature was played by Kiwi Kingston. 1
9 6 5 Frankenstein
Meets the Space Monster Also known as:
Duel of the Space Monsters, Frankenstein Meets the Space Men, Mars Attacks
Puerto Rico, Mars Invades Puerto Rico & Operation San Juan.
Ok, I swear I’m
not making this one up: An evil
princess and her dwarf invade Puerto Rico to kidnap go-go dancers to repopulate
their dying planet. Meanwhile an
android astronaut named Frank crash lands. He becomes a crazed killer with half
his face under silly putty. Scientists
track their android Frank down and rewire him to help them battle the Princess
and her dwarf from another planet. The
monster is Bruce Glover and the Spaceman is Robert Alan Browne. 1
9 6 6 Frankenstein Mark II Also Known as: Out Of The Unknown: Frankenstein Mark II
Frankenstein Conquers The World Also Known as: Frankenstein Meets the Giant Devil Fish, Frankenstein and the Giant Lizard, Frankenstein vs. Baragon, Frankenstein vs. the Giant Devil Fish and Frankenstein vs. the Subterranean Monster During WWII, a human heart taken from a certain lab in Europe (Dr. Frankenstein's) is kept in a Japanese lab, when it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing of Hiroshima. The heart grows in size, mutates and sprouts appendages, and eventually grows into a complete body and escapes. Later, a feral boy with a certain physical deformity (a large head with a flat top) is captured by scientists who refer to the boy as Frankenstein. The creature grows to the height of 20 feet, escapes again, fights police and army, and is practically indestructible. Later, a reptilian monster goes on a rampage. Eventually the Frankenstein creature and the reptile face off in a terrible battle.
Jesse
James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter Narda Onyx is Dr.
Maria Frankenstein.
Munster, Go Home Herman discovers he's the new lord of Munster Hall in England. The family sails to Britain, where they receive a tepid welcome from Lady Effigy and Freddie Munster, who throws tantrums because he wasn't named Lord Munster. An on-board romance blossomed between Marilyn and Roger, but on land Marilyn discovers Roger's family holds a long- standing grudge against the Munsters. Herman upholds the family honor in an auto race; he and Grandpa also unlock "the secret of Munster Hall." The TV Cast is all present including Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster, Yvonne De Carlo as Lily Munster and Al Lewis as Grandpa Munster. 1
9 6 7 Frankenstein
Created Woman Also known as:
Frankenstein Made Woman. The Hammer series
was always more about Frankenstein and less about the Frankenstein monster.
In the fourth Hammer film Cushing was back to play the Baron (who else
could?). Hottie Susan Denberg is the creation in this one.
The Projected Man A scientist experimenting with matter transmission from place to place by means of a laser beam suddenly decides to use himself as a test specimen. But the process goes awry, and one side of his body becomes hideously deformed and instantly lethal to anyone it touches.
Assignment Terror Also known as: Operation Terror, Dracula Vs. Frankenstein and The Man Who Came from Ummo. The aliens from a dying world plot to conquer earth by preying on man's superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists (Michael Rennie and Karin Dor) back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various earth monsters, including the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, Frankenstein's monster (both played by Jacinto Molina), the mummy Tao-Tet, and the vampire Count de Meirhoff.
Frankenstein
Must Be Destroyed Cushing is still
the Baron in one of Hammer’s best films in the series. 1
9 7 0 Flick Also known as:
Dr. Frankenstein On Campus. Viktor Frankenstein (Robin Ward), expelled from Ingoldstat U for doing weird experiments and for acting a bit looney, goes to college in Canada to study brain control under Prof. Preston. Campus radicals frame Viktor (photographed holding a joint) in an attempt to discredit both Preston and the Dean and Viktor is once again expelled. Vik injects Tae Kwan Do expert Tony with his new brain control pellets and soon Tony becomes an instrument of revenge.
The
Horror of Frankenstein This was a Hammer
re-work of their original Curse from 1957.
Without Cushing it was not as successful as previous movies in the
series. Ralph Bates took over
Cushing’s role. 1
9 7 1 Daughter
of Frankenstein Also known as: Lady
Frankenstein and Madame Frankenstein When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall's life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr. Frankenstein. Soon it comes after Marshall and the doctor's daughter.
Dracula
Vs. Frankenstein Also known as:
The Blood Seekers, Blood of Frankenstein, The Revenge of Dracula, Satan's Bloody
Freaks, Teenage Dracula & They're Coming to Get You.
J. Carrol Naish was
Dr. Frankenstein a.k.a. Dr. Durea. Zandor
Vorkov was Count Dracula. John
Bloom was Frankenstein's monster. Shelly
Weiss was the creature and Lon Chaney Jr played a character called Groton.
1 9 7 2 The Curse Of Frankenstein Also known as: The Erotic Rites Of Frankenstein. 1
9 7 3 Blackenstein Also known as:
Black Frankenstein & Return Of Blackenstein. In this really bad
B movie Joe deSue is Eddie Turner, a disfigured veteran of the war in Vietnam. Frankenstein This TV movie had
Robert Foxworth as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Bo Svenson as the monster and
Rosella Olsen as the bride of the monster.
Frankenstein's
Castle Of Freaks Also known as: Frankenstein's Castle, Dr. Frankenstein's Castle Of Freaks, The House Of Freaks, The Monsters Of Dr. Frankenstein, Monsters Of Frankenstein, Terror and Terror Castle Nineteenth century Italy is beset by attacks from Neanderthal men living in a cave. The villagers manage to overpower one of them. Count Frankenstein (Rossano Brazzi) uses its body for experiments creating a monster called Goliath. Frankenstein:
The True Story Also known as:
Dr. Frankenstein. This made for TV
movie digresses in many ways from the book. The monster begins his new life as a
beautiful, sensitive creature only to physically and aesthetically deteriorate
as time goes on. An interesting
twist is the subplot of Prima, the second creature, created by Dr. Polidori
(Victor's nemesis) with the assistance of Victor.
Leonard Whiting was Dr. Victor Frankenstein, James Mason was Dr. Polidori,
Michael Sarrazin was the monster and a hot Jane Seymour was Prima. 1
9 7 4 Allen
And Rossi Meet Dracula And Frankenstein Marty Allen and
Steve Rossi. Flesh for
Frankenstein Also known as:
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Andy Warhol's Young Frankenstein, The Devil and Dr.
Frankenstein, Frankenstein, The Frankenstein Experiment and Up Frankenstein.
Regardless of what
you call it this movies proves how talentless Warhol was.
Udo Kier is the Baron Frankenstein, attempting to create a new race of
humans out of body parts. He wants to mate his male creation to his female
creation so he figures he needs the brain of a real lady's man. By mistake, he
beheads a man about to enter a monastery to become a monk. The creature shows no
interest in his female companion, but the Baron's sex starved wife shows
interest in him. He ends up killing her squeezing her to death while they are
performing sex. This film is filled with lots of soft-core porn, nudity, and
splatter. Arno Juerging was Otto,
the Baron's assistant, Srdjan Zelenovic was the male monster and Dalila Di
Lazzaro was the female monster. Frankenstein 80 Also Known as:
Mosaic. In this film a Dr.
Shwartz (Bob Fiz) produces his "Shwartz Serum", a drug that helps
patients’ bodies accept organ transplants. Enter our hero, Karl Schein (John
Richardson). Schein's sister was in a car wreck and needs an organ transplant.
Without a suitable donor, Schein turns to Dr. Shwartz. Unfortunately, the evil
Dr. Otto Frankenstein (Gordon Mitchell) steals the serum, and Shwartz cannot
produce more! Schein, a reporter, begins to investigate this and a series of
deaths that involve organ stealing. Frankenstein has created a monster, named
Mosaic (Xiro Papas) after his being made of many different body parts.
Frankenstein uses this serum to keep the organs in Mosaic from exploding!
Eventually the whole "Shwartz Serum/Dr. Frankenstein" connection is
figured out and Mosaic is a hunted man. Frankenstein And
The Monster From Hell Last of the Hammer
Frankenstein films, this one deals with the Baron hiding out in an insane
asylum, so that he may continue his experiments with reanimating the dead, along
with inmate Dr. Helder, who has been institutionalized for conducting such
experiments. Dave "Darth
Vader" Prowse is the monster, Cushing returned to playing the role of the
Doctor and Shane Briant was Dr. Helder. Young
Frankenstein In this hilarious treatment of the story Mel Brooks directed an all-star cast including Gene Wilder as Dr. Froederich Frankenstein, Marty Feldman as Igor, Peter Boyle as the monster (who dons a tux and sings “Putting On The Ritz”), Madeline Kahn as Elizabeth, Teri Garr as Inga and Cloris Leachman as Frau Bluecher (neigh). In addition to numerous jabs at the original frankenstein there are jabs at the sequels. Madeline Kahn does her hair up like Elsa Lanchester and Gene Hackman plays the blind hermit in a scene to take jabs at the Bride of Frankenstein. Also, Police inspector Kemp is a caricature of Inspector Krogh from Son Of Frankenstein. The movie was not all parody -- it was also a tribute. Notable is that the lab set from the 1931 classic was obtained and used. 1
9 7 5 The
Rocky Horror Picture Show This was the movie
version of the Stage Play of the same name.
This was technically not a Frankenstein movie (or at least not a
traditional one). It was part
homage/part parody of the B science fiction flicks of the 50’s and 60’s.
Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry) is experimenting with building the
perfect man. He finally succeeds
with Rocky (former Mr. Olympia Peter Hinwood).
Meatloaf is Eddie, a previous attempt.
Bedlam and hijinks ensue when Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and his new
fiancée Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) show up at the castle during the
celebration. The cast also includes
the creator of the play and movie Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn (later Dame
Patricia Quinn) and Nell Campbell (who sang as little Nell in the 70’s).
An instant cult favorite, you can still see it at midnight at several
theaters. You can also catch it on VH1 once in a while, but seeing it
at home is not the same as seeing it in a theater. If you don’t know why, I’m not going to ruin it for you
and tell you. 1
9 7 7 Victor
Frankenstein Also known as:
Terror Of Frankenstein. Leon Vitali was
Victor Frankenstein and Per Oscarsson was the monster. 1
9 8 1 Frankenstein
Island Also known as:
Frankenstein’s Island. This was a really
bad B movie. This one has a cheeze
wiz rating of 100 on a scale of 10! Amazons
& zombies on an uncharted island. A
Balloon force lands on the island. I
don’t even want to go there…John Carradine is the apparition of Dr.
Frankenstein and Katherine Victor is Sheila Frankenstein Von Helsig. The Munsters'
Revenge Fred Gwynne, Al
Lewis, Sid Caesar, and Yvonne De Carlo star in this funny TV movie. The late
Fred Gwynne is Herman Munster who lives with Grandpa Munster (Al Lewis), wife
Lily (Yvonne De Carlo), and his son and daughter. Sid Caesar is hilarious as the
owner of a wax museum that has a whole section dedicated to the Munster family.
When the wax figures of Herman and Grandpa begin to terrorize the town everyone
blames the two. The two now have to clear their names before it's too late. 1
9 8 2 Blade Runner Blade Runner has some remarkable parallels to Frankenstein. The film's artificial humans, the replicants, are thrown into a society which does not want them. Because people are afraid of the replicants' superior physical powers they have established a special police unit, the Blade Runners, whose sole aim is to eliminate - the film calls it "to retire" - replicants who return to earth. When Batty is not granted his wish for more life, similar to the Monster's wish for a bride in Frankenstein, he destroys "his Victor Frankenstein", Doctor Tyrell, the man who created him and whom he therefore addresses as "father".
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9 8 4 Frankenstein The mostly
Shakespearean cast is excellent of this BBCTV production Robert Powell as Dr.
Frankenstein and David Warner as the monster who, in an interested change, is
disfigured due to fire-burns rather than the normal stitches and decaying flesh.
Carrie Fisher, who got top billing, appears in nothing short but a series of
cameos. Frankenstein's
Great Aunt Tillie Plot Outline: The
descendants of Baron Frankenstein return to the family castle to search for the
family fortune that is supposed to be hidden there. Donald Pleasence is Victor Frankenstein & Yvonne Furneaux
is Aunt Tillie. Frankenweenie Tim Burton directed
this movie where young Victor Frankenstein's (Barret Oliver) pet dog Sparky (who
stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to
bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked
"monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors,
he has to convince them (and his parents) that despite his appearance, Sparky's
still the good loyal friend he's always been.
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9 8 5 The
Bride Sting stars as
Frankenstein, the scientist, and Jennifer Beals is his new creation, Eva. She
was intended as a bride for the monster ("Viktor" here) played by
Clancy Brown, but when he sees her after she comes to life, he falls in love
with her. Viktor, obviously upset, ends up going off on his own.
The rest of the movie deals with the development of both creations.
This is not your traditional gore fest and although it deviates from
Shelly’s book it probably comes closest to examining the conflicts and
feelings Shelly tried to project in her book.
Re-Animator This splatter movie was based on a short story by H.P.Lovecraft. A medical student finds a serum to bring dead bodies back to life.
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9 8 6 Frankenstein
'88 Also known as:
The Vindicator. This Canadian film
went almost directly to video. The
Vindicator was a better title since it had absolutely nothing to do with the
Frankenstein. 1
9 8 7 The
Monster Squad The Monster Squad
is a terrific re-telling of the House of Frankenstein, set in the late 80s. A
group of young boys unearth an evil secret within the diary of vampire hunter,
Dr. Abraham Van Helsing (Dutch, not German, but forgivable). Dracula (Duncan
Regeher) has returned, and has re-animated Frankenstein's monster (Tom Noonan),
and brought along an innocent, but tortured werewolf (Carl Thibault), the
frightening Creature of the Black Lagoon-esque Gill-Man, and a 2000-year old
Mummy (Michael Reid). This movie closely follows the myths and folklore of
popular monsters (only wooden stakes and garlic are effective on vampires; even
dynamite cannot stop the silver-prone werewolf; etc.) 1
9 8 8 Frankenstein
General Hospital This film is a very
poor man's Young Frankenstein set in a Los Angeles General Hospital with volume
on the sexual puns turned way up. It deals with Mark Blankfield's Dr. Bob
Frankenstein, with the help of his dwarf assistant Iggy (Leslie Jordan),
creating a new Monster (Irwin Keyes) in his black and white laboratory in the
basement of a Los Angeles General Hospital run by a bunch of money hungry,
sex-starved nitwits. 1
9 9 0
Bride of
Re-Animator In
this film Herbert West creates a woman out of dead body parts. But in the end
she does not fall in love with him but with his assistant Daniel Caine. When she
realizes her misery she destroys herself by tearing herself to pieces.
Frankenhooker A medical school
dropout (played by James Lorinz) loses his fiancée (played by Patty Mullen) in
a tragic lawnmower incident, and decides to bring her back. Unfortunately, he
was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city
and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can get parts for his girlfriend. Frankenstein
Unbound Also known as
Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound. The ultimate
weapon, which was meant to be safe for the mankind, produces global side effects
including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and
his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817's Switzerland where he finds Dr
Victor Frankenstein and his contemporaries.
John Hurt is the scientist Buchanan, Bridget Fonda is Mary, Raul Julia is
Victor Frankenstein and Nick Brimble is the monster. Frankenstein's
Baby In this TV movie Paul Hocking (Nigel
Planer) quarrels with his girlfriend Jane Bligh (Kate Buffery) about when to
start a family and Dr. Eva Frankenstein (Yvonne Bryceland) comes to his aid by
helping him to become the world's first pregnant man! 1
9 9 1 Frankenstein:
The College Years When professor
Lippzigger dies, his favorite student Mark inherits the key to his secret
laboratory. There he and his friend Jay find the hundreds of years old body of
Frankenstein - and revive it. But where to go with him? They take him with them
to their dorms. He's dumb as a brick, but makes it into their football team and
becomes popular. If there only wasn't Prof. Loman, who wants to become famous
with Lipp's inventions. Vincent Hammond plays the monster, which goes by the
name Frank N Stein.
Frankenstein 2000 Also Known as:
Return From Death: Frankenstein 2000 When
a woman is beaten into a coma and saved by her handyman (Donald O'Brien), the local security force does a cover-up to save the town's reputation and frames the
savior. After he hangs himself, the woman's strange comatose psi-powers revive him from the dead to exact revenge.
No Telling A scientist and his girlfriend escape the city life for the serenity of the country. In this peaceful setting, he carries out mysterious experiments in the barn while she befriends the locals, including Alex Vine, an ecologist trying to help farmers with the dangers of pesticides. Her and Vine strike up a friendly yet non-physical relationship. Meanwhile, the mad scientist boyfriend becomes impatient with his corporate sponsor's lack of providing live specimens for study, so he decides to capture his own. 1
9 9 3 Frankenstein This was a
made-for-cable production. A lot more faithful to the novel than other incarnations
but with the major change that the monster was no longer a resurrected assembly
of corpses, but a being cloned from Dr. Frankenstein himself. Therefore, they
can feel each other's pain and emotions. "Two parts of a single man,"
as the good doctor states. The twist is more like a "Jekyll and Hyde"
idea, rather than the usual father and son relationship.
Patrick Bergin is Victor Frankenstein and Randy Quaid is the monster. 1
9 9 4 Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein Also Known as:
Frankenstein. This movie was an
effort to stay as close as possible to the original story.
Kenneth Branagh was Dr. Frankenstein and Robert DiNero was the creature. 1
9 9 5 Here Come The
Munsters Traditional
Munsters type story but with new actors and actresses including Edward Herman
replacing Fred Gwynne, Robert Morse replacing Al ‘grandpa’ Lewis and
Veronica Hamel replacing Yvonne DeCarlo. Monster Mash:
The Movie Also known as:
Frankenstein Sings. Two teens (Ian
Bohen, Candace Cameron) are on the way to a Halloween party dressed as Romeo and
Juliet when their car breaks down in front of a sinister mansion. Seeking help,
they fall into a party of monsters led by Dr. Frankenstein (Bobby ‘Boris’
Pickett who is famous for singing such songs as Monster Mash, Monster Rap and
Monster Holiday). Frankenstein
immediately wants to transfer the boy's brain into his monster (Deron McBee).
Dracula (Anthony Crivella) also wants the girl for obvious reasons.
Meanwhile Elvis (E. Aaron Price) has returned as a mummy and his new
manager (Jimmie Walker) wants the boy's body for him. Lots of silliness results.
This movie also has Adam Shankman as the wolf man and John Kassir (voice
of the Crypt Keeper) as Igor. 1
9 9 6 Frankenstein
And Me A poignant trip
down memory lane for those of us who grew up with cinematic monsters.
Pays homage to such films as Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Brides of
Dracula and Night of the Living Dead. 1
9 9 7 The
Creeps When an experiment
bringing literary characters to life goes wrong, the real fun kicks in.
Jon Simanton as the wolfman, Joe Smith as the mummy, Phil Fondacaro as
Dracula and Thomas Wellington as Frankenstein’s monster. 1
9 9 8 Billy Frankenstein A no-gore, light hearted kids movie.
Big Monster On Campus Also Known as
Bolt Neck and Teen Monster. At a party, one student gets picked on and ends up getting thrown into a pool that has no water in it. Frank, a geek, retrieves a brain from his father's lab and agrees to let the boy have it in exchange for a chance to hang with the popular crowd. The brain, it turns out, originally belonged to a serial killer. As the teen monster goes haywire, popular Macy becomes romantically involved with former geek Frank.
Frankenstein Reborn
Gods And Monsters A story purported to be of James Whale, the director of Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein. There is a socio/political agenda to this movie.
Lust For Frankenstein A Female monster is jealous of her master's love affairs.
1 9 9 9 Rock 'N' Roll Frankenstein Music agent Bernie Stein, his scientist nephew Frankie, and a drugged out roadie named Iggy team to create a superstar by putting together the remains of dead rockers. All goes according to plan until a mishap leads Iggy to steal Liberace's private parts instead of those of Jim Morrison. The monster is brought to life and is on the road to rock 'n' roll success when the Liberace side of the monster begins to assert itself, with tragic results. 2
0 0 0 Frankenstein And The Werewolf Reborn
The 6th Day A mad scientist creates new
life. Arnold Schwarzenegger has to face the bitter truth that he has been
cloned. Although this film was made strictly according to the "evil
scientists is killed by his own creation" formula and features the usual
bunch of Hollywood clichés, it is a quite interesting version of the
Frankenstein story.
2 0 0 2 The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein The classic story of Frankenstein, as seen through the eyes of Victor's longtime lover, Elizabeth. Based upon Theodore Roszak's acclaimed novel.
There are several other movies which could be assumed to be inspired by Frankenstein. The Island of Dr. Moreau (both versions) is a very good example. Just about anything where an artificial life form is created that turns against its creator(s) could be deemed a Frankenstein movie. By this criteria the Terminator series weighs in nicely. However, to list all cyborg, android etc. movies would just be too extensive.
In scouring the Internet Movie Database as well as my own personal experience I have tried to be as thorough as possible. If you know of an English speaking (or dubbed or subtitled) movie (full -length feature) that I have left out, send me an email.
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