Friday, February 02, 2018

Movie review - "Frankenstein's Daughter" (1958) *

The sort of film you want to love because it's old and crappy and is so clearly hoping to make money for as little money as possible. There's John Ashley, at the time an AIP star, though this clearly costs less than that, Harold Lloyd Jnr and some old character actors.

But it's a bad movie. It's sloppy - not exciting, with medicore make up. It keeps changing focus.

The central idea is promising - a girl turns into a monster and goes around tormenting people. That's a good idea, especially as the girl doesn't know she's doing it... it worked a treat in I Was a Teenager Werewolf which I thought this was going to rip off. But then the film throws in a second monster, a scarier one - the real threat. Which is cheating, confusing and pointless - and robs the piece of any real point.

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