Friday, August 18, 2023

Frankenstein's Daughter (1958)

Frankenstein's monster becomes female, not that you can really tell.

The grandson of Frankenstein, Oliver Frank (Donald Murphy) is now living in 1950s USA. Working with an unsuspecting Professor Morton (Felix Locher), he is conducting his deranged experiments at night. He kills Suzie (Sally Todd) after a date which goes sour and uses her brain to finish his new creation. Meanwhile he is also after the heart of of the Professor's daughter Trudy (Sandra Knight) though she is not that keen on this ridiculously creepy man, especially when his monster shows up. She is keener on Johnny (John Ashley) though he does take her to parties with some dodgy pop groups playing...

This is a basic retelling of the Frankenstein story set in the rock and roll era but isn't very good. It has a few thrills but most of the monster scenes are more ridiculous than anything else. 

Despite the monster was supposed to be female it didn't look very feminine. The makeup artist didn't know the monster was supposed to be female when he created the mask. So, he applied some lipstick to the mask! Job done?