Wonderful character development!

Such a frustrating disappointment

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This is one of the scariest movies of all time. 4.7 it underrating it. In this movie the mean character is the Grand son of Doctor Frankenstein. It is a sequel to Frankenstein. That takes place in the future. This a movie good for any one who like a good horror movie. See this movie. It is a great movie. This movie has great acting. It also has a great story line. It also has great special effects. It is no 4.7 it a great film. It is very intense. Do not watch this movie alone. Boris Karloff was a great actor. Tom Duggan was a great actor. Jana Lund was a great actor. This movie is a must see. This movie is true horror classic.

all except for the monster who has none, yet somehow manages to find its victim even though Dr. Frankenstein (Boris Karloff) dropped the jar of the eyes from his previous victim, which he kept in his refrigerator, right next to the pickles. Indeed, it looks like he has a treasure trove of foreign beers in that refrigerator for celebrating once his experiment is complete.Almost 20 years since he played this Dr. Frankenstein's ancestor's monster, Karloff now gets to collect the body parts for this pathetic creature which has laid in slumber in the family crypt for over a hundred years. Now some Hollywood film crew is on the estate and Karloff, desperate for money, gets the itch of his ancestors when he suddenly begins playing the organ in a terrifying manor. Karloff manages to hypnotize his family retainer into becoming the first victim to provide the monster with necessary body parts (which they must have run out of at the local Piggly Wiggly) by simply waving his scalpel at the dumbbell.You will hoot, you will howl at the idiotic dialog, not only of Karloff who explains everything he is doing into a reel-to-reel tape-recorder (remember those?) so the audience doesn't have to suspend its belief as to what he is doing. And with times having changed since the days of the original Frankenstein (minus Frau Brucher---she comes later), the doctor has the advantage of some modern appliances to help him with his nefarious experiments. Add on some stupid Hollywood types to provide the drive-in audiences with moments of time to do things other than watch the movie. This is the type of film that screams for Elvira or the two robots from Mystery Science Theater.

Dismal, low-budget horror film shot (for no good reason) in Cinemascope. It starts off great with a young, screaming woman being chased around on a dark, foggy night by a barely glimpsed monster. The sequence is beautifully atmospheric and hearkens back to the glory days of Universal horror movies. Sadly, this is the best sequence in the entire movie. Then it turns out it's only a movie being filmed near Baron Fankenstein's (Boris Karloff) estate. Yup there's ANOTHER Frankenstein who is a victim of Nazi tortures. For no discernible reason he's making a monster too...and decides to use the film crew and cast for parts.Karloff hams it up and has a whale of a time with his performance. That alone gives it two stars. The rest of the film is drab and dreary with a pointless plot full of loopholes (just why is Frankenstein making another monster?) and one of the stupidest "monsters" ever seen. It's just some clown in a big ill-fitting suit made of bandages--everything is covered including his head! All the victims seem so terror stricken at this that they never run away and politely stand there and let the monster kill them (never shown). Truthfully they should all be helpless with laughter at this! There's next to no blood or gore either. This was 1958--blood WAS being shown in horror movies at this time but this one shies away from it. Also what's with the title? The 1970 implies a futuristic angle. Aside from reanimating the monster from an atomic reactor there's NOTHING futuristic or new here! It's also flatly directed not using the large Cinemascope image at all. Also with the exception of Karloff and Charlotte Austin the acting is truly terrible. Worst of all Karloff was pretty obviously in poor health when he did this and it's somewhat uncomfortable to see him slowly walking around slowly bent over and looking terrible. A very depressing poor horror film. Karloff deserved better. I give it a 2.

Baron Victor von Frankenstein(Boris Karloff playing him mostly devious and wickedly amoral..he adheres to no one's needs but his own)is the last in the family line donning a scar on one side of his face(drooping the eyelid)and plagued with a lurch due to his torture at the hands of the Nazis. He wishes to carry out his great-great grandfather's legacy of giving re-birth to a preserved man-monster in his secret laboratory hidden within what seems to be a mausoleum. He has sold his family's expensive paintings to finance his machines and equipment, but in the desire to acquire an atomic reactor(!)he must allow a film crew to shoot in and around his castle, quietly detesting them with every aching bone left in his body. In this film the film crew director, an energetic, unflappable Douglas Roe(Don Barry)will be delivering the atomic reactor himself as a promise for utilizing Baron's castle for atmospheric purposes. Now, how a film director can acquire an atomic reactor is anybody's guess. But, a minor squabble. Baron needs vital parts to bring his monster to life and gets jump-started when his butler Schutter(a very hammy Norbert Schiller)goes nosing around eventually finding out about the laboratory experiments and the secret location. Schutter's brain will be used(as well as his heart among other parts), but Baron drops the jar with liquid-doused eyes splashing on the floor. He'll need a correct pair of eyes and focuses on taking Roe's. But, his eyeless monster will often kill members of the film crew causing Baron much strife in having to find avenues of escape regarding where the missing people have went off to. His cunning will eventually fail as his monster, often obeying Baron's voice, begins to operate on his own with the predictable results.To me, the film's main strength is Karloff's Baron..an emotionally scarred wreck, having grown quite mad with an unstoppable demented desire to bring his monster to life by any means necessary. But, it was agonizing for me, being such a lover(..and fan) of Karloff's work to see him in such frail shape obviously trying his best to mask the agony that is apparent when he attempts to just walk. Many are critical of Karloff here deeming him merely as hammy, but I reveled at seeing him playing Herr Baron concocting his schemes, playing his eerie organ, & working so passionately in his laboratory preparing for his creation's birth. Seeing him guiding the monster was entertaining as well because it brought back memories of the Universal classics with mad scientists ordering their monsters to collect victims for their experiments. Those that portray the film crew are not very interesting and aren't given much to do for the exception of being fodder for Frankenstein. But, sadly, the film is slowly paced and often dull..it lacks the energy and enthusiasm of the films it is trying to emulate. The whole show is Boris..his dialogue around a sheeted corpse doting aloud of his Frankenstein family is the highlight in my opinion.