Good concept, poorly executed.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Where to begin? First off, most of the film is flashbacks. Second, the beginning was stupid, and third, a lot of boring dialog and bad actors. The monster is quite disturbing and so is his roar. They had small parts like when a woman is shown for 2 minutes and is killed. There was parts when i felt like turning it off but I had nothing else to do. After the credits end, there is a minute of the screen pitch black and the music still going. I bet it was to make the movie a minute longer. I gave it a 3, because I like b-horror films,i like Frankenstein movies and you have to give Leigh some credit. My recommendation: if you see it at the video store, tell a person working there that it is a waste of money for you to rent that. So stay away as far as possible. Don't say I didn't warn you.

"Frankenstein Reborn" isn't that bad of a film.**SPOILERS**Victor Franks, (Rhett Giles) is in an insane asylum and is quickly tagged as a sociopath by his doctor, Emily Hertz, (Amanda Barton) and relates to Dr. Walton, (Thomas Downey) about his recent project, restoring limb functions to Bryce, (Joel Hebner) a paraplegic. At first, the operation is a success, but soon after Bryce begins to experience severe side effects. Trying to save the work, Victor and his assistant Hank, (Jeff Denton) end up making Bryce into a monster. He goes crazy when Victor refuses to help him change back and goes on a rampage, killing women to help him in his experiments. He is eventually taken into police custody for protection against the creature.The Good News: Another adaptation on the Frankenstein legend, this one isn't all that bad. Instead of doing a straight-up re-visioning, the new twist here is that the doctor is trying to perform valid scientific experiments unrelated to building a creature, which just by coincidence it happens that way. The change is most welcome, as is the quite graphic and brutal killings. We get legs ripped off, ice shards pierced in the stomach, a very messy scalpel slicing and a dissection scene where a body is torn completely open and exposed. There's more in here as well, making this the bloodiest version of the book. The dark and serious tone it has also works wonders for the film, as a light and campy atmosphere would've easily undermined the whole film. It's concept and execution requires the film to not have a constant joke thrown in to keep the viewers attention. It was done the smart way and making the film a little more unsettling. The design of the creature is quite impressive and scary on first look, with exposed bones, frayed skin and tall figure make it a great villain. The rampage scenes are quite well handled and make for some tense stalking moments, especially the sequence with the babysitter in the living room. A quite unexpected surprise.The Bad News: The decision to tell the story as a series of flashbacks is the main problem with the film. It's told in a rather convoluted manner that doesn't make too much sense. Rather than tell it in a linear frame, and it decides to cut back and forth between events and times, making for some convoluted telling. This doesn't seem to serve any narrative or artistic purpose and only succeeds in slowing down the progression of the story. It also fractures the narrative so much that many of the relationships between the characters become disjointed, this especially hurts the relationship and it's evolution between Franks and the monster which becomes extremely murky as we are never able to see it grow along a linear time-frame. This is the main problem, and it lowers the film slightly.The Final Verdict: With a slightly annoying approach to the story, this shouldn't be a wrongly maligned film. It's a well made film that will nicely please true horror fans as well as those looking for a little more mean-spirited film than what else is out.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, a short sex scene and mild drug use

This would have been a nice low-budget horror movie. I enjoyed Rhett Giles rendition of the good doctor. Only thing that bothered me was during the dialog, the score would annoyingly drown it out. I kept having to turn the sound up and down and I still couldn't catch all of what was said. Movie makers take note, please add English subtitles so we can read the dialog if we can't hear it over the crappy score. Whoever did the sound for that movie should never be allowed to mix again! Other than the lousy sound, the actors did fine and were believable enough (except for that part with the little girl not being scared!) for a horror movie. The violence and gore were over the top, the way I like it and the monster looked just great! I wish more of the Frankensteins looked as good as he did. Please, if you otherwise have an OK movie, don't ruin it with bad sound and do add subtitles.

I know the time frame and budget constrictions of this project on a personal level. I am proud of the film and it's cast and crew for the effort that went into FRAKKENSTEIN REBORN. You folks who are so carelessly slamming the film should know that it is harsh to do business at the "direct to" level. You are lucky to get any one person on set with passion, drive and selflessness. The cast and crew believed in the project and stand by it, even going so far as to tear the film and each other apart, rather hilariously so, during the audio commentary. If you can do better I would love to see it. Thanks for your heckling from your dark lonely corner of the rental arena, and thanks for renting. Hey, we in the biz don't really care what you say about us as long as we affect you in some way. As for me, I can't wait to see what The ASYLUM did by way of a WEREWOLF picture with THE BEAST OF BRAY ROAD. As for spoilers, nope, none here just wanted your attention, thanks again.