Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

tl12 Would you not think the commentary should have some vague relationship to the movie, well not here. You can hear all about their friends and friends of friends. All about stories involving Hollywood. However if you are looking for a commentary about the movie you will not find it here. They are all far to much in love with themselves to talk about anything else except themselves.This commentary should be issued with a warning: beware of self importance!These people should be put in the radiation chamber and burnt to dust!!!!!

GL84 While allowing a film crew to make a movie at his castle, the Baron decides to use the opportunity to finish his ancestor's brain-swapping experiments and lets the hulking creation loose upon the unsuspecting filmmakers.Actually not all that bad of an entry, definitely has it's moments and features some good stuff from time to time, namely in the beginning where the film-crew twist makes the action a bit jolting, and the times spent in the lab trying to reanimate the body are pure old-school sci-fi goodness. The location works nicely as well, being the kind of grand Gothic design that manages to have all it's usual theatrics played up rather nicely. It's just marred by a criminal lack of energy and enthusiasm when it's not dealing with the baron's antics, as the film-crew aren't that interesting and hardly ever do anything, the monster is a joke and looks retarded (in concept, not execution) and the entire thing is over so hurriedly it's impossible to realize what's happened until the credits start to roll. A real missed opportunity since this one could've been decent.Today's Rating: Unrated/PG: Mild Violence

Michael_Elliott Frankenstein 1970 (1958) ** (out of 4) Baron Frankenstein (Boris Karloff), disfigured after being tortured by Nazi's, is running out of money so he lets a TV station shoot a documentary inside his castle about the legendary monster. What the TV crew doesn't know is that the Baron has used the money off the project to bring back another monster. This film tries to be "hip" and "fun" but it's really neither and remains quite dull all the way to the end. Karloff manages to give a fun, if campy, performance, which is the only real reason to watch this. I managed to get my hands on an incredibly rare 2.35:1 print of this and I must say this has some of the laziest scope cinematography ever.

Scarecrow-88 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.