Synopsis
It reaches from the grave to re-live the horror, the terror! More destructive! More terrifying!
Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.
1958 Directed by Richard E. Cunha
Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.
Frankenstein's Tochter
Scrubbing down the Puke Stations at an Octoberfest would be a MORE enjoyable experience!
'You always treated me like a monster. Now you're going to be one.' Oliver Frankenstein isn't one for logic, or taking no for an answer but he is one for slipping the girls who rebuff his advances monster juice and being generally a creep. 'The female brain is conditioned to a man's world therefore it takes orders while the others wouldn't.' Which is, I'm assuming, why she refused to be intimidated back into the car and demanded to be taken home so you had to kill her and cut out her brain. And also why Mr. Rich Science's niece keeps slapping you rather than getting on your penis. But like I said, the whole logic thing. Victor would be so ashamed. At least there is a bongo drum backyard barbecue and two wholly unnecessary musical numbers, otherwise this movie...sorry, no I can't, it's garbage. The terrible music is the entire one star value.
I’m a weirdo. I have very much dug each Richard. E Cunha picture that I have seen. His films don’t get much love. And this would indeed include Frankenstein’s Daughter.
Cunha worked as a photographer in the military and a cinematographer in Hollywood and television post-war. And then in 1958 he busted out four science fiction and horror films, of an originally planned 10 pictures over two years. These included: Giant from the Unknown, She Demons, Missile to the Moon, and Frankenstein’s Daughter. Sure, they’re probably all junk but such fun junk.
“I need a brain!”
The villain of Frankenstein’s Daughter, Oliver Frank/Frankenstein (played with oozy aplomb by Donald Murphy) is a real sleazeball. Insinuated in the laboratory of a…
I have been watching a lot of B-movies lately, and I can report with some authority that there is a fairly clear line between B-movies with no redeeming qualities and B-movies that are a fun ride. Frankenstein's Daughter is a fun ride.
It's bad, yes. There's very little plot, and the "science" behind everything is laughable. The creature makeup is pretty terrible, and, as other reviewers have noted, the makeup artist created a male monster instead of the female monster called for by the story. Oops!
And yet the film works on some level. It's not boring and it moves briskly enough between scenes, the actors are capable and take their roles seriously, the black and white cinematography is pretty well done, and the music (though generic) suits the mood of the movie just fine.
This one rates a solid 4/5 on the rainy-Saturday-afternoon rating scale.
Richard E. Cunha’s science-fiction horror in which Dr. Frankenstein’s crazy grandson tries to make awful monsters in contemporary Los Angeles. Starring Donald Murphy and Sandra Knight.
The story concerns the grandson of Dr Frankenstein who is employed as a laboratory helper while clandestinely accumulating a faultless being, with some assistance from the gardener and an unintentional killing.
Donald Murphy gives an unconvincing performance in his double role as Frankenstein and Oliver Frank, the scientist and his grandson who show no determination in attempting to cause as much trouble as possible.
Elsewhere, John Ashley as Johnny Bruder, Sandra Knight as the teenager Trudy Morton, Sally Todd as Suzie Lawler and Harry Wilson as the Monster all offer very little in their…
This is one of those movies where the monster is just kind of running around the neighborhood spooking people while grey-suited detectives shoot recklessly into the bushes, except in this movie there are TWO monsters! Kinda boring when the scientists are talking, and they really could have made the gardener a hunchback or at least given him a hairy mole. Harold Lloyd Jr sings a delightfully sappy song called “Special Date” during a nightclub scene. The real reason you’re watching this, though, is for those monsters - the bug-eyed hairy girl and the lady Frankenstein - and both get plenty of screen time. The guy that did the makeup effects was named Harry Thomas and he created some of my…
At one point in the show, a descendent of the infamous Frankenstein family is praised for being the first of his line to desire to make a female creation. I can only assume that the filmmakers were too busy putting together this show to bother watching another entry in the Frankenstein saga called BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Ah, well.
FRANKENSTEIN’S DAUGHTER is a mess ... literally. At first, I assumed that Sandra Knight (portraying Trudy Morton) was intended to be the title character because of her transformations into a hideous creature. However, it turns out that she is being used as a test subject for a drug. The title creature, despite being given the head of a teen woman,…
Cashing in on the teenage monster craze, this one is so cheap it never had a chance.
Dr F is sewing up teenage bodies with the help of his creepy gardner. The Frankenstein mask is dire, as are the production values in general.
One of a handful of films with Harold Lloyd jr, a tragic figure.
Barely able to tell a story, this isn't worth a watch.
Film #645 of 2020.
Week 7: Feb. 12-Feb. 18
50's Sci-fi Week
Up till the age of eleven or twelve I frequently suffered from night terrors. My longest-running and most vivid night terror involved a hideous woman that would sit at the foot of my bed grinning at me or who would follow me around my house trying to tickle me. And I'm pretty certain that she was triggered by a picture in this book that my mother bought me when I was about five or six.
The picture in question was this. Years later I found the same book in a second-hand bookstore and learned that the film in question was Frankenstein's Daughter. So tonight I decided to…
The first time I saw this film was in London in 1964. At the Classic Cinema in Brixton, to be precise. I thought it was the worst film I had ever seen. And quite possibly it was, at the time. Fifty years later, a lot of really crappy movies have flickered before my eyes, and my opinion of this movie is a little more mellow now. It's still a crappy movie, though, but a bit of a guilty pleasure by now.
It's hard to find anything good about this movie. The best thing I can say is that Sandra Knight looks nice – some of the time. The monster makeups are horrible (and not in a good sense). Apparently makeup…
I would of probably given this 5 stars if Oliver Frank... aka Oliver Frankenstein wasn’t such a pig. Say shit like, “the femal brain is conditioned to taking orders”.
Bitching pool party though. Great monster action, but Oliver is such a piece of shit Slimeball it all sorta sat there....
I hope Oliver was made to be piece shit, so people could see how evil dudes like him are.... but honestly after watching the 4 Cunha monster mashes I doubt that’s what happpened. I think he is a male piece shit because male pieces of shit were something men and boys at that time could relate to, and that is yuck.
Glad his face got melted right the fuck off.
Three stars for the pool party!
I do wish I loved this film more. It has everything I adore about these screwball 1950s sci-fi/ monster films. Ridiculous looking monsters. Buildings with strange geography. Over-emphatic dialog. One of the extra joys of this one is that Dr. Frank (get it) is doing all his experiments in a suburban home. (And not even his home!) He's fiddling around in the basement, which has a hidden entrance/ room within it. It seems so implausible that I love it. Plus, Dr. Frank is not only mad but he's got zero social skills. (Get some lessons on how to go out with girls, Doc!) It has two monsters! And the second one is a hilarious classic. All elements, known and unknown,…
Cashing in on the teenage monster craze, this one is so cheap it never had a chance.
Dr F is sewing up teenage bodies with the help of his creepy gardner. The Frankenstein mask is dire, as are the production values in general.
One of a handful of films with Harold Lloyd jr, a tragic figure.
Barely able to tell a story, this isn't worth a watch.
Film #645 of 2020.
Typical Richard Cunha/Astor Pictures silliness, FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER is amusingly daft, from it's decidedly non-feminine monster to the endless bickering between scientists Felix Locher and Donald Murphy. It really should have been called "Frankenstein's Grandson."
Yeah...uh...wow. Where's Arch Hall Jr. when you need him? This has way more ultra-square 'Rock & Roll' than I expected. It probably should have been set at the beach. It's really not good. Bad costumes, bad acting, weirdly convoluted script... I kinda liked the actor playing the villain, though. He's hammy, but in a good way.
Was this not done on "Mystery Science Theater 3000"? That seems like a weird oversight.
Aided by Rifftrax’s Bridget Nelson & Mary Jo Pehl, who made it a four-star experience.
The monster is burned alive and then we hard cut to our two teenage protagonists laughing after they push a guy into a pool with the very simple yet effective title card: “The End”. Yep, it’s awful. But charming in its inept awfulness.
John Ashley’s first leading role in a horror movie. It’s rough but fun. You can tell what it’s about just from the title...Frankenstein’s grandson decides to recreate his experiments. The cool thing is he makes two monsters. One basically turns a girl into a freak by giving her fruit punch with chemicals in it, and the other is a reanimated person made from a feat man’s body joined with a dead woman’s head.
So the story was good and the effects looked cool, and John Ashley did a good job. Most of the rest of the acting was pretty poor though and the directing was also noticibly bad at some points. Overall fun but not great.
And I Only Am Escaped To Tell Thee...
Rifftrax rating : ***
This was the first feature length Rifftrax Presents with Mary Jo Pehl and Bridget Nelson for me and the missus and it’s a doozy.
“Is my lipstick okay? I did it without a mirror.”
“It’s a Cossack whose had dental surgery!”
Goofy and weird in all the best ways that they only ever did with these 50s monster movies.
Dr.Frankenstein is like the human embodiment of a red flag in this. Also why the hell is Harold Lloyd's (one of my performers) son in this giving one of the worst performances I've ever seen. This movie makes me think the past might have been a different planet.
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