Blackenstein

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Pure L Very fun movie to watch. Loved Blackenstein's sounds and the killing scenes. Ending could have been better but overall is still a classic! If you want to watch similar movies I highly recommended Blacula and Scream Blacula Scream!!! All of these movies are Hood Classics! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Look, this movie is horrible, but when I'm happy that it exists. That sentence could pretty much sum up nearly every movie that I write about on this site, right? Writer and producer Frank R. Saletri had also planned Black the Ripper and while I'm confessing, I will say that I would totally watch that movie and probably love it. He also wrote Sherlock Holmes in the Adventures of the Werewolf of the Baskervilles and Sherlock Holmes in the Adventures of the Golden Vampire, movies that were supposed to star Alice Cooper as the man who lives at 221B Baker Street. However, he was killed gangland style in his home, a place where Bela Lugosi once slept. Probably in a coffin. Doctor Stein (John Hart, who replaced Clayton Moore for one season in a Coy and Vance trick and we all know that that never works) has recently won a Nobel Prize for solving the DNA genetic code, which means that he can put body parts back on someone or make people look young. These things will come in handy, as Eddie Turner stepped on a land min back in the rice paddies of Da Nang and ended up coming back a torso. Things go well, but Stein's assistant Malcomb falls for Eddie's woman Dr. Winifred Walker and so he sabotages the surgery, turning our hero into a cannibal Frankenstein with a huge afro. So how do you stop an out of control black Frankenstein's monster? You just have some police dogs tear him apart. At least they used the original Universal lab equipment. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Eddie Turner steps on a landmine whilst serving in Nam and loses his limbs as a result. His fiance Winifred is a physicist and looks to her former teacher Doctor Stein (his name is a red flag already) who has recently won the Nobel prize for his work regarding DNA and so may be able to graft new limbs onto Eddie. What could possibly go wrong? Well, lots. Dr Stein's assistant Malcomb is knocked back by Winifred and so to retaliate he contaminates the DNA solution used in Eddie's operation so that Eddie turns into an uncontrollable killing man-beast. While he appears bed-bound by day he secretly goes on killing rampages at night. As you may have guessed this is the blaxploitation version of Frankenstein and was made after Blacula (the blaxploitation version of...do I really have to tell you?!) was a hit at the box office. The main word when describing this film is FUN. Yes, it's cheesy in places but so what? It's a perfect time capsule of the genre and what horror and drive-in audiences were lapping up at the time. And if I had been around during this era I would have been with them doing the same. I'm loving that Eddie's first port of call is to pay a visit to the male nurse we saw being abusive to him earlier in the film. I also love the fact that the punishment that Eddie doles out is to rip off one of the orderly's arms. Who said there was no such thing as irony in films like this? Blackenstein is also noteworthy as John Waters' starlet Liz Renay is one of Blackenstein's victims. Yes, Ms Renay from Desperate Living! Look out for the Severin Blu ray that restores two versions of the film (the theatrical and slightly longer home video version). The film has never looked or sounded so good. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review delysid d i scraped the bottom of the movie barrel and i came up with blackenstein. its not very impressive Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/03/18 Full Review Audience Member almost four minutes of blackenstien action! Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Blackenstein is undoubtedly one of the worst movies ever made, but don't let that deter you. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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