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      Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks

      PG 1973 1h 29m Horror List
      Reviews 8% Audience Score 250+ Ratings The count (Rossano Brazzi) recruits a dwarf (Michael Dunn) and others to help him put a brain in the body of a brute. Read More Read Less

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      kevin c A horny dwarf working for Dr Frankenstein is banished from the castle where he befriends a Neanderthal man and uses him to get revenge. But the doctor has resurrected a hulk of a man in his experiments. All the while Dr Frankenstein's daughter is at the castle for her wedding. This was quite fun, with the usual mad scientist tropes plus some gratuitous nudity and a dwarf and you practically have an Oscar contender. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Every October as part of my Halloween binge I try to watch something super trashy. This certainly did the job. It's kind of like if someone turned Scooby-Doo into a softcore porn, that's really the best way I can describe it. It's got a big castle, those paintings where the eyes move, some extremely cheesy monsters (namely some mostly unexplained Neanderthals) and actually some spooky atmosphere and grungy quality, but it also has tons of gratuitous nudity like an extensive scene of two women bathing and a pretty awkward rape scene. It's a bad movie, no doubt, but it's sort of charming in its badness. The plot makes no sense, Frankenstein himself is wholly forgettable, but the sets are pretty cool and a lot of the minor characters are actually pretty fun. There's a little person playing one of Frankenstein's assistants who's sort of the eventual bad guy of the movie, and he's pretty memorable and clearly having a lot of fun. But I realize now I'm putting way more thought into this movie than it deserves. It's garbage, but if you like garbage, it's fairly entertaining garbage to watch with friends and make fun of. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Colorful. Uses the basic Frankenstein story but centers it more around his servants and throws in some cheap thrills and a fun style. The characters are nasty, the plot is loose, and the ending is stupid- perfect. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member What horrors will the nefarious Count Frankenstein unleash upon the world now? Why, re-animated cavemen, of course... Frankenstein hopes to prove his worth to the scientific community with this final experiment, but a distempered dwarf and his hulking sidekick look to stop him! When it comes to bottom of the barrel Italian exploitation, DR. FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE OF FREAKS is at the top of the list. Dick Randall haphazardly tosses together an awful plot with ridiculous characters in the hopes that the sleazy sex and gore will distract from his own artless direction. Rossano Brazzi brings nothing to the role of the questionable Count Frankenstein (?), whose ramshackle laboratory doesn't even seem fit for a back alley abortion. DR. FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE OF FREAKS doesn't pose the slightest bit of entertainment for any Gothic or B-movie fan in all of its self-inflicted boredom. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Hilarious hodge podge of characters, henchmen, sexploitation, and movie monsters. Saw this with Cinematic Titanic, a true tour de force then. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member This thing is horrible. Seriously bad. Frankenstein is a terrible kisser, first. Second, all he does is restart life with some pegs and electricity. Third, there are cavemen. The good things about this movie? A young Emma Stone plays Krista. There are at least two bath scenes - one of which involves hot springs and mud while the other is in some very disappointing milk. There is a great grave robbing scene, tho, it is never clear why they steal that young lady's corpse, other than to show how the midget is a total pervy perv. Oh yeah and there is a midget. At the end, I am pretty sure everyone dies, but I am not really sure. Everyone except the evil horny midget that started all this nonsense. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis The count (Rossano Brazzi) recruits a dwarf (Michael Dunn) and others to help him put a brain in the body of a brute.
      Director
      Dick Randall
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Sep 9, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 29m