I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

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Blu B It's harmless cheap B Movie fare stuff. Nothing really good or bad about it. The title makes no sense given the Doctor in this isn't the teen so it's kind of amusing how the Monster isn't Frankenstein cliche was a thing even than. The production value is cheap, the camerawork/direction is basic, and the acting is very wooden, robotic and forgettable. This is basically a retelling of the novel in the 50's with none of the mood, atmosphere, and stellar acting of the 31' one. The stuff with the fiance and Dr. Frankenstein is so forgettable and really feels like it doesn't add anything. If you've seen any other iteration of Frankenstein, than you've seen this one. The facial gore is striking and shocking they allowed that in the 50's. It's pretty graphic stuff. Besides that there isn't anything else to make this memorable. Skip It. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/14/24 Full Review Audience Member Five months after American-International Picture's I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Herbert L. Strock (The Crawling Hand) directed this follow-up, which has British professor Professor Frankenstein (Whit Bissell, who was also the mad scientist in AIP's first teenager as a monster movie) coming to America to assemble his monster from the bodies of teenagers who didn't make it through Dead Man's Curve. He's the kind of scientist who has no problem feeding former Lois Lane Phyllis Coates to alligators (AIP's Herman Cohen kayfabe stated that the alligator had been used to dispose of the bodies of the victims of serial killer Joe Ball from a small town outside San Antonio, which I love) or cutting off the face of a boy on Lover's Lane (Gary Conway, The Farmer) for his undead monster. How did AIP not follow this up with I Was a Teenage Dracula? Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Low grade nonsense, but it has its charms, namely the goofy makeup design for the "creature," and Whit Bissell giving his all. An ultimate example of drive-in horror fare of the 1950s. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member A doctor who is ridiculed by his colleagues for his theories decides to create a being much in the way Baron von Frankenstein did years prior. He desires to create a super human being, not a monster, for the purposes of speeding up the purpose of selective breeding. He gets his parts when a couple of cars full of teenage party-goers get in a head-on crash. The person he creates is able to speak, think, is physically fit, and is a Christian. The creation escapes (of course) and kills (of course). Despite the movie's name, it is not a comedy - its actually a decent retelling of the Shelley story. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Campy fun with great lines like: "I know you have a civil tongue, I sewed it there!" Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Teenage Frankenstein himself is a supporting character in his own story! Shameful. Campy but poorly-paced fun. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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