Abysmally cheesy and cheap ripoff of the Frankenstein movie legacy has poor Rossano Brazzi earning that month's rent and Chianti money; some hard working (but really unappealing) character actors doing their best (but still not very well) with thankless, horribly clichéd dialog; a couple of decent looking girls wearing a long ton of eyeliner thrown in purely so the movie trailer could feature some skin; and a drunken walk of a screen play that seems to think that the Frankenstein story wasn't enough as a basis for a movie...no, it has to throw in cavemen, dwarfs, hunchbacks,and rough sex to spice things up. Well, it was wrong.
I gave it one more star than I really wanted because it's entirely possibly that the horrible English dub (apparently recording on Edison's original wax cylinder under a tomato can) and crummy print on the copy I saw made made FCOF seem even worse than it really would be in its original release. Also I feel really bad that an actor like Brazzi would be reduced to something like this after starring in "South Pacific" and being wonderful. And Micheal Dunn's portrayal of the twisted dwarf is actually fairly compelling.
I gave it one more star than I really wanted because it's entirely possibly that the horrible English dub (apparently recording on Edison's original wax cylinder under a tomato can) and crummy print on the copy I saw made made FCOF seem even worse than it really would be in its original release. Also I feel really bad that an actor like Brazzi would be reduced to something like this after starring in "South Pacific" and being wonderful. And Micheal Dunn's portrayal of the twisted dwarf is actually fairly compelling.