Directed by Mel Welles
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Shout Factory)
The first half of this Italian-made film is basically a remake of the original Frankenstein, and a pretty good one at that, with authentic castle atmosphere, midnight grave robbing for body parts, disturbing scenes of human transplants and the iconic awakening of the monster during a thunderstorm. However, the plot deviates from the original when the monster immediately kills Dr. Frankenstein. The focus then turns to Frankenstein's daughter, a recent college graduate and surgeon, who falls in love with her father's assistant but lusts after the much younger idiot servant boy. She concocts a plan to transfer the assistant's brain into the boy's body in order to satisfy her own desires. Frankenstein's original monster is mostly forgotten, and this change of focus from the original story is not for the better.
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