Sunday, April 20, 2008

Frankenstein's Daughter (1958)

Oliver Frank, a descendant of the infamous Baron von Frankenstein, is working on a potion that will bring the dead back to life. He slips the potion into fruit punch that he gives to Trudy, the niece of his boss Carter Morton, who is arguable a mad scientist. Trudy turns into a monster and runs around town in a bathing suit freaking people out.

This sequence of events leads me to the biggest question of the film - if Oliver is trying to make a potion to bring the dead back to life, then why is he giving it to the living? Sadly, there is no explanation.

After Trudy's friend Susie won't make out with Oliver while on a date, Olvier runs her over with his car so he can use her organs for his experiments. Oliver takes the secret passage into Carter's house so that he can use his lab. It seems odd that Carter doesn't know about the passageway, but no explanation is offered.

When Oliver is done with the monster that is Frankenstein's daughter, she doesn't leave via the secret passage, but walks straight out the front door?! The monster has an outerspace type of jacket and gloves, a massive bandage on her head, and looks like a melty faced Jack Carter. In fact, Frankenstein's daughter looks not so much like a daughter at all, but like a large ugly heavily bandaged man.

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