‘Physique of a boy! Thoughts of a monster! Soul of an unearthly factor!’
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein is a 1957 sci-fi horror movie a couple of mad professor who creates a hulking hybrid from the physique of an accident sufferer; his “creation” awakens and goes on a killing spree. Additionally launched as Teenage Frankenstein (UK title).
Directed by Herbert L. Strock (The Crawling Hand; Blood of Dracula) from a screenplay credited to Kenneth Langtry [actually producer Herman Cohen and Aben Kandel].
The film stars Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Gary Conway and Robert Burton.
The movie is the follow-up to AIP’s box-office hit I Was a Teenage Werewolf launched lower than 5 months earlier by American Worldwide Photos (AIP).
A Texas exhibitor requested if two new horror motion pictures might be prepared by Thanksgiving. AIP commissioned Herman Cohen to make I Was a Teenage Frankenstein and Blood of Dracula. Cohen says the 2 movies have been written and put in entrance of the cameras in solely 4 weeks “so I needed to actually, actually reduce down” when it comes to manufacturing values.
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein was filmed in black and white, with the ending in color for stunning impact.
Plot [contains spoilers]:
Professor Frankenstein, a visitor lecturer from England, talks Physician Karlton into changing into an unwilling confederate in his secret plan to assemble a human being from the elements of various human cadavers.
After recovering a physique from a catastrophic car wreck, Professor Frankenstein takes the physique to his laboratory/morgue, the place he retains spare elements of human beings in varied drawers. The professor additionally enlists assistance from Margaret, as his secretary, to maintain all callers away from the laboratory.
Changing into extra suspicious, Margaret decides to research and goes all the way down to the morgue. She is panic-stricken by the monster who has been activated by electrical energy following the grafting of a brand new leg and arm. She dares to not inform the Professor about her emotions and retains silent for the current.
One evening, the monster leaves the laboratory. He friends into a woman’s condo. The woman turns into hysterical and begins screaming; in his try to silence her, he kills her in panic and flees. The following morning, the hunt for the assassin is on. Margaret, indignant on the professor, tells him that she is aware of that the monster is answerable for the homicide. The professor, taking no probabilities, instructions the monster to kill her after which feed her stays to his pet alligator. Physician Karlton, despatched out of city, is aware of nothing about this.
The professor accompanies the monster to a lover’s lane, the place he kills a teenage boy to acquire his face. The boy’s face is efficiently grafted onto the monster. Professor Frankenstein tells Docor Karlton of his plans to dismember his creation and ship him in varied bins to England after which return there to place him collectively once more. After they strap the monster down once more, he turns into suspicious and tears free. He throws Professor Frankenstein into the alligator pit whereas Physician Karlton runs for assist.
When Physician Karlton arrives with the police, the monster, maddened with fright, backs into {the electrical} dial board. Contact along with his iron wristbands electrocutes him and he falls to the bottom, lifeless. Karlton tells the police that he’ll always remember the way in which the monster’s face taken care of the accident.
Opinions:
“As in Teenage Werewolf, the monster involves characterize alienated adolescence and Whit Bissell is once more forged as a calculating and manipulative scientist/authority determine. It’s amusing to see that on this movie Frankenstein is not historically a scientist with misguided intentions, he’s totally ruthless from the outset.” Moria
“When the monster twists off a good-looking jock’s head so he can have it for his personal, he carries it again to the lab in a birdcage! That’s sick, man!! Little moments like that make cinema such a viable artwork type. However regardless of this, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein remains to be a silly film, and regardless of its being a silly film, I cherished each minute of it.” Film Journal Worldwide
“One of many mini sequence of teenage science fiction movies that adopted within the wake of I Was a Teenage Werewolf, it stays watchable as a result of Kandel’s script, although sadly not Strock’s route which is pedestrian, has a component of parody about it.” Phil Hardy (editor), The Aurum Movie Encyclopedia: Horror
“It forces one to acknowledge the impression that such movies might irritate the mass social illness euphemistically termed ‘juvenile delinquency’ … On this specific movie, there are graphic shows of human dismemberment.” The New York Occasions, January 30, 1958
” …intelligently and imaginatively finished … there’s sufficient of real frightfulness to fulfill and fan…” The Hollywood Reporter
“Immensely foolish however pleasing piece of hokum, with a basic title, a critical efficiency towards the chances by Whit Bissell…” Alan Frank, The Horror Movie Handbook
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