Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790732046 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 0790732041 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: August 26, 1997 Running Time: 83 minutes Sales Rank: 1579 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: July 20, 1958
Rating: - IT'S A CINEMASCOPE PICTURE
A fun movie to watch......I loved it when I first saw it a a kid in the 60's. Hopefully they'll come out w/a widescreen DVD version as the movie was filmed in CINEMASCOPE w/an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The VHS version I have starts out in widescreen but when the credits end it reverts to the usual pan & scan junk that we see so often on VHS releases of widescreen films.
Rating: - finally saw it, it's good
A friend and i got all set up to watch this on TV one Friday night in fifth grade, popcorn and bottles of Sprite on his screen-porch, but the intro was so frightening I made him turn it off. Since then (1962) I've always wondered what I missed. Seeing it now, I laughed when i realized that the part that frightened me is a movie-within-a-movie: the director yells "Cut" about 15 seconds after the moment when I fled. (I'm not the spoiler here-- this info is in an earlier review). (But that first part is still very scary.) Now as a grownup I enjoyed the movie a lot. Karloff's great, chilling and funny at once. Watch for his melancholy soliloquoy over the bodyparts dispose-all. 5 stars for me.
Rating: - Karloff's Cinematic Wasteland
From a celluloid perspective, the 1950s were a terrible decade for Boris Karloff. Though he blazed new trails on television and stage, the Hollywood studios could not provide a memorable vehicle for this truly great actor. "Frankenstein 1970" (1958) represented the worst of a largely forgotten lot. Portraying an atomic-age, Nazi-scarred version of Baron Frankenstein was an opportunity Karloff should have avoided. The only interesting aspect is the bizarre "twist" ending - if you can wait that long. Happily, the 1960s would provide more rewarding film roles for Karloff, culminating in his masterful triumph as Byron Orlok in "Targets."
Rating: - This time it's DOCTOR Karloff with a purpose...
The story opens as a terrified young woman is running through the woods, the monster seen here with sharpened nails like claws giving chase, tracks her down, finally cornering her at a lake where she stands frozen with fear as the monster slowly lurches toward her, lurching into the water and grabbing her by the throat and finally strangles and drowns her holding her under the lake's murky water.
Suddenly there's yelling and the girl begins screaming that he's really choking her and someone yells "Cut!" Alas, it's only a movie. Poor Fund barren Baron Frankenstein leases out his ancestral home to a movie production company making a picture about his infamous ancestor's monstrous creation. But something's afoot, and also an arm and a leg and a few other body parts as the Baron is up to his predecessor's old shenanagins. Rest assured this film is shlocky, but it's a bit better than you might imagine because ... Read More
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- IT'S A CINEMASCOPE PICTURE
- finally saw it, it's good
- Karloff's Cinematic Wasteland
- This time it's DOCTOR Karloff with a purpose...
