Frankenstein---1970 Reviews

Boris Karloff finally gets to play the creator instead of the created in this rather strange Frankenstein outing. As Victor von Frankenstein, grandson of the late Baron, Karloff sports horrible facial scars, disfigured by the Nazis during the war. Although he plans to re-create his grandpa's experiments, Victor needs cash to purchase an atomic reactor he needs to bring his creature to life. He therefore allows a television crew to rent his historic castle to shoot a TV show. Now, with the money and spare parts to work with (the TV cast and crew), Victor succeeds in bringing his monster (it stands about seven feet tall and is wrapped up like a mummy) to life, but the creature attacks him, and during the struggle atomic steam is released, killing them both. Karloff appears to have a good time hamming it up, and the whole thing is pretty silly (including the title, which means nothing), an odd combination of classic and nuclear horror.