Frankenstein Island

1981

1h 37m

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3.3/10

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A hot air balloon crew and a dog find themselves on an island with scantily-clad part-alien women, zombies, and other monsters.

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Jerry Warren

Writers

Jerry Warren(screenplay by)

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Robert Clarke

Steve Brodie

Cameron Mitchell

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Dr. Hadley

Jocko

Clay Jayson

Mark Eden

Curtis

Dino

The Colonel

Dr. Frankenstein

Sheila Frankenstein van Helsing

George Mitchell André

Dr. von Helsing

Dana Norbeck

Jungle Girl

Richard Banks

Angus

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Jerry Warren

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Jerry Warren(screenplay by)

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I've been struggling hard to find a film as bad as "Mesa of Lost Women" (1953) and I think I might just have found it. A bunch of hot air balloonists (says it all, already, really) land on a remote island to find it already populated by beautiful, scantily-clad Amazon women and rather clunky looking mutants. Upon closer inspection they discover that the whole island is one vast experiment being run by the grand-daughter (I was constantly distracted by her wig) of "Dr. Frankenstein" who has married the equivalent offspring of "Dr. Van Helsing" - but he is bed-ridden and her experiments are all about getting him back up on his feet. Guided by some sagely, omnipotent "appearances" by John Carradine the film ambles along with no real purpose, an amazingly well-equipped modern laboratory and a truly woeful script that appears to have forced Jerry Warren to change his name to a suitably literary "Jaques Lecouter" either to distance himself entirely from this drivel, or to faintly attempt to give the writing a certain degree gf gravitas. In any case, none of that actually matters - it's dreadful - and the ending presents us with a machine gun that we would have paid real money to possess 90 minutes earlier.

Geronimo196707 Jun, 2023