O2D Why am I watching these terrible movies?I guess someone has to.Anyway, this is my third or fourth Frankenstein movie and none of them actually had Frankenstein in them.How is that even possible?I assume they lie about it to trick people into watching their bad, bad movies.It worked on me.So some aliens are hovering over Earth and shooting down our rockets.The aliens have Spock ears but each ear is completely different.The main alien has one almost good Spock ear and the other one looks like it was made by a 5 year old who had never seen Star Trek.The aliens need to repopulate their planet, and of course women of a different species will do just fine, so they have come for the Earth women.At one point a military guy calls another military guy and says they just got a twix from Washington.Washington sent them the candy bar with the cookie crunch??He continues to say that strange looking humans were reported in Puerto Rico and the other guy says it's probably Castro.Seriously?A high ranking Army official doesn't know the difference between Puerto Rico and Cuba?What about the fool who wrote this movie?What about the hundreds of other people who worked on the movie?None of them knew the difference?I have been thinking there was something wrong with people in the past but now I have a new theory.People in the past were stupid.Old people aren't becoming worse, they were never great people.But the movie just gets worse.They have no problem kidnapping a dozen women.The women and their men never put up a fight.But when the main female character and her companion split up(because that's what you do in bad movies), it takes three aliens to drag her into their ship.Even worse, they decide they want to capture Frank.What is the logic behind that?Does he look like a woman to them??So they attack Frank, a guy who has proved he can easily kill people by barely touching them, and he puts up less of a fight than the woman.What?That really just happened and I didn't turn off this movie?This guy got shot in the face and then beat the alien to death while it was wearing a helmet but suddenly he can't fight? Bad acting and a worse plot combine to make you wish you had never watched this movie.I give this two stars because sadly, there are worse movies.I almost forgot that I think I learned something from this movie.It was made by a company with Futurama in its name and a guy in the movie said "robit".The Professor on the cartoon Futurama says "robit" all the time.This had to be where that came from.I don't understand why this was deleted. The mods clearly didn't read it.

poe-48833 Saw this one on TV when I was but a lad and I don't remember it being THIS violent (not that I have anything against Violence; it's just that the version I saw must've been censored by the folks who broadcast it); it harks back to those pre-Code Horror comics in every way. While Nadir, the second-in-command, comes across as one of those aliens looking to probe someone's anus, the Princess is out of this world... All this woman has to do is take a slow, deep breath and... James Karen does a great job in his first At Bat, too. LUST IN SPACE- uh, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACEMONSTER boasts some no-holds-barred makeup and a caged Monster worthy of Paul Blaisdell (in fact, it looks like a cross between THE SHE-CREATURE and IT!, THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE). My biggest gripe is that the "meeting" of the two is so brief so late in the movie that we don't get to see either combatant really showcase his wares. The ship is VERY impressive for such a Low Budget feature, and excellent use is made of tons of stock footage. The practical effects all around are impressive: this is one of those hand-made movies that puts to shame the cgi crap we see Today.

bkoganbing Two great events in history are about to collide in Frankenstein Meets The Spacemonster inflicted on the public in 1965 by Allied Artists. First NASA is about to send the first exploratory rocket into space with an astronaut. But what an astronaut. Secondly though, the elite of Mars has ordered a raid on Earth to seize our most desirable women to repopulate the planet due to a recent atomic war that has eliminated all the women except the Martian princess. As for our astronaut, someone at NASA apparently got a hold of one of the journals of Baron Victor Von Frankenstein and given advances in medical technology and robotics has created an amalgam creature that looks human and is given the name of Colonel Frank N. Saunders. They even trot him out for a press conference, but to no one's surprise this particular astronaut has never been heard of before.Anyway the Martians are planning to make their strike on earth on Puerto Rico. And Martian guys go to various beaches and pool parties and kidnap those who look best in a state of undress. They also mistake the rocket for some kind of attack vehicle and shoot it down and wouldn't you know it, in Puerto Rico.At this point the damaged Frankenstein astronaut meets up with the Martian invaders and some kind of monster they've taken along on their space ship for emergencies. Or maybe just as a pet. That sets up the inevitable climax which I'm sure you've figured out.I recognized some of the Puerto Rican locations from the trip I took to San Juan in 1983. Too bad they weren't in color that might have counted as a plus for the film. With a lot of the Puerto Rican rain forest now preserved as a national park, El Yunque, I'm surprised more and better films that need a tropic setting aren't done there. There are a few people in the cast who've gone on to some substantial careers. James Karen as the NASA doctor who created the Frankenstein astronaut looks positively ill as he mouths the dialog, who could blame him. Lou Cutell as the assistant to the Martian princess just hams it up in the best Uncle Fester tradition.Nancy Marshall plays Karen's assistant who actually develops a thing for the astronaut creature she's created kind of like Fay Wray had for King Kong. But Marilyn Hanold as the Martian princess is inspecting those nubile bikini clad beauties in a way that you know darn well she's going to keep the best of them for herself. Every ruler needs a harem.I swear that Allied Artists was doing better by the movie going public when they were giving us the Bowery Boys when they were Monogram Pictures. Frankenstein Meets The Spacemonster is to be seen if only to see just how bad science fiction can be at times.

Scarecrow-88 Aliens from a planet devastated by an atomic war seek Earth women for new breeding stock to re-populate their nearly extinct species(..looking human with costumes reminiscent of the old Flash Gordon serials from long ago)landing in their little space pod on a stretch of land in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Princess Marcuzan(Marilyn Hanold, wearing a funny hat) & her lieutenant Dr. Nadir(Lou Cutell, with an applied dome and pointy ears)have their men interrupting NASA's series of take-offs by blowing their space vehicles to pieces. One such interruption messes up scientist Adam Steele's(a young James Karen of "Return of the Living Dead" fame)mandroid operating the vessel, creating a fusion of hysteria, confusion, and mania, while also badly damaging one side of Frank's(Robert Reilly)face. Frank comes across several innocent bi-standers trying to defend themselves, killing the folks by strangulation or machete(..one fellow was chopping wood, attempting to defend himself and being hacked to death in the process, off-screen)while traveling incoherently from one place to the next with seriously troubled programming that needs repairing. Steele and his assistant Karen(Nancy Marshall, who cares for Frank)travel with military man, General Bowers(David Kerman)to San Juan where Frank was located..the exact same place where the alien ship had landed. While kidnapping bikini-clad hotties touring the beaches or go-go dancing, Princess and Nadir test their captive women for "purification" while Steele and Karen find Frank really in a worsening state. Karen is told to go for help while Steele works on his creation but she is kidnapped by Pricess' men and caged near their pet furry monster Mull. Seeking information from Karen, soon Steele and Frank find the whereabouts of the alien ship. Steele will have Frank stay near the ship as he goes to call Bowers to cease firing on the aliens for fear of killing innocent women inside. But, Princess' men drag Frank inside(why?)and leave him on a table unguarded while they plan to blast off in fear of suffering major damage. But, Frank has other plans and a battle with the beasty Mull will commence with hopes of Karen and the other captured girls hoping to escape.Terrible make-up effects, cheap sets, badly inserted archival footage, clumsy dubbing, and hilarious monster are either a glutton of punishment or amusement for the viewer. Hanold and Cutell seem to know what kind of movie they're stuck in, and, as the evil alien leaders, play their roles with a sense of fun..a tongue-in-cheek attitude by them, with Hanold stuck in a funny costume and Cutell in silly alien make-up, they are able to chew scenery. I especially enjoy the homo-erotic sequence where Hanold's Princess is getting a good look at one of her collected specimens as Nadir grins widely. Reilly walks around in a stooper, with a silly-putty face disfigurement for a large portion of the film, when he isn't attacking some poor soul. His fight with the monster is a real hoot. Fans of Ed Wood and Grade-Z schlock will get a kick out of this more than anyone else. There's no reason why Frankenstein's name should even be mentioned in this movie or it's title. Used probably to sucker viewers to the drive-ins to see it.Some 60's songs and odd musical arrangements are layered throughout this disaster of a film. This is indeed a turkey sure to delight fans of rancid cinema.