jacobjohntaylor1 This movie is so underrated. It not a 2.9. There are not a lot of movies scarier then The Exorcist. And this is one of them. This is an underrated horror classic. It is a sequel to Frankenstein and It is great. This is one of the scariest movies of all time. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. Do not lesson to people who hate this movie it is a true horror classic. This movie is a must see. If this movie does not scary you no movie will. John Lupton was a great actor. This movie better then Frankenstein (1931). And that is not easy to do. Frankenstein (1931) is very scary. And this is scarier. The is a great movie.

ace-150 This was much more entertaining than I expected. The overacting is in a class of its own. The actress who plays Frau Frankenstein chews up the scenery, but the actress who plays Juanita is even more over the top. The wide-eyed reaction shots are beyond what you could expect from even the worst street mime. The fact that her makeup was applied with a wide-tip Sharpie helps. And the vengeful cowboy is no slouch either when it comes to hamming it up. The production values are obviously not high-quality, but better than you'd expect thanks to getting the lab equipment from the original Frankenstein films. The Frankenhouse is the absolutely worst matte painting that I have ever seen. Cal Bolden is everything that you could want in a giant, zombie, muscle slave. When Frau F says, "Igor, go to your room!," she really should have said, "Igor, go to MY room!" And in the scene when she's bitterly complaining about being romantically spurned by Mr. James... and standing next to a musclegod who obeys her every whim... and there's a bed in the background... she really needs to sort out her priorities. I watched it without Mr. Briggs commentary and had a blast.

ironhorse_iv They should have never met. It's weird that a western/horror hybrid film was made in with these two really different character figures. They seem so out there. Both are like in the far side of spectrum, from each other. It's like combining the historical figure, Billy the Kid to fight Bram Stoker's Dracula. Oh wait, they did! This film was originally released as part of a double feature with Billy the Kid vs. Dracula in 1966. Both films were shot in eight days at Corriganville Movie Ranch and at Paramount Studios in mid-1965; both were the final feature films of director William Beaudine known for one-shot takes. The movie was indeed, poorly made and low budget, with tons of day for night shots, awful matte painting, goofy-looking electronic devices props and bad special effects. At least, this movie made the fictionalized version of the real-life Jesse James (John Lupton) more into an interesting outlaw, than the bland 'good guy' cowboy, like the previous film, did to Billy the Kid. Even the acting was a little better than the previous film. The movie goes like this, after a botched holdup with the Wild Bunch, Jesse James and his meathead, friend, Hank Tracy (Cal Bolder) is seeking medical assistance. They find themselves, camping in a refugee camp where they heard from one of the camper, Juanita Lopez (Estelita Rodriguez) that Dr. Maria Frankenstein (Narda Onyx), can help Hank with his deadly wound. Instead of treating the wound, Maria turns Hank into "Igor," the Frankenstein monster, a reanimation corpse with a synthetic artificial brain for evil. Can Jesse James stop Dr. Frankenstein and her monster or will the mad doctor win out in the end? Watch it to find out! Without spoiling too much of the movie. The one thing is how it ruin both Frankenstein and the Western folklore. It was very odd that they call, Butch Cassidy as Butch Curry. I know the movie is fiction, but I don't get why they kept Jesse James's name in, but change Butch Cassidy? That's a bit odd. The same with Maria. When Jesse James does meets Maria, it's not Dr. Frankenstein's daughter like the title, says. Instead, it's Victor Frankenstein's granddaughter. I really don't get, how the people that title this movie can be that forgetful of who Maria is supposed to be. Maria mention that she's Victor's granddaughter throughout the film. Seems a pretty obvious error. The film is nowhere near the levels of agile as Mary Shelly's novel. There is no deep themes of life, consciousness and the will to existence. Don't expect, the creature to question, why he was made or how playing God might be wrong, or right. The movie is pretty dimwit like Hank's mind. It doesn't even have that semi-smart corny cheesy charm that most of the various film adaptations of Mary Shelley's novel has. I was just hoping it was somewhat near the Universal's Frankenstein films of 1930s. I give the movie, some credit, I like how they help introduce the name 'Igor' to the horror genre. While, it might seem odd that the monster was named 'Igor' in this film; since most people, known Igor as the Gothic villain hunchback assistant. Let's remember that Igor hasn't yet, been establish as a stock character. It wasn't until the 1974's film comedy, Young Frankenstein that Igor became a major figure in the Gothic horror lore. Although Dr. Frankenstein had a hunchback assistant in the 1931 film Frankenstein, his name was Fritz. This might be the one of the first Frankenstein's film is honestly have a character named Igor. I dislike that most of the film run-time, in this, wasn't even Frankenstein related. It's like the movie was being made into a plain western, and then at the last second, they add some Frankenstein things to spice it up. It takes nearly forever in pacing for Jesse James to honestly meet Dr. Frankenstein. Lots of tedious and incredibly boring material that was stretched out to nearly an hour and a half of run time. Another fault in the film is the force love angle between Juanita, Jesse, and Maria. None of them, have any chemistry with each other. The music and sound are laughable. I found the Dumb-dumb-Dumb, very funny. The picture and audio on this Alpha Video DVD release looks decent, enough, seeing that the film is in the public domain. Overall: The movie isn't as bad, as I have anticipated. I knew, coming in that it was going to be B film, so it kinda didn't have much high hopes. It did exceeded my minimal low expectations. It was indeed schlocky and campy fun.

Robert J. Maxwell Actually it's not Frankenstein's daughter, it's his granddaughter. Not that it makes any difference. Why should it make any difference? Nothing in this cheap, parting shot from the never-estimable William Beaudine makes any difference.The opening shows us Narda Onyx and Steven Geray, two mad scientists in their laboratory in a tiny Western town, fulminating over their need for new brains and bodies to create life.Then there is a long story about Jesse James, played by John Lupton, whom I remember only as "Sister" Marion in "Battle Cry." He was the upright Marine who was going to write the great American novel. His close friend, Cal Bolder, a refugee from Muscle Beach, is wounded in a shoot out with grim, determined, humorless marshal Jim Davis.A feisty Latina, Estelita, leads them to the nearest doctors, who are of course the Frankenstein couple. They put a new brain into the wounded Cal Bolder and attempt the same with Jesse James but Estelita steps in at the last minute and saves his bacon.Estelita is a petite and very attractive Cuban lady. She was the wife of Carlito, the hotel manager, in "Rio Bravo," and was pretty good. Here she emotes to beat the band.She can't save this movie, though. Nothing could, not even Joe Bob Briggs' commentary on the DVD. I can hardly bring myself to believe that anyone really went to a drive-in movie to watch a dismal feature like this. Who was it aimed at? The only human being who could find it in any way impressive would have to be an Australian aborigine from the central desert who had never heard of movies.Of course the sets were cheap, but that's not enough of an excuse. You can do a lot on a tiny budget, as Val Lewton showed us at RKO, and as other producers and directors proved elsewhere. Here, the writing stinks. The plot makes no sense. The actors wear the same clothes in every scene.It's not bad in a way that evokes laughter. Like John Wayne's rabidly mesomorphic "The Conqueror," a few minutes of it will satisfy your curiosity. The remaining hour and a half constitute torture.