{"id":36079,"date":"2021-10-25T09:36:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T13:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=36079"},"modified":"2021-10-25T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T13:38:08","slug":"frankensteins-daughter-1958-the-film-detective-special-edition-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/25\/frankensteins-daughter-1958-the-film-detective-special-edition-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankenstein\u2019s Daughter (1958): The Film Detective Special Edition [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Z Movie to end all Z movies, \u201cFrankenstein\u2019s Daughter\u201d is both a cult classic and a classic piece of cinematic trash. It\u2019s a god awful attempt to take the Frankenstein tale and retro-fit it in to a teen horror drama about coming of age, legacy, and uncomfortable scenes of men aggressively hitting on high school girls. In either case, \u201cFrankenstein\u2019s Daughter\u201d is something of an anomaly, it\u2019s a movie that\u2019s been widely accepted within the genre, but it\u2019s just so painfully bad when you finally experience it.<\/p>\n

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The grandson of Victor Frankenstein, Oliver, is hiding away as a laboratory assistant for the gentle Professor Morton. While Doctor Morton pursues a pet project, Doctor Frankenstein secretly works his own experiments on his benefactor\u2019s niece, Trudy Morton. Although these experiments temporarily disfigure Trudy\u2019s face and cause her to wander aimlessly at night, they are only a build-up to Oliver\u2019s greater goal of recreating life. With the aid of one of his father\u2019s former assistants, Oliver constructs a female monster from the body parts of various murdered people and begins to deal a horrible fate toward his enemies and rivals.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankenstein\u2019s Daughter\u201d is an incomprehensible mess that\u2019s just teeming with padding, and blatant filler meant to basically run out the clock. The movie is barely eighty minutes and does everything it can to rush to the finish line, even doling out an inexplicable rock music number before the second half is introduced. A lot of \u201cFrankenstein\u2019s Daughter\u201d presents the vague theme of a young girl named Trudy coming to grips with her adolescence and repressed sexuality. This is manifested through her random bouts of lurking in bushes in the middle of the night with a unibrow and horrendous overbite. After being spotted by locals in the neighborhood, she struggles to make sense of the weird attacks.<\/p>\n

What do Trudy\u2019s being turned in to a Demon have to do with the goofy Frankenstein monster being stitched together in the basement of her house? What is the ultimate goal for the monster when it\u2019s finally complete? Once we get full glimpses at Trudy the She-Demon, and the goofy excuse of a Frankenstein Monster, the movie becomes less a horror outing and more just a sheer spectacle of awfulness. It\u2019s just two dull monster tales fit in to one tedious feature, clearly made with an eye toward the teen market. \u201cFrankenstein\u2019s Daughter\u201d has almost nothing close to resembling the spirit or essence of the original story or for that matter, a competently made film.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure there will be value in collecting and keeping the movie for posterity, especially with the new deluxe edition from The Film Detective<\/a><\/strong>. Included is an au audio commentary track with author and historian Tom Weaver, Richard E. Cunha: Filmmaker of the Unknown<\/em>, a brand new retrospective from Ballyhoo Motion Pictures, featuring an archival interview with director Richard E. Cunha, and finally John Ashley: Man from the B\u2019s<\/em>, a brand new career retrospective once again featuring film historian C. Courtney Joyner. The physical media case comes with a full color booklet with an original essay by author and historian Tom Weaver.<\/p>\n