Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks Movie Review
Have you ever watched a movie that foregoes any sort of logical plot, choosing instead to just throw of bunch of weird randomness together, mix it up, dump it out, and see what happens? That's seemingly the approach with Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks, a 1974 Italian film. We have yet another version of Baron Frankenstein, only as Count Frankenstein here. He has a daughter and a love interest, who seem to only be in this movie to provide gratuitous nudity. Naturally, the Count has a hunchbacked assistant named Igor. Trust me when I say, it's about to get weirder. There is a perverted, evil dwarf who looks like the love child of Vincent Price and Ted Levine. There are even cavemen (!), one of whom becomes the corpse Frankenstein brings back to life.
"It's Neanderthal, NOT CAVEMAN!"
The story, as it were, is similar enough to the Frankenstein story we know to very loosely be related--we have Frankenstein creating a monster that eventually escapes and terrorizes the locals. Outside of that, this is just stuff happening, such as the dwarf spying on every naked woman in the movie to him befriending another cave dweller to help seek revenge on Frankenstein for throwing him out of the castle of freaks. The dialogue is nonsense, and the movie mistakes are plenty--notable is seeing one of the villagers of the 1800's wearing jeans. Even with all this, the movie is oddly entertaining. It doesn't quite reaching the "so bad it's good" level--it's more "this is better than it should be". The fact that it's even a little bit entertaining puts it head and shoulders above most Italian Gothic takes from this era. In fact, the only truly unbearable element of this movie is the caveman grunting--there are few things I hate more in movies than cavemen grunting. Now that I think of it, the grunting of the modern-day knuckle-dragger is one of the things I hate most about real life. Anyway, give Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks a shot if you are in the mood for a completely off the wall horror flick.
On A Scale Of One To Ten: 5
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks Movie Trailer
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