LADY FRANKENSTEIN

Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster with the brain of a murderer. But an accident injures its face and even more its mental faculties. Obviously, as soon as it is reborn, the creature thanks Frankenstein by strangling him. At this point, the doctor's daughter turns out to be crazier than her father. Leveraging the sentimental influence she has on her father's assistant, she convinces him to create a second creature whose brain will be his (he is in love with her) and the body of the disabled servant of the house (whose healthy and robust body she loves instead). Pretending to give herself to the disabled man, with the help of her lover, she kills him by suffocating him with a pillow. At this point, the operation takes place and succeeds wonderfully. The new creature is healthy both in mind and body, and she can't wait to test its biological functions, but first she has to solve another problem: the first creature is indeed roaming freely in the nearby village, sowing death and destruction, avenging itself on the people who, by capturing it in the previous life, had delivered it to the gallows... The set design is quite well-crafted. The original presence of two creatures and the ensuing conflict is unique. In some moments, it is well acted (more so by the Italian dubbers). The choice of some actors is well-suited, including the actress who plays the seductive and morbid daughter of Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Touching and at the same time naive is the choice of the rachitic lover who, out of love, has his brain transplanted directly into the body of the herculean disabled man, directly by the expert hands of his beloved and crazy doctor. Overall, it is well acted. But it still remains a costume film where the existential tragedy of the monster is no longer the central theme of the plot but becomes instead a squalid pretext for some naive nudity typical of films from the early 1970s. Beyond this, the expressiveness of the actor who plays the creature is non-existent, not to mention the ending of the film: absolutely the fastest and most deliberately gratuitous in the history of cinema. For lovers of B-movies.