| FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER (1958) Oliver Frankenstein, grandson of the Baron is working as a lowly lab assistant for a nutty old professor.The professor wants to cure aging but his formula destroys the exterior cells of the body. Well old Ollie has been working on a secret of his own.I noticed that the Frankenstein family not only put bodies together, they breed like rabbits.Ya' keep tripping over them everywhere.Ollie has been experimenting with a drug that changes Susie(the old man's niece) into a buck toothed, bushy eyed monster.Hmmm sounds like my Prom date.Also Ollie has been putting together, you guessed it,a body. Keeping in the family tradition, Ollie is a horny guy.He hits on the niece and a few of her friends.After an aborted necking session with a young lady, Ollie runs her down and uses her pretty head/brain for the monster.Guess he left it in the oven too long as it comes out split faced with a seemingly five o'clock shadow and nasty lipstick. Of course this terror loves to kill and obeys Ollie.In the end it is the clean cut teenagers versus Ollie & his creation. The acting is over the top by the gent playing Ollie.He is convincingly evil and mad.John Ashley is the hero and that doesn't say much for the movie.Once again there are terrible rock and roll numbers that will have you rolling on the floor screaming in agony.Use the mute on the remote.The monsters are okay but this movie is another Richard Cuhna stinker. THE SLIME PEOPLE(1962) This movie is so bad it will make your eyes bleed.You could better spend 76 minutes giving the cat a bath or waxing your unmentionables.Truly this is putrid cinema exemplified. To be mercifully short on the plot:Slimy varmints from the bowels of the earth have encased L.A. in a solid wall of fog to establish their new home.These varmints are impervious to bullets as they are self sealing. Anyway it falls to 5 people to do what the armed forces couldn't do: liberate L.A. and defeat the monsters. The fatal flaws in this film are abundant.Robert Hutton directed this probably because no one else wanted to risk their career.While Hutton and the 2 other "older" actors do a competent job the three youngsters are terrible. The actor portraying the Marine is painful to watch. The rubber suited monsters evoke howls of laughter. They look more like walking carp than inner earth denizens.This movie truly is from the bowels of the earth. TORMENTED(1960) Bert Gordon brought us wonderful movies dealing with giants in the late 50's & early 60's.Giant men, giant grasshoppers,dinosaurs etc.This time he tries giant breasts. Nice try but a failure.Thanks for thinking about us though. Tom Stewart, a jazz pianist is going to marry a little rich girl.But Tom's lady on the side, enormous breasted Vi has come to the lighthouse where Tom hangs out.She wants Tom all to herself.She threatens to tell his fiancee' about them and has his love letters.(Too bad she doesn't have photos of herself in the buff.Yowsah!). Somehow a railing gives way and Vi is hanging on for dear life over the rocky ocean.She begs Tom to help her.He figures she has natural abundant buoyancy up top and lets her fall.She doesn't bob back up to the surface.Oops! Well Vi shows up everywhere to "torment" Tom. He's the only one to see her.Is she a product of his fevered imagination?Or is she really a ghost back to haunt him?Will the marriage go through?Will Tom ever play the piano again?You won't care.The only reason to watch this flick is for Vi. So if you're into self torment by all means watch this flick. |
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| NIGHTMARE IN WAX(1966) Vince Renaud (Cam Mitchell)was Paragon Studios' top make up expert. He is in the middle of an affair with Paragons top female star Marie Morgan. She is coveted by studio head Max Black who built her career.When Renaud informs the jealous man at a party of his intent to marry Marie, the studio boss sets Renaud's face on fire.Instead of having the boss arrested Renaud opts for a bygones be bygones outlook.Sounds normal to me!. Actually Renaud is crazier than an outhouse mouse and has worked out an evil plan of revenge. After opening up a wax museum Renaud perfects a serum to put people into suspended animation.Then he starts kidnapping and "freezing" actors from Paragon Studios. The actors are put on display as wax figures.They need a shot of the old serum every once in a while to keep them rigid.Good thing these folks are stiffs as actors. Renaud (who runs around in a strange outfit complete with a short cape)commits a few murders.One very unnerving scene has him motoring around town with a woman(Victoria Carroll,Regina's sister?) he just killed. He's planting a few kisses on her as well.EEEEWWWW!Of course the police are absolute morons led by Scott Brady.The movie crawls on to an absolute horse$^%t ending for the 100th time since 1945. To say this movie reeks is an understatement.Cameron Mitchell (Renaud) chews up the scenery rolling his eyes and whispering stupid lines like"I love to hear you scream!It excites me!"So glad somebody is excited about this waste of film. |
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