Just so...so bad

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

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.

Loved the title - didn't think much of the film.This snore-fest starts out with the Frankenstein family living in a house in a matte-painting carrying out experiments on the local populace. Maria Frankenstein needs a bigger, 'giant' specimen, which is unlucky for Jesses James' mate Hank, as he is both giant, and has a large vacant slot where his brain should be. This sounds like a great set-up, and it is...but after about twenty minutes the film settles in front of the telly with a cup of tea and does nothing until the last ten minutes.Unless something happened during my mid-film coma as I'm prone to having, there's just a lot of riding around on horses, double-crossing, and Hank looking ridiculous as the monster. Could someone tell me how he retains his memory if his entire brain has been replaced? Makes no sense, and neither does the genealogy of the Frankenstein family, nor Juanita's family's whereabouts, as they disappear from the film halfway through.Give this one a miss - it's not even got much in the way of camp value or laughs.

Thought dead, Jesse James joins the Wild Bunch (!) for a stagecoach robbery. Double crossed, he escapes an ambush and takes his wounded partner Hank (Harry?) Tracy to the house of Frankenstein's granddaughter for treatment. She instead plans on turning the hulking Tracy into the newest Frankenstein monster.Not for all tastes, this is actually pretty good if you catch it in the right mood and if you have a sense of humor.Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter is neither the best Jesse James nor Frankenstein movies ever made. However, it's a lot of kookie fun. Also, it's slightly better than the infamous companion film Billy The Kid Versus Dracula.Under the supervision of of veteran director William Beaudine, this is a pretty even mixture of the old poverty row western and horror films, slathered in a thick coat of 1960's color and shot in widescreen.Giving credit where credit is due - unlike many other Jesse James flicks, this one actually cast an actor that looks like James!

1966 was doubtlessly one of the greatest years ever for the Western genre. Sergio Leone brought us the greatest western of all-time (and one of the greatest films of all-time) with the incomparable masterpiece "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly", and other Italian directors also enriched the genre with brilliant films, such as Sergio Corbucci with "Django", Sergio Sollima with "The Big Gundown" or Damiano Damiani with "A Bullet For The General". This year that leads the heyday of the Spaghetti Western sub-genre, however, is also the year in which two of the most ridiculed and corniest American Westerns (or, more precisely Sci-Fi-Horror-Westerns) were brought to screen by the infamous 'One-Shot' William Beaudine, namely "Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula" and this film. "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter" of 1966 is said to be the epitome of a 'so bad its good' kind of film, and sometimes even quoted as one of the crappiest cult-classics ever brought to screen. For understandable reasons, as this is indeed an extremely silly and corny production that delivers loads of unintentional hilarity. Yet, as silly as this may sound, I was almost a bit disappointed that William Beaudine's is not nearly as crappy as I hoped it would be. Horror and Western are two of my favorite genres in cinema, and yet the combination of both genres only seldom leads to anything decent. And when a film combines one of the main icons of Horror, Frankenstein, and one of the most famous characters in Western-cinema, Jesse James, in its title, one can be quite sure that the outcome is gonna be very, very cheesy."Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter" is cheesy indeed, and it becomes hilariously crappy towards the end, but one must say that the 'Western'-parts are not even as awful as one might expect them to be. It is the Horror/Sci-Fi parts that are absolutely ridiculous in this, but these crappier parts are also the most amusing moments in the film. The title actually gives a wrong information, as it is not Baron Frankenstein's daughter, but his granddaughter whom Jesse James meets. Maria Frankenstein (Narda Onyx) has fled to the American West along with her cowardly brother Rudolf Frankenstein (Steven Geray, who is old enough to be her father, if not her grandfather). The unscrupulous Maria comes after her grandfather, as she terrorizes a little village with her morbid experiments. In the meanwhile, legendary outlaw Jesse James (John Lupton), and his strong sidekick Cal Bolder are fleeing from the law, and run into beautiful Juanita (Estellita Lopez) and her family, who are fleeing from the village infested by the Frankensteins... The film bares little logic, and it often hilariously ridiculous and silly, and yet it is not really one of the crappiest unintentional comedies from the 60s I've seen. The tillage includes some of the cheesiest lines ever heard, which only makes this more amusing. The performances are exaggerated, but I've seen way worse, and while the storyline may be as silly as it gets, the film never gets boring. Overall, this film is highly recommended to all lovers of crappy cinema. It does not quite have the charm of Ed Wood's films, but it is way more worthwhile than other awful 'classics' such as "The Beast Of Yucca Flats" or "Eegah". I haven't seen "Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula" yet, but after this, I sure will. "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter" is amusing, to say at least.