Thanks for the memories!

hyped garbage

Fresh and Exciting

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I had a feeling that making this my first Frankenstein movie was going to be a mistake and I was very right. The premise of a giant Frankenstein in Japan isn't too far fetched but the story is very weak and there's lots of plot holes. First of all, I have never seen a Frankenstein movie and I immediately recognize the monster but for some reason the people in the movie don't. They claim he's been running wild in Hiroshima for 15 years but all of a sudden he's very easy to catch. At first he's the size of a regular teenager but a day later he's 5 stories tall and he manages to escape. The guys sent to investigate how he got free decide that normal size handcuffs are too big for a 5 story monster.WHAT?!?!!?!? They employ all the usual Toho staples including using ancient camera tricks to get us to believe he's a giant, but he just looks like a scrawny teenager no matter what they do. To top it all off, they have one American and every one else is dubbed.Why?? My favorite part is that when the other monster shows up, people just call it "another monster". I always hated when a new monster showed up in Godzilla and all the people knew it's name. If you like Godzilla you will like this movie.

*Spoiler/plot- 1965, Rather mad scientist movie featuring Nick Adams in Tokyo trying to combat an over grown human monster terrorizing the country.*Special Stars- Nick Adams*Theme- Japanese people have the best of disaster films.*Based on- Frankenstein legends*Trivia/location/goofs- Japanese film. Very poor EFX*Emotion- A somewhat forgettable film, if only for seeing some early Nick Adam's acting. Nick Adams joins the ranks of American top stars to go to Japan to make a big budget super-sized monster film. Mr. Adam's acting career didn't suffer too much for doing this film. Still one to miss, if your time is valuable.

Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965) International version ** (out of 4) At the end of WW2 Germany finds it under major attack so Japanese solders rush to Dr. Frankenstein's house where they take a heart, which will never die. The heart is taken back to Hiroshima but on the morning of August 6, 1945, the city is leveled and the war ends. Fifteen years later an American scientist (Nick Adams) comes across a strange child, which soon turns into a huge Frankenstein monster and does battle with a couple other monsters. This film was originally written as a semi-remake of King Kong where the big ape was going to battle the Frankenstein monster but those plans fell through and we ended up with this thing. The movie, like a lot of the Toho monster films, features mostly talk until the end when the monsters finally do battle but the talking scenes here are pretty interesting for their different take on the Frankenstein story. The screenplay is rather weak and it could have done more with the legend but overall it's good enough for a semi-entertaining monster movie. The special effects are pretty bad even by the normal low standards of a film like this. This international version features an extra scene where the monster battles an octopus. This was cut out of most versions because Toho didn't think it looked good and I can't blame them as the effects are beyond bad here. The fight between the monster and octopus is rather lame but his fight against Baragon is pretty good and actually runs fairly long. Nick Adams proved himself as an actor in previous films but his performance here is clearly just him cashing a paycheck. In the end, this certainly isn't a good movie but it remains entertaining enough if you like "B" grade monster movies.

FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD, like ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE, was one of those late-night shockers that creeped me out when I was a kid. Until just recently, I thought that it was black and white (an assumption I'd also made about ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE), but it's not and, in fact, boasts some very creepy color cinematography that would make any monster-movie maker green with envy. FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD also showcases perhaps the single greatest no-holds-barred showdown in the history of no-holds-barred showdowns. Although outweighed by several tons, Frankie has a seventy-foot reach advantage that he makes the most of. Baragon, a low-slung brawler out of Tokyo (harbor), possesses perhaps the stoutest chin of any kaiju: like a Timex, he "takes a lickin', but keeps on tickin'." Baragon gets the better of our hero during the in-fighting (he works the body like nobody's business), but Frankie proves too light on his feet and manages to pull off another close win. Far better than WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (which I happened to see in a theater on a double bill with GODZILLA VERSUS THE SMOG MONSTER).