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Eddie, a Vietnam vet who has lost his arms and legs, is restored by DNA expert Dr. Stein. But the results turn monstrous when a rival for Eddie’s fiancée gives him the wrong medication.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
When her boyfriend Eddie Turner (Joe DeSue) returns from Vietnam without arms and legs, Dr. Winnifred Walker (Ivory Stone) appeals to former teacher and Nobel Prize-winning Dr. Stein (John Hart) for help--and Dr. Stein, who has been fiddling with DNA, accomodates them by growing some new arms and legs. Unfortunately, the experiment goes awry, and Eddie suddenly develops a square afro, takes to wearing ankle boots, and sneaks out at night... and one of his first victims is an ugly white woman with a really bad hair-do and bad taste in pink nighties.
On the surface, BLACKENSTEIN would seem everything a cult-movie fan could ever wish. And it is true, there are about six "howlers" per minute in this film--actors who can't act, ridiculous dialogue, bad cinematography, awful special effects, extremely silly make-up, you name it, this flick has it. Trouble is, BLACKENSTEIN is also incredibly, unspeakably dull. In fact, it is so dull that after about ten minutes its dullness overpowers the giggle factor and you are left to sit in slack-jawed exhaustion. The DVD offers nothing in the way of extras and the print is bad to boot--not that it makes any difference where this film is concerned. If you have to buy a gift for some you don't much like, this would be a perfect choice. Otherwise, steer clear.
GFT, Amazon reviewer
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
This is a terrible blaxploitation feature with a virtually incoherent last half hour. The film has clearly been subject to extensive production re-editing with scenes re-ordered, other scenes missing, and bits of some scenes stuck onto others. There are also numerous censor cuts - all shots of the severed arm of the orderly have been excised and all of the intestine-ripping scenes have been shortened. Once the monster starts escaping and killing people (why is never explained) the film becomes a complete structural mess - can anyone enlighten us as to what happened in the editing room ? And the music is just totally inappropriate all of the way through.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Want to recreate a night of ultra late-night 1970s TV in your very own home? Just slip in a copy of "Blackenstein" and you'll feel as if you're tripping back to that groovy time when you crashed on the couch in your parents' basement rec room and really got into some midnight movie or other. "Blackenstein" has it all--including a flawlessly scratched and grainy print transferred right onto the DVD.
You want bad acting? You got it. Factual/continuity/technical errors? Yep. Plot holes that an 18-wheeler could be driven through? Sure. REALLY bad dialogue ("since the doctor won the Nobel Peace Prize for medicine....")? It abounds. Scenes in which someone appears to have forgotten the camera running and, for no apparent reason, decided to include the resulting footage in the film? You bet. You name it--if it can be done wrong, it was done wrong in this movie.
And for all that, I thoroughly enjoyed this film, because I was laughing my head off most of the way through. "Blackenstein" is ALMOST, but not quite, what the Wayans Brothers would have made as a student film. Seen as a bad joke, it's one of the best guilty pleasures ever put on cinema. If you're expecting a legitimate monster movie, however....just forget it.
Some things are truly so bad they're good, and "Blackenstein" fits the bill as well as any other cinematic oopsie I've ever seen. And it's short enough at 87 minutes that if it does leave a bad taste in your mouth, you'll still have time to put in a "real" movie and possibly salvage your evening.
You want bad acting? You got it. Factual/continuity/technical errors? Yep. Plot holes that an 18-wheeler could be driven through? Sure. REALLY bad dialogue ("since the doctor won the Nobel Peace Prize for medicine....")? It abounds. Scenes in which someone appears to have forgotten the camera running and, for no apparent reason, decided to include the resulting footage in the film? You bet. You name it--if it can be done wrong, it was done wrong in this movie.
And for all that, I thoroughly enjoyed this film, because I was laughing my head off most of the way through. "Blackenstein" is ALMOST, but not quite, what the Wayans Brothers would have made as a student film. Seen as a bad joke, it's one of the best guilty pleasures ever put on cinema. If you're expecting a legitimate monster movie, however....just forget it.
Some things are truly so bad they're good, and "Blackenstein" fits the bill as well as any other cinematic oopsie I've ever seen. And it's short enough at 87 minutes that if it does leave a bad taste in your mouth, you'll still have time to put in a "real" movie and possibly salvage your evening.
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Taking on hollywood one bad movie at a time.
Taking on hollywood one bad movie at a time.
Published 5 months ago by Tauhid Larokko
Dear Lord In Heaven Above!...
BLACKENSTEIN is truly one of the worst pieces of cinematic waste to ever ooze forth from the bowels of hollywood! Read more
Published 12 months ago by Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein
Exploitive Foolishness!
This is a crazy film with only one prime goal in mind - to make blacks look like fools and cash in on black box office hits like Superfly and Shaft! Read more
Published 20 months ago by Christopher
Watch "Scream, Blacula scream!" instead
Blackenstein, I served with Blacula, I knew Blacula. Blacula was a friend of mine. Blackenstein, you're no Blacula.
Published on November 1, 2009 by 7-zark-7
Blackenstein Rocks Nuff Said !!!
If you're watching blaxploitation you watch it mostly for laughs (except maybe stuff like shaft/superfly etc) 70's unintended comedies are a genre unto themselves don't look for... Read more
Published on May 27, 2009 by A. Panowko
Stunningly inept filmmaking...
Short version:
Blackenstein: The Black Frankenstein is an awful, awful movie. Quite possibly the worst ever made. Read more
Blackenstein: The Black Frankenstein is an awful, awful movie. Quite possibly the worst ever made. Read more
Published on May 5, 2007 by David Lerner
To stop this mutha takes one bad brutha...
Back in the early 1970s someone (producer Samuel Z. Arkoff, I believe) got the bright idea to mix the genres of blaxploitation and horror, the result being the film Blacula (1972),... Read more
Published on September 13, 2006 by cookieman108
movies like this one killed the blackexplotion movement
in the 70's black actor and film makers found a voice in the film world. with movies like "shaft","super fly", and "coffy" movies with black stars and directors were big hits. Read more
Published on April 25, 2006 by John D. Page
This Is Just Ridiculous!
O.K., let me start by saying that I love Black Cinema. I try to support Black filmmakers and actors/actresses, but come on. Read more
Published on March 14, 2006 by Sheila F. Lozada
Just awful
I'm a huge fan of Blaxploitation and loved the Blacula films and thought this film would be in the same camp fun style.....how wrong was I !!... Read more
Published on June 23, 2005 by Paul Wallace
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