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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I loved this movie so much, March 26, 2001
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This review is from: Frankenstein 1970 [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I liked this movie because it was creepy. Every part of this movie was my favorite part. I liked the way Boris Karloff was in the movie. I'm glad this movie was fake because I wouldn't want to see "Frank" take a brain out of someone for real. I felt sorry for the servant named Shuter. I think "Frank" was a very bad boy for turning shuter into a monster. I felt sorry for "Frank" because he was tortured by the Nazis. However, he still did a bad thing. Poor Shuter. When my Dad watched this movie in the old days, he was afraid of the movie.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Talent IS hereditary!, May 22, 2001
This review is from: Frankenstein 1970 [VHS] (VHS Tape)
"Frankenstein 1970" is another guilty pleasure for me. It gave me the creeps as a child, and still does. Yes, the film is slow moving, and you don't get to see the monster's face until the very last shot, but the film does make me very uneasy. The great Boris Karloff plays Baron Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant Dr. who was tortured by the Nazis, and a descendant of the infamous Mr. F. Having fallen on hard times financially, the Baron permits a television crew to film a show about his illustrious ancestor at his castle for a hefty fee. Unbeknownst to the American dumbkopfs, Boris is carrying on in the family tradition, having constructed a creature out of corpses, and is awaiting fresh "parts", as well as a "nuclear-powered unit" to complete his science project. When his faithful manservant Schuter accidentally discovers his master's "workshop", the Baron kills him, transplants his vital organs into the creature, and revives it. However, the creature has no eyes- having accidentally dropped the eyes on the lab floor, the Baron now decides to get new ones-at the expense of the television crew. The usual havoc ensues. The opening of the film is really the best part-perky Jana Lund being pursued by the monster, face unseen, and is strangled to death by it in a lake-and it turns out to be part of the television show! So, if you have an hour and a half to kill, you could do a lot worse-oh, and by the way, my favorite line of dialogue is when Boris revives the creature and utters,"Schuter, yours is not the brain I would have chosen, but at least you are obedient!"
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
finally saw it, it's good, January 20, 2005
This review is from: Frankenstein 1970 [VHS] (VHS Tape)
A friend and i got all set up to watch this on TV one Friday night in fifth grade, popcorn and bottles of Sprite on his screen-porch, but the intro was so frightening I made him turn it off. Since then (1962) I've always wondered what I missed. Seeing it now, I laughed when i realized that the part that frightened me is a movie-within-a-movie: the director yells "Cut" about 15 seconds after the moment when I fled. (I'm not the spoiler here-- this info is in an earlier review). (But that first part is still very scary.) Now as a grownup I enjoyed the movie a lot. Karloff's great, chilling and funny at once. Watch for his melancholy soliloquoy over the bodyparts dispose-all. 5 stars for me.
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