Product Details

• Actors: Rhett Giles
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: The Asylum
• DVD Release Date: August 30, 2005
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000AM4PCM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,594 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good for a B-Horror Movie, August 14, 2010

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predilover - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Frankenstein Reborn (DVD)

To be perfectly honest I only got this movie because it has Rhett Giles in it. That's usually the only reason I get most of his movies. Mmm.. Anyway, while not the greatest movie in the world I've seen worse. The story line wasn't that bad. It was about what one could expect from a b-horror movies. And Lord knows I've seen my share and then some. So if you're looking for the next best adaptation of Frankenstein... look elsewhere. But if you're looking for a little corney, good ol' fashion b-movie fun for kicks and giggles, perhaps even a little drooling (he does get topless), then you have found your movie.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A "modern" retelling of Frankenstein that devolves to a splatter flick, March 21, 2006

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frankenstein Reborn (DVD)

There is nothing inherently wrong with trying to do a modern version of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." Such things have been attempted before (e.g., the 2004 television movie based on a concept by Dean R. Koontz), and when it comes to attempting to be like God such stories go all the way back to the Tower of Babel and the Trees of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. So you can do the mad scientist bit before there was any real science involved and extend it all the way until today and beyond. But despite some initial pretensions towards something of milk interest, "Frankenstein Reborn," written and directed by Leigh Slawner ("Art House"), ends up being a blood and gore splatter flick with a bit of name dropping and some blatant homages along the way.

Like the original novel the film involves a framing device for telling the story. Dr. Victor Frank (Rhett Giles) is being interviewed by psychiatrist Robert Walton (Thomas Downey) at a mental institution to determine if the scientist is competent to stand trial for murder. Franks has been working at a privately funded research lab with a pair of young surgeons, Elizabeth (Eliza Swenson) and Hank (Jeff Denton), to reanimate dead tissue. As a 21st century equivalent of lightning, they are using nanotechnology (but electricity will come into play, so be patient). Their guinea pig is Bryce (Joel Hebner), a young man confined to a wheelchair after a traffic accident. However, you know what happens when human beings try to usurp the power of God, and while his body heals there is the unfortunately side effect that he is going crazy. When Bryce flies the coop, Franks and Hank trade in their nice clean lab for a basement location where they can indulge in the retro-mad scientist look

However, as we watch this 2005 film it becomes clear that what Franks says happens and what we see in the flashbacks does not exactly jive. Franks talks about Elizabeth as if she was a good old fashioned gal, but what we see is basically an S&M queen. Does this mean something? Yes, it does, just nothing really interesting. Perhaps I am wrong, and what I see as a set up for something potentially intriguing that did not pan out was really just something to give the actors to do before the creature starts killing people. There is a point where you really wonder why this has to be a Frankenstein movie, because once you get past the names the story is closer to "Re-animator" than "Frankenstein." "Why bother?" you ask, and a satisfactory ending is not forthcoming. I round up for this one on the blood and gore simply because the film does deliver on that score, for what that is worth (not much to me, but I doubt those who like such things will be disappointed on this score).

If you watch "Frankenstein Reborn" expecting to see the classic conflict between creator and creature played out in a modern setting, then you are ultimately going to be bitterly disappointed. For every step in an interesting direction this 2005 film takes, there is at least an equal if not greater step in the opposite direction. There are a few scenes that smack of soft-core porn, but overall the sensibilities of this film are more towards that of a splatter flick, which is rather antithetical to the larger issues of Shelley's story. The opening sequence of the film promises lots of blood and gore, and such things tend to overwhelm the eternal debate as to which was Frankenstein's greatest sin: creating the "monster" or abandoning it (I think it is obviously the latter, but the point is debatable). So, instead of the question being whether or not Franks can reanimate dead tissue it becomes whether or not Franks can get away with it, at which point it really is covering the same ground as the 2004 television movie by director Marcus Nispel but not as well because that one at least had an actual detective on the case. Updating "Frankenstein" so you can make it a splatter flick is just not worth the effort, which is why this movie is literally a bloody mess.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Darn it,Its Modern twisted retelling !, October 27, 2005

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guestar57 "Chris aka Guestar57" (Porterville,Ca.USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Frankenstein Reborn (DVD)

You think you've seen it, Then they re-invent Mary Shelley's Monster Wheel. I should start with the cast: RHETT GILES as Victor Franks/The Doctor, He has this Alan Rickman-Snape from Harry Potter twist. JOEL HEBNER (Need to interview) plays the reborn creature,I can't exactly say as Bernie Wrightson would draw him---But, Close. The editing was challenging to watch at first, Kind of like "Memento". Alot of scenes will make you feel all squishy for tributes- There is the Babysitter scene from first "Halloween", The interrogation moment from "Silence Of The Lambs", I loved the "Kolchak" moment the shrink had with a microphone at end. This would have been a Great Ending, Not the teaser throwaway that smacks sequel.