Product Details

• Actors: Joseph Cotten, Rosalba Neri, Paul Muller, Paul Whiteman, Herbert Fux
• Directors: Aureliano Luppi, Bert I. Gordon, Mel Welles
• Writers: Aureliano Luppi, Bert I. Gordon, Dick Randall, Edward Di Lorenzo, Egidio Gelso
• Format: Color, DVD, 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: Madacy Records
• DVD Release Date: March 20, 2001
• Run Time: 159 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005A07N
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #264,866 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Tormented/Lady Frankenstein" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Only the Monster she made could satisfy her strange desires!, February 4, 2005

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

The title character in "Lady Frankenstein" ("La Figlia di Frankenstein") turns out to be the daughter of the mad scientist and not his wife. Baron Frankenstein (Joseph Cotton) has been trying unsuccessfully for two decades to bring dead tissue to life. Using the corpse of a recently hung man as his test subject (note the interesting place they pick to hang the guy), the Baron finally succeeds. But there is something wrong with the brain and the monster kills the Baron and goes off to wreck more havoc on the countryside. Now that she is in control of the laboratory, having watched her father work since she was a little girl and having graduated medical school herself, the Baron's daughter Tania (Rosalba Neri, a.k.a. Sara Bay), wants revenge. However, Lady Frankenstein wants to do more than fight fire with fire.

Her plan is to take the brain of Dr. Charles Marshall (Paul Müller), her father's old lab assistant and the man who loves her, and put it into the hulking body of Thomas (Paul Whiteman), a manservant who is mentally retarded, so that she can have both brains and brawn. The plan is that this new creation will get revenge by killing the first creation, and then return to Tania's bedroom to find other ways of making her really, really happy. Meanwhile, Captain Harris (Mickey Hargitay) is investigating the Baron's death (Tantia makes up a story about a robber) and spouting interesting lines of dialogue to the suspects. It also turns out that Tania is not the only one seeking revenge. The original monster is going after the grave robbers, so there is a constant body count in this one. Actually it is not the dead people but the naked people who count more in this one, especially the quaint European custom of the man staying fully clothed while the women is totally naked.

Despite the cartoonish poster art for "Lady Frankenstein," director Mel Welles (a.k.a. Ernst R. von Theumer) creates an appropriately gothic looking horror film. However, the story is an uneven mix of interesting ideas (e.g., chemical batteries are better that lightning for reanimating dead tissue) and sundry plot holes (e.g., how Marshall's brain finally puts two and two together). Simply in terms of Eurotrash this is an above average example of the genre, in terms of both the story and the acting in addition to the bodies. Then again, as good as Neri looks (as long as you are not watching her eyes dart back and forth when she is listening to others speak) that is about how bad the monster (the first one) looks. Overall, the ending is the weakest part of "Lady Frankenstein," but that it is actually a plus because normally it is the set up that has you rolling your eyes. That is once you put your eyes back in your head, because when you cast Rosalba Neri as the lead character you are clearly deemphasizing the horror aspects of this particular horror film in favor of other attributes.

The DVD has some pretty good extras considering what the movie is, with a lot more than the theatrical trailer and televison spot for "Lady Frankenstein." Also included by DVD Drive-In are the trailers for other Italian horror movies from "Beyond the Darkness" to "The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave!" with "Revenge of the Living Dead," "Curse of the Living Dead," and "Fangs of the Living Dead" thrown in between. There are all sorts of production photographs, movie posters, and candid shots, several of which will make Neri's fans rather, ah, happy. There is also a short interview with the actress, as well as a longer walk down memory lane with the director Mel Welles, who tells a lot of stories about the production of the film (Roger Corman to the rescue). The deleted scenes are in Italian, so be prepared for that and make up your own dialogue. For me the extras are good enough to decide to round up on "Lady Frankenstein." Note: The Easter Egg on this one is the candle.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A trip to the garbage can..., June 9, 2010

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This review is from: Lady Frankenstein [1971] [Remastered] (DVD)

As I pushed "play" on the DVD remote, I warily wondered why a remastered DVD would be accompanied by such poor packaging and shoddy case/DVD artwork. I thought to myself, "stranger things have happened in the world of B horror movie DVD's". Three minutes later, I stood in front of the garbage can wondering how many sandwiches I could have bought at QuickCheck with the money I just wasted. The DVD was now in the garbage on top of the packaging it just came in and next to the food my kids didn't eat during school lunch. A2Z's release of this title is absolutely horrible in every single aspect. Everything from the poor quality DVD case, cheap disc case cover artwork, one of the worst picture transfers i have ever seen, and the actual DVD itself-which looks like someone printed the non-playing side artwork at home with one of the first printers ever available. If this is the "remastered version", I would hate to see what they originally had to work with. I have no idea how they can get away with even calling this DVD remastered. If anything, this is the exact opposite of what constitutes a remastered DVD. Save your money and buy a used ex-rental VHS copy, or rent the film and a projector from the library-you'd be light years ahead of the quality contained on this DVD with either option. This actually rates 0 stars with me. Shame on A2Z which stands as Awful2Zero in my book!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars howler of a movie, July 26, 2011

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Sd Obrien "sdobrien" (melbourne Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lady Frankenstein [1971] [Remastered] (DVD)

The picture quality of this movie was terrible.So bad all I could do was throw it away.It wasn't worth the $US14 I paid for it.steer clear of this dvd!