Frankenstein Island (1981)

Best movie of this year hands down!

I love this movie so much

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The way I figured this should a good movie. The 2 fact on it's behave One is a Frankenstein movie. Two the critics hated it. Of course there is that 49% of the time when the critics are right. This is one of these times. The ending to this is confusing. The acting is pretty bad. It probably could have used better writers and editors had well. I like Frankenstein sequels most of the time. But this is not a very good one. People do underrate this movie it is not as bad as a lot people say. But mind you it is dame near close. I would have say this is better movie then The Godfather II but that is not as hard as people would like think. This movie is not scary. Don't wast your money. See Frankenstein (1931) if you want to see a good horror movie. Even Frankenstein (1910) is better and that is not a very good movie. Bride of Frankenstein is great. So is Revenge of Frankenstein. But this one is pooh pooh.

Jerry Warren is known best for his awful '50s and '60s B movies, though his last movie "Frankenstein Island" was made in the '80s after a long break from his other efforts. You might have thought he would have learned something during the years of inactivity, but apparently he didn't. For one thing, you could almost swear this movie was made in the '50s, with the music, attitude, and cheap special effects. (I might have been fooled if the movie had been shot in black and white.) Anyway, you might think that this would be a campy exercise, but it isn't - it's pretty painful to sit through. The first twenty or so minutes are passable and are pretty easy to follow, but after the twenty minute mark the movie slowly starts to collapse and become a mind-numbing mess that makes no sense. Why do the protagonists decide to build a raft when they already have a raft? Why were they hot air ballooning over the ocean? Why do they not question the shipwrecked sailors immediately after they encounter them? Why is the all-female group a primitive tribe when they are descendants of space aliens? Why are the protagonists so blasé about practically everything they witness? Why does John Carradine barely appear in the movie? Why is the movie so DULL? I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

Frankenstein Island (1981) BOMB (out of 4) Jerry Warren film about two hot air balloons that crash on the title island. Four men walk away from the wreck and soon find themselves at the home of a mad scientist doing strange experiments. Warren, the true worst director of all time, was out of the business nearly twenty years when he got back in with this film, which turned out to be his last. This is hands down one of the worst and most boring films ever made that sadly isn't bad enough to get any laughs. Poor on all levels. Robert Clarke, Steve Brodie, Cameron Mitchell and John Carradine picked up checks on this flick.

This thing is so mind-boggling that words almost fail me. I literally spent 80% of it with my jaw dropped in utter disbelief, punctuated by bursts of incredulous laughter. Nothing in it makes ANY SENSE AT ALL! I mean, our castaways arrive on the island in a perfectly serviceable rubber raft, and the first thing they do is set off in quest of wood **to build a raft with!** Anytime anyone mentions a specific place name (i.e., Kansas City) they suffer stabbing pains in the right forearm for absolutely no reason whatsoever! Do I even need to mention the frequent cryptic appearances ("The golden thread! The power! The power!") by the Floating Head of John Carradine, the tribe of leopard-bikini-clad island girls who are really aliens, the mad doctress Sheila Frankenstein (also a Van Helsing relative) and her platinum Tammy Faye Bakker wig, a 200-year-old colleague of the original Doc Frankenstein, and a whole lot of skulls, tarantulas, blood transfusions and rocks? Or the climactic grade-Z kung-fu battle between the ski-hat zombies, our heroes, the jungle girls and the completely ineffectual Frankenstein Monster (yeah, he's in here too)? --Hysterically funny and a DO NOT MISS for any fan of the really, REALLY bad.