Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Absolutely the worst movie.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

When I started watching this, I wasn't sure whether it was the genuine article, or a well-made parody of campy 60s films. Just the name, "Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster", reeks of a bizarre 60s film milking the Frankenstein name for all they could. Somehow they don't even get that right, and 'Frankenstein' is not Frankenstein's monster, but a malfunctioning android called Frank who is compared to Frankenstein's monster!The plot will be familiar to anyone (Oh no, X is kidnapping our women, and we can't stop them!), but particularly those who have seen Devil Girl From Mars (1954), which this film rips off. Aliens from a planet devastated by war, led by a seductive villain, come in search of breeding stock. You can't make this up any more, because it's so clicheed it is embedded into our collective culture!Finally, Frank has a fight with the close-up camera angle monster on the ship and everything on the ship is destroyed, leaving everyone else to ponder what just happened, and how this idea ever got any funding. It's a film that is fundamentally broken, yet still somehow entertaining. Worth watching, but not for the reasons people usually watch films.

Saw this one on TV when I was but a lad and I don't remember it being THIS violent (not that I have anything against Violence; it's just that the version I saw must've been censored by the folks who broadcast it); it harks back to those pre-Code Horror comics in every way. While Nadir, the second-in-command, comes across as one of those aliens looking to probe someone's anus, the Princess is out of this world... All this woman has to do is take a slow, deep breath and... James Karen does a great job in his first At Bat, too. LUST IN SPACE- uh, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACEMONSTER boasts some no-holds-barred makeup and a caged Monster worthy of Paul Blaisdell (in fact, it looks like a cross between THE SHE-CREATURE and IT!, THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE). My biggest gripe is that the "meeting" of the two is so brief so late in the movie that we don't get to see either combatant really showcase his wares. The ship is VERY impressive for such a Low Budget feature, and excellent use is made of tons of stock footage. The practical effects all around are impressive: this is one of those hand-made movies that puts to shame the cgi crap we see Today.

*Spoiler/plot- Frankenstein meets the Space Monster, 1965, Martian invaders with their queen are exploring our solar system. Martian invaders prepare an Earth attack as NASA sends a rocket to Mars manned by a android astronaut. Mistaking the exploration rocket for an attacking warhead missile, the aliens fire on the launching rocket and send the android back to Earth in a fiery crash. The android pilot is damaged with heavy computer & facial trauma and the NASA man-like pilot goes on a murderous rampage throughout Puerto Rico's beach areas. The aliens land and make-off with beach babes as breeding stock for their planet, Mars. The rampaging pilot and alien patrols converge on a beach pool party with disastrous results.*Special Stars- Marilyn Hanold, Lou Cutell, Bruce Glover, James Karen, Nancy Marshall *Theme- Andriods are not always your friends despite their helpful NASA programming.*Trivia/location/goofs- B&W, American, Look for Bruce Glover(Diamonds are Forever 'baddie' and famous Hollywood acting coach) in a dual role as alien Martian invader and the Space Monster. The Space MOnster suit was a re-issue use from the fine Crash Corriganville film called, "It, the Terror from outer Space". This film is supposedly in the TOP 50th worst films ever made. The Martian alien spaceship rooms have ceiling fluorescent tube lights and walls made of obvious plywood especially in the beach babe 'purification room'. The NASA scientists leave in a B-52 bomber. However, the plane they land in is a Boeing C-135. Flight change?*Emotion- A very enjoyable "bad" B-movie with the climatic ray-gun-firing battle between android and the Martian Space monster. True campy fun of the post 50's with all the trimmings: bikinis, music, cars, airplanes, and clothing.

Terrible make up, the space ship is about a 12 foot round dome and no less than 25 people and aliens fit inside.The scooter scenes where James Karen "races" here and there at 12 MPH are hysterical.The music, well not sure how it works with the movie. The Hot girls well, they didn't put up much of a fight when the aliens abduct them.All all this together and it is a great, classic sci-fi movie.The "star", James Karen, was also the spokesperson for Pathmark Supermarkets for many, many years during Pathmarks heyday as a supermarket power on the east coast.This is a must see sci-fi movie.