Lady Frankenstein

The nice thing about the Italian film Lady Frankenstein is that Joseph Cotten appears as Baron Frankenstein, but somehow he doesn't get much space. The beautiful Rosalba Neri gets more space than him, and she is definitely a sight to behold. But the film is more of a historical drama, with the only horror being the monster moments. Yes, it basically follows the original movie version, but nowadays you want a little more than just naked beauty. (29/04/2019)

This boring guilty pleasure is saved only by Rosalba Neri with her spellbinding looks and bare breasts. It’s no wonder that all of the male characters fulfil her wishes. I would also have my brain removed and put into someone else’s body for her if she liked it better than mine. Just not under the direction of chief surgeons Luppi and Wells. Lady Frankenstein is very much a B-movie, an awkwardly flowing and unexciting jumble with a ridiculous monster and murders. And it doesn’t play on the dramatic storyline, as the plot develops with purely exploitative ideas – we have an escaped murderous monster and instructions for creating another one, so we make one and intersperse the process with nudity and some bubbling red liquid in test tubes. Thanks to the personality of Joseph Cotten and his co-star Paul Muller, whose speech also evokes normal filmmaking, Lady Frankenstein looked respectable, at first. (01/11/2020)