Saturday, November 17, 2007

Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)

Alternate title spelling: Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster.

Synopsis: A robot astronaut is sent out on a space mission, yet is forced to abandon his ship when it is attacked by aliens who are visiting Earth in search of young women to repopulate their nuclear-war-devastated planet.

Appraisal: No-budget science-fiction, a good portion of which consists of stock footage. The whole thing is quite laughable, due in equal parts to a conscious tongue-in-cheek approach and to the complete inability in giving the least semblance of realism to any of it. Particularly puzzling is the insertion, at a few sequences, of lyrical pop tunes bearing no relation with the predominant mood of the movie.

Rating: 21

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