Frankenstein Unbound

John Hurt prances around Switzerland with his talking car, some Frankenstein nonsense happens on the side.

*rips an absurdly fat line* "Most ambitious cross over event in history? They don't know about Knight Rider meets Frankenstein!" - Roger Corman, probably

55.

Roger Corman #11

I finally got around to re-watching this because I liked it as a kid, but my nostalgia proved unwarranted. It's a stupid concept mixing Frankenstein and time travel by what turns out to be only coincidence. The acting and special effects may be injury inducing, but if you're able to get over the concept, then you can probably live with a little more brain damage without noticing.

shockingly good costuming and acting for such a typical Corman movie.

Corman's first directorial effort in 20 years covers much of the same ground as _Haunted Summer_ and _Gothic_, fueled by a _Back to the Future_-type time-travel twist. This emerges as an uneven but often thoughtful attempt to merge futuristic sci-fi with its 19th-century roots -- i.e., Mary Shelley's seminal novel _Frankenstein, or A Modern Prometheus_ (though by recasting her fictitious Frankenstein as a living neighbor, the film belittles Shelley's imagination a mite).

Deliberately cheesy performances from Hurt and Julia can't save this turkey, that reeks of made for tv-effects and lacks any...uhm...thing... at all to make it interesting. It's not anoyingly bad, it's just an incredible lack of potential. Raoul Julia as doc Frankenstein should have ruled.

A whole lot of ideas that don't really gel