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It's Italian, it's horror...but it's not very good. The movie is cheap looking and the story is just terrible. For an horror movie it certainly isn't original and the movie is severely lacking on multiple levels.

Perhaps the biggest problem with the movie is that it doesn't have a real main characters. Who exactly was supposed the hero in this one? And who exactly were the good and bad guys? It makes the movie confusing and messy to watch. It also is terribly boring all, since rarely ever something interesting happens.

The movie is filled with nudity and voyeurism. The movie is basically about the servants peeping on naked women and the movie doesn't focuses enough on the horror aspects of the movie.

The musical score by Marcello Gigante is just plain awful and truly laughable at times.

Both the editing and cinematography are also severely lacking. The movie is incredibly simple and cheap made and its horrible put together with the editing. The cinematography looks very amateur like and it seemed that they didn't used proper lighting or a focus-puller.

This Italian take on the Frankenstein franchise, in which for some odd reason also Neanderthalers are involved, is a terrible one, in which basically nothing interesting ever happens.

2/10

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I had been wanting to view this notorious film ever since catching its trailer on the "Extra Weird Sampler" DVD from Image a couple of years ago; however, now that I have, I found the experience not nearly as rewarding in a 'so bad it's good' way as I had anticipated. With so much that is wrong here, it is almost a pity the end result is not more entertaining; in fact, I would go so far as to say this is the nadir of the Italian Gothic Horror genre! Former matinée' idol Rossano Brazzi is Count(!) Frankenstein who experiments on Neanderthal beings (apparently, they can still be found in certain European caves!) with the help of his henchmen – lecherous dwarf Michael Dunn (a long way from his Oscar-nominated role in SHIP OF FOOLS [1965]), top-hatted(!) Gordon Mitchell, Luciano Pigozzi and the obligatory hunchback (who has the hots for Pigozzi's unattractive wife)! For what it is worth, here we get the luxury of two cavemen (who naturally get to grips practically at first sight!): one has a prominent dome-shaped forehead and the other is played by an 'actor' under the hilarious assumed name of Boris Lugosi! Edmund Purdom, another veteran presence, has little of substance to do as the local Police Chief (in the classic tradition of Universal horror movies, the townsfolk are forever on the point of picking up their torches to storm the Frankenstein castle!) but he does get to utter the would-be profound closing line: "There is a bit of the monster in all of us"!! Also involved, needless to say, are two girls – one is Frankenstein's daughter (played by the attractive offspring of hack film-maker Demofilo Fidani) and the other her best friend, who catches the eye of both the Count and one of the Neanderthals! – with a penchant for skinny-dipping in the steaming waters of the caves. After being banished from the castle for setting the Police onto Frankenstein's grave-robbing antics by way of his tiny footprints, Dunn takes to the caves himself and proceeds to instruct the Lugosi character (who seems to have nothing on his mind but the profuse consumption of raw meat!) into the ways of love-making; his first attempt, however, results in the horribly mangled body of a local girl!! As I said at the start, the film is certainly among the goofiest of its kind ever made (a poor extra named Mike Monty playing a "Paisan" is even credited twice during the end credits!) but, unfortunately, not that much fun while it is on – the fact that helmer Randall was more typically employed as a producer, and whose sole directorial effort this proved to be, may have had something to do with it.

When I was 11 or 12, I remember liking these kind of films late at night on TV, but time has moved on and so has film-making tastes.

I find it very hard to watch these poorly directed poorly dubbed movies any longer.

Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value, and you have the plot.

In other words, there IS no plot!

The film is typical 70's shlock Italian horror. Old dark castle, lot's of zooming to eliminate the need for an actual production crew with multiple camera set ups, and really bad dubbing that over shadows the bad acting!

This mix makes for one smelly cocktail. Unless you're 10 or 11, then you may very well love it.

This is the most screwed up and divergent version of "Frankenstein" that I have ever seen. It bears almost no similarity to the Mary Shelley novel or other film versions I've seen and is a pretty terrible film.

The Baron is played by the Italian actor Rossano Brazzi--who just seemed all wrong for the film. Michael Dunn (best remembered as the dwarf from the "Star Trek" episode 'Plato's Children') plays a dwarf who is mostly there to get yelled at and bullied by practically everyone. And, there is a giant--called a 'Neanderthal Man'! But what really is important in this film is to watch people take their clothes off for no particular reason. However, the version from archive.net (which, in a rare case is not linked to IMDb's site) is porn-free (I did NOT say "Born Free") as all the nudity has been sliced out--but you can still see quite a bit of friskiness! Nothing is to recommend this low-budget mess. While not as bad as "Dracula Versus Frankenstein", it is pretty bad and not worth your time unless you are also a glutton for punishment.

First of all I have to say I love Italian horror. Secondly I love Hammer House Of Horror. This movie was a mix of both and for me it didn't work. It was a dreadfully poor copy of a movie or movies seen before and lacked in the Italian gore I love, crazy music and characters that strip naked for no good reason. It also lacked the story, quality and characters of Hammer. I watched it with beer and it didn't help it. Let this one go there is better out there. FAR BETTER. I watched the RARO Italian version of this poor substitute for a movie and learn'd even the director wouldn't put his real name to it! This version was digitally remastered and the picture quality was fantastic the sound was good. Remastering couldn't help the acting or story.