With only a few more days left in Halloween Month, Balladeer’s Blog serves up another seasonal post.
I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN (1957) – Herbert Strock’s follow-up to I Was a Teenage Werewolf always calls to mind the Movie Host shows of the past and the way they would often pair up those two Teen Monster flicks as a Double Feature the nearest Saturday night to Halloween.
Whit Bissell returns, this time in the role of Professor Frankenstein, whose mad experiments caused him to be driven from Continental Europe to England and from there to the U.S. He still believes his ancestor’s theories were solid and he continues those ghastly efforts.
Frankenstein grabs corpses to experiment on wherever he can, including robbing the graves of teen athletes or using the dead bodies of teen victims of hotrod racing accidents. (Hey, how much more 1950s can you get?) Anyway, it’s a car crash that gives the Prof access to the final parts he needs. Continue reading
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