Sexyloutak
Absolutely the worst movie.
Whitech
It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.
Nayan Gough
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Eric Stevenson
This movie features the heart of Frankenstein that later grows into a person. Actually, Frankenstein was the name of the doctor. Actually, he was just a medical student and not a doctor. Whatever, this film has Frankenstein's monster grow into a giant. There's a bunch of destruction going on that's blamed on him, but it's then revealed to be caused by another monster. The effects are really bad.We get these scenes that obviously took place on a bluescreen. You can even see the bits of blue coming out of the sides of the screen. It's pretty typical of a Japanese monster movie. I'll give credit that it is a well paced film. The action is set up pretty well, even though it's bad in execution. I don't know how I missed this for Giant Monster Month. **
AaronCapenBanner
Ishiro Honda directed this incredibly bizarre and perfectly awful film that starts off in WWII, where Dr. Frankenstein(!) has been working with the Japanese, and created a living heart, but it is later taken to Hiroshima where it is irradiated by the H-bomb being dropped. Years later, that heart has somehow grown into a full-sized boy, who then mutates even more into a giant man, who attacks the city, then battles a giant lizard named Baragon, also recently awakened. Preposterous story and poor F/X make this a tacky and laughable effort, that only gets worse as it goes along. No relation to Mary Shelley or Boris Karloff at least!
JoeB131
The only conclusion I could come to on this film is that Toho concluded that Frankenstein was the big American monster, so they had to do a movie about him to sell in America. And if that doesn't work, hire Nick Adams.The plot is that in the closing days of World War II, the Nazis transferred Frankenstein's heart to Japan, where it was brought to Hiroshima and irradiated for good measure. The heart was eaten by a war-orphan who mutated into a Frankenstein who looked slightly imbecilic, but grows to enormous size.Then there is another subplot with a more conventional Toho Kaiju called Baragon who is tearing up the countryside so the new giant Frankenstein will have something to fight. They then capped it off with a giant Octopus... yes, a giant octopus in the middle of the mountains! I think the director subscribed to the Spielberg theory that if you have the audience for that long, they'll go along with anything.
ferbs54
Well, he may not exactly conquer the world in this picture, but at least he gets off his usual home turf! In the very imaginative opening of "Frankenstein Conquers the World" (1965), you see, the living heart of the Frankenstein monster is taken from Germany at the end of World War II and transported by submarine to Japan, where it is promptly exposed to A-bomb radiation at Hiroshima and eventually grows, to become a giant, gap-toothed male waif. This lumbering doofus (who ultimately reveals himself to be the nimblest, most energetic Frankenstein ever shown on film) soon has a dukeout royale with Baragon, a sort of giant, spiny-backed, (heat?) ray-spewing, burrowing armadillo dinosaur, with no holds barred and no quarter given. Anyway, this picture strikes me as being several cuts above the usual kaiju eiga. It has been fairly handsomely produced, features very adequate FX (despite the Maltin book's claim to the contrary; well, that bucking horse excepted), and makes excellent use of its CinemaScope frame. Director Ishiro Honda, composer Akira Ifukube and the great actor Takashi Shimura, who all contributed so much to the original "Gojira" film in 1954, here bring their talents together again, with highly entertaining results, and American actor Nick Adams does his best playing Dr. James Bowen, a scientist working at the Hiroshima International Institute of Radiotherapentics (sic). The picture offers several striking visuals, none perhaps as impressive as the awesome spectacle of Franky and Baragon going at it with a flaming forest as a backdrop. The pristine-looking DVD from Media Blasters that I just watched offers both the "international" and the "theatrical" versions of the film, which differ only in the final five minutes. I much prefer the "international," if only because we get to see Franky (ridiculously) battle yet another monster in it. Either version, however, should provide an evening's worth of good mindless fun.
