BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

benjaminweber When I started watching this, I wasn't sure whether it was the genuine article, or a well-made parody of campy 60s films. Just the name, "Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster", reeks of a bizarre 60s film milking the Frankenstein name for all they could. Somehow they don't even get that right, and 'Frankenstein' is not Frankenstein's monster, but a malfunctioning android called Frank who is compared to Frankenstein's monster!The plot will be familiar to anyone (Oh no, X is kidnapping our women, and we can't stop them!), but particularly those who have seen Devil Girl From Mars (1954), which this film rips off. Aliens from a planet devastated by war, led by a seductive villain, come in search of breeding stock. You can't make this up any more, because it's so clicheed it is embedded into our collective culture!Finally, Frank has a fight with the close-up camera angle monster on the ship and everything on the ship is destroyed, leaving everyone else to ponder what just happened, and how this idea ever got any funding. It's a film that is fundamentally broken, yet still somehow entertaining. Worth watching, but not for the reasons people usually watch films.

Coventry Once every so often, you encounter a movie that leaves you completely dumbfounded… With a title like "Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster" you can already safely derive that you won't be seeing a highly intellectual work of cinematic art, but still the film was at least five times as demented as I could ever have imagined! This movie is the epitome of cheap & trashy 60's Sci-Fi/horror. No plot was grotesque enough, no set design looked cheesy enough and you simply didn't have a satisfied drive-in audience if the movie didn't feature any extended footage of dancing bikini girls! There's something ridiculous to behold at any given moment during the film, whether it's a passive acting performance or a hilarious attempt at special effects, and the plot appears to get sillier with every minute that passes. Somewhere just outside the our stratosphere, there's a Martian ship floating around and nuking earth's spaceships because they're war declarations. The Martians are all bald guys with pointy ears and there's one queen who stole Cleopatra's wardrobe. The crew is on a mission to capture earth babes (preferably in bikini) because they urgently need to repopulate their planet! Meanwhile, the pointdexters over at NASA are running out of living astronauts and decide to skyrocket an android into space instead. The android's name is Frank and he looks quite nasty when half his face gets blown off, so his creators inventively nickname him Frankenstein. To make the title fully relevant, there's also a hideous monster aboard the Martian ship that Franky has to overthrow before he can rescue the babes. Put all these crazy plot elements together, add a swinging 60's score and some cardboard scenery, and you've got yourself a genuine drive-in favorite. This movie is probably a very unwise choice if you swear by the repertoires of Sci-Fi luminaries like Andrei Tarkovsky or Stanley Kubrick, but it's a delightful treat for us fanatics of kitschy smut.

Brian Lindsey In Puerto Rico, bald, pointy-eared extraterrestrial invaders are kidnapping bikini babes for breeding stock. Only a scarred, crash-damaged NASA cyborg named Frank is in any position to stop them. But first he must confront Mull, the monstrous creature the aliens have brought with them...Confession: I have yet to watch this film without being under the influence of some kind of recreational substance. You might wish to take that under consideration when weighing the merit of my analysis. You see, I actually like FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER. Yes, it stinks. Badly. It's cheap, stupid and silly. 60% of the film is pure padding, for the most part cobbled together from stock footage (much of it military). The scenes of Frank's scientist-creator (James Karen) and his shapely female assistant tooling around San Juan on a moped will test the patience of even die-hard trash film freaks.Nonetheless I find this cheese log tasty, especially when I have the... ahem... munchies. It makes me laugh. There's some great stuff here for a "Do It Yourself" MST3K party. The aliens — among them a young Bruce Glover (Crispin's dad) — run around in motorcycle helmets brandishing plastic ray guns. Mull, the titular space monster is both laughable and cool-looking at the same time. The music is very groovy, too; the infectiously catchy song "That's the Way It's Got to Be" (by The Poets) somehow goes great with NASA stock footage. Then there's the goofy alien second-in-command, Dr. Nadir (Lou Cutell), whom I like to refer to as 'Smirky McBat-ears'. He's simply hilarious. ("And now... maximum energy!")Recommendation: See this movie stoned. Because that's the way it's got to be.

sol1218 (Some Spoilers) Updated and modernized version of Mary Shelley's classic "Frankenstein" where the monster is a NASA constructed astronaut named Frank Saunders,Robert Reilly.Frank is slated to be the first "Man" to both travel and land on Mars but things get a bit haywire for him when his rocket is shot down by an alien craft outside the earth's atmosphere. The alien craft contains the last remnants of the Martian civilization that was destroyed in an atomic war. The captain of the craft is Princess Marcuzan, Marilyn Hanold, who's the only surviving woman of the Martain race. With her is the cue-ball headed and giggling Doctor Nadir, Lou Cutell, who's the mastermind in the Princess' plan to kidnap scores of sexy shapely and child-bearing earth women and use them, with the help of the surviving Martians males, to replenish the dying Martian race.Crash landing in Puerto Rico Frank is attacked by a number of Martian spacemen trying to take him captive. Escaping from the Martians with the left side of his head blown away Frank mindlessly roams the Puerto Rican beaches and countryside trying to get help only to scare to death anyone he runs into. Meanwhile the Martians are quickly grabbing, on the beaches and from tourist hotel swimming pools, dozens of sexy and bikini clad young women to take back home for breeding purposes.It when Frank's creator NASA engineer Dr. Adam Steele, and Frank's human girlfriend also a Nasa employee Karen Grant, Nancy Marshall, track down the confused and frightened brain damaged astronaut that they set him straight. It's then when Dr. Steele reconnects Franks damaged electoral circuit's, that he finally get his act and head together.The highlight of the movie is when Frank in his attempt to save the kidnapped young women is confronted, as a last resort by the Martians, by the space monster a hairy looking creature with what looks like crab or lobster claws. The fight between Frank and the space monster goes on unabated as the women, that includes Karen, make their escape from the spaceship. Grabbing a ray gun from one of the Martian crew members Frank breaks into the captains quarters and finishes off both Princess Marcuzan and Doctor Nadir who are desperately trying to get back to the safety of their home planet Mars. In the end Frank like selfless and brave hero that he is gives up his life by blowing the Martian spacecraft to pieces and thus prevent another Martian invasion of earth in the not so distance future.This is the first and only movie that I can remember where the Frankenstein Monster, Captain Frank Saunders, was actually shown in a positive light where he ends up saving lives instead of taking them. Frank, before he got his head almost blown off, was unlike in the previous Frankenstein movies a fairly good looking guy not the tall nut bolted Golem that were used to seeing since he made his inaugural appearance back in 1931. It's just too bad that in "Frankenstein meets the Spacemonster" like in all the other "Frankenstein" movies the big guy had to be killed off at the conclusion of the film. It would have been a far better ending if he, after getting his damaged head fixed, would have ended up marrying Karen, thus she becoming the Bride of Frank or Frankenstein, and live happily ever after.