THE TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN is a 1958 homemade horror hit from amateur filmmaker Donald F. Glut. Once again Glut and his friends dress up as various characters from the Universal Frankenstein films and the Wolf Man shows up for part of the story too, thanks to some quite nifty FX. Clocking at 12 minutes, this is cheap and cheerful viewing, made by an obviously enthusiastic bunch of kids who don't let lack of money or expertise put them off.
2 Reviews
Homemade Universal tribute features Frankenstein and the Wolf Man
Leofwine_draca15 May 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Homage to the Universal Monsters
Michael_Elliott3 September 2011
Teenage Frankenstein, The (1959)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Dr. Frankenstein is about to have a noose put around his neck for his crimes but a stranger shows up at the last minute and rescues him. It turns out this stranger is actually Larry Talbot and he wants to doctor to cure him from becoming a werewolf again. While this is going on the Monster finds himself with a blind hermit who tries to help him. This here is certainly one of the more ambitious monster movies that Glut had made up to this point. The first minute of the movie is just a very long credit sequence where we get about eight different title cards and all of them have Glut's name on them so obvious the director-writer-editor was very happy of what he created. I thought overall this was a pretty entertaining film even though parts of it started to drag. Running just over 12-minutes allows us to get quite a bit of footage in including a flashback sequence where Talbot talks about his dealings with Dracula. For the most part the monsters look good and the hermit sequence from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN is put to good use. The werewolf make up is certainly better than what we've seen previously in these Glut productions.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Dr. Frankenstein is about to have a noose put around his neck for his crimes but a stranger shows up at the last minute and rescues him. It turns out this stranger is actually Larry Talbot and he wants to doctor to cure him from becoming a werewolf again. While this is going on the Monster finds himself with a blind hermit who tries to help him. This here is certainly one of the more ambitious monster movies that Glut had made up to this point. The first minute of the movie is just a very long credit sequence where we get about eight different title cards and all of them have Glut's name on them so obvious the director-writer-editor was very happy of what he created. I thought overall this was a pretty entertaining film even though parts of it started to drag. Running just over 12-minutes allows us to get quite a bit of footage in including a flashback sequence where Talbot talks about his dealings with Dracula. For the most part the monsters look good and the hermit sequence from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN is put to good use. The werewolf make up is certainly better than what we've seen previously in these Glut productions.
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