La maldición de Frankenstein

19731973
Not RatedNot Rated
1h 34m

Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant Morpho are killed just as they bring their creation to life. The monster is taken by Cagliostro and he now controls the monster and plans to have it mate a... Read allDr. Frankenstein and his assistant Morpho are killed just as they bring their creation to life. The monster is taken by Cagliostro and he now controls the monster and plans to have it mate and create the perfect master race.Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant Morpho are killed just as they bring their creation to life. The monster is taken by Cagliostro and he now controls the monster and plans to have it mate and create the perfect master race.

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Director
- Jesús Franco
Writers
- Jesús Franco(screenplay)
- Mary Shelley(characters)
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Director
- Jesús Franco
Writers
- Jesús Franco(screenplay) (story)
- Mary Shelley(characters) (uncredited)
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Doctor Frankenstein runs a few tests in his lab on a dead body. After a few moments the dead body becomes reanimated and screams out in pain. Frankenstein and his assistant Morpho (played by Franco) are murdered by Melisa, a bird/woman creation of the evil sorcerer Cagliostro. He wants to use the monster to create a new race of super humans that are obedient to him. Dr. Vera Frankenstein, also working on reanimation, is crushed to learn of her father's demise before he can share the secrets of his technique. She briefly reanimates him to learn that Cagliostro is at fault and has his monster in Castle Varga. She heads that way, but is caught and trapped by Cagliostro. Under his direction and with her aid, he will select parts from the most desirable of women to create a partner for the male monster. Vera will then bring it to life. Dr. Seward, a local physician who is attracted to Vera, is out to save her. He does not know that she is under a spell until he and an inspector witness the goings on at the castle. —Garon Smith

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Genres
- Horror
- Sci-Fi
Certificate
- Not Rated
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Trivia
Film debut of Lina Romay.

Goofs
Vera asks Dr. Seward if her father could have been killed by mountain lions. An odd question to ask, given there are no mountain lions in Europe.

Quotes
Melisa: Melisa speaks to you on behalf of her great master Cagliostro. Cagliostro created me and half of me is a bird. He meant for me to be his own daughter, but I am blind and therefore unworthy. Cagliostro now transmits the words he wishes you to hear through the fabulous creature that I am. Listen to the master speak these words to you: "I have accorded you the privilege of rising from your graves. But I cannot prevent your flesh from rotting. Originally, I started creating with nature's materials, but I was mistaken. I brought corpses back to life, only their bodies kept on rotting. To create the creature through whom I talk, I contrived to impregnate an egg with human semen. It was the beginning of my research. Now I use only living ingredients. Different elements of various women served to engender this composite woman and through her a new master race will arise. You are now going to witness the melding of this creature with the monster of Frankenstein. The monster has entered the crypt. He will perform Cagliostro's commands. Witness the miracle, the holy covenant between these two: the creature of Cagliostro and... the monster of Frankenstein. Cagliostro's magnetic power steals into their bodies. It is taking hold. Now they are about to procreate. Their procreation is perfection. They are fabulous creatures. They are divinities. Their most marvelous bodies will mate and remain united."
Cagliostro: The time has arrived. The monster will begin his work. Enjoy it, Melisa. I want you to enjoy it most particularly.

Alternate versions
Two (if not more) versions of this film exist La Maldicion de Frankenstein and The Curse of Frankenstein. The main difference between the two is that Curse is the 'hot' version containing male and female full frontal nudity, Maldicion is the 'cool' version with the same scenes but with the actors clothed. Maldicion is the version released in Spain in the General Franco era hence the lack of nudity although several topless scenes briefly remain. There are however many other differences between Maldicion and Curse, neither can be called definite since both contain footage the other doesn't. Both contain different beginning and end credits, Maldicion has nominal black and white titles, Curse opens it's credits to footage in Frankenstein's lab not found in Maldicion and ends with the credits set against a blue painting of the sea with more lyrical credits 'Robert De Nesle has presented'. Maldicion adds another character Esmeralda the Gypsy (played by Lina Romay) completely alien to Curse who appears throughout the film in a trance under the influence of Cagliostro, while impressive scenes of Cagliostro's zombies dressed in white robes walking though a misty forest can't be found in Curse. However Maldicion is lacking several scenes important to the narrative that curse can boast, noticeably Cagliostro and Melissa the bird women's first meeting in the film.

Connections
Edited into Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell (1999)

Top review

Frankenstein as told by the Marquis de Sade

Once upon a time, I viewed a copy of Jess Franco's Virgin among the Living Dead. I thought the movie was slow, boring and utterly pointless. Henceforth, I made it my firm resolution to avoid any movie directed by Jess Franco again. However after catching "the Awful Dr Orloff" on tv I have over the years become an admirer of his unique filmic style and now suprisingly claim that Jess Franco can be considered an Auteur of Euro-trash cinema.

The Erotic rites of Frankenstein is a very hard movie to track down. As far as I know it has never been released in the UK or America. Therefore, I was lucky enough to obtain a good widescreen copy on VHS from a car-boot sale. (These thing's always turn up in carboot sales!) The movie is a very imaginative and bizarre reinterpretation of Shelley's classic horror tale with and overtly sexual subtext.

Dr Frankenstein finally bestows the gift of speech upon his creation. Unfortunately his triumph is short lived when he is attacked by a weird naked vulture woman who tears him to shreds in his laboratory. Vera Frankenstein investigating his death reanimates her fathers corpse and discovers that his murderer is none other than Cagliostro the Wizard who has stolen the monster to aid his plans for world domination. Vera sets out to revenge her father but alas falls into the clutches of the wicked and very perverse Cagliostro....

This film contains many odd scenes and speeches from the characters. The oft mentioned scene of a bare chested and silver skinned Monster mercilessly whipping a naked couple over a spiked floor is suprising to say the least. The naked vulture woman's attack and slaughter of several naked men too is unexpected. As is the appearance of zombies at Cagliostro's castle. For once in a Frankenstein film it is the Doctor himself who is reanimated not less than three times and eventually becomes his own monster.

I enjoyed this movie - Franco's obsessions with S&M and naked women provide a spice to a very tired tale.

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