When a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein's ancestor carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons.
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| Robert Clarke | ... | Dr. Paul Hadley | |
| Steve Brodie | ... | Jocko | |
| Cameron Mitchell | ... | Clay Jayson | |
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Robert Christopher | ... | Mark Eden |
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Tain Bodkin | ... | Curtis Ryan |
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Patrick O'Neil | ... | Dino |
| Andrew Duggan | ... | The Colonel | |
| John Carradine | ... | Dr. Frankenstein | |
| Katherine Victor | ... | Sheila Frankenstein von Helsing (as Kathrin Victor) | |
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George Mitchell | ... | Dr. von Helsing |
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Dana Norbeck | ... | Jungle Girl |
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Laurel Johnson | ... | Jungle Girl |
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Richard Banks | ... | Angus |
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James Webb | ... | The Monster |
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Marla Conner | ... | Jungle Girl |
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When a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein's ancestor carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons. Written by Jeremy Lunt <durlinlunt@acadia.net>
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27 November 1981 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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John Carradine only appears as a floating image during the whole film. Actually, it is the same shot of him all the time, sometimes repeating dialogue and sometimes with new dialogue. See more »Quotes
Dr. Frankenstein: I hear thee. So as I hear, be thee assured my response is forthcoming!See more »
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My VCR taped this movie in 1986 at 2:30am when it was supposed to be recording "Kings Row". I have never been happier at the error. Here is a film I show to old friends and new loves. It is so bad...so beyond bad, really, that this film could be a guest on Jerry Springer. Lets quickly move from the plot: stranded balloonists discover themselves on an island with Jacques Cousteau-like zombies, amazon women warriors in spandex leopard prints, and...a weird, unresolved Frankenstein motif. That aside, it is constant hilarity. Plastic pitchforks, the same we carried at Halloween as kids, are waved in front of the camera to suggest danger. A shoe box ,, painted red on the lower half and put on a gyro is the electronic brain for the monster. The actress playing Frankensteins relative, Sheila!!!, is a hoot since she is seen reading her lines from off set (behind bookcases, etc). The ending pales since the beginning is so rapturously inane and silly. It is not to be missed. Please don't turn off when the Mighty Kung Fus scenes occur...or the tiny skulls appear in a gas-lit barbeque to intimate danger. Or when poor Cameron Mitchell appears as Captian Ahab/Queeq explaining how he allowed his crew to become zombies. Best scene: at the very beginning, when the balloon crashes, the dog on board jumps off and pees on the seaweed as the titles run. Such honesty in cinema is so rare.