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La figlia di Frankenstein (1971)

AKA Lady Frankenstein, Madame Frankenstein, Daughter of Frankenstein

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SUMMARY: Baron Frankenstein's daughter and his assistant/her lover continue his experiments in an attempt to rebuild his legacy after he is killed by his psychotic, murderous first monster.

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currently eating homemade pizza and watching Lady Frankenstein (1971)

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Every Film I Watch In 2023:

234. Lady Frankenstein (1971)

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LADY FRANKENSTEIN (1971) Reviews and free to watch online

Lady Frankenstein is a 1971 Italian-American horror film directed by American Mel Welles (The Little Shop of Horrors, Maneater of Hydra) and [uncredited] Aureliano Luppi. The screenplay was written by Edward di Lorenzo based on a story by Dick Randall. The movie stars Joseph Cotten (The Hearse; Baron Blood), Rosalba Neri [as Sara Bay] (The Devil’s Wedding Night), Paul Müller,  Mickey Hargitay…

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Rosalba Neri in Lady Frankenstein (1971)

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I do not mean to hurt you. I shall wait for you in my bride's dress in the dark.

Angela Carter, “The Lady of the House of Love”

Wedding Dresses in Horror

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016) • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) • Ready or Not (2019) • Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) • Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

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Riccardo Pitzzuti- LADY FRANKENSTEIN (1971)

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Lady Frankenstein (1971)

A movie that—intentionally or not—subverts the common horror trope of the scientist's daughter. Rather than a naive innocent thrown into the middle of a situation she has no control over, she comes into the situation wanting to get involved and push things further, then very willingly takes control after he father's death. Her development isn't one of a character becoming corrupted by power, but rather revealing more and more who she was the entire time. Overall a decent movie done a disservice by trying to make it seem significantly sexier than it is.

6/10

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Movie Review | Lady Frankenstein (Luppi & Welles, 1971)

Lady Frankenstein is the horrifying tale of what happens when women go into STEM. Okay, that was terrible. Please don't hit unfollow. Anyway, as this is a Frankenstein movie, you get all the requisite Frankensteinian fun. You have Dr. Frankenstein, played by Joseph Cotten, not phoning it in, who insists that this peers will stop doubting his sanity once he reveals his experiments on bodies stolen by graverobbers. The big experiment scene is full of the stuff you expect, like bubbling liquids, electric sparks, wires, all sorts of fancy glass laboratory accoutrements, and coloured lighting for dramatic effect. During this experiment, the monster's face ends up catching on fire, so there's no fucking way I'm ever going to Dr. Frankenstein for surgery.

The monster ends up breaking free and rampaging through the countryside, so Frankenstein's daughter, the titular Lady Frankenstein, comes up with the absolutely foolproof plan of creating another monster to kill it, which in no way will result in two monsters breaking free and rampaging through the countryside, at which point she'll need to make two more monsters to kill the first two, and then four more to kill those, and then eight more, and on and on until you can use this as a math lesson about exponents. Anyway, how much of that happens I won't reveal, but her plan involves a very questionably portrayed mentally challenged man who spends a good amount of his screentime hugging a sheep, as well as Jess Franco regular Paul Muller.

Anyway, I had fun with this. Italian horror is something of a comfort food for me, and gothic horror is a reliably cozy strain, so I was inclined to like this anyway, but this delivers enough of what you'd want out of those things. I will say that this suffers from the monster being kind of lame. It's a bald guy with a big head (one of the posters makes him look like Peter Boyle, which isn't entirely accurate but not too far off either), who the movie frequently opts to shoot from a higher angle so as to make him look unimposing. And he kills people mostly by hugging or pushing them, so the deaths are rarely as fun as you'd hope. But I watched this primarily for Rosalba Neri as Lady Frankenstein, who does a lot of eye widening to accentuate her sociopathy and can be seen in an assortment of period appropriate costumes ranging from flowy robes and dresses to a labcoat for when she enacts her plan that involves a number of monsters that I wouldn't dream of disclosing and certainly am not creating ambiguity about for the purpose of the very stupid joke.

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Riccardo Pizzuti in La figlia di Frankenstein (1971)

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Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes

964 Pinocchio (1991) had the most votes with 925 votes. Screamplay (1984) had the least votes with 269 votes.

The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) was the most watched film with 66% of voters out of 844 saying they had seen it. Discopathe (2013) had the least "Yes" votes with 0,3% of voters out of 352.

The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage

Pet Sematary II (1992) was the least watched film with 70.7% of voters out of 491 saying they hadn’t seen it. Bondage Ecstasy (1989) had the least "No" votes with 5,1% of voters out of 490.

The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) was the best known film, 3,1% of voters out of 844 saying they’d never heard of it.

The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage

Bondage Ecstasy (1989) was the least known film, 94% of voters out of 470 saying they’d never heard of it.

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Home Movie (2008) The Reflecting Skin (1990) Hatchet II (2010) Hatchet III (2013) Victor Crowley (2017) Door in the Woods (2019) The Evil Within (2017) In the Cold of the Night (1990) Alien: Covenant (2017) Dust Devil (1992)

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Old People (2022) Sea Fever (2019) Interview with the Vampire (1994) Gothika (2003) Helter Skelter (2012) One Missed Call (2008) Truth or Dare (2018) The Unholy (2021) Children of the Corn (1984) Feral (2017)

Sweetheart (2019) The Invasion (2007) A.M.I. (2019) Look Away (2018) Fatal Frame (2014) It Lives Inside (2023) The Voices (2014) We Are the Night (2010) The Unborn (2009) Cold Prey (2006)

Cold Prey 2 (2008) Cold Prey III (2010) Death Spa (1988) Cat's Eye (1985) Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) The Omen (1976) Mondo Weirdo (1990) Bondage Ecstasy (1989) Pet Sematary II (1992)

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Discopathe (2013) Evil Ed (1995) Rasen (1998) The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) Saturday the 14th (1981) Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996) Anaconda (1997) Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid (2004) The Video Dead (1987) Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985)

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LADY FRANKENSTEIN

Italy

1971

Directed by Mel Welles

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horror recs aaww yeahhh. mostly a peter cushing, christopher lee, and vincent price show bc i tend to fixate on them and their films a lot.

note: it kinda goes without saying that some of these have problematic elements and themes. i consume media critically, which should also kinda go without saying!!

feel free to hmu me for trigger warnings, but i can't guarantee i'll remember everything in the films.

HAMMER HORROR RECS

+ 'the curse of frankenstein' (1957) and just. the whole hammer frankenstein series, especially 'the revenge of frankenstein' and 'frankenstein created woman.' ('created woman' leans more heavily into the sci-fi aspects, but is more of a revenge slasher at heart.)

you can skip 'evil' and 'horror' (unless you're a completionist) bc they are the worst and aren't super important continuity wise ('horror' is totally outside of the main continuity bc it's a reboot!!)

+ 'horror of dracula' (1958) and 'the brides of dracula' (1960) are two of my fave films ever. they perfectly encapsulate that distinctly hammer-y gothic horror atmosphere, and are full of frills (pretty women) and thrills (scared silly men.)

most of the sequels are kinda meh BUT

'dracula ad 1972' (1972) is somewhat of a cult classic. it asks the vitally important questions 'what if dracula was fucking around in modern (aka 1972) london? and what if the writers absolutely detested hippies?' johnny alucard is a #bisexualking.

'satanic rites of dracula' (1973) isn't very good, but it is funny, and a somewhat direct sequel to 'ad 1972' so it's worth it imo.

and i wouldn't recommend any of the other sequels unless you're a completionist (like me,) but 'taste the blood of dracula' is pretty good.

+ 'the mummy' (1959) more gorgeous hammer decadence set and costume wise. christopher lee is insanely good in this, acting totally through his eyes and body language (which he also does a lot in some of the weaker dracula sequels when he refused to say lines he hated in the scripts lmao.)

+ 'the hound of the baskervilles' (1959) is a thriller take on a classic sherlock holmes story. not totally book accurate (hammer usually doesn't do super accurate adaptations,) but peter cushing is absolute fire as holmes. it's one of his career-best performances imo.

+ cash on demand (1961) is a christmas movie/pseudo-scrooge tale about a bank heist. it's more of a claustrophobic psychological thriller than a horror movie, but it has a bunch of strong performances and it really makes the most of itself. one of my personal top ten movies ever.

+ captain clegg (1962) is more of a swashbuckler/mystery than a horror film, but it's so much fun and a big 'comfort' movie of mine. i love pirates and parsons and smugglers ❤

+ 'the vampire lovers' (1970) evil canon lesbian/bi vampire ladies and pretty period fashion. it's part of the karnstein trilogy, and is probably the most accurate to the source material, 'carmilla.’

i do not recommend ‘lust for a vampire’ unless you are a completionist. it doesn’t even have peter cushing in it.

'twins of evil' (1971) is the final karnstein film and is a prequel. it might be the horniest and most gruesome tbh? but it's pretty good 👍

+ 'fear in the night' (1972) is a sneaky favorite of mine. psychological thriller that handles the topic of mental illness and its mentally ill characters pretty well, imo.

+ 'captain kronos - vampire hunter' (1974) do you like swashbuckling vampire hunters and fabulous twin nobles? then you'll like this one. 'kickass' and 'badass' are the main adjectives i'd use to describe it.

AMICUS RECS

(NOTE: amicus borrowed a lot of actors from hammer, so they are kinda similar vibe-wise on occasion.)

+ 'dr. terror's house of horrors' (1965) horror anthology with tarot card readings as its framing device, which is such a whipass concept.

+ 'the house that dripped blood' (1971) horror anthology about a cursed house or smth :) and while it is pretty good over all, i'm recommending this one mainly bc the 'waxworks' segment is one of the finest pieces of cinema i've ever seen.

+ 'tales from the crypt' (1972) horror anthology based on 'tales from the crypt' comics, and it has a couple of really good ones. great primer for getting into their anthologies.

+ 'madhouse' (1974) one of my lowkey favorite movies bc i love gay old horror actors hamming it up and having fun and making fun of themselves. and i love projecting onto herbert flay and paul toombes so much <333 #lovewins

OTHER RECS

+ 'frankenstein' (1931) and 'bride of frankenstein' (1935) if u haven't seen these two you have got to fr fr. 'bride' is a perfect score in my book and just. holy fuck. one of the most insane, profound, beautiful movies ever. stg. dr pretorius is everything 2 me <33 i ❤ heart gay old men.

+ the invisible man (1933) i get the feeling you've seen this one? but it's lots of fun :) claude rains is amazing as the titular invisible man. honestly i kinda prefer this movie to the book.

+ 'psycho' (1960) a classic, one of the og slashers. i'm assuming you're seen this one just bc it's so popular? but it really is That Good.

also 'psycho ii' is fucking amazing. i haven't seen any of the other sequels yet, but 'ii' is just. so so heartbreaking. a near perfect sequel that really dives into the aftermath of the events of the first film.

+ 'corruption' (1968) absolutely not the best but it starts strong and is just damn fascinating. about a dysfunctional couple tearing each other to shreds at its core.

+ 'the abominable dr. phibes' (1971) a revenge slasher kinda considered to be a precursor to 'saw?' idk lol. but it has some fucking epic kills. vincent price really delivers here emotionally as the title character and it drives me up the wall.

'dr. phibes rises again' (1972) is also pretty good. weaker kills imo but a stronger protagonist.

also while i don't think you Have To watch 'dr. phibes' first (i didn't,) 'madhouse' is kind of an homage to it.

+ 'the wicker man' (1973) folk horror/musical masterpiece about a devoutly religious cop investigating the disappearance of a young girl on an island inhabited by pagans. if you haven't seen this just know that it is a 10/10 must watch.

+ 'house of the long shadows' (1983) about an author who's dared to spend the night in a creepy house that was once owned by a super fucked up family. doesn't really kick into gear until all the old people start showing up, but it's fun.

+ fright night (1985) epic vampire movie pastiche B) peter vincent means the world to me fr. it makes me cry sometimes. the sequel is pretty good too!! but i wouldn't really recommend the 2011 remake.