Review of Frankenstein's Daughter (1958) by Tim S — 04 Mar 2012

I don't know who approved the premise of this movie but they should have had their head examined. This sounds like an idea pitched in a board room full of ideas but immediately discarded. Frankenstein's Daughter plays very much like a William Castle movie, which might have been the approach.

A lot of things don't make sense and are never resolved, like the fact that Trudy is constantly drugged into being a monster for no apparent reason because the mad doctor is already working on his own monster and not particularly concerned with the one he drugs every night.

I don't know. There were a couple of genuinely creepy moments during the transformations, and probably would have scared me as a kid, but this was more or less a waste of time. There's some mystery and suspense, but the motives and logic are just a mess.

Even in a dumb horror movie that stuff needs to work if I'm supposed to be taking it seriously, and the movie wants me to do that, and I can't. Another skippable movie with a horrible premise and execution.