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In this version of the Frankenstein-story, Frankenstein (Rossano
Brazzi) lives in a castle where he is surrounded by freaks - including
dwarf Genz (Michael Dunn) and hunchback Creegan (Xiro Papas) - whom he
employs as his assistants, assistants in all things typical to a
Frankenstein household, including graverobbing and helping in
Frankenstein's experiments on corpses. Castle Frankenstein interestingly
enough is also located near to some caves where the last Neanderthals (!)
seem to have found abode - and somehow good Dr Frankenstein has gotten
hold of one such Neanderthal, Goliath (Loren Ewing), after he has been
stoned by the villagers, who tend to not like Neanderthals very much.
And what does a god Frankenstein do with a corpse ?
That's right, strap it to an operating table and bring it back to life.
As it happens, Frankenstein brings the creature back to life at around
teh same time his daughter Maria (Simone Blondell) comes for a visit with
her fiancé (Eric Mann) and her lovely young friend Krista (Christiane
Rücker) - and Frankenstein and Krista, who is also a scientist, fall in
love almost immediately, and it doesn't take Frankenstein long to show her
the nature and extent of his experiments, which totally impresses her.
Frankenstein's creature Goliath also seems to fall in love with Krista by
the way.
At around the same time, Frankenstein fires his dwarf Genz, who has
botched up things once too often, and has him sent to the forest - where
Genz soon runs across another Neanderthal, Ook (Boris Lugosi), who for
some reason shows sympathy towards the little fella and the two become
friends, with Ook from now on regularly kidnapping women for Genz to rape.
Once Genz is out though, Ook kidnaps Krista.
Genz meanwhile has returned to the Castle Frankenstein to free Goliath
to ... oh I don't know why exactly he did it, he just did. He then takes
Goliath back to Ook's cave and when Frankenstein tries to stop them, Genz
tells Goliath to kill his creator - which he does.
In the cave, Ook and Goliath do not become instant friends as Genz has
intended but Goliath, finding Krista the love of his life tied up by Ook,
attacks his opponent viciously, and, being the much bigger and stronger of
the two of them, defeats and kills him, leaving poor Genz friendless. Then
Goliath frees Krista and the two want to head back to the castle. However,
your obligatory mob of torch-carrying angry villagers (no Frankenstein
film would be compelte without them) has meanwhile formed and headed for
the cave, and they burn poor Goliath alive, despite Krista's attempts to
save him (who has just saved her, actually).
Edmund Purdom plays the local inspector in this one, Alan Collins and
Gordon Mitchell two more assistants of Frankenstein.
Silly.
There is no other way to describe this film.
Frankenstein and Neanderthals ? Really ? Was that what was wrong with
the Frankenstein-story in the first place, not enough Neanderthals ?
But to say Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks is silly is only one
half of the truth, the film is at the same time wonderfully campy and
trashy and filled with enough gratuitious nudity to keep a trash film fan
like me glued to the screen. Add to this at best modest production values
and not so special special effects and you've got a wonderful piece of
Eurotrash - certainly not for everyone's taste I agree, but hard to resist
for the connoisseur.
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