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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790732046
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 0790732041
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: August 26, 1997
Running Time: 83 minutes
Sales Rank: 26796
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 20, 1958
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - IT'S A CINEMASCOPE PICTURE
A fun movie to watch......I loved it when I first saw it a a kid in the 60's. Hopefully they'll come out w/a widescreen DVD version as the movie was filmed in CINEMASCOPE w/an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The VHS version I have starts out in widescreen but when the credits end it reverts to the usual pan & scan junk that we see so often on VHS releases of widescreen films.
Rating:  - finally saw it, it's good
A friend and i got all set up to watch this on TV one Friday night in fifth grade, popcorn and bottles of Sprite on his screen-porch, but the intro was so frightening I made him turn it off. Since then (1962) I've always wondered what I missed. Seeing it now, I laughed when i realized that the part that frightened me is a movie-within-a-movie: the director yells "Cut" about 15 seconds after the moment when I fled. (I'm not the spoiler here-- this info is in an earlier review). (But that first part ... Read More
Rating:  - Karloff's Cinematic Wasteland
From a celluloid perspective, the 1950s were a terrible decade for Boris Karloff. Though he blazed new trails on television and stage, the Hollywood studios could not provide a memorable vehicle for this truly great actor. "Frankenstein 1970" (1958) represented the worst of a largely forgotten lot. Portraying an atomic-age, Nazi-scarred version of Baron Frankenstein was an opportunity Karloff should have avoided. The only interesting aspect is the bizarre "twist" ending -- if you can wait that long. ... Read More
Rating:  - This time it's DOCTOR Karloff with a purpose...
The story opens as a terrified young woman is running through the woods, the monster seen here with sharpened nails like claws giving chase, tracks her down, finally cornering her at a lake where she stands frozen with fear as the monster slowly lurches toward her, lurching into the water and grabbing her by the throat and finally strangles and drowns her holding her under the lake's murky water.
Suddenly there's yelling and the girl begins screaming that he's really choking her and someone ... Read More
Rating: - Talent IS hereditary!
"Frankenstein 1970" is another guilty pleasure for me. It gave me the creeps as a child, and still does. Yes, the film is slow moving, and you don't get to see the monster's face until the very last shot, but the film does make me very uneasy. The great Boris Karloff plays Baron Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant Dr. who was tortured by the Nazis, and a descendant of the infamous Mr. F. Having fallen on hard times financially, the Baron permits a television crew to film a show about his illustrious ancestor ... Read More
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