Monday, November 1, 2010

Lady Frankenstein

What terror rome's the streets with an insatiable appetite to kill? What woman would create a killing machine that could satisfy her strange desires while helping gain revenge for the murder of her father? The answers are found in this 1971 treasure called "Lady Frankenstein"!

Sarah Bay stars as "Tonya", the daughter of Dr. Frankenstein. Tonya has just returned from medical school and wants to help her father realize his dreams of bringing dead men back to life using brain transplants. Since she was a child, Tonya has admired the work of her father and has wanted to follow in his footsteps. Little did she understand how deadly things would get!

Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant were working late one evening and through hard work were able to understand how they could transplant a brain. However, some damage to the Brain was discovered prior to the transplant. Frankenstein insisted that the experiment move forward. When the experiment is a success, the monster does what you would expect it to do, it turns on Dr. Frankenstein and kills him. Tonya decides she must follow in her father's footsteps but instead of making just another beast, she would create a killing machine that will help her gain revenge for her fathers death.But revenge is not the only thing that is on her mind! Her need for revenge gets tangled up with her twisted need for love and desire. When she thinks she is able to have it all, love acceptance and revenge, the tables turn on her with a sick and twisted ending that leaves no question that there will be no happily ever after for Tonya.

The monster created by Dr. Frankenstein bounces back and forth between stumbling around as he is walking with a blank expression on his face to walking like a normal human being with a smirk. This takes away the believability. He comes off more as a thug with a chip on his shoulder than a killing machine. Sarah Bay does a great job in her role as Tonya. She is very cold, calm and selfish. Most of the rest of this film seems like a "Sherlock Holmes" who dun nit. As goofy as it seems, Lady Frankenstein is still worth watching.

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