A young John Ashley(who would later on go to the Philippines and fight monsters there in those Blood Island movies) stars in this 50's updating of the Frankenstein story mixed with teenage drama. This typically goofy monster flick features Dr. Frankenstein's grandson making monsters. There are actually two monsters for the price of one in this one. One is a teen gal who gets slipped a spiked drink and then gets all pasty-faced, grows some goofy-ass giant eyebrows, bug-eyes and stalks the neighborhood all the while wearing nothing but a bathing suit and robe. Frankenstein also builds another female monster from dead bodies of stupid teens. This creature, which looks quite masculine, is quite the looker with sort of a Two-Face from BATMAN look. Her outfit appears to be some kind of Martian workout tracksuit. She/he/it walks about town doing a version of the robot dance and karate chopping people that get in the way which just looks fucking ridiculous. This thing is only 75 minutes long and unfortunately a lot of them are exceedingly dull minutes full of talky-talk scenes but there is some monsterific action here and there and actually some blood on a few victims which is rare in these oldies. Should be fun for hardcore monster fans for nostalgic reasons if nothing else.
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