Lust for Frankenstein

A cheap asexual erotic horror flick, the plot of which (if only the tiny bundle of insanities that seems to have been made up along with the filming can be called a plot) could fit into a ten-minute short. Now, since Jesús Franco needed a standard duration for his film, he stuffed it with all sorts of long shots depicting the sea, palm trees, houses, a turntable and bovine faces, the whole thing being incredibly badly colour-filtered, to the point I can only see it as a completely naive video art creation attempt. What kind of audience did Franco make this for? Looks like an insolvable puzzle. It’s intrinsically dull, bad, pointless and unwatchable. [Sitges 2018] (10/19/2018)

Lust for Frankenstein is a worthless piece of VHS trash with nonsensical and repetitive scenes so that the runtime derived from the haphazardly thrown together screenplay is stretched out into feature-length film, with cheap filters and ridiculously stilted speeches. Not to mention the inappropriate rock music playing incessant in the background, which was supposed to give it some drive. This has nothing to do with Jess Franco’s older, atmospheric and sexy cult films. (10/14/2018)