Please don't spend money on this.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This movie is all around bad. Karloff as Dr. Frankenstein is weird but you won't even notice because the story is so stupid and boring. I almost stopped watching when he hypnotized a guy but I had to see how bad it would get. And of course the title doesn't make any sense. 1 star is the lowest rating you can give, I would give -1.

Very Uneven and considered pretty Bad in Some Circles, This one has Its Moments but is Unretrievable because the Bad Parts are just Awful. It has a Cringe Inducing Patronizing of the Teen Audience at times that is ill fitting and Laughable. Listen to the Guy on the Phone trying to Speak "Teen". The Acting from Everyone, Ranges from God-Awful Embarrassing to acceptable Hamming from Boris Karloff. But even He can be Seen Struggling with the Script.There are some Interesting Sets and the Beginning is Famous and sometimes Touted as the Scariest Part of the Movie. A few Scenes of Lurid Horror are Included. A Dismembered Body Parts Grinder Disposal (the grinding sound had to be removed because of objections by the Code Nazis), and Grisly Eyeballs. Also, Karloff Massaging a Removed Heart.There are a couple of Effective Shots and Dissolves and the Music tries Desperately to add to the "Terror", but Ultimately it is the Non-Lab/Crypt Scenes that Routinely bring everything to a Standstill. Still Worth a Watch for a few things and as a Whole it is Better, but not by much, than its Reputation as Awfully Worthless.Note...One wonders why, but Filmed in Cinemascope.

Boris Karloff(at the low-point of his brilliant career) plays Victor Von Frankenstein, last-surviving descendant of the original Baron Frankenstein(though NOT connected to the Universal Studios series Karloff had starred in!) who, because of financial necessity, allows a film crew to make a movie of his ancestors in his castle; the money he receives he plans to use to create a new monster, this time by using atomic energy generated by his own reactor. The actors from the film will make very convenient parts to compose the new monster, much to their surprise and horror... Pathetic attempt at a "futuristic" Frankenstein film is an abject failure, both poorly made and written, with Karloff looking embarrassed about the whole thing; thankfully, his career would pick up soon when he was chosen to host "Thriller"...

The last association that Boris Karloff had with the Frankenstein character came in this low budget Allied Artists film that I remember seeing in the theater in 1958. It was not the best of endings.This time Boris Karloff is playing the last descendant of the Frankenstein clan who's an old man and who in his youth was tortured by the Nazis in an effort to divulge Frankenstein family secrets. It left him quite understandably twisted.Karloff is putting up with a movie company who is shooting on his castle grounds, no doubt shooting a film like Frankenstein 1970, a low budget thriller. The money they're paying him however is paying for an atomic reactor, something his ancestor didn't have, maybe that's the missing ingredient.Of course the bodies start falling, four of them to be precise as Karloff searches for what he needs to revive the Frankenstein monster which he has found and preserved.Boris Karloff and his contemporary Bela Lugosi did both great horror films and a lot of junk. Frankenstein 1970 sad to say falls in the latter category.