Purely Joyful Movie!

good back-story, and good acting

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Legendary outlaw of the Old West Jesse James, on the run from Marshal MacPhee, hides out in the castle of Baron Frankenstein's granddaughter Maria, who proceeds to transform Jesse's slow-witted pal Hank into a bald zombie, which she names Igor.Believe it or not, the guy who plays Jesse James in this flick has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Very low budget. Some of looks like it was filmed in a room with cardboard walls!It's a weird movie that has a cult following. But the premise is absurd. A dungeon in the middle of the dessert complete with all kinds of lab equipment and a brain in 120 degree heat and no air conditioning!If you can get past that you might like it. I didn't much.

And Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter is quite awful, though not quite so much as the title suggests.Many younger viewers have tried to figured out why anyone would want to produce a picture so bad. Well, back in the days before women were easy, a wicked, licentious teenage guy would take his girl friend to see Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter at a drive-in theater and spend the entire 88-minute running time attempting without success to get the virtuous lass's girdle off. Nobody paid much attention to the movie, because he was too busy exercising his crude version of charm, and she was too busy fending it off. In case suspicious parents asked what the movie was about, the naughty kids wouldn't have to get any farther than the title to make mommy and daddy decide they didn't really want to know. Simple, huh?Why any allegedly mature adult, such as yours truly, would by a DVD copy of such a movie at this late date beggars comprehension. Not a good Western, not a good horror movie. One of this dud's few saving graces was the performance of Narda Onyx as Maria Frankenstein, said descendant of the old monster-maker. The sexy, middle aged actress of Estonian origin plays the villainous countess with grand, over-ripe exuberance, sort of like a female version of Vincent Price. She almost makes watching this turkey worthwhile. But not quite.This picture is only for the following types: 1) fans of John Lupton, of which, astonishingly, there seem to be a few. 2) those with more money than common sense, with whom yours truly apparently may be grouped. 3) rock-hard desperate insomniacs.Others should avoid Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter as they would getting behind an old dame with a fist-full of coupons in a check-out line.

Loved the title - didn't think much of the film.This snore-fest starts out with the Frankenstein family living in a house in a matte-painting carrying out experiments on the local populace. Maria Frankenstein needs a bigger, 'giant' specimen, which is unlucky for Jesses James' mate Hank, as he is both giant, and has a large vacant slot where his brain should be. This sounds like a great set-up, and it is...but after about twenty minutes the film settles in front of the telly with a cup of tea and does nothing until the last ten minutes.Unless something happened during my mid-film coma as I'm prone to having, there's just a lot of riding around on horses, double-crossing, and Hank looking ridiculous as the monster. Could someone tell me how he retains his memory if his entire brain has been replaced? Makes no sense, and neither does the genealogy of the Frankenstein family, nor Juanita's family's whereabouts, as they disappear from the film halfway through.Give this one a miss - it's not even got much in the way of camp value or laughs.

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966) BOMB (out of 4) An incredibly bland and boring mix of western and horror as Jesse James ends up staying at the house of Frankenstein's granddaughter. William Beaudine directed these types of "B" movies throughout his career so it's rather shocking at how badly this one turned out. That same year Beaudine made a double-feature for this film in Billy the Kid vs. Dracula, which is so much better. I've always enjoyed the director's "B" films but this one here isn't entertaining on any level. The lead performances are all terrible, the story weak and the monster is also very poorly done. The story centers on Frankenstein's granddaughter wanting a "strong man" to experiment on but shouldn't she have known that Jesse wouldn't be okay with it? Perhaps she should have went after someone a tad bit dumber. The two genres have been mixed around six or seven times and this one here is certainly the worse (yes worse than Teenage Monster).