The Rites of Frankenstein
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Actor: Anne Libert, Howard Vernon, Jesus FrancoBrand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-09
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Rites of Frankenstein
Movie Review: Franco's Most Effective Film
Summary: 4 Stars
For the uninitiated, Franco is very definitely an acquired taste, and his work is wildly uneven. At their worst, his films are wretched and virtually unwatchable. At their best, they're quite effective in evoking a claustrophobic, hallucinatory mood of menace and horror. This is probably my favorite of his numerous cinematic "atrocities" (although I like "Vampyros Lesbos" almost as well). Absurd, nonsensical, senseless, full of beautiful women and mindless violence and horny monsters...it's all these things and more. Some of its more hauntingly exotic imagery includes Anne Libert as Melissa, a blind bird woman with long talons, feathers, and a taste for human blood. It may sound silly to some, but I found it quite disturbing listening to her shrill bird sounds as she slowly and torturously drained the blood of a bound human victim. Dennis Price is alternately idiotic and terrifying as the constantly-revived Dr. Frankenstein. The whole experience is sort of a low-budget combination of cheesy horror film and LSD-trip. As I've said, this will not be everybody's cup of tea. But for those willing to try something different, even a little twisted and cracked, it may be exactly what the doctor (Dr. Frankenstein, that is) ordered.
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