Boris Karloff returned to the Frankenstein story in this independently made picture set in the then-future..
Karloff plays the last Baron Frankenstein whose mind and body have been broken by a spell in Belsen. He rents the family castle out to a TV crew to raise money for a nuclear reactor in his basement that will allow him to carry on the family tradition. He then uses his unlikable and conveniently slow on the uptake guests as a source of parts for his revived monster.
For all its cynicism and meta-jokes, the film actually seems old-fashioned rather than futuristic and the monster looks absolutely ridiculous. Karloff turns in an uncharacteristically hammy performance suggesting he realised he'd signed up to a turkey.
Jana Lund ( as Carolyn Hayes )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
In her short career Jana was better known for teen flicks rather than horror. She does have the distinction of giving Elvis his first screen kiss in 1957's Loving You. She died in 1991 aged 57.
Charlotte Austin ( as Judy Stevens )
Sex : Great cleavage in her night-dress
Death : Killed by either the monster or the baron; the film is very squeamish and doesn't show the actual killings
Charlotte is the daughter of popular crooner Gene Austin. She was also in Ed Wood's The Bride and the Beast which was probably enough to kill off her career. After retiring in the mid-sixties, she became a dealer in antique furniture in Pasadena. She is now 83.
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