I thought it might have been my imagination, but another reviewer on this board confirms what I thought I saw - as the story moves along, the scar on Boris Karloff's face gets progressively worse from scene to scene. Even after I had it figured out, his face still kept changing!
Well there's really only one reason to catch this flick and that's for the presence of the master, Boris Karloff himself. The story itself gets kind of schlocky and the supporting players, who don't come with a background in horror films per se, don't add a lot of tension or menace to the proceedings. There is however a smidgeon of that great pseudo-scientific babble of the Thirties and Forties offered up as part of Baron Victor von Frankenstein's operating procedure, utilizing an atomic reactor!!! to produce rebirth, along with the idea of fusing real and synthetic skin together. That's worth something to horror film fans like myself, always on the lookout for clever and unique ideas to enhance those lab experiments.
If you're going to complain about how hokey the feature creature in this picture looks, do keep one thing in mind. This was an opportunity for Karloff to parlay his reputation as the icon of Universal horror by bringing two of his creations to the screen, The Frankenstein Monster and the Mummy. I don't know if that was on the filmmakers' minds when they put this thing together, but that's what I got out of it. For Karloff fans, that has to be a good thing.
Well there's really only one reason to catch this flick and that's for the presence of the master, Boris Karloff himself. The story itself gets kind of schlocky and the supporting players, who don't come with a background in horror films per se, don't add a lot of tension or menace to the proceedings. There is however a smidgeon of that great pseudo-scientific babble of the Thirties and Forties offered up as part of Baron Victor von Frankenstein's operating procedure, utilizing an atomic reactor!!! to produce rebirth, along with the idea of fusing real and synthetic skin together. That's worth something to horror film fans like myself, always on the lookout for clever and unique ideas to enhance those lab experiments.
If you're going to complain about how hokey the feature creature in this picture looks, do keep one thing in mind. This was an opportunity for Karloff to parlay his reputation as the icon of Universal horror by bringing two of his creations to the screen, The Frankenstein Monster and the Mummy. I don't know if that was on the filmmakers' minds when they put this thing together, but that's what I got out of it. For Karloff fans, that has to be a good thing.