Review: Tales of Frankenstein
By William Pattison
Well, this week I only got one film, it’s a retro film that are adaptations of an
anthology book on Frankenstein.
Tales of Frankenstein (2018)
Donald F. Glut
Based upon four of writer-director Donald F. Glut's short
stories published in his book TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN: "My Creation, My
Beloved" (a deformed descendant of Victor Frankenstein creates the perfect
man and woman), "Crawler from the Grave" (another Frankenstein
descendant's disembodied, plague-infected arm returns from the grave for
revenge), "Madhouse of Death" (a private detective winds up in an old
dark house filled with loonies...and a gorilla) and "Dr. Karnstein's
Creation" (a mad doctor creates a monster in vampire-haunted Transylvania
- with gruesomely unexpected results)…
This film is a wonderful retro style film that has the
feeling of the classic Universal films. The acting, sets, and costuming is spot
on. The only issue that I have is it was shot in color. So, instead of looking
classic gothic it ends up feeling more like a 60s film trying to look gothic.
It’s really sad because the stories are wonderful.
My two favorite ones are the detective story and the curse story about a cursed
ring and Dr. frankenstein’s arm. It’s
not saying that the love story or the story that included vampires
weren’t good. They just weren’t as good, which is on par with most anthology
films.
So you can be assured that this film has my seal of approval and thus it is RETROTACULAR!!!
