Frankenstein's Bloody Nightmare

The shadow of 1970s horror films hangs benevolently over John Hand's A-for-effort/D-for-execution super-8 rehash of the Frankenstein story, shot with virtually no direct sound and featuring more scenes of aimless driving and walking around than the legendary BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS (1961). The plot, to the degree it can be teased out from the trippy visuals, spacy synthesizer music and hard-to-hear dialogue, revolves around young Dr. Victor Karlstein's (Hand) efforts to rebuild his dead girlfriend, Victoria (Amy Olivastro), with the help of body parts acquired by a lumpy faced creature (Karl Borst). Victor is the third generation of the Karlstein family to preside over ...