Review – Frankenstein Reborn

Audience re-bored. Funny how they can take a classic story, update it for the 21st century, toss in a load of gore and boob shots, and come out with something vastly inferior to the original. Of course part of the problem with both the Whale version and this stinker is that they’re plagued with technical problems. Back in the 30s that could be excused; in the early days of sound, nobody was exactly sure what they were doing. Now, however, folks really ought to know better than to pepper the soundtrack with noises so annoying that they send the home audience scrambling for the mute button. And the tank of green fluid the good doctor uses to reanimate corpses? It looks like they stole it from the set of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The overall result is yet another haphazardly-produced parade of misogynist violence. Snore. Wish I’d skipped it