Lust for Frankenstein (1998)

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

Don't listen to the negative reviews

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Is a Jess Franco movie. Also, you can find here some actress who are icons in their field. But the mix is so poor, that you want to run outside your house. Franco is giving a chance to his experiment with lights and textures. Is not bad the idea. I know that when you have a low budget, you must to use your imagination. But the artistic experiment fails in the poorest script that I never see, and the actress try to show something that not exist. Lina Romay excellent in her rol. But even here, she is dealing with her husband who make me remember David Lynch (remember the movie when he destroyed his real life wife, Isabella Rossellini). I want to see something nice from Franco. In the next two years I want to fulfill my desire.

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* I rented "Lust for Frankenstein" because I saw that Michelle Bauer was in it. I'm not the biggest Jess Franco fan in the world but I figured Bauer could save the day as she usually does. I also saw that Lina Romay was going to play the mad scientist. Romay and Franco doing a movie together usually means that sex and sleaze will be the order of the day. So it was with high hopes that I rented this flick.It takes a brave man to film Lina Romay having sex these days. It takes an even braver man to watch it. Romay gets the hots for Bauer and they go at it. I felt really dirty and confused watching this scene. Part of me was loving it, (the Bauer side), and part of me was baffled, (Romay…Why?). Some older women still have their looks and watching them get down and dirty can be a huge turn-on. Watching Lina Romay, with her double-wide hips and crew cut, smother Michelle Bauer was not what good times are made of. Bauer still has the body but Romay needs to step aside. She had a good run at being a sex star but it's time to stop.As for the rest of the movie, Franco was up to his usual incoherent ways. Romay gets naked with some other people and Bauer gets jealous. It's all jumbled nonsense with a good helping of nudity. Even if you're a Bauer fan, this one will really test you. You'd be better off letting this one go.

While plump untalented "critics" with a personal ax to grind might rail out against Jess Franco from their sofa beds, intelligent viewers with open minds will understand that Michelle Bauer, as the Frankenstein monster, is not supposed to playing the prom queen. She's the monster and she's darned good in the role too! Director Franco twists the Shelley tale into something unrecognizable yet oddly compelling. Lina Romay, who plays the plain and unattractive daughter of Frankenstein, gets her revenge on the world by manipulating the Bauer monster into killing her father's enemies as well as a few of her own. At the same time, she allows the monster to go on a killing spree so as to extract lifeforces from her victims to prolong the monster's vitality. It's all utter nonsense but it's done with the typical depravity of Jess Franco and that makes it all worthwhile when the day is done.

This film (and I use the term in the loosest way possible) is a piece of garbage from start to merciful ending. It is bad in every way that a film can be bad. It is poorly shot, the sound quality is poor (you can barely make out what most of the actors are saying) and the plot is made up as it goes along. I would`nt even recommend this piece of trash to Michelle Bauer fans. Even people who enjoy watching BAD movies would be hard pressed to get any kind of enjoyment out of this film. Don`t wast your time.