CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

BA_Harrison There's so much eclectic z-grade nonsense going on in Frankenstein's Island, it's as though writer/director Jerry Warren took random scenes from half a dozen different scripts-all of them rubbish-and slapped them together with no concern for logic or narrative cohesion.The film starts with the search for four missing men, hot-air balloonists who got caught in a tornado. The men in question (and their dog Melvin) find themselves washed up on an island where they run into a tribe of beautiful young women (clad in skimpy leopard skin bikinis), who make the survivors welcome and feed them. Before long, the new arrivals run into another group of men who take them to the home of Sheila Frankenstein von Helsing (Katherine Victor) who is trying to prolong the life of her husband via strange experiments involving the spirit of the deceased Dr. Frankenstein (John Carradine collecting an easy paycheck), blood transfusions, a brain in a jar and a revolving metal lunch box. Meanwhile, Cameron Mitchell, as Captain Clay Jayson, languishes in a cell while quoting Edgar Allen Poe, and Sheila F.'s band of mindless zombie henchmen (dressed in black polo-necks, bell-bottoms, large sunglasses and beanie hats) abduct the jungle women (who turn out to be the descendants of an alien race!).So that's sexy alien babes, a mad scientist, a ghost (of sorts), and 'zombies'. As if this isn't enough, this cinematic turd also includes some inexplicable tosh about the men experiencing pain in their left arm if they mention place names (?!?!?!), sporadically shows us a mysterious person submerged in a bath, makes use of cheap plastic Halloween props (unconvincing skulls and a black and red pitchfork), features a really irritating drunken character in an eye-patch who laughs all the time, boasts some of the most inept screen fighting imaginable, sees the heroes find a handy large-calibre machine gun (which is never seen firing, 'cos that would require a budget), offers up plenty of terrible dialogue (Carradine's spectral head repeatedly spouts utter garbage about 'disciples of the golden thread', whatever that means), and closes by throwing in Frankenstein's monster for good measure. At the end you'll be left asking many questions, such as "Why the hell did the men need to build a raft out of driftwood when they had a perfectly good dinghy?", "Did that zombie fellow really just turn one of the girls into a vampire with his plastic pitchfork?" and "Where did everybody go at the end?".

dmanyc If you thought The Wild World of Batwoman was a bad movie, you haven't experienced Frankenstein Island. You have a Murder's Row of actors who have a tendency to star in bad movies. If you're a MSTie, you know these people. Cameron Mitchell, missing his glued-on beard and warrior muumuu (Space Mutiny). Tain Bodkin, still preaching (The Giant Spider Invasion). Katherine Victor, Batwoman herself without the nose mask but stealing one of Dolly Parton's wigs and not aging gracefully. Richard Banks no longer the Mexican Zorro Ratfink (The Wild World of Batwoman). And the big kahuna himself Steve Brodie (The Giant Spider Invasion AND The Wild World of Batwoman). Throw in John Carradine's floating head looking like Jeff Dunham's grumpy old man puppet Walter, Amazon women in leopard print bikinis, lots of hot air balloons in the opening credits, a 2,000 year old man getting what I think is blood transfusions to stay alive, zombies dressed like they're cat burglars, and the monster himself resurrecting...from a body of water inside a cave. As for the plot, I wish I could tell you. Not that I'm trying to not spoil things, I just can't remember what the heck this film was about. How sad is it that the only credible actor in the whole movie is Melvin the dog? Watch at your own peril.

ubik-11 It's finally on DVD and boy was it worth the wait! This is a real jaw-dropper. There is one amazing scene after another. The dialogue is simply surreal. It arrived in my mailbox last week and I've already watched it twice. Amazing. It just doesn't get any better than this.

ZEE-11 You have to admire Jerry Warren's zeal for bad movie making. This gem is soooo incredibly bad it is a masterpiece. Or should I say "messterpiece! Coming off a 15 year hiatus after he was sued for "The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman", Warren returned to filmdom with this offering. Words ,indeed, can not describe. A must see for any bad movie zealot.Be astounded and baffled all at the same time! Jerry Warren is truly one of THE kings of bad cinema.