Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Michael_Elliott Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1974) ** (out of 4)This Italian producer has Count Frankenstein (Rossano Brazzi) doing experiments on a missing link that was discovered in his village. While all of this is going on, his former assistant, a dwarf (Michael Dunn), is out with another menacing giant and the two are terrorizing local women.Of the various monster movies to come out of Italy, this one here has one of the strongest followings, which is probably due to the rather catchy title as well as some memorable and campy moments dealing with some wild things. The title certainly isn't misleading as there are a large amount of freaks on display here and we've given bizarre monsters, a raping dwarf, naked ladies and even a hot spring that sets up those naked ladies.Is this a good movie? Well, it's actually better than you might think, at least in a technical way. It's obviously working with a low- budget but the cinematography is quite good and it at least looks like a professional movie. The story itself is pretty wild and far-fetched but it's so goofy that you can't help but be slightly entertained. I mean, we've got killer dwarfs, a missing link and other freaks that perfectly live up to the title we're given.There's not too much violence or gore but we do get some nudity, which is never a bad thing in a movie like this. The most memorable sequence is probably when the dwarf sexually attacks a woman. It's not graphic but it's just different to say the least. There's also a rather funny sequence where the missing link is attacked by the villagers. Did I already mention the hot spring where the two beautiful ladies go for a swim?FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE OF FREAKS is a bad movie but at the same time it contains enough entertainment value to make it worth watching. It's certainly not going to be mistaken for the work of James Whale but for an exploitation movie it's not too bad.

artpf When I was 11 or 12, I remember liking these kind of films late at night on TV, but time has moved on and so has film-making tastes.I find it very hard to watch these poorly directed poorly dubbed movies any longer.Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value, and you have the plot.In other words, there IS no plot!The film is typical 70's shlock Italian horror. Old dark castle, lot's of zooming to eliminate the need for an actual production crew with multiple camera set ups, and really bad dubbing that over shadows the bad acting!This mix makes for one smelly cocktail. Unless you're 10 or 11, then you may very well love it.

ferbs54 It really is something, what some erstwhile big-name actors will do to continue plying their craft and collect some lira! Case in point, the 1974 horror shlockfest "Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks," starring two such former matinée stars, here slumming for a paycheck. In the film, Rossano Brazzi, who had earlier starred in such wonderful pictures as "The Barefoot Contessa," "Summertime" and "South Pacific," plays Count Frankenstein (not the usual Baron; is this a promotion or a demotion? Someone, please check the comparative rankings of 19th century German nobility and find out!). When we first encounter him, the Count has just brought back to life a recently murdered Neanderthal (!) using the brain of a local village girl. When the Count evicts his dwarf servant Genz from the castle for some minor infractions, the little person marches off into the hills and finds a caveman of his own, who he christens Ook, and who he decides to use to take vengeance upon the Count, leading to a true clash of the titans: a living Neanderthal vs. a Neanderthal Frankenstein (who resembles nothing less than The Three Stooges' Larry Fine on steroids!). Fortunately, Genz is portrayed by perhaps the most revered little-person actor in screen history, Michael Dunn, himself demoted here after having appeared in such career-defining roles as the (Oscar-nominated) observer in "Ship of Fools" and Alexander in the 11/22/68 episode of "Star Trek," "Plato's Stepchildren." Anyway, while no one in his or her right mind would ever call the resulting production a "good film," and while it is easy enough to make fun of derivative exploitation fare such as this, "Castle of Freaks" yet manages to keep the viewer slack jawed and entertained. It features an oddball assortment of grotesque characters (the three aforementioned, plus a lusty hunchback) and occasional (what Radar O'Reilly would call) nudidity, courtesy of the Count's daughter (Simone Blondell) and friend Krista (who joins the Count in his studies, and is played by the yummy Christiane Royce) going skinny-dipping in Ook's cavern. The production values in the film are surprisingly decent, the Count's castle having a convincingly moldering elegance; the direction by "Robert H. Oliver" (in actuality, exploitation producer Dick Randall) is...well, let's just say that he gets the job done; and the musical score by Marcello Gigante, largely electronic, is truly outre. In all, a surprisingly engaging piece of Euroshlock. Oh...the DVD that I just watched, from Shout Factory, looks fairly damaged in sections but at least sports some nice bright colors. My psychotronic guru, Rob, tells me that the Something Weird DVD looks a whole lot better....

Boba_Fett1138 It's Italian, it's horror...but it's not very good. The movie is cheap looking and the story is just terrible. For an horror movie it certainly isn't original and the movie is severely lacking on multiple levels.Perhaps the biggest problem with the movie is that it doesn't have a real main characters. Who exactly was supposed the hero in this one? And who exactly were the good and bad guys? It makes the movie confusing and messy to watch. It also is terribly boring all, since rarely ever something interesting happens.The movie is filled with nudity and voyeurism. The movie is basically about the servants peeping on naked women and the movie doesn't focuses enough on the horror aspects of the movie.The musical score by Marcello Gigante is just plain awful and truly laughable at times.Both the editing and cinematography are also severely lacking. The movie is incredibly simple and cheap made and its horrible put together with the editing. The cinematography looks very amateur like and it seemed that they didn't used proper lighting or a focus-puller.This Italian take on the Frankenstein franchise, in which for some odd reason also Neanderthalers are involved, is a terrible one, in which basically nothing interesting ever happens.2/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/