Frankenstein Meets a Space Monster Do you have a phone?
- Beer, yes.
- No, no. Phone (gesticulating). Hello, hello! El telephoto!
The film tells a strange and at the same time extremely interesting story: aliens leave their home planet after a nuclear explosion that claimed the lives of all local females, and in order to restore the population – landed on Earth. It's in the '60s, bikini, all the chores, all the females, just have time to load. As part of the aliens: a bald troll, a woman ("Cleopatra from Pluto — version in three x), several astronauts and a space monster.
In parallel, another storyline develops – earthlings send a humanoid robot to Mars, which is the “Frankenstein monster” (a couple of scientists call him Frank). The mission gets out of control when aliens shoot down a human rocket, Frank lands in the desert - and after getting out of the wreckage of the ship begins to kill local residents.
One hundred percent thrashachina, half of which are written off and thrown away archival footage from the life of the American army. Whether these chroniclers knew that Robert Gaffney would become movie stars was a question. How to shoot this in full seriousness is another question.
There is “Equinox”, which now almost goes for the classics – well, what is fundamentally “Frankenstein meets a monster” worse? That's the third question. It doesn't matter.
One thing matters. In the middle of the film, a girl and a scientist get on a motorcycle and a completely magical episode follows. To the song "The Distant Cousins - To Have And To Hold" the characters go around the town - damn unexpectedly, as if a young Marty Scorsese came to the site and told Robert Gaffney to go smoke while he was here shooting a little. I don't know why Tarantino didn't drag that scene into his "Fiction." No, really. Bruce on the bike, "Zedd is dead, baby," hits The Distant Cousins - To Have And To Hold (now you have to turn it on to feel the full chime of the moment) and go such - happy-happy, like the fools in the finale of "Amelie".
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Beauty ends and we keep watching thrashak from a director who is not Eddie Wood. Cold War hysteria (even von Castro is mentioned), musical themes as in "The Man of A.N.C.L." - only the signature editing mint... Aliens abduct girls, they do not resist at all, go in the caravan “what will, what captivity” (the squad of Sukhov and Petrukha, pancake). Then it's like "action," and then they're like, "fights" -- monsters with Frankenstein. It must have lasted a minute. Well, the name worked out, at least so.
Then I kind of relax and ... again the magic. No, you know, using the same cool scene twice is forbidden. It's a touchdown. 6 out of 10, short.
ps. The film is for those who know that “The Hidden Horror” is about a director who wanted to change the world for the better, but drowned the recording equipment and everything flew to FIGS. And how to scold a movie from Futurama Productions – I don’t know.