Okay, it's actually William Bagdad playing John Carradine's Igor like servant, but he looks just like Lugosi did in both "Son of Frankenstein" and "Ghost of Frankenstein". That's just one silly element of this delightfully goofy sci-fi/horror movie that there are far too many Elvira/mystery science fever wisecracks to fit the film's over-length. Wendell Corey, who brought out the heat of both Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford in the early 1950's, tops his bland acting style there with a performance that covers 1% of human emotions. All eyes will be on Tura Satana, an exotic dancer and "actress", best known for "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill" who plays the cat eyed villainess who enjoys murder just as others enjoy a champagne cocktail, that is after she applies them with lit cigarette mascara. In close-ups with her excessive make-up, she actually resembles a young Divine!
Carradine is a hoot as a mad scientist in a lab that makes Lugosi's in "Bride of the Monster" look like something out of "Quincy". He's supposedly creating zombies out of the corpses that Satana provides him with, giving what little plot there is. Satana has two stereotypical henchmen (Rafael Campos and Vincent Barbi) who basically stand around in threatening poses until Satana orders them to get rid of her victims. while the film has many funny moments of a ridiculous nature, there are many moments that really go nowhere and make the film painfully slow with x. The art direction is rather ugly, and the special effects are poor. This is a type of film that is easier to watch on TV than in the cinema, because you can put it on pause, take a long hike to wake up and return to in order to complete. How did I get through this? A 20 minute nap half way through.
Carradine is a hoot as a mad scientist in a lab that makes Lugosi's in "Bride of the Monster" look like something out of "Quincy". He's supposedly creating zombies out of the corpses that Satana provides him with, giving what little plot there is. Satana has two stereotypical henchmen (Rafael Campos and Vincent Barbi) who basically stand around in threatening poses until Satana orders them to get rid of her victims. while the film has many funny moments of a ridiculous nature, there are many moments that really go nowhere and make the film painfully slow with x. The art direction is rather ugly, and the special effects are poor. This is a type of film that is easier to watch on TV than in the cinema, because you can put it on pause, take a long hike to wake up and return to in order to complete. How did I get through this? A 20 minute nap half way through.