Tag: Charlotte Austin

• Androids Future technology Futurism Mad scientist Monsters The New Man

  

  Frankenstein 1970

  Boris Karloff stars as Dr. Frankenstein in this 1958 low-budget production about a TV crew getting killed off in an old castle. Despite the title, there is nothing futuristic about this tedious but mildly entertaining adaptation. 4/10

  November 13, 2024
• Immortality Mad scientist Monsters Resurrection/Prolonged life The New Man Zombies

  

  The Man Who Turned to Stone

  Mad scientists run a women’s prison and kill the inmates in order to prolong their own lives in Columbia’s 1957 genre mashup. Bernard Gordon’s script has interesting ideas, but falls back on dated horror tropes. 5/10.

  September 13, 2023
• Rejuvenation The New Man

  

  Monkey Business

  Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe shine in this nutty 1952 screwball comedy where a nutty professor’s chimp invents a rejuvenation serum, with hilarious results. Howard Hawks’ direction overcomes the thin script. 7/10

  October 31, 2020