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Frankenstein all'Italiana

Frankenstein all'Italiana (1975) Movie Poster
  •  Italy  •    •  95m  •    •  Directed by: Armando Crispino.  •  Starring: Gianrico Tedeschi, Aldo Maccione, Jenny Tamburi, Lorenza Guerrieri, Anna Mazzamauro, Ninetto Davoli, Aldo Valletti, Alessandra Vazzoler, Alvaro Vitali, Alessandro Tedeschi.  •  Music by: Stelvio Cipriani.
      Italian sexploitation at its worst, this cheap, lurid horror-comedy features Gianrico Tedeschi as the lecherous Dr. Frankenstein, whose equally randy (and considerably well-endowed) monster manages to intrude sexually on his creator's private life by engaging in an assortment of lewd acts with his wife, his laboratory assistant, and their female servants. The jealous doctor eventually takes matters in hand.

Review:

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If you wonder why 1970's Italian movies have such a cult appeal today, consider this: where else or when else in cinema history would anyone have produced almost an entire cycle of Frankenstein sexploitation movies? Some credit this bizarro cycle to Americans Andy Warhol and Paul Morrisey's "Flesh for Frankenstein" (which was itself an Italian co-production), but it actually started several years earlier with "Lady Frankenstein" and would also include "Frankenstein '80", "Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks" and this film. This is probably the most obscure of these films (and is currently unavailable in English). It doesn't have Andy Warhol's name attached to it, or feature a legendary Italian exploitation starlet like Rosalba NeriSarah Bay a la "Lady Frankenstein". It is not as deranged and unintentionally hilarious as "Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks" or as tasteless and politically incorrect as "Frankenstein '80" (with its infamous Frankenstein-rape angle). This is actually a straight-out comedy, no doubt greatly inspired by Mel Brook's "Young Frankenstein", but of course with a lot more sex and gratuitous nudity.

And speaking of gratuitous nudity, the most recognizable star in this movie is the late Italian actress Jenny Tamburi who brightened up a number of 1970's Italian exploitation films, including an appearance with Rosalba "Tanya Frankenstein" Neri in the incredibly sexy giallo "Smile Before Death". I would definitely recommend this for Jenny Tamburi completists (she has a nice long topless scene, and pretty funny sex scene with the monster), but I may be the only one of those out there. I would also recommend this for Frankenstein sexploitation completists and for Italian sex comedy completists (that might put me up to about half dozen people). As for anybody else--well, if you just want to see something COMPLETELY different...


Review by lazarillo from Denver, Colorado and Santiago, Chile from the Internet Movie Database.