Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Frankenstein Conquers the World (1964)

How bad is it? It's one of the odder Japanese monster movies.
Should you see it? Yes, preferably while binge watching bad Godzilla films.

The heart of the Frankenstein monster is sent by Nazis to Japan, where it gets irradiated by the Hiroshima blast and then later gets eaten by a boy - because, apparently, that's what happens to radioactive century-old undead monster hearts. This causes the boy to grow to 30 feet tall and get covered with hair, grow buck teeth and get a thick brow. It also makes him a hero who fights monsters, like the dinosaur Barugon (and apparently a couple of others that were cut from the American release).

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