Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)

Touches You

People are voting emotionally.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I was interested in watching this movie because I heard it was the worst Frankenstein movie ever made. I haven't really seen THAT many Frankenstein movies, but this is certainly the worst. This made me sad with how Team Rocket weren't in this. They're probably more recognizable than the actual Jesse James nowadays. The weirdest thing is that Frankenstein's (the scientist) daughter doesn't even appear in this. She's referred to as his granddaughter. She's here with her brother, Rudolf. I really don't know why Rudolf looks twenty years older than her. Then again, the Frankenstein family probably did do some weird things sexual wise. This movie mostly suffers from being really boring.I guess the leading actor is giving it all he's got. He can't save this pointless movie. Maria Frankenstein claims that her brother has been poisoning the people they experimented on. What? He was supposed to be the ethical of the two. So he's just going around killing people? It's mentioned that they killed three children. He'd rather do that than see his sister's experiments come alive? There's a subplot at the beginning with a gang known was the Wild Bunch which is mostly pointless and adds nothing to the film. The voices are pretty annoying in this too. Neither Victor Frankenstein nor Frankenstein's monster appear in this, so it's pretty worthless. The experiment is referred to as "Igor" even though that wasn't the name of Frankenstein's Monster and it is a completely different character. *1/2

And Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter is quite awful, though not quite so much as the title suggests.Many younger viewers have tried to figured out why anyone would want to produce a picture so bad. Well, back in the days before women were easy, a wicked, licentious teenage guy would take his girl friend to see Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter at a drive-in theater and spend the entire 88-minute running time attempting without success to get the virtuous lass's girdle off. Nobody paid much attention to the movie, because he was too busy exercising his crude version of charm, and she was too busy fending it off. In case suspicious parents asked what the movie was about, the naughty kids wouldn't have to get any farther than the title to make mommy and daddy decide they didn't really want to know. Simple, huh?Why any allegedly mature adult, such as yours truly, would by a DVD copy of such a movie at this late date beggars comprehension. Not a good Western, not a good horror movie. One of this dud's few saving graces was the performance of Narda Onyx as Maria Frankenstein, said descendant of the old monster-maker. The sexy, middle aged actress of Estonian origin plays the villainous countess with grand, over-ripe exuberance, sort of like a female version of Vincent Price. She almost makes watching this turkey worthwhile. But not quite.This picture is only for the following types: 1) fans of John Lupton, of which, astonishingly, there seem to be a few. 2) those with more money than common sense, with whom yours truly apparently may be grouped. 3) rock-hard desperate insomniacs.Others should avoid Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter as they would getting behind an old dame with a fist-full of coupons in a check-out line.

Thought dead, Jesse James joins the Wild Bunch (!) for a stagecoach robbery. Double crossed, he escapes an ambush and takes his wounded partner Hank (Harry?) Tracy to the house of Frankenstein's granddaughter for treatment. She instead plans on turning the hulking Tracy into the newest Frankenstein monster.Not for all tastes, this is actually pretty good if you catch it in the right mood and if you have a sense of humor.Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter is neither the best Jesse James nor Frankenstein movies ever made. However, it's a lot of kookie fun. Also, it's slightly better than the infamous companion film Billy The Kid Versus Dracula.Under the supervision of of veteran director William Beaudine, this is a pretty even mixture of the old poverty row western and horror films, slathered in a thick coat of 1960's color and shot in widescreen.Giving credit where credit is due - unlike many other Jesse James flicks, this one actually cast an actor that looks like James!

I was looking for zombie films and came across this. I couldn't resist the title. A film from a director that gave us such classics as Billy the Kid versus Dracula and Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla. I can't wait to see those.The sound on my copy was terrible. Lips moved out of conjunction with words, and sometimes it sounded as if a woman was speaking when it was a man. When the sound got better, it was out of sync with the picture by several minutes. Terrible, but I suffered through it for art's sake.Jesse's (John Lupton) friend (Cal Bolder) gets shot and he is searching for a doctor, while running from the Marshall (Jim Davis). Guess who he finds? What it's the granddaughter of Dr. Frankenstein (Narda Onyx).Also stars Cuban-born spitfire Estelita Rodriguez as Juanita. She dies mysteriously a month before the film was released. She and Maria Frankenstein are both after Jesse's affections.After sending Jesse on a wild goose chase, Maria kills his friend and turns him into Igor (the zombie part).A sad ending for a truly horribly funny picture.