Verdict
Summary
Kino Lorber has just released a restored Blu-ray edition of this one, and it comes in several different viewing options, including two 3D options (3D glasses are included), and a 2D version, plus a pair of new audio commentaries, a feature on the 3D restoration, an alternate opening title sequence, deleted scenes, a trailer, and a radio spot. For Naschy completists and just in time for the Halloween season, this one is a pretty fun one.
Plot:
A werewolf is tormented by a pair of vampires.
Review:
A traveling pair of gypsy entertainers are waylaid in a manor where they goof around, not realizing that they’ve stumbled into the lair of a cursed man named Waldemar Daninsky (Paul Naschy looking super fit and ripped). Waldemar is a werewolf! The gypsies have no idea the horror that awaits them, and they’re lucky to flee before Waldemar passes on his curse. Another couple shows up at his doorstep who think that they can help him. Well meaning, the new pair (who are occultists) are in over their head with Waldemar. They’ve never dealt with a curse such as his (and he’s pretty scary and bloodthirsty when he turns), and so they send for another couple from Eastern Europe – a Doctor and his wife (Julian Ugarte and Aurora de Alba) – who show up in all their prim finery. Right away this Doctor reveals himself to be a vampire, alongside his sex-crazed wife who is instantly drawn into the animal caged within Waldemar! They use witchcraft to torment Waldermar, but he proves himself to be even more powerful than they are when he finally submits to the transformation that he’s been trying to contain.
Shot and released in 3D, Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror has some added extra dimension here and there for the gimmick of 3D, but it’s the blood and the transformation sequences that really stand out rather than the movie throwing objects at you. It’s a pretty simple little monster movie, with Naschy doing his swarthy best to showcase his love of the classic style of horror he built a career around. It’s funny because there are no references to Frankenstein at all in the movie, and so the fact that it’s called Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror makes no sense at all. It should be called the Wolfman’s Bloody Terror, or even Dracula’s Bloody Terror. Directed by Enrique Lopez Eguiluz.
Kino Lorber has just released a restored Blu-ray edition of this one, and it comes in several different viewing options, including two 3D options (3D glasses are included), and a 2D version, plus a pair of new audio commentaries, a feature on the 3D restoration, an alternate opening title sequence, deleted scenes, a trailer, and a radio spot. For Naschy completists and just in time for the Halloween season, this one is a pretty fun one.
