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Simply Atrocious (2008-07-15)  Roger Corman's first film as director in twenty years, this adaptation of Brian Aldiss' story is a complete treason of one of the best science-fiction novel ever. The plot, the actors, the special-effects, everything in this cheap movie is simply wrong. Don't waste your money on that DVD. I'm a lifetime admirer of the book and when I saw that $#%?&& on the silver screen, i almost drop dead. If you want to know this fantastic story, buy the book instead. You wont regret, I assure you.For the movie, the only reason I would watch it again is if it could save lives.
A unique take on the Frankenstein story (3.5/5) (2007-11-10)  i just watched Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound.i had noexpectations going in so i was pleasantly surprised.this is actually avery entertaining movie,with good performances across the board.iespecially liked the monster.i thought it was very realistic and couldsee how it would inspire fear in people.the special effects were notthe greatest,but i have seen much worse.besides,they did not take awayfrom the story.i also liked the plot.a scientist from the year 2031transported through time to the day of doctor Frankenstein. i thoughtthat was a unique twist on the story.i have also seen the dreadful MaryShelly's Frankenstein starring Kenneth Branau as Doctor Frankenstein(Ibelieve he also directed the film)and Robert Deniro in a castingblunder as the monster.this movie came out some years later,but itstill pales in comparison to Frankenstein Unbound.the one complaint ido have about this film is the way it ended.they had the opportunity totie things up,and they didn't.this is a minor complaint however.thismovie is definitely worth at least a rental. 3.5/5
Yes, you can get too cerebral in a Frankenstein movie (2003-04-16)  The title of "Frankenstein Unbound" is an allusion to the Greek tragedy "Prometheus Unbound" by Aeschylus, which makes sense since the subtitle of Mary Shelley's novel was "The Modern Prometheus." Now, in terms of understanding the novel "Frankenstein" the most important thing to understand is that Dr. Frankenstein's crime is not in creating the creature, but rather in abandoning it after it comes to life. "Frankenstein Unbound" takes the counter-position and does so in a rather convoluted manner. The idea here is that the story of Frankenstein is both a real story and a novel. That story is based on the novel of the same name by Brian Aldiss with the screenplay by F.X. Feeney and director Roger Corman. John Hurt plays Dr. Joe Buchanan, a scientist in the year 2031 who is working on a new secret weapon for the government that dispatches the enemy by sending them into another time. Buchanan ends up being randomly dispatched by his machine and going back 200 years to find himself in the part of Shelley's novel where the younger brother of Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Raul Julia) has been killed by the creature (Nick Brimble); I know he is called the monster, but since I always consider the doctor to be the true monster so on principle I always call the creature "the creature." However, an innocent girl, Justine Moritz (Catherine Corman), is being blamed for the murder and the locals are going to execute her as a witch. Buchanan also runs into Mary Wollstoncraft Godwin (Bridget Fonda), the future Mrs. Shelley, and gets her to help in a futile effort to save the girl. Lord Byron (Jason Patric) and Percy Shelley (Michael Hutchence) show up as well, but there is little time to discuss 19th-century English poetry since the creature is out there ready to kill again. Then it dawns on Buchanan that the technology that sent him back to 1831 might be of some use in writing the wrongs (at which point every Frankenstein movie ever made will cease to exist). The greatest sin of this 1990 film is that it almost works. The ideas are provocative enough and the cast is too good for "Frankenstein Unbound" to descend to the level of camp. Certainly Corman is trying to make something more pretentious than his nominal fare. But at the end of all this that a lot more is being unbound than Frankenstein pretty much blows your mind. We understand that Doctors Buchanan and Frankenstein are mirrors of each other, and that sooner or later the former will recognize himself in the latter. But the intentional use of anachronisms is glaring rather than creative, the creature's make up suggests Frankenstein needs to work on his sewing technique, and there are enough Cormanisms throughout this film to belie the fact that for the first time in his career he had a decent budget. This is not a Frankenstein film that anyone would want to randomly pick up. At the very least you need to have read the original novel to at least be able to appreciate what Corman (and Aldiss) were trying to accomplish here.
The terror never ends (2003-03-10) From the get go, this movie is one of the worst I've seen so far. The fact that the actors have actual talent really makes me wish I liked it, but alas...the terrible special effects, poor plot design, and lousy period costumes and scenes really made me want to turn it off. You can't UNsee a movie, so lets just hope there are better options out there.
Thumbs up! (2002-10-20)  After 19 years of absence, legendary director Roger Corman returns to direct "Franenstein Unbound". This version is based on Brian Aldiss' novel. It's quite different from the other classic approaches. The idea is about a man (John Hurt) who lives in the future 2031 & moves back in time (19th Century) and meets an earlier scientist Frankenstein (Raul Julia). Frankenstein has created a Monster who has already killed his 6-year-old brother and is now threatening the entire city... It's wonderful how they blended the life of Mary Shelley - the young woman who will later write the novel FRANKENSTEIN!
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