46) Frankenstein '80 (1972)

The serum!

Director
Mario Mancini

Cast
Gordon Mitchell - Dr. Otto Frankenstein
John Richardson - Karl Schein
Xiro Papas - Mosaico - Frankenstein's monster
Renato Romano - Inspector Schneider

My efforts in depriving myself of sleep continue as I force myself to stay awake while making my way, movie by schlocky B-movie, through the Night Screams collection.
The next flick in the line-up takes me back to Italy. Not the nice, touristy part of Italy full of gorgeous historic culture. Rather, a strange, dark, annoyingly repetitive, and sexually exploitative part with a little known avenue called Frankenstein '80. 
Frankenstein '80 barely resembles the original movie with Boris Karloff. This one has a Dr. Otto Frankenstein create a monstrosity out of random body parts, and that's about all it has in common with the original story.
In the movie, Dr. Frankenstein is always in his lab during the day. At night, however, he's working on a creature he calls Mosaico that's pieced together with various body parts from cadavers.
The monster escapes and goes on a complete killing spree, attacking mostly helpless women (mainly prostitutes) and doing bad monster things.
Police are racing to capture the killer, who just keeps on killing. They search. He kills. They continue searching. He continues killing. They search more. He kills more. Search. Kill. Search. Kill. (SPOILER) They find him. He dies. The end. Frankenstein '80 is that cut and dry.
Each kill is gruesome, and some murders include nudity. I guess the producers had to throw in sex appeal of the worst kind into the mix so they could attract an audience. But the fact that this flick hardly went noticed in its home country upon its release in 1972 shows someone failed miserably.
Italian audiences know tasteless when they see it!
Dr, Frankenstein uses something called "Schwartz serum" to give his creation life. I'm fairly sure that's what it was called. That's what it sounded like to me. I thought that was funny. I guess one could now saw "the schwartz was with him!" #Spaceballs
The serum is really meant to keep the body from rejecting implants. It's stolen almost as soon as the movie begins.

Xiro Papas as Mosaico, the Frankenstein monster.

Another scene that was hilarious without meaning to be so was a struggle scene shot in a meat locker.
The monster makes his way into the walk-in freezer and attacks an unsuspecting woman inside.
After a few minutes of struggling, he takes a side of beef, or a shank or something, and beats her to death. Death by beef shank!
At another part of the movie, the scene fades out...and fades right back to the same scene. Bad editing, maybe?
To its credit, Frankenstein '80 does make an honest noteworthy attempt to be scary with all the sudden, various ways the monster attacks his unsuspecting victims.
Sadly, though, time isn't a friend to this movie. But that's not necessarily the movie's fault.
One thing still stands true. As I've mentioned before, Italian horror film makers really like blood and gore. This movie is no exception. It delivers in that regard. But the erotica is just plain unnecessary.
It makes the low budget movie much more cheaper than it already is.
This one isn't even a B-movie among B-movies. It's repetitive, boring, and unimaginative in its story line.
Despite that classic Italian gore, Frankenstein '80 is an easy pass. And just what the "80" stands for, I don't know?