Badmovies.org Forum

Well this was a bit of a disappointment.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvxBPVJ7Qv0#)

From the DVD cover:
Dr Victor Frankenstein and Egyptologist Nahila Khalil are both professors at a leading medical university.  Victor's latest grisly "experiment" is the re-animated corpse of a sadistic madman and Naihla's most recent find is the cursed mummy of an evil pharaoh. When the two monsters face-off in an epic showdown, no one is safe from the slaughter.  Can the murderous rampage be stopped and the carnage contained before its too late?


First off, that epic showdown doesn't really happen.  The two undead fight at the end for sure, but its not that exciting of a fight.  Neither was aware of the other until the very end and even then its a lot of posturing, close up shots, and just wild swings at each other.  Granted, I'm not expecting either of these guys to be great martial artists or anything, but it really didn't have a lot of visually interesting aspects.  And it was over way too quick.

There's a scene in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen where Mina Harker and Dorian Gray fight, but because of their respective immortality, they realize the fight is not going to be an easy one.  The fight needed a moment like that.

Really most of the movie is them setting up these versions of Frankenstein and the mummy.  A new monster needs to be created and a new mummy needs to be unearthed.

I did like that neither monster was necessarily the "hero" or played for any real  sympathy.  One was played more vile then the other, but it still supposed to be two forces of evil battling each other. 

A few nice gore effects, plenty of practical effects, and few decent make up jobs, but other then a few minor points, nothing really much saved this movie for me. 

 

Looking at the trailer, it does look like a more or less like a competent piece of filmmaking. Though, there were a couple of things in the trailer that took me by surprise.

1st. The Egyptologist is a woman. Woman + man, as in Victor Frankenstein. It does have that going for it.

2nd. It is not a period piece as I expected, but . . .?! apparently set in the modern day. I presume to save money.

And one more thing. Knowing that Abbott and Costello met both Frankenstein, or, at least, Frankenstein's Monster and the Mummy in the films they made. I wonder what they could have done with something like this. "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and the Mummy."