FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER

     The two most important parts of an exploitation movie are the title and the poster. The film it self is not important since by the time you are sitting in the theater watching a piece of junk with a great title and poster they already have your money at the box office and at the snack bar.
     FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER  (1965) is one of those films that have a title that make people want to see it. I doubt if the film would have been remembered under it's UK title of DUEL OF THE SPACE MONSTERS even tho it is a much more classy title.
     The screen writers for this movie claimed it was written as a comedy. One of them said he saw the film in a theater and they ran the reels out of order and no one really noticed.
     Maybe the director did not know he was making a comedy. That would be for the best since the best film camp is done when played straight. the film THE GIANT CLAW is one of the greatest camp sci fi films because the cast did not see the awful giant bird special effects till after the film was released. They would have not been able to play it straight if they saw the incredibly silly looking giant bird prop.
     Frankenstein in this movie is an humanoid robot who is shot in the face by a space man with a ray gun. The actor playing the now out of control robot spends the rest of the film with one side of his face made up as burned off.
    The space monster is a man in a hairy ape like suit with claws and a skull like mask. This would be one of the last of the 1950's style man in a suit monsters.

(Note: Screen capture is from the public domain trailer for the movie)