'Flesh for Frankenstein' is a Depraved Nightmare

I have seen so many movie adaptations of Frankenstein throughout the years of my horror phase, but I think I have found the one that tops all of these films.

Flesh for Frankenstein is a sick and very graphic adaptation of this old creature story, and you will absolutely despise the doctor who creates the creature. He is a monster through and through, and the people around him are also just as evil, except for one man, who unfortunately gets pulled into this chaos.

We follow the story of Dr. Frankenstein, who is determined to create two zombies to make a family.

Dr. Frankenstein is introduced as a major piece of shit in the beginning of the film. He treats his assistant, Otto, like complete trash, his wife and children, (who happens to be his sister, yes, this film is that sick), he completely disregards when it comes to his work. He is so determined to make his dream a reality, and while he is happy with finding the perfect and beautiful female (he develops a very unhealthy and terrifying obsession with her), he is still struggling to find the perfect male.

He wants the male to find the female irresistible, so that they can quickly get started on having children. Dr. Frankenstein and Otto decide to venture into the town, to search for these a potential candidate, and they do find the one, but they end up choosing the wrong male.

Two other characters are introduced in the film, who are named Nicholas and Sacha. Nicholas convinces Sacha to go to a brothel with him, but Sacha only stays to watch uninterestingly as Nicholas enjoys the company there. Dr. Frankenstein believes that Sacha was the perfect one to pick, and the two of them murder him, by taking his head.

Nicholas is knocked out before his death, leaving him behind with his friend's body. When he awakes, he buries his friend, feeling remorse over his death, believing that he had gotten his friend killed.

Nicholas reunites with his friend when he is hired by Dr. Frankenstein's wife to work as a servant for the family.

Nicholas is hired by the wife to work in the castle, and he confides in her, telling her about the murder of his friend. The wife proceeds to ask him to spend quality time with her, as part of his servant job. While Nicholas is just trying to get by in his new job, he runs into his friend, who is now part of a completely different body, who has now awoken as the male zombie.

Dr. Frankenstein brought both the male and female to the dining table, as a sort of an odd way to introduce them to his family. Nicholas instantly recognizes his friend, and he tells the wife about this discovery, determined to break in the secret lab and save his friend.

Meanwhile, Dr. Frankenstein is struggling to have the male and female begin a family. Since Sacha wasn't ever interested in this sort of lifestyle, he refuses to participate in the mad doctor's experiments. Outraged, Dr. Frankenstein leaves the lab with Otto, angry that they had possibly chosen the wrong male. As the two men are both expressing their frustration over this, the doctor's two children are able to break into the lab, appearing to be quite interested in their father's work.

They run away when Otto comes back, to find their maid in the lab. He goes after her, and brutally murders her, tearing her apart. The doctor finds the mess that was left behind in the lab after the encounter, and Otto cleans up the mess. Nicholas later on attempts to save his friend, but due to the control Dr. Frankenstein has over his friend, he is captured by the family.

The wife arrives to the lab, now pissed off that Nicholas rejected her. She demands her husband to give up Sacha to her for a night, and he agrees, leaving me super uncomfortable when they call each other brother and sister...this film was so damn sick.

Chaos breaks out in the castle, leading to a crazy murder spree.

Sacha murders the wife when she attempts to sleep with him. Otto kills the female zombie in front of a tied-up Nicholas, and it leads to his own murder, at the hands of his master. Dr. Frankenstein runs into Sacha with the dead body of his sister, and he goes into a rage. He commands Sacha to kill Nicholas, but he goes against his orders, cutting off Dr. Frankenstein's hand. He attempts to murder Nicholas instead, but he is finished off by Sacha.

Nicholas pleads with Sacha to leave him with him, but he refuses, wanting to stay dead. He ends his own life by tearing himself apart, leaving only Nicholas and the two children. The film ends with the kids finding Nicholas, but instead of freeing him, they pick up two scalpels, and prepare to cut into him, as Nicholas watches in confusion and horror.

This whole film feels like a trainwreck you can't look away from. I felt so sorry for the two kids, I think from everything they had witnessed from their parents, it led to the two of them going mad as well.

Nicholas never should have been in this castle to begin with, and it's a shame that he had been pulled into such destruction, witnessing so much death and disgusting acts, only to become another victim of Dr. Frankenstein's own offspring.

Flesh for Frankenstein is a disturbing movie that will leave you feeling violated until the ending of the film.

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Thank you for reading!

Emy Quinn