Hooooboy, where to begin with this mess?? :=8O So, it would appear that 4 hot air balloonists and their mangy mutt crash land on a hidden island because of THE POWER, generated by one John Carradine, who has THE POWER, and he uses THE POWER because…well, because he has THE POWER. I mean, if you had THE POWER you’d use THE POWER too, wouldn’t you? To make things visually interesting (because there ain’t nuttin’ else in the ‘plot’), there is a tribe of furry bikini clad white women running around and smoking all of the drugs out of some plastic skulls and getting down to boogie every now and then. Oh, also Cameron Mitchell is around, so you know yer getting ‘quality’. Oh Jerry Warren, will you ever make a cowpetant moovie?? Check out Moody, the MooCow, and special guest co-host Joe Turak as they barely escape with their lives on the LATEST IFC PODCAST EPISODE!
Yep, this is the man who gave us Wild World of Batwoman (1966), Teenage Zombies, and a host of udder cinematic duds, and if anything this one is mooch, mooch worse. And to make things even moore tortuous, he’s brought back a bunch of the ‘stars’ from that flick to haunt us here too, including Katherine Victor, Steve Brodie, Richard Banks, and George Mitchell Andre, because, you know, we’re just gluttons for punishment. Robert Clarke from Hideous Sun Demon is here too.
As a festering cherry on the top of this massive cow flop, we also have the disembodied head of John Carradine mumbling incowherently about THE POWER, because…well, see above. Toss in just bad acting, poor direction, dime-store FX, and a nonsensical narrative, and, well, you get this. Folks, this is really, really BAD.
So, the story goes that after the terrible flop that was Wild World of Batwoman, and the subsequent lawsuits which emerged from it, Jerry Warren was just kickin’ back, living on his ranch, and not making moovies AT ALL, u know, like he should be, when suddenly -some nitwit told him about the new VHS craze, and cow cheap moovies were popular again and cud make money because every mom and pop video store bought up everything they cud – and so he decided to have one moore go, and this is what the world got. Somecow he even managed to cowvince Katherine Victor, who knew better, to come back and work for him. Warren re-cut it for video to remove some of the crappier footage for syndication, but, uh, it didn’t make it any better. A sequel was planned, for some reason, but ol Jerry kicked the bucket in 1988, thus saving humanity.
Shoulda been a 30. Shoulda been. But nooooo – Moody and the MooCow did their stinky duty and awarded 10’s for this Warren stinkfest, but Joe Turak found some room in his heart to only give it a 9.5, giving Frankenstein Island a total Stink Score of 29.5, which is a Stinky Average of 9.8. Oh the humanity! :=8O On the Ladder of Stink this ties the likes of Curse of the Mummy Cat, and Geteven as wretched smelly stinkers that ALMOOST made it to Stinky Heaven, juuuuuust 1 tiny step short!
Welp, we got yer trainlerage right HERE. U can find this stinker for free in a variety of places, including Youtube, , Tubi Pluto TV, and the Rifftrax version is on Prime. it can also be floating around on the Internet Archive. You can buy the DVD from Uncle Amazon, but boy howdy it aint cheap. Better to get it from DVD Party.com, or Sinister Cinema. It sometimes pops up on the re-sale market as well, in places like EBAY. If you can only stomach the Rifftrax version, which we totally udderstand, you can get it right from the SOURCE. Get an original 13′ x 30′ Australian Daybill poster of the film And find the digitals at Moviepostersdb! Oh yeah, Etsy has a tee shirt too! So does OnLoan.co and they can do sweatshirts and hoodies too! And of course git yer Frankenstein Island coffee mug at IcePosters.com!
Movie Mausoleum covers this flick on Youtube! You can also find a review on Senseless Cinema! For a whole retrospective of all things Warren check out The Films of Jerry Warren. Finally check out the film on Gruesome Magazine.com!