Frankenstein 80 is essentially trying to live it's name. "Let's take Frankenstein and modernize it for the hip world of the 1970's! As 1980 approaches let's translate the story into our swaggerific times!"
Frankenstein 80 is so fucking 70's. It has a main character with a huge turtleneck sweater, tweed jacket on over it, bell bottom jeans, and flocky long hair. In fact it has several of these guys, and they're all cavorting with young supple nubile woman who take off their shirts a LOT. This is one of those movies made with the nudity in mind, and in fact front and center.
Second to the nudity and the 70's there is a monster running about killing people. I'll say that despite the obvious fact these guys made a stupid exploitation movie, they stick to the Frankenstein story decently. Dr. F created the monster, the monster is not named Frankenstien! So many Frankenstein movies do this wrong!
So anyways, Dr. Frankenstein makes the monster, he's the typical array of sewn together people, and he goes on the typical rampage, killing all sorts of people. Mostly he seems to kill girls in a state of undress. He can also teleport. I mean, it's not said, and they never show it, but he will randomly go from girls dormitory to the horse race track to someone's house, in broad daylight, without ever being seen by anyone.
This didn't border the so bad it's good, this was made to help define it. This is pre self-aware so bad it's good, this is smackdab why that term exists. It is self aware, meta, and trying, but it is also fucking authentic and it tries! It's a hard definition to draw, but there's countless blogs about it, I'm not making shit up bro.
Anyhow, Frankenstein is being tracked by baffled detectives and his creator, and shit culimates and it all ends in a movie less than 90 minutes. Great minutes. No lie, this shit was just plain entertaining. It is not 5 star type of entertaining, but I'll give it a high 4 any day.
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