Audience reviews
8 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
joemaamah
A recent forum discussion jogged my memory, and I remember seeing this like 40 years ago. It wasn't terrible back in the day, but I certainly couldn't recommend it to a modern crowd.
The story is based off the classic movie of the 30s, more than the book. Frankly it doesn't follow either of them too closely. The artwork is about on par for a TV movie from back in the day. It'll look real primative to a modern viewer. The animation will also seem quite lacking today. But for that era both were above average.
The dub was simply brutal, as only mid 80s English dubs can be. The direction was OK for what they had to work with back then.
While it wasn't monstrous for the period, and I would have graded it about 80/100, I am sure time has dragged this down badly. I wouldn't grade this much…
Read at the sourcetacaloking
this movie i feel is a bit over looked i watched the subbed version base on other reviews the different dubbed versions might have lower quality if comparing it to the original american frankstein this builds on its ideas in many ways
for characters the assistant has more of a character frankenstein himself is much more build up and is while not a complete villain it clearly shows him to be a very flawed person the monster also was built up more doing a very good job in showing a greater depth of him and more time focused on those aspects then the classic movie this also gave everything better structure by giving frankenstein a family this allows more drama and giving frankenstein relatable concerns with what he did
for the animation it was not very good i would give it a 5 it does eno…
Read at the sourceThedude3445
This thing goes on way longer than it needs to, but I watched this at x1.5 speed for most of the runtime, so I was fine with it lol.
This is a remixed version of Frankenstein turned into some weirdo quasi-sequel where Frankenstein's son complete's his dad's research and then the monster escapes and wreaks havoc on his hometown, where everyone hates him and he learns to accept being hated, because humanity isn't good enough for him.
Dr. Frankenstein's descent into madness as a result of targeted tormenting, Frankenstein's monster having fun baking bread with the little girl and then later punching out a fucking bear, the badass bald detective guy who is too smart for the case and nonetheless still gets consumed by the inevitable mob against the monster... there's a lot of good B-movie stu…
Read at the sourcematthigh
Perhaps my view of this is colored by the fact that I had just previously watched Dracula, another anime movie that came out around the same time, and was also an adaptation of an American comic book. Compared to that flaming piece of magnificent horse-puckey,this movie is an order of magnitude better.
Even though Frankenstein's monster is one of the most well-known classics of literature, I am not familiar enough with the original work to do side-by-side comparisons, to see where the animators took liberties. Instead, I considered this as if it were its own stand-alone work. And as such, it actually does stand up by itself fairly well. You don't need to know the two centuries of Frankenstein lore to get into this.
Starting off with the artwork and animation, all I can say is that the…
Read at the sourceKuudere-Hime
I watched Kyoufu Kaiki! Frankenstein (also known as Monster of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Legend of Terror). An Anime movie from 1981 based on Frankenstein. I watched the Dub that was made in 1984, so one of the older Dubs out there. Most of the voice cast seems to not be VAs I’m used to, but Emily sounds like Nunnally from Code Geass.
The movie was enjoyable, but flawed. For the first half it seemed like they were dropping the usually sympathetic depiction of the Monster. When it does come into play, it makes the first half feel poorly executed.
It’s clearly a mainly Universal films inspired project. Somehow they got away with even using the look for the Monster (who gets named Franken here) that Universal owns the Copyright to. Though evidence the writers had read the book exists ma…
Read at the sourceSidewinder51
Overall an 8.
seen via eng dub
note: you may see a time issue. you may be watching the 88 minute version not the longer one listed here. Some say the 88 version is incomplete because of this but they are wrong. The difference is the commercials. yes, that is the reason behind the difference. So, with that said in mind the person who is wrong are those claiming the longer version 150 or so minutes.
Pros and cons
Pros
- very touching piece
- artwork was decent
-voice work matched the lips Cons
-not please really on the ending. Would have like a nicer way because i felt bad for the innocent monster. Blame not the victim but the creator. alas, thinking more on this matter would a happier ending made it better? upon further pondering given the ending message and how the intro went i think the…
Read at the sourcesorcery
Somewhere in the recesses of the collective psyche lies a piece of Austria-Switzerland, a rugged network of mountains and valleys, of which Liechtenstein is the most vivid expression. Indeed, disheveled minds would quickly populate the walls of Schloss Vaduz with the figure of Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The mythical representation of a Swiss Prometheus trying to conquer Death would inspire many reveries amidst the somewhat monotonous Alpine landscape. However, one has to wonder what led Toei Animation to produce a TV special about the Monster of Frankenstein by mid-1981. Up until that point, Mary Shelley's myth had been tarnished by a wave of poorly executed movies commissioned by the declining Hammer Studios. Although Boris Karloff's powerful performance had carried the clumsy cinematic fra…
Read at the sourceSzandor
While Akira was the first anime I bought myself (and the one that made me love anime), this was actually the first anime movie I ever owned. It was in the late 80:s, it was on VHS and it was badly dubbed to swedish. I didn't know what anime was and the visual style was unlike anything I'd seen. It didn't appeal very much to me then, but the story was dark and I loved anything animated so I watched it over and over.
It is clear to me now that the production values were rather low on this title and the swedish dub did nothing to help. And to be honest, there is very little else to say about this movie. For children who aren't very picky this can be a nice movie (provided they can handle a few scary moments) but for the discerning viewer there is really nothing here.
Read at the source