The film centers around Dr. Stein (a white dude) who is doing experiments on various people, which include finding ways to regrow limbs and stop the aging process. He is joined at his mansion by a Dr. Winifred Walker, an old student of his who requests his help for her boyfriend who lost his limbs in Vietnam. Too bad Dr. Stein's assistant Malcomb has the hots for Walker and decides to intentionally infect her boyfriend so he becomes, well, Blackenstein. He kills people and eats them. Walker tries to cure him, partially with the help of a brown bottle with a handwritten "DNA" label. Malcomb tries to rape her. Blackenboyfriend saves her. He gets eaten by police dogs. Weirdly enough, the Wikipedia summary of this movie is five paragraphs long.
In spite of this movie being overall not good in any way, the director clearly spent a lot of time playing with shots and utilizing the hour they had with the exterior of the mansion through long lingering images of it. The director also decided to keep the monster kind of obscured until the end where we get to see it in all it's poorly madeup glory. Most annoying to me is not how unexciting this movie was but the title. Frankenstein was the name of the doctor, not the monster. In this movie, the main doctor is a white guy named Dr. Stein and his Igor is the one who messes up the experiment. At no point does anyone think to call the boyfriend or the assistant Blackenstein and "Black Frankenstein" is obviously in no way accurate.
Whatever. Feast your eyes on this:
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