I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

Body of a boy! Mind of a monster! Soul of an unearthly thing!

195774 min5.6 / 10

A B-movie horror-sci-fi about a mad scientist's teenage creation that grapples with existential dread and bodily violation, filtered through 1950s camp sensibility.

Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.

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