Frankenstein In Italy

FRANKENSTEIN '80-1972-After the credits a woman is attacked and her organs removed by a gurgling killer. Later we learn Dr. Otto Frankenstein (Gordon Mitchell) has stolen a secret formula for regenerating organs and is building a creature who he dubs Mosaic (Xiro Papas). When it’s fully assembled It goes out killing women. First it rapes and strangles a prostitute. Karl (John Richardson; BLACK SUNDAY, ONE MILLION YEARS BC), a reporter hunts down the story and meets Frankenstein’s “daughter” Sonia (Dalila Di Lazzaro). The doc is pretty nuts using various body parts from hapless victims but without a new brain the monster becomes unhinged and kills his creator. While the police search, the lumpy worse for wear monster kills a stripper, a derelict, a guy taking a piss at the Grand Prix and a couple in a parked car. Karl and Sonja fall in love and he goes to the park to get investigate and when he comes back the monster is hiding in his car trunk. Mosaic terrorizes the couple until it’s brain disintegrates and it dies bloodily. 

This made in Italy too dark in many scenes time waster is just an excuse to kill off naked woman. 

It was the only film directed by Mario Mancini, the cinematographer of KING OF KONG ISLAND. In better days US born Gordon Mitchell had been in many “Sand & Sandal” productions and being a muscle man in some Mae West revues. Female lead Dalila Di Lazzaro was later in Dario Argento's PHENOMENA and Klaus Kinski's PAGANINI.

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