Blackenstein
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Blackenstein |
| Original title | Blackenstein |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | William A. Levey |
| script | Frank R. Saletri |
| production | Frank R. Saletri |
| music |
Cardella Di Milo Lou Frohman |
| camera | Robert Caramico |
| cut | William A. Levey |
| occupation | |
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Black Stone is an American Blaxploitation - Horror of American International Pictures from the year 1973. The film is based on motifs from Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein . He tried to build on the success of the film Blacula .
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The Vietnam veteran Eddi Turner lost all extremities, both arms and legs, in the war. He lives in a hospital and is harassed by his carer. His fiancée, Doctor Winifred Walker, wants to help him and seeks the support of her former teacher, Doctor Stein, who received the Nobel Prize for deciphering the genetic code . He runs his own laboratory for his research. His two patients are a 19-year-old woman with the appearance of a 50-year-old and a French man who has regrown both legs as a result of the treatment. One of the legs, however, has the stripes of a tiger's skin , which Dr. Stein comments as a previously unknown side effect , an RNA problem.
A series of DNA injections to treat Eddi Turner begins and his limbs are actually restored. However, complications related to the fact that the doctor's assistant sabotaged the injections quickly arise. Eddi Turner is increasingly taciturn, he seems absent and feverish. His condition continues to deteriorate until he finally mutates into a monster that takes on a misshapen appearance and can no longer communicate. This escapes the estate of Doctor Stein unnoticed and kills and mutilates people he meets. The first victim is the nurse from the veterans hospital who harassed him, the other victims are chance encounters, including a young girl and various couples. The scenes are partly sexualized, shocking and brutal, from the cinematic implementation in the style of a B-movie , but also unreal and naive. Since the perpetrator remains unnoticed and keeps returning to Doctor Stein's house, the police are initially unable to find any trace. The doctor's servant and assistant, Malcomb, who repeatedly proves to be stubborn and devious for a short time, finally becomes intrusive towards the doctor, Winifred Walker. In a dramatic finale, the mutant Eddi Turner kills Malcomb, who previously unsuccessfully fired a pistol several times, then kills both patients and finally the scientist who tries to protect his colleague. The doctor also finally dies after the monster hesitated for a long time - apparently because of ambivalent feelings and the associated residual relation to reality. The police chase the monster Eddi Turner and chase after him police dogs , who tear him apart at the end of the film.
Reviews
Cavett Binion describes the film in "Allrovi" as a poorly conceived attempt to create another horror classic as a successor to the much better Blacula . The crude work of exploitation offers little more than blood and contempt for women.
Remarks
Doctor Stein's laboratory consists of original props from the 1931 film adaptation of Frankenstein . The end credits are unusually top-down. In the credits, the ranks of the police officers do not match the hierarchy in the film.
In the USA there are two cut versions of the film, which differ in length and in the composition of the scenes. The theatrical version is ten minutes shorter than the video version.
Web links
- Black Stone in the Internet Movie Database (English)