The witch's kitchen of Dr. Rambov
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The witch's kitchen of Dr. Rambov |
| Original title | Frankenstein 1970 |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language |
English German |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Howard W. Koch |
| script |
George Worthing Yates Richard H. Landau based on a story by Aubrey Schenck and Charles A. Moses |
| production | Aubrey Schenck |
| music | Paul Dunlap |
| camera | Carl E. Guthrie |
| cut | John A. Bushelman |
| occupation | |
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The witch's kitchen of Dr. Rambow is an American horror film with Boris Karloff in the title role.
action
A young, pretty blonde girl walks along a street in the desert at night, stumbles, remains lying down and gets up again. In a dragging gait, she follows a hunched creature with crippled arms and hands, dragging its twisted feet. Arrived at a pond, the girl no longer knows where to go, she begins to scream and retreats into the shallow water, pursued by the eerie, terrifying figure. Soon he caught up with the beautiful woman, now he puts his ugly claws on his shoulders and around his neck, presses her under the water and ... "Hans, enough, enough!" Calls an interpreter in German from the off. The scene is done, the director and his American film team are very satisfied. This is how this horror story begins.
Austria (in the US original: Germany) in 1970. The surgeon and scientist Dr. Rambow (in the US original: Baron Victor von Frankenstein), the great-great-grandson of the famous Baron Frankenstein, who once, 230 years ago, created an artificial human from body parts, is following in his footsteps. He, too, wants to create an artistic being in his castle - of course, much more perfect than the faded ancestor and with the most modern technology, namely in the form of a mini nuclear reactor, with which Rambow literally brings the dead to life. He only ran out of money for such costly series of experiments and the purchase of the corresponding body parts, as his best friend Gottfried, who knows nothing about Rambow's gruesome research, makes it unmistakably clear. It's just a good thing that this American film team has now come by to shoot a horror series for television in the gruesome old walls in proper style. The old man, whose face has been disfigured since his stay in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , was paid a lot of money for the location. For Dr. Rambow means killing two birds with one stone, and so after an initial reluctance he makes his lock available.
Dr. Rambow already made. It's bandaged snow-white from top to bottom and looks like a mummy. But this “mummy” still lacks the most important ingredients that make it a human, a Rambow creature. Now the killing for the glory of science can begin: First, the doctor's servant Schuter falls victim to his master. His curiosity, which led him to Dr. Rambow's top-secret laboratory deep down in the castle vault led to fatal doom. Dr. Rambow heart and brain. Next, assistant director Judy Stevens has to believe it when she is scared to death: the baby wrap mummy had opened her room door - and that was already too much for the young woman. She is followed by the cameraman Morgan Haley, who shortly after the test shoots with the star of the series, Carolyn Hayes, gets caught in the tentacles of the gigantic mummy monster in the crypt. Since Haley's eyes do not match his creature, even Rambow's friend Gottfried has to die. This began with Dr. Rambow to ask more and more questions about the disappearance of the three castle residents and guests. In addition, his eyes fit perfectly with Rambow's creature, which the scientist calls Schuter like his servant.
Director Douglas Row has been suspicious of the mysterious events and the disappearance of the people in the castle for some time. When he discovers a lens of the missing cameraman in the crypt, Row goes to the police and asks for help. Meanwhile, Rambow has hypnotically taken control of Mike Shaw, another film crew member. Shaw puts Judy Stevens in the huge paws of the mummy monster that the girl carries to the laboratory. Since the mummy has Schuter's personality and Judy Schuter once won over with a small present (a scarf), master and master now clash. The police are on their way, Judy is screaming for her life, and Dr. Rambow sees his skins swim away. So he turns up all the power circuits in the reactor to explode everything. Rambow's creature staggers towards Rambow and is suddenly enveloped in nuclear vapor. He and Rambow sink contaminated to the ground. A little later, a specialist in a radiation suit enters the laboratory and breaks parts of the bandage from the mummy's face. At first you can see Schuter's face, but when you look at Dr. Rambows changed.
Production notes
The witch's kitchen of Dr. Rambow first appeared on July 20, 1958 in the United States. West German viewers were able to see the horror fair from March 28, 1959, the Austrians on September 11 of the same year.
For some inexplicable reason, Karloff, who played the corpse handyman Victor von Frankenstein in the American original, was named for the German version in “Dr. Rambow ”around. Karloff played the monster in the first famous Frankenstein film in 1931.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films says: “A more laughable than creepy horror film, which does not know how to ignite the idea of including the film genre itself. Boris Karloff's last appearance in a "Frankenstein" film. "
The Movie & Video Guide wrote: "Annoyingly chatty and a very stupid" futuristic "spot on a time-honored name, apart from a rather creepy sequence right before the opening credits."
Halliwell's Film Guide characterized the film as follows: "The film is slow, the monster unexciting, and Karloff does smear acting."
Paimann's film lists summed up: "[A film that] at least lets undemanding horror film lovers get their effect."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The witch's kitchen of Dr. Rambov. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 29, 2015 .
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 375
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 460
- ↑ The witch's kitchen of Dr. Rambow in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- The witch's kitchen of Dr. Rambow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Frankenstein 1970 on allemovie.com