***SPOILERS*** Desperate for money with the Frankenstein Family fortune almost completely depleted in his attempt to to finish what his decedents from his great great grandfather Henry Frankenstein on up tried to create, life out of dead matter, Baron Victor Von Frankenstein Boris Karloff, goes along with allowing the Frankenstein Mansion to be uses for a TV special called "The Frankenstein Variety Hour" on cable-remember this is in the future not 1958 when the movie was released-TV.
The Baron who was brutalized by the Nazis for refusing to help them create a super Aryn master race that would win them the war is now on track to create man in his own image but he needs money in him obtaining an atomic reactor to do it. It's the TV network who'll provide the Baron with the much needed cash but he's so hung up in creating his masterpiece that he ends up murdering a number of the crew as well as his both good friend from Nazi Germany days Wihelm Gottfried, Rudolph Anders, and his simple minded butler Sluter, Nobert Schiller, to do it!
It's non other that the TV director of the Frankenstein TV special Douglas Row, Don "Red" Barry, who gets whiff of what the Baron is up to and attempts to stop him before he ends up murdering the entire TV crew together with Row in order to get spare human parts to create his new and improved Frankenstein Monster.
**SPOILERS**** As things turn out the monster that the Baron created despite having the feeble minded Sluter's brain implanted into his skull had a mind of his own and didn't go along with the Baron's insane and murderous plans and took matters into his own hands! As the movie ends we as well as Row and the police who arrived at the scene find out that the Baron did indeed finish what he started to do! The only drawback in his crazed and insane master-plan was that the Baron didn't live long enough to see it!
The Baron who was brutalized by the Nazis for refusing to help them create a super Aryn master race that would win them the war is now on track to create man in his own image but he needs money in him obtaining an atomic reactor to do it. It's the TV network who'll provide the Baron with the much needed cash but he's so hung up in creating his masterpiece that he ends up murdering a number of the crew as well as his both good friend from Nazi Germany days Wihelm Gottfried, Rudolph Anders, and his simple minded butler Sluter, Nobert Schiller, to do it!
It's non other that the TV director of the Frankenstein TV special Douglas Row, Don "Red" Barry, who gets whiff of what the Baron is up to and attempts to stop him before he ends up murdering the entire TV crew together with Row in order to get spare human parts to create his new and improved Frankenstein Monster.
**SPOILERS**** As things turn out the monster that the Baron created despite having the feeble minded Sluter's brain implanted into his skull had a mind of his own and didn't go along with the Baron's insane and murderous plans and took matters into his own hands! As the movie ends we as well as Row and the police who arrived at the scene find out that the Baron did indeed finish what he started to do! The only drawback in his crazed and insane master-plan was that the Baron didn't live long enough to see it!