"Speak! You have a civil tongue in your head. I know, because I sewed it back myself!"
-Professor Frankenstein
American International Pictures couldn't have come up with a better title (which they often did even before the script was written) to lure teenagers to the drive-in. "Body of a boy! Mind of a monster! Soul of an unearthly thing!" screamed the movie poster. Yet, despite all the ballyhoo, after it was released on November 23, 1957 it reportedly earned only a little over $300,000 after grossing $654,000, which is pretty crappy. One of the reasons for the bad turnout could have been because it came out during the Thanksgiving holiday. Another was: who would want to go to the drive-in in November? I guess some did, but obviously not enough, even with the enticingly-titled BLOOD OF DRACULA on the double bill.
Released earlier in June, I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF fared much better raking in an almost $2M profit. Both the teenage werewolf and "Frankenstein" would pair up in 1958 for AIP's HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER.
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Joe Dante on I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN:
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