Frankenstein Island

Frankenstein Island (1981)

The power is 7,000,000 volts--it's alive!

Four balloonists and their dog are stranded on a remote island with a woman believed to be a descendant of Frankenstein, who is conducting experiments on lost sailors.

Date of release
1981-11-27
TMDB
3.5 / 10 (24)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction
Director
Jerry Warren

Casting

Interesting facts

Frankenstein Island is a 1981 science fiction horror film produced, written, composed, edited and directed by Jerry Warren and starring John Carradine and Cameron Mitchell. The plot concerns a group of balloonists stranded on an island where they are captured by Dr. Frankenstein's female descendant, Sheila Frankenstein, who has been kidnapping shipwrecked sailors for years and turning them into zombies.

Production

In an interview with Tom Weaver, Jerry Warren stated that between making The Wild World of Batwoman in 1966 and making Frankenstein Island in 1981, he was living on his ranch for fifteen years, as he no longer had any interest in the film business.

Warren wrote the screenplay and score himself under the alias of Jaques LaCatier and Erich Bromberg respectively. Frankenstein was generally the same story of his earlier film Teenage Zombies, with a connection to the titular legend added.

Warren cast a number of actors who had appeared in his previous work, including Robert Clarke, Katherine Victor and Steve Brodie. Clarke said he initially had high hopes for the film as he felt Warren "has a lot of enthusiasm and he can get a lot on the screen for the kind of money he spends.

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