The in thing right now seems to be to remake Frankenstein as we have just had one made by Guillermo Del Toro. With us getting another one in just few short days made by Maggie Gyllenhaal therefor it only makes sense that there would be a very cheaply made British knock off film made as well and well I thought that i'd talk about it as the film does have a pretty cool title yet the films director and writer can't make a good movie between and so then join me as I review the film that technically has two titles with the film in question being called simply just "Bride Of Frankenstein Awakens" enjoy.
The plot of this film is one month as his new bride is killed in a hit an run incident a deranged former surgeon decides to try and rebuild her by her using the body parts of her family. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad with the plot of this film not really having that much to do with the plot of Bride Of Frankenstein outside of the fact that it involves a bride being brought back from the dead and that's really it as this films plot is so wafer thin that it was hard to tell just what the main plot of the film was meant to be a lot of the time as the makers of this film just seemed so happy to except the fact that there making a film with a weak plot that has nothing to do with the tale of Frankenstein however to be fair to this film this film does at least try to do something new and different with it's plot by having spend a good chunk of the films opening act with the bride and her husband prior to her getting killed off with even who killed her actually being a plot point albeit one that's done really horribly due to the fact that they never let you know that it was meant to be something that you were meant to be working out in the first place and yet even that stuff just doesn't work when you take the rest of the film into account with the plot of this film also not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Nicola Ditter as Santana , Wayne Dobson as Frank , Jack Darell as Dr. Pret and Dan Robins as James. Also starring in this film is Sophie-Jo Beman as Mackenzie , Chris Black as Chet , Jamie Cowan as Ian , Graeme Muncer as Arthur , Lauren O'Hare as Candi , I Know What You Did Last Christmas star Julia Quayle as Beth , Dracula In Space star Charlotte Reidie as Victoria and Jodyanne Richardson as Carrie.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. Given the fact that this film is being written by Harry Boxley a man who was written so many bad movies that it's hard to keep count of and the fact that this film is being directed by Louisa Warren a woman who clearly doesn't know how to get a good performance out of her actors it's a wonder that this films acting was as passable as it is as all of this films actors are indeed trying to turn in a good performance but it's clear as day that they weren't given any actual direction and therefor turn in these really odd performances in the film with the best actor in the whole entire film being Nicola Ditter as Santana as at times it does feel like that she's only one that actually trying to get some form on emotion out of her character and while yes there are other actors in this film that do that as well with her it came across as being more natural whereas with everyone it felt like that they were trying to hard to get some kind of emotion out of them this is not to say that there bad actors as there not as they were all perfectly serviceable in this film however with Nicola it felt like that she was the only one who was trying to make us feel something literally anything for her character with that coming through in her final performance in this film with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is somethin that really does help to harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.
This film really isn't helped by the fact that it's characters are just so badly written as they feel like the kind of characters that you expect to find on the first draft of a film script and not the finished script. As all of the films characters not only have the personality of a blank of wood but also to be frank here really unlikeable characters in there right as the film goes threw different phases of choosing who it wants to be a likable character with it starting with Fran being the character that your meant to be routing who with the film showing Santana's parents as being unlikeable characters but then the film suddenly shifts and instead asks you to route for Santana's family and to hate Frank all of this is being done for no reason as the film doesn't give you a reason to care for any of it's characters as they are all just blank slates which fair enough was mostly done due to the fact that these types of films are usually written filmed , edited and released very quickly and therefor they might not have had time in the making of this film to fix that issue but on the flip side of this is the fat that this is something that should have been decided right when the film was first being pitched as then everyone involved would be able to get on the same page with it not being helped by the fact that none of the characters have anything about them that help to make them standout from each other as the film doesn't give us the time to get to know them as characters and while this is understandable for the films main characters the film also does it with it's main characters as well and while this film might have been made as way to cash in on the upcoming film The Bride that doesn't mean that the characters had to be these bland characters that people are going to forget about five minuets after the film ends.
As was mentioned at the very start of this review not only does this film have very little to do with the film where it borrows part of title but the film can't even decide on what it's main title even is. As the poster quite clearly states that the film is called "Bride Of Frankenstein Awakens" yet when you press play on the film and the films title card comes up it says that it's called "Bride Of Frankenstein" heck even the films very own IMDB page goes with this title as well which is something that quite understandably make you think that this is going to be a remake of Bride Of Frankenstein yet the two films couldn't be further apart as outside of both films having a bride that's brought back from the dead by a mad doctor these two films might as well as be two completely different films with this film not even bothering to try and recapture the gothic tone that both the original film and book are known for with the film even giving the main character of Frank the worst middle name you could ever think of as his middle name is quite simply just en with his last name being Stein which is just so painfully bad and yet if you look at the original Bride Of Frankenstein that film is not only oozing with gothic tone and looks but also goes the extra mile in making Frankensteins Monster feel more human then the rest of the human characters as all he wants in that film is a friend and that's it where as here Santana who might as well take on the role of Frankensteins Monster as it's only she that gets brought back to life wants to kill people to help cure her hunger and that is not true to either the spirit of Frankensteins Monster or to The Bride herself.
Nobody goes into one of these films that are quite obviously cheaply and quickly made expecting the film to be good as we can tell right away that none of these types of films will be good. We do however expect them to have decent sound effects in them with that being something that this film doesn't have and while yes this is also a really bad thing it's also a good thing as it does make the film unintentionally hilarious as the characters are shooting of guns that don't even sound like there guns in the first place and while yes the makers of this film would have had a really small budget to work with and therefor wouldn't have been able to afford to get some decent gun sound effects they could however have gotten them for free somewhere online and just used those sound effects are better yet just record sound effects for the gun in a way that's both safe and that makes it sound like it's an actual gun being shot as instead we end up with gun sound effects that make it sound like the characters are playing are toys and are not firing what in the film are meant to be real guns and yet it doesn't stop there as the sound effects for when the characters are hitting each other just sound like there hitting a bag of meat and not hitting an actual person with this making it look like that the makers of this film just straight up didn't care about what kind of a film that they were turning in because of it they did then they would have gone that extra mile to record sound effects that actually sound like the thing that there being attached to and while yes granted the sound effects in this film aren't that big of an issue they are things that help to sell you on the rest of the film and if they don't sound as good as we all know that they should have done then it just takes you out of the film and reminds you that your just watching a film.
For one reason or another the makers of this film decided to make this a mystery type of film as we have a mystery over who it is that actually ran Santana down on what is quite literally her wedding night. Whilst to be fair this isn't a bad idea as it does give the film a unique hook to it and is something that could have worked really well only the makers of this film forgot to do one one tiny thing and that's actually give us clues as to who the killer is or even focus on it's mystery in the first place therefor when Dr. Pret reveals that he was the one that ran Santana down because of the fact that he loved her and couldn't bare the thought of her being with quite literally anybody else but him it is something that does come out of nowhere as while the film did indeed set up the fact that he a relationship going with all of his female students and the fact that he and Santana were genuinely in love with each other it's never established or even hinted that that he was the type of person to get jealous let alone the type of person who would go to these extreme lengths just to get what he wants and in fact all throughout the film he comes across as being the only character that somewhat has it all together and yet of the film did put more of a focus on it's mystery then it would have given us the audience more of a reason to pay attention to the film as then we would be able to look for clues as to who Santana's killer even was in the first place and yet because of the fact that the makers of this film failed to do it makes it look like that the mystery aspect was more of an afterthought and was only added in to the film at the last minuet because of the fact that Scream 7 was coming out as it has very little to no impact on the rest of the film as a whole.
Now this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty six minuets and forty eight seconds. Which to be fair to this film is pretty much the exact bogstandard running time that you'd expect a film like this one to have in the first place with the film having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time and as was to expected from this kind of film this film doesn't really use its running time all that wisely due to the fact that due to the film having a shorter running time this film isn't able to fully develop it's plot as the film has so much setting up to do just before it even gets to the titular bride in her undead form and when that happens there's only about twenty minuets of the film left as the film goes threw every detail of how Frank and Dr. Pret get all of the parts that they need to bring her back and whilst this is something that is understandable it's also something that needed to be cut out as it adds nothing to the plot of the film and takes up screen time that could have been better used in giving us a more well developed plot heck it could be argued that that that extra running time would have been better used to also giving the characters some actual character development as that would have helped us the audience to decide on if we like the characters or not and would have helped to make them feel more three dimensional then what they ended up being as we don't get to find anything about any of the films characters which is something that makes it hard to like these characters and yet if the characters did have some character development then it would have shown that the makers of this film know how to create a good film but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a horror film that means that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With the films kills being the best part of the film as even tho they are still badly done to the point where it is hilarious due to the fact that when Santana does try to kill someone even tho she's meant to be scratching them it looks like that she's just reaching out to touch them and isn't really doesn't any harm to them however it's during this films kills that we do get to see some decent looking gore effects with it being made painfully clear that the makers of this film spent alot of the films budget on the gore effects and nothing else in the film with there not really a kill that you could say is the best kill as there all just the same type of kill with nothing new added to them which is understandable as it's the undead bride doing alot of the films kills herself and she can't really do that much outside of biting people and eating them or just scratching them and then eating them to death and that's really it and while that might be fine for one or two kills it is something that does get boring after a while but to be fair both Frank and Dr. Pret do get some kills as they kill of Santana's family and use them for there body parts but even then we don't get to see that much of the kill in the first place and therefor what should have been a bunch of really impactful kills instead leaves us the audience feeling nothing but empty inside in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while it's of course far to early to tell on if this film is better or worse then The Bride what we can say for sure is that this film is still miles better then Dracula In Space as this film while it is still a really bad film it does have elements in it that make it bad in an entertaining kind of way in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked abut all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean tat this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 4.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally sued in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , Amazon . Co . Uk , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.




































