Frankenstein Island

The feature film will be Frankenstein Island from 1981directed by Jerry Warren. The basic story line is that hot-air balloonists and their dog, Melvin, crash land on what they think is a deserted island, only to encounter leopard-skin bikini-clad babes that are actually space aliens, a female mad scientist married to the 200-year-old, bedridden assistant to Dr. Frankenstein, holographic images (well, sort of) of John Carradine, spouting meaningless dialogue over and over, a bunch of brain-dead ex-seamen who are zombie guards, and blood donor Cameron Mitchell who has been imprisoned for 17 years in what looks to be a building made of balsa wood. Oh, and there is a Frankenstein monster, but he's underwater for most of the movie and doesn't show up till near the end. This lurches breathlessly from scene to scene, never stopping once to make sense. There are an amazing array of gadgets and props to make your jaw drop, for instance, there's something called an oscillator that looks like either a small tackle box or lunch box, painted pink and balanced on one corner to spin endlessly when doing Frankensteiny things. This is just an absolutely, desperately, ridiculously bad movie, but it's vastly entertaining and fun, despite all that. As one character says, “So much has happened, the mind can’t catalog it!”

It took the director 15 years to make this movie since he got in so much legal trouble from his 1966 film, The Wild World of Batwoman, shown by The Bad Film Society 2 months ago.

Short subjects include coming attraction trailers and a 12 minute version of Star Wars performed by puppets made by mentally disabled adults at a daycare center in Oakland, California. Titled Puppet Wars, it is far superior to the George Lucas original.

Thrill to the third episode of the hair-raising 1939 serial The Phantom Creeps starring Bad Film favorite Bela Lugosi as Dr. Zorka with his giant snarling robot, invisibility belt, z-ray gun and mechanical death spiders!

The festivities will begin with a potluck dinner open to all members.