Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

In the world of movie team-ups, it seems that nothing is impossible, hell, even Freddy and Jason eventually met up, even if it did take about twenty years to get them there. But, we've seen Godzilla meet everyone from Mothra to Bambi, Abbott and Costello met up with every Universal monster there was and Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and Peter Lorre met up for a truly crappy version of The Raven. But, of all the team-ups the weirdest may be the western crossed with the horror movie! This has only happened twice...that I know of...but both of those are really, really...what's the word?? Atrocities! The one we'll look at this time is Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter.



This bizarre cross-over begins with the grand-daughter of Frankenstein, having moved to some unknown city in the U.S., harvesting local Mexican boys for her strange experiments. The town is moving away as their men die off, so there's only one family left, and they're on their way out! Flash to another part of this same state, Jesse James and his rather large partner, Hank, are attempting a stage coach robbery when Hank is shot. Now, on their trek, with Hank injured, the criminal duo come across Juanita and her family who are leaving the Frankenstein village (that's not the real name but let's just agree to call it that), well, since Jesse and Hank can't go to a real doctor, Juanita agrees to take them to Maria Frankenstein, who is, after all a doctor. So, the criminals go to Casa Del Frankenstein, Frankenstein's daughter decides to experiment on Hank (since he's a body builder-looking cowboy) and the story gets weirder!

Hank is turned into a monster that Maria Frankenstein calls Igor, he begins killing anyone she doesn't like and it's suddenly up to Jesse James to save the village...well, it's really just Juanita living there now, everyone else has gone! This is one of the dumbest movies I think I've ever seen, the two genres don't mesh well, the acting is so over the top that it's just hard to watch and the story is something that a ten year old might have written! Funny? A little. Hard to watch? Definitely!

I'm giving Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter a lonely stub of a half a cigar,

because this was harder to watch than seeing your grandma at a strip joint...working! So, until next time, when we'll talk about other things that don't go together, like that taco-twinkee combo I proposed years ago, remember that the best movies are bad movies!