The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 by AverageMansReviews

The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/animal cruelty/shooting/disfigurement/transformation/choking/hanging/capital punishment/burning/dismemberment/references to incest and sexism

A young boy loses family and make something of some bodies: briefly; Baron Victor Frankenstein [Younger:Melvyn Hayes/Older: Peter Cushing:] at the time this young boy hires a teacher named  Paul Krempe [Robert Urquhart:] as time went past they began to focus more and more of their time on science; specifically body regeneration, further and further they went down the line: Krempe grew more and more uncomfortable, which he did voice his opinion, but Frankenstein didn't listen and eventually created the Creature [Christopher Lee:] unfortunately whilst trying to stop Frankenstein Krempe gave this creature some form or brain damage, so it doesn't exactly come out how it was meant to.

Generally speaking: the script is good; the framework from the outlay of storyteller [Frankenstein/Cushing] and come full circle, the background music; I mean I get it; it is there to create emotions at that specific time, but it didn't have to be ear piercing from time to time, it was bad and I do understand that the film industry was getting back then, but still it was bad and the pacing of this 83 minutes film is likewise good.

Art, action and comedy; I really do like the set designs, costumes and etc: as there is a lot of high detail on them, such as Frankenstein's laboratory and for this timeframe what you would expect to see in it such as for one example contraption/mechanics to bring his creation to life/the Creature [Lee,] for the action there isn't much for me to put here; there is now and again scuffles between Frankenstein and Krempe and likewise there is one moment of comedy, where in a rough description we have Frankenstein's best man for his wedding is practising the beginning of the best man speech and basically every time he begins again and again and so on he refills his glass as he is standing behind the punchbowl located in front of him on the table, until his significant other essentially pulls him away to go.

Character developments and performances; broadly the character developments and the performances of this cast are all good, but let's be honest it is predominately down to Hayes/Cushing, Urquhart and Lee: that take this character developments and performances, make them stand out, making them three dimensional much as they can as it relates to Lee: without this trio this film would have massively struggled; as this film needs a bit of push and shove with Cushing and Urquhart mostly verbally and for Lee you really does become this character with the movement and body language: so this trio of performances is excellent as they really are the driving force behind the title.

This film receives: 7/10, this film is good, it really does depend if you are into firstly horror but then again old school horror as well, because you will appreciate this film, I would have given this project something a little bit higher, if it wasn't for the very high pitch background music, now I should point out this is based on the film and not the cinema's volume issue, because the person and I watch some of this content with went to go and see this film at the cinema and it was good fun, I could have done without wincing at the high pitch sound, as I have very good hearing in the first place, this was somewhat really uncomfortable. But providing you are a age-appropriate, it is worth a watch. This film also has some awards accredited to its name; 1 Winner Guinness World Record Award 1957 Guinness World Record Tallest actor in a leading role Christopher Lee and 1 Nominee International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA) 2020 IFMCA Award Best Archival Release of an Existing Score - Re-Release or Re-Recording James Bernard (music by) James Fitzpatrick (album produced by) David Huckvale (liner notes by) Nic Finch (art direction by) Nic Raine (The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra/conducted by) Shared with: Horror of Dracula

 

Average Extra of: The Government Rejects Banning Under 16's from Social Media in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Average Extra of: The Government Rejects Banning Under 16's from Social Media in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Average Extra of: The Government to Consider Banning Facebook for Under 16's in 2026 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2026/02/average-extra-of-government-to-consider.html

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Warning: there will be some censored adult language references in this content

Never mind: shucks the parents or/and family members will have to take some responsibility for their own off-spring, I mean fudge I know that sounds like a foreign concept, but maybe if the older generations actually got off their mobile devices and consequently social media to raise the younger generation we may not have the problems with the younger generation/generations we do today? After this government decide to reject plans to ban under 16's from social media.

I mean without gaslighting, I think this is a small part of a bigger picture problem; from the perspective of the children after I would say the 1990's have had a very sanitised upbringing and consequently they can't handle the slightest bit of manure or something out of the status quo for some examples dealing with microwave or unrealistic expectations of life such as meeting a nice person but isn't there a preferred height like 6 foot plus or having a thick skin to some degree to deal with life as a whole and this last one seems to be a big problem.

Because I spend more and more of my time really analysing what I am saying how it is said, how it would possibly be received and then taking responsibility for it; if for an example I was joking and then realising it is 2026 and regardless if I was joking you can't say that or anything without someone taking it the wrong way, because they just don't have the communication skills or thick skin or quite frankly they have been wrapped up in cotton wool, but don't you see that because we have allowed people to play the victims or made allowances for people to be unnecessarily afraid without dealing with something they didn't like or negative, we have increased such things as mental health or/and police involvement and I am not saying you can't get the police involvement, because hypothetically and quite possibly it is time to do so. But you know what I am trying to indicate; dealing with negativity should be part of everyone's life at some point or another and there is such a thing as just ignoring it; they are just words on screen, but essentially putting too many filters around children especially in their late teens is actually more of in my opinion a hindrance than support, because they should be developing personal skills to deal with this kind of thing or if they have tried to deal with it, talk to someone of an older generation about it; because even before they are 16 anyway, they should have [I know from personal experience this is not always the case,] some kind of dialogue with somebody.

But I want to finish this content like this; having a sanitised version of life should never be a good way to live life, because we need a little bit of soil/dirt to grow into stronger, more rounded and in-depth people/individuals and I should issue a very slight apology for the title of the connecting content, I was under the impression it was Facebook, but it is more brought than that, I was mentally social media; apologies for any meanings.

 

In-depth Predictions/Other elements for AEW Revolution 2026 by AverageMansReviews

In-depth Predictions/Other elements for AEW Revolution 2026 by AverageMansReviews

"Big Boom!" A.J. vs. TBA; Match TBA: as I expect this match slot to be comical relief I will go for Boom.

Toni Storm vs. Death Riders' Marina Shafir; Singles Match; Everyone is banned from ringside: I really do fancy my selection here, Shafir has been putting some really good working as a member of the Riders, so let's give her a little push.

Místico and JetSpeed: "The Jet" Kevin Knight & "Speedball" Mike Bailey vs. Champs The Don Callis Family's: the AEW International Champion Kazuchika Okada, Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis [with Don Callis;] Trios Match for the AEW World Trios Championship: let's be honest I can't see these championships changing hands here... I just can't.

Kris Statlander vs Champ the Triangle of Madness': Thekla; Two out of Three Falls Match for the AEW Women's World Championship: I fully expect the score line to be 2-1 with one last fall plenty of interference from everyone involved in this feud at this point in time

Brody King vs. Swerve Strickland [with Prince Nana;] Singles Match: for now I have chosen this result, but also it is showing that King is more than at home going up against main event calibre wrestlers.

The Don Callis Family's: Andrade El Ídolo [with Don Callis] vs. the ROH Champion Bandido; Singles Match: my pick is based on the idea that hopefully next time the championship will be on the line where we can crown a new champion.

The Don Callis Family's: the NJPW World Television Champion Konosuke Takeshita [with Don Callis] vs. Champ Death Riders': Jon Moxley [with Marina Shafir:] No Time Limit Match for the AEW Continental Championship: this is another situation where I just can't see a championship drop by now.

The Young Bucks: Matt & Nick Jackson vs. Champs FDR's: Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood [with Stokely;] Tag Team Match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship: I am going to guess by kind of interference not to assist anybody, but to make their presence known and consequently we have new champions

"Hangman" Adam Page vs. Champ MJF; Last Chance Texas Deathmatch for the AEW World Championship; If Page loses, he will never be able to challenge for the AEW World Championship ever again: I mean if this comes to pass I hope they have a excellent storyline other than the usual Page hits rock bottom shtick that no exaggeration, we must have seen possibly for different times of Page hitting rock bottom and I don't fancy seeing it again for possibly the fifth time already.

Best of the Best 4: Without Warning 1998 by AverageMansReviews

Best of the Best 4: Without Warning 1998 by AverageMansReviews

Previous instalment: Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back 1995 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2026/03/best-of-best-3-no-turning-back-1995-by.html

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/terrorism/shooting/torture/racism/domestic violence/biting/stabbing/references to Russia

Bikers: briefly; they steal something which means they can make professionals looking real deal money [actually physically make money by in a nutshell manufacturing it:] Lukasz Slava [Tobin Bell:] is a Russian mobster; the brains behind this plan, sometime later/then it becomes simultaneously Detective Gresko [Ernie Hudson:] he is a grizzled veteran that is far from a nice person, but he is trying to hunt down this individual that shot and killed another detective.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script is incredibly generic, so consequently/or individually the framework and pacing of this 90 minute film actually this whole lot in this paragraph is very much a paint by numbers of outlay; things really only get going somewhere around the final section oh yes before I forget we also have the slow motion effects in some martial arts sequences.

Action and art; in one way or another we are some kind of vehicle action sequences; for an example we get to experience this high octane sequence of events from the driver's prospective or obviously there is martial arts sequences; where we have one vs. many with the inclusion of weapons at different stages: this entire sequence of events in this location: has been constructed with great detail, accuracy and fluency.

Character developments and performances; if this is what they were going for on both counts... good for them, as it relates to a character types they fulfil their character with stereotype versions of what they are meant to be with performances which echo those character versions; as it relates to Ernie Hudson as Detective Gresko, Tobin Bell as Lukasz Slava and Paul Gleason as Father Gil: he and his church become a safe haven for this little girl: all put in a somewhat positive performances broadly speaking; but you know they have the talents and skills to do more.

This film receives: 3/10, this film is poor; mostly everything about it is just really well and truly generic, as it put me to sleep multiple times, yes it really does have on reflection more than enough positive parts to be given an extra mark, but it has to be said that the names I have made reference to in this content; they could have been given more in-depth characters to tax their abilities a bit more as performers; this should be stated I am not criticising the performances; I am just stating they could have been given more of a challenge as it relates to bring these characters to life and without giving too much away and yes I am being very facetious/sarcastic; I like how this is another instalment from this franchise would was originally based around the sport of martial arts, to be reduced to by and large just another straight up action film.

 

Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back 1995 by AverageMansReviews

Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back 1995 by AverageMansReviews

Previous instalment: Best of the Best II 1993 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2025/12/best-of-best-ii-1993-by.html

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/white supremacy/white supremacy salute/swastika/racism/racist violence/domestic terrorism/vehicle hit/vehicle crash/men on woman violence/sexual assault/shooting/stabbing/impaling/burning/choking/reference to immigration. I should just point out that I had no idea what this film was about and I just wanted to finish off this franchise and that was my only motivation really for watching this movie.

Come into town: briefly; Tommy Lee [one of the Producer/Director: Phillip Rhee:] he comes to visit his family, which coincides days after this racially motivated murder of a African-American Rev by this white supremacy group.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script is focused on white supremacy and everything which surrounds that, the framework and pacing of this 90 minutes film is fundamentally sound, but then again it is being heavily weighed down by the contents of the script.

Action, comedy and art; now it depends if you have watched many action/martial arts films or not, but if you have you will be very familiar with this outlay of martial arts infused with some kind of comedy level; such as one example here; we have Lee put foot to posterior whilst he is loosely dressed as a clown and on top of that we have some really explosive sequence of events, including Lee running away from this explosion; where the green-screen effects look okay, but for experienced people/viewers it is looking a bit old by the standards of today; but by and large these components or/and elements are a consistent positive throughout this project.

Character developments and performances; on both counts they are fit for purpose, I can't really say much more than that really, they are not poor, they are the next level from being generic, which as I have already indicated is fit for purpose; so how to put this nicely; we have a very strong and powerful and unpleasant cultural divide and the performances reflect what they are meant to put across to the audience.

This film receives: 1/10, this film is poor; for whatever positives this film may have which on a quick side note are few and far between, there is no way in hell I am going to overlook the strong and more or less ever presents component of white supremacy in this manner, unless a movie is like American History X 1998: where there is real substance and not something that strongly resembles the equivalent of an after-school special.

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE NXT's Thea Hail statement regarding online heaters in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE NXT's Thea Hail statement regarding online heaters in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Wasted: Thea Hail's First-Ever Championship run as NXT Women's North American Champion Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2026/01/wasted-thea-hails-first-ever.html

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WWE NXT's Thea Hail statement regarding online heaters: "I've been wanting to touch on this subject for a long time now and I just haven't felt like I should, and now my opinion's changed.

"I'm a 22 year old girl. Think about that for a second. I wouldn't have even graduated college if I'd been.

"I moved away in the middle of high school to pursue my dream, because I valued that over comfortability, and most people could never have fathomed to do that.

"And every day, to look at my Twitter timeline or look at social media and see negative comments about me as a human being, is disgusting.

"I've worked my a** off for five years. For the biggest moment of my career. And you all take it as a joke. You act like I'm the worst human being in the world, for my one ounce of success that I finally had.

"It sucks. I don't think you understand every day that I wake up happy, sad, miserable, I don't care - I put professional wrestling above everything.

"And for five years, I have valued this industry to such an extent and I've valued others' opinions, and it is exhausting.

"I love this more than anything, but what I don't love is to constantly be torn down by other people, by other human beings.

"At the end of the day, I am a person. I am a 22 year old girl who is getting to live my dreams. And for some reason, that's wrong?

"And for some reason, you guys decide that you wanna go hate on somebody else because you're not happy with yourself.

"You feel the need to tear somebody else down to build yourself up. Are you serious?

"I don't understand it. I don't understand the level of hate in professional wrestling today.

"For just one second, I would love for you guys to internally think, would you like for somebody to say this about me? Think about that.

"So please, take an extra 10 seconds before you put something up on social media. Please.

"And remember that the person on the other end of it is also a human being, Happy Sunday and go to church." [I have ever so slightly censored this statement and you can see where.]

Sorry, but not sorry; as you can see as it relates to the related content section I stuck up for her, but now she has put the statement out in this manner I am a lot less understanding or forgiving, from the aspect of I get her sentiment, but heaters are going to hate, people are not civil these days and it by her essentially acknowledging them they are not going to stop and let me make this perfectly fudgin' clear in no way shape or form am I condoning their behaviour... Because I am not.

But having made it crystal clear; I can't stand the fact that she refers to herself as a girl as to garnish some sympathy, Nope you are a young woman and we can stop that right now! It was your choice to leave high school and follow your dream, What you know what surprises me about every wrestler that complains regardless of gender or age... none of you seemingly have a tough skin, so what people say negative things about you online; question; so if or when you get a high-level in professional wrestling wherever that may be and you are getting well paid, and you'd better with their time on this planet; you or some slob that has no other choice but to work from 9 to 5, until the day they die?

Before I receive backlash about any of what I have just dictated allow me to tell you a little about myself; I was born with quadriplegic cerebral palsy; I didn't have much of a childhood going back and forth between England and Hungary [which sometimes was under communist rules,] at the age of 16 I was given a lot of responsibilities that slowly have become more and more overtime and they are still having to this very day and age of now 42 years old when this content was first created; I have had quite a few predictions throughout my life, spending most of my life single, being diagnosed with depression 18 years ago, now dealing with an ongoing family cancer situation and yes absolutely I receive abuse online and in the real world in some form on a weekly basis as well.

So if you don't think I understand the tough roads the vast majority of my life are on the tough roads, I don't want any sympathy for this. But when someone at the age of 22 has her whole life in front of her where options will come, opportunities will come, yet she is whining and complaining about toxic behaviour, when she could just very easily ignore it and just look at herself in the mirror [clothing optional... just joking] and say I am doing okay.

But as things stand she has just given everything and I mean everything they have ever wanted, you can feel and see it getting to her, but to a certain extent this is a part of being a public figure and not just a wrestling landscape things and let me highlight this again I am not condoning this behaviour... if anything I am just saying it as an uncomfortable truth.

But maybe wrestling promotions should be putting on educational lessons on how to deal with PR, including online and anything else, I don't know if they are doing this already or not, possibly not. But I would have advised Hail to script what she was planning to say and let someone have a look at it and take their advice or script so that it doesn't give the haters what they want or limit how much it gives the haters what they want.

But from a broader perspective and to finish off this content; I am growing increasingly concerned about the younger generations that are already here and the following ones; where you can't say anything or they don't have the skills or abilities to in essence deal with situations such as this one or situations in general, like on a face-to-face basis I really have to concentrate on and... most men would agree with this where I have to rewind what I have just heard in my head, be very careful on what I say, how I say it, limit the possible interpretations of what I have just said, proof read it in my head and then respond. Predominantly women if you have ever wondered why it takes us men so long to reply; this is the basic mechanical structure outlay of what happens in our heads. I also fear that Hail has just opened herself up to more hate as well and let's not forget she does not make the booking decisions, as she gets older she may or may not have say but for now even though I am not a part of the creative team, she doesn't have much say in booking, but let's finish this content on a positive note; keep your chin up Hail and fudge the haters!

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE WrestleMania 42/2026 Men's Main Events look Desperate and Lacklustre by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE WrestleMania 42/2026 Men's Main Events look Desperate and Lacklustre  by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Wasted: Danhausen makes his WWE Debut at WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2026/03/wasted-danhausen-makes-his-wwe-debut-at.html

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Mania 42/2026 looks like panic stations: on the men's side of things anyway actually it looks fudgin' desperate if I was honest with you, to the point where I actually have no interest in seeing it, so as things stand; Roman Reigns [40] vs. Champ CM Punk [47:] Singles Match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship and Randy Orton [45] vs. Champ Cody Rhodes [40:] Singles Match for the Undisputed WWE Championship: Stipulations probably subject to change.

So straight off the bat from anyone around the wrestling industry/or the Internet wrestling community wants t take a cheap pop at AEW's main event picture, the WWE's is far worse, so based on the numbers that are in front of us, you have to be an average age of 40+ to be in the main event picture on the biggest stage of all in professional wrestling.

I know that the WWE are going through some form of creative restructuring or whatever, but I think I am like everyone else or the ones that have brain cells, that have come to the sad realisation that Trips hasn't been cutting the mustard and he hasn't been for some time, because this is just a classic example of Mr. McMahon's booking of getting the veterans booked over younger talent and yet again younger talent not coming through, for me this is déjà vu all over again.

But putting the age thing to one side; they have booked themselves into a corner where I really, well and truly couldn't be less bothered on who gets put over and comes out as champion, I mean if I had to pick one outcome that I could say okay we haven't seen this for a while... it would have to be Randy Orton as champion, that way I could say good for him, but other than that I really couldn't be bothered.

I can't stress on how much they really need to galvanise these feuds and Mania plans, because as things stand even if I was going or not I would be furious spending all this money and potentially seeing some really lacklustre main events. Obviously we have roughly less than 6 weeks, so they have plenty of time to put some weight behind these main events to build them up, but they are really all out all the stops to get this WrestleMania Season going off with a bang without the usage of Viagra.