Spoilers discussing scientist's advanced, futuristic automobile.
Roger Corman never felt constrained by much, the movie's budget or the storyline. Well, maybe he did face the practicalities of a movie's budget limitations but you can't fault Corman for trying new ideas. Mixing science fiction and horror was a signature feature of Corman, and his best example of that was the 1981, "Galaxy Of Terror". Usually Corman's sci-fi/horror synthesis starts from science fiction and then reveals its horror elements.
The story line and plot of, "Frankenstein Unbound" is mostly known through the reviews so I won't waste time repeating it. Suffice to say, the best way to enjoy this Corman unique rendition of the Frankenstein genre is to unbind (pun intended) oneself from the traditional and original Frankenstein book and accept the movie as a very different interpretation with its Dean Koontz-like science fiction futuristic background.
I'm not the only reviewer who was wowed by the slick, futuristic, hydrogen fuel cell, DeLorean-like, silvery convertible with its artificial intelligent, on-board computer that functions as tech wizard personal assistant to the futuristic scientist driver (which one reviewer accurately described as slightly mad scientist). For me this was the most fun part of the movie, especially when the artificial intelligent computer informs the scientist that without access to a mainframe computer it will take 96 hours to complete the scientist's projection calculation of the next atmospheric time tear ripple. I somehow believe that technology is somewhere in the near future. The computer technology was nowhere near what we have now back in 1990 when even personal computers were rare and computers were still thought of as big machine installations with dot matrix printer paper. The computers of 2017 are so fast and efficient and portable that it seems like but a small step to making computers talk to us. Imagine the convenience of telling your personal computer what to do instead of having to spend the time typing everything.
Roger Corman never felt constrained by much, the movie's budget or the storyline. Well, maybe he did face the practicalities of a movie's budget limitations but you can't fault Corman for trying new ideas. Mixing science fiction and horror was a signature feature of Corman, and his best example of that was the 1981, "Galaxy Of Terror". Usually Corman's sci-fi/horror synthesis starts from science fiction and then reveals its horror elements.
The story line and plot of, "Frankenstein Unbound" is mostly known through the reviews so I won't waste time repeating it. Suffice to say, the best way to enjoy this Corman unique rendition of the Frankenstein genre is to unbind (pun intended) oneself from the traditional and original Frankenstein book and accept the movie as a very different interpretation with its Dean Koontz-like science fiction futuristic background.
I'm not the only reviewer who was wowed by the slick, futuristic, hydrogen fuel cell, DeLorean-like, silvery convertible with its artificial intelligent, on-board computer that functions as tech wizard personal assistant to the futuristic scientist driver (which one reviewer accurately described as slightly mad scientist). For me this was the most fun part of the movie, especially when the artificial intelligent computer informs the scientist that without access to a mainframe computer it will take 96 hours to complete the scientist's projection calculation of the next atmospheric time tear ripple. I somehow believe that technology is somewhere in the near future. The computer technology was nowhere near what we have now back in 1990 when even personal computers were rare and computers were still thought of as big machine installations with dot matrix printer paper. The computers of 2017 are so fast and efficient and portable that it seems like but a small step to making computers talk to us. Imagine the convenience of telling your personal computer what to do instead of having to spend the time typing everything.