10 Most Ridiculous Monster Movies Of All Time

Shot in six days for $65,000 using props foraged from a junk dealer’s backyard, Frankenstein’s Daughter doesn’t need wire-supported spaceships and sock-puppet monsters to convince us of its cheapness, just the swimsuit-clad monster in hastily applied mascara and plastic fangs shown in the opening scene.

Looking like Lily Munster with a serious vitamin deficiency, this creature is enough to make you wonder if you’re in Ed Wood territory, and in a sense you are. It’s the creation of Harry Thomas, Ed’s favourite make-up man, who also gave us a zombie Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Anyway, she turns out to be the wholesome niece of a benevolent scientist whose assistant, “Mr Frank”, has secretly been experimenting on her, transforming her into a creature that roams LA before waking up with no recollection of her midnight wanderings. “Mr Frank” is also working on a monster for which he requires a female brain (because women “know how to take orders”), so he kills a bimbo and takes the necessary organ.

If you just thought “I bet the monster runs amok and kills people”, you’re way ahead of everyone else in the movie.