Critique: There is no denying the charm of this Dr. Frankenstein and his hilariously ill-founded eugenics program. His dream to create a master race which will answer only to him as Führer seems to be an end in itself as the Baron never once mentions why this would be good. It is simply part of his art pour l'art mad scientist obsession. He does, however, note that this is no stride forward for medicine, but rather a stride forward for him. The decadence of this hopelessly inbred nobility is depicted nicely, as the sister-husband pair plunder the peasantry for their own perverted ends, while upbraiding them for being filthy and low. Wagner's Valkurie score is a nice touch as the father of Frankenstein's master race is constructed. The married brother-sister motif reflects Odin's eugenics program as Sigmund and Siglinde give birth to the perfect blonde (stupid) Germanic warrior, Siegfried. After evoking initial bafflement, the absurd Brooklyn accent of Joe Dallesandro as Nicholas produces an effective incongruity, making the class conflict all the more ridiculous. It is galling to give a Warhol film a seven, and some of it is pretty smug, but there's no denying this film's strengths. Check out the Gustav Klimt Chinoisserie all over the castle. The first anti-Serb movie?

Plot Summary: Little Marike and Erik entertain themselves by chopping the heads off dolls and then go on a pony-ride with mommy when she finds a beautiful Serbian peasant man (Nicholas) having sex on the job. In general mother finds Serbs repulsive and is forced to take her children out of school due to the "rumors" they spread about the Frankensteins, who she brays, are special. Baron Frankenstein wants a clean laboratory Otto. He is looking for the finest features of the Serbian race, direct descendants of the glory that was the ancient Greeks, in particular he is looking for the perfect nose. Otto and the Baron travel to town and get some more Serbs for body parts. Meanwhile, Nicholas (the Serb with the Brooklyn accent) tries to convince his friend Sasha, an aspiring monk, to have sex with the girls in the city. As the baroness takes her children on a picnic she discovers him having sex with a prostitute as his friends look on. She demands that he appear at the castle for discipline the next morning. At the same time, the Baron is concerned that he find a sexually aggressive male to provide the head to ensure he fall in love with his female zombie. Such a man he surmises can be found at the bordello, "one who would have sex with anything." Unfortunately, Frankenstein and Otto encounter asexual Otto at the bordello where they become convinced that he is the man who was pleasing two women, and not his friend. The mad scientists lurk on the roadside that night and gonk the pretty boy and decapitate the Serb with the perfect nose. When Nicholas awakens the next morning he finds his decapitated friend beside him, but keeps his appointment with the baroness where he begins his new job as the Baroness' lover. The baron seems to accept Katherine's man servant. Finally the big day comes and they turn on the currents, firing up the arc lamps. The (now scarless) two zombies obey simple commands. The baron decides to attempt to reduce the gestation period so that he won't have to wait nine months for the coming master race. Soon the constructs show up at dinner and the manservant Nicholas recognizes Sasha whom he saw beheaded. The Baron insists that they are not yet ready to eat solid food. The Baron notices Nicholas' interest in Sasha and remarks on it. When Catherine asks, Nicholas says that it wasn't "exactly" his friend. He is too tall. Nicholas begins asking about what the baron does. The children distract themselves in the laboratory by stealing a hand and watching a disembodied cardio-pulmenary system function. The baron and the two constructs arrive and the children move to an abandoned part of the castle. The housekeeper wanders into the lab and finds the two constructs laid out naked on the table. Otto snaps and begins molesting her. Nicholas has a run in with the Baron, but seems not to be concerned about losing his job. He runs into the kids who show him the back way into the lab. The Baron tries to get the female construct to arouse the male, but the process doesn't work out. Nicholas observes the proceedings and goes back to Catherine who, however, supports the Baron. The Baron is outraged that the experiment has failed after they had waited so long. (That is, one day, Sasha was killed the day before.) Nicholas returns to the laboratory. The baron goes to Catherine who wants the construct to come to her. She tells them about Nicholas and after a struggle, he is overcome. The baroness takes the Sasha-construct up to her bedroom despite Otto's objections. She finds him a bit hard to control, however. Otto again gets a bit excited and destroys the female accidentally, the incensed Baron then attacking Otto. When the male returns with the lifeless Catherine, the Baron is inconsolate. He tells it to kill Nicholas. The construct, however goes after the baron who loses a hand and then a gall bladder in the process of the deadly finale.