“Perhaps you imagined me somewhat...taller.”
Once again we take an excursion into the properly odd courtesy of one of 88 Films’ Grindhouse releases (this one’s Number 13 in the series) and good old Charles Band, who both produces and directs this time around.
Mad scientist Winston Berber (Bill Moynihan) is busy amassing a collection of first edition manuscripts of famous horror novels. He already has Guy Endore’s Werewolf of Paris and Nina Wilcox Putnam’s The Mummy. He pinches Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein from under the nose of pretty librarian Anna Quarrie (non-actress Rhonda Griffin). Anna knows her Mary Woronov-alike boss Miss Christina (Kristin Norton) isn’t going to be happy about that, and she's certainly going to stop asking her to Rita Mae Brown readings if she finds out, so she employs video shop owner-cum-private detective David Raleigh (Justin Lauer) to help her find it. Meanwhile Berber is after Bram Stoker’s Dracula as well. He intends to use these books, and the machine he has in his Portacabin laboratory, to bring the classic horror monsters to life. He needs a virgin for this but things go a bit wrong and the monsters emerge from their creation booths only three feet tall. The rest of the running time deals with their attempts to return themselves to their proper size, which include turning Miss Christina into a Valkyrie.

Fans of serious stuff should stay well away, but if you want to see a pretty girl in a gold satin bra being chased around a library by tiny versions of the mummy, the werewolf, Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula (Phil Fondacaro who’s very good, by the way) you’ll think you’ve died and gone to heaven.

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