Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘Army of Frankensteins’

Written by Scott Edwards

​It is important to find what you really want out of life, even if it is disappointing to your friends or family. What they want for you versus what you want for yourself can be two completely different things and it is important to know that you are living your life for you and no one else. Once you start listening to what others start to think about your choices, you may want to change what you are doing, but if it is something that you like to do, it could make you worse off. Keep looking forward and listening to your heart, because in the long run, that is really the only thing that will keep you happy.

With the perfect night planned to propose to his girlfriend, Alan Jones receives a text message that Ashley has to work late. As his night seems to be falling apart, he ventures to the store to see her in person with his news but sees her locking lips with her boss. Upset, Alan heads home to find that a couple of thugs want to take his money from him. Seeing a young man come to his rescue, Alan is handed a long pipe that grows out of nowhere and sends a shock to his system knocking him out.

Waking up in a laboratory of some sort with a missing eye, Alan gets an injection of some green formula that is supposed to keep him out of it, but when he sees a Frankenstein in the corner of the lab, he wants to know what is going on. Hitting a switch when Doctor Finski told him not too, a rash of duplicate Frankensteins are unleashed in the lab. Trying to run away from the beasts, the doctor, his assistant Igor and Alan run through a portal sending them back to the Civil War. Being picked up on the battlefield by Solomon Jones and taken to the medical tent, Doctor Finski is not able to continue his life after the time jump. Alan on the other hand is getting to see what the Frankenstein monsters are able to accomplish firsthand as he is getting flashes of images from the leader beast.

Trying to find a way to get back home, young Igor heads back down to the battlefield and is met by Lieutenant Swanson from the South and is relieved of the secret formula. Taking the strange liquid back to his commanding officer Robert E. Walton, the two find out what exactly the formula is capable of. With plans to make a super soldier for the South to take out the onslaught of Frankenstein monsters heading their way, Swanson takes the formula and is ready to wreak havoc over the North. But as battles commence and failures are brought out into the open, Walton and his new beast have a special assignment and are sent to Washington D.C. to fulfill what the history books have had wrong all this time.

A retelling of what happened during the Civil War and I must admit that I was pleasantly surprised. I liked the fact that Alan had ties to a Union Soldier, even if it seemed really hokey at the time. Young Igor however stole the show, with all of his know how, he was able to not only find a way home but knew how to make a sort of super soldier of his own. With so many logs in the fire during the storytelling, you get to see a great battle with Frankenstein monsters leading the charge for the North and they are brought to an end by someone that should have not been on the battlefield to begin with. With Frankenstein monsters, torn off limbs, a family tree that has not started yet, a smart kid and the reason why Lincoln died at the theater, this is really just a fun movie to get lost in, especially if you like history, splatter and monster fights. Stay Scared.

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