EDITOR’S NOTE: I Was a Teenage Frankenstein was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, March 6, 1965 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, April 15, 1967 at 11:20 p.m.

Five months after American-International Picture’s I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Herbert L. Strock (The Crawling Hand) directed this follow-up, which has British professor Professor Frankenstein (Whit Bissell, who was also the mad scientist in AIP’s first teenager as a monster movie) coming to America to assemble his monster from the bodies of teenagers who didn’t make it through Dead Man’s Curve.

He’s the kind of scientist who has no problem feeding former Lois Lane Phyllis Coates to alligators (AIP’s Herman Cohen kayfabe stated that the alligator had been used to dispose of the bodies of the victims of serial killer Joe Ball from a small town outside San Antonio, which I love) or cutting off the face of a boy on Lover’s Lane (Gary Conway, The Farmer) for his undead monster.

Herman Cohen and Herbert L. Strock were able to write and shoot this film and Blood of Dracula in 4 weeks. That’s because a Texas chain of drive-ins asked for two new movies from AIP if they could deliver by Thanksgiving.

How did AIP not follow this up with I Was a Teenage Dracula? Then again, both the teenage werewolf and teenage Frankenstein show up in How to Make a Monster.