EDITOR’S NOTE: Frankenstein’s Daughter was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, November 23, 1968 at 3:00 a.m.; Saturday, September 20 and Saturday December 20, 1969 at 1:00 a.m.; Saturday, June 6 at 11:30 p.m. and Saturday, December 26, 1970 at 1:00 a.m.; Saturday, September 25, 1971 at 1:00 a.m.; Saturday, September 16, 1972 at 11:30 p.m. and Saturday, November 4, 1972 at 1:00 a.m.

Richard E. Cunha also made Giant from the Unknown, She Demons, Missile to the Moon and this film, which was written by H.E. Barrie. His father was Sonny Cunha, who wrote “My Waikiki Mermaid,” the earliest known hapa haole song.

Trudy Morton (Sandra Knight) dreams of running wild in the streets as a monster. Her boyfriend, Johnny Bruder (John Ashley), thinks this is silly; her uncle, Carter Moron (Felix Locher), with whom she lives, has a lab assistant named Oliver Frank (Donald Murphy). Every night, he spikes her fruit punch with his new drug. Because yes, he’s the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein and the kindly Elsu (Wolfe Barzell) is his lab assistant.

For some reason, Trudy’s friend Suzie Lawler (Sally Todd) gets set up with Oliver. He acts like a jerk, then runs her over, smashing her head. So why a female monster, when the Frankensteins have always made — well, mostly — men? Oliveer says, “Now we’re aware the female mind is conditioned to a man’s world. It therefore takes orders, where the other ones didn’t.”

Also known as the She Monster of the Night and maybe even the Wild Witch of Frankenstein, this monster has the head of a woman and the body of a man, made from what’s left of Suzie. The director said that when he saw the makeup for the monster, he was so disappointed that he left the set and broke down in tears.

I didn’t think it was that bad, but as we all know, I have no taste.

You can watch this on Tubi.