Thursday, October 20, 2022

NULL-CROSSOVERS #3

 JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER is not just an amusing bad movie, it's also a "null-crossover." 

Whereas the same-year BILLY THE KID VS DRACULA really does cross over the two titular icons, the other film teams one recognizable icon, a fictionalized Jesse James, with an icon who is merely derivative of the original Frankenstein. The derivative nature of Frankenstein's daughter may count on invoking a dollop of recognizability, but it's faux recognizability since she does not literally connect with the icon created by Mary Shelley.



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