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* YourCheatingHeart: In a subplot that goes nowhere, Hans' wife Valda is having an affair with the hunchback Gregor.
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* KarmaHoudini: Genz, the DerpravedDwarf and is involved one way or another in all on screen deaths, is still alive at the end of the movie.

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* KarmaHoudini: Genz, the DerpravedDwarf DepravedDwarf and is involved one way or another in all on screen deaths, is still alive at the end of the movie.
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*KarmaHoudini: Genz, the DerpravedDwarf and is involved one way or another in all on screen deaths, is still alive at the end of the movie.
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* TheIgor: Count Frankenstein has several assistants: the sycophantic Hans, the hunchback Gregor, and the DepravedDwarf Genz.

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* TheIgor: Count Frankenstein has several assistants: the sycophantic Hans, the hunchback Gregor, and the DepravedDwarf Genz. Also a normal looking assistant actually named Igor...
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* {{Uberwald}}: The film is set at some unspecified location in Europe that ticks most of the boxes for the Uberwald: a MadScientist living in a castle that is prone to lightning strikes, a village full of superstitious villagers itching to form a TorchesAndPitchforks mob, a local official trying to drag the region into the modern day, and wild [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthals]] living in the forst (ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext).

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* {{Uberwald}}: The film is set at some unspecified location in Europe that ticks most of the boxes for the Uberwald: a MadScientist living in a castle that is prone to lightning strikes, a village full of superstitious villagers itching to form a TorchesAndPitchforks mob, a local official trying to drag the region into the modern day, and wild [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthals]] living in the forst forest (ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext).
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* {{Uberwald}}: The film is set at some unspecified location that ticks most of the boxes for the Uberwald: a MadScientist living in a castle that is prone to lightning strikes, a village full of superstitious villagers itching to form a TorchesAndPitchforks mob, a local official trying to drage the region into the modern day, and wild [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthals]] living in the forst (ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext).

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* {{Uberwald}}: The film is set at some unspecified location in Europe that ticks most of the boxes for the Uberwald: a MadScientist living in a castle that is prone to lightning strikes, a village full of superstitious villagers itching to form a TorchesAndPitchforks mob, a local official trying to drage drag the region into the modern day, and wild [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthals]] living in the forst (ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext).
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* {{Uberwald}}: The film is set at some unspecified location that ticks most of the boxes for the Uberwald: a MadScientist living in a castle that is prone to lightning strikes, a village full of superstitious villagers itching to form a TorchesAnPitchforks mob, a local official trying to drage the region into the modern day, and wild [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthals]] living in the forst (ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext).

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* {{Uberwald}}: The film is set at some unspecified location that ticks most of the boxes for the Uberwald: a MadScientist living in a castle that is prone to lightning strikes, a village full of superstitious villagers itching to form a TorchesAnPitchforks TorchesAndPitchforks mob, a local official trying to drage the region into the modern day, and wild [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthals]] living in the forst (ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext).
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* {{Uberwald}}: The film is set at some unspecified location that ticks most of the boxes for the Uberwald: a MadScientist living in a castle that is prone to lightning strikes, a village full of superstitious villagers itching to form a TorchesAnPitchforks mob, a local official trying to drage the region into the modern day, and wild [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthals]] living in the forst (ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext).
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* WantedASonInstead: A minor plot point is that because Count Frankenstein's only child is a daughter who is about to marry, the Frankenstein name will die with him. Krista hints none to subtly that it is not too late for him to remarry and [[HeirClubForMen father a male heir]].

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* WantedASonInstead: A minor plot point is that because Count Frankenstein's only child is a daughter who is about to marry, the Frankenstein name will die with him. Krista hints none to too subtly that it is not too late for him to remarry and [[HeirClubForMen father a male heir]].
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* HeirClubForMen: Count Frankenstein laments that his wife died giving birth to a stillborn son, so there is no one to carry on the Frankenstein family name. Krista hints, none too subtly, that it is not too late for him to remarry and father a male heir.



* WantedASonInstead: A minor plot is that because Count Frankenstein's only child is a daughter who is about to marry, the Frankenstein name will die with him. Krista hints none to subtly that it is not too late for him to remarry and [[HeirClubForMen father a male heir]].

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* WantedASonInstead: A minor plot point is that because Count Frankenstein's only child is a daughter who is about to marry, the Frankenstein name will die with him. Krista hints none to subtly that it is not too late for him to remarry and [[HeirClubForMen father a male heir]].
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* WantedASonInstead: A minor plot is that because Count Frankenstein's only child is a daughter who is about to marry, the Frankenstein name will die with him. Krista hints none to subtly that it is not too late for him to remarry and [[HeirClubForMen father a male heir]].
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* BathtubBonding: Maria and Krista bathe together in the mineral springs in the caves. As they rubs therapeutic mud into each others skins, they discuss Krista's possible romance with Maria's father.

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* BathtubBonding: Maria and Krista bathe together in the mineral springs in the caves. As they rubs rub therapeutic mud into each others skins, they discuss Krista's possible romance with Maria's father.

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* AgeGapRomance: Count Frankenstein has an affair with his daughter Maria's school friend Krista (who is literally young enough to be his daughter). Krista seems quite infatuated with the Count, and Maria makes a joke about the possibility of Krista becoming her mother.



* MayDecemberRomance: Count Frankenstein has an affair with his daughter Maria's school friend Krista (who is literally young enough to be his daughter). Krista seems quite infatuated with the Count, and Maria makes a joke about the possibility of Krista becoming her mother.
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* BathtubBonding: Maria and Krista bathe together in the mineral springs in the caves. As they rubs therapeutic mud into each others skins, they discuss Krista's possible romance with Maria's father.

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* MayDecemberRomance: Count Frankenstein has an affair with his daughter Maria's school friend Krista. Krista seems quite infatuated with the Count, and Maria makes a joke about the possibility of Krista becoming her mother.

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* MayDecemberRomance: Count Frankenstein has an affair with his daughter Maria's school friend Krista.Krista (who is literally young enough to be his daughter). Krista seems quite infatuated with the Count, and Maria makes a joke about the possibility of Krista becoming her mother.




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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Count Frankenstein's ultimate goal is a noble one, in that he is seeking to conquer death (and, in the process, ensure that the name Frankenstein lives forever in medical history). However, he is so certain of the rightness of his goal that he willing to take serious ethical shortcuts in its pursuit.
* YourCheatingHeart: In a subplot that goes nowhere, Hans' wife Valda is having an affair with the hunchback Gregor.
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* GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: There is a surprising amount of glassware in Count Frankenstein's laboratory, given that his process seems to be entirely electrical in nature.
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* MadScientist: His name is Frankenstein and he is attempting to revivify the dead. Take a wild guess.
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* MadScientistLaboratory: Count Frankenstein's laboratory contains operating tables, GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks, and an improbable number of Jacob's ladders.
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* LightningCanDoAnything: Lightning is required to power the actuators that give Frankenstein's creations life. Frankenstein notes that the castle is located in area especially conducive to electrical storms.

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* FrankensteinsMonster: Count Frankenstein reanimates a Neanderthal man (ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext) to serve as his monster. He christens his creation 'Goliath'.



* MayDecemberRomance: Count Frankenstein has an affair with his daughter's school friend Krista.

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* MayDecemberRomance: Count Frankenstein has an affair with his daughter's daughter Maria's school friend Krista.Krista. Krista seems quite infatuated with the Count, and Maria makes a joke about the possibility of Krista becoming her mother.
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* TorchesAndPitchforks: The villagers gather torches and pitchforks and march on the caves when they are told that is where the monster is hiding.
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* ThePeepingTom: Genz spies on Krista while she is in the bath, on Maria and Eric while they having sex, [[OutdoorBathPeeping and on Krista and Maria while they are bathing in the mineral springs]].

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* ThePeepingTom: Genz spies on Krista while she is in the bath, on Maria and Eric while they having sex, [[OutdoorBathPeeping and on Krista and Maria while they are bathing in the mineral springs]].springs]].
* PortraitPaintingPeephole: Used by Genz to spy on Krista while she is taking a bath.

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* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: The cavemen are explicitly stated to be Neanderthals. They are hulking brutes much larger and stronger than an average man.

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* DepravedDwarf: [[TheIgor Frankenstein's assistant]] Genz is a dwarf with a number of perversions: including [[ThePeepingTom voyeurism]] and [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]]. During the GraveRobbing scene, he opens the corpse's dress and fondles her breasts.

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* DepravedDwarf: [[TheIgor Frankenstein's assistant]] Genz is a dwarf with a number of perversions: including [[ThePeepingTom voyeurism]] and [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]]. During the GraveRobbing scene, he opens the corpse's dress and fondles her breasts. He also introduces Ook to the concept of rape.


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* OutWithABang: Genz and Ook kidnap a peasant girl whom Ook rapes to death.
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* ILoveTheDead: Count Frankenstein accuses Genz of being a necrophiliac. Given he is seen groping the breasts of a corpse while GraveRobbing, the accusation appears to be true.



* OutdoorBathPeeping: Genz spies upon Maria and Krista while they are bathing in the mineral bath in the caves.

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* OutdoorBathPeeping: Genz spies upon Maria and Krista while they are bathing in the mineral bath in the caves.caves.
* ThePeepingTom: Genz spies on Krista while she is in the bath, on Maria and Eric while they having sex, [[OutdoorBathPeeping and on Krista and Maria while they are bathing in the mineral springs]].
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* EskimosArentReal: Krista believes that Neanderthal Man is a myth. Possibly justified given the time period, but still a strange statement from someone studying anthropology.
* GraveRobbing: Frankenstein's assistant steal a girl's body from the graveyard. Genz takes the opportunity [[ILoveTheDead to grope the corpse]].

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* TheIgor: Count Frankenstein has several assistants: the sycophantic Hans, the hunchback Gregor, and the DepracedDwarf Genz.
* MayDecemberRomance: Count Frankenstein has an affair with his daughter's school friend Krista.

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* TheIgor: Count Frankenstein has several assistants: the sycophantic Hans, the hunchback Gregor, and the DepracedDwarf DepravedDwarf Genz.
* MayDecemberRomance: Count Frankenstein has an affair with his daughter's school friend Krista.Krista.
* OutdoorBathPeeping: Genz spies upon Maria and Krista while they are bathing in the mineral bath in the caves.
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''Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks'' (Italian: ''Terror! Il castello delle donne maledette'') is a 1974 Italian horror film.

When a Neanderthal man is lynched by villagers, Count Frankenstein uses his years of research to bring the monster back to life. The process is a tricky one, however, as the Count must avoid detection by the authorities, the furious locals and his own daughter--who is preparing for her wedding.

!!Frankenstein's Castle of Tropes:

* DepravedDwarf: [[TheIgor Frankenstein's assistant]] Genz is a dwarf with a number of perversions: including [[ThePeepingTom voyeurism]] and [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]]. During the GraveRobbing scene, he opens the corpse's dress and fondles her breasts.
* HandGagging: When Eric surprises Maria in her room, he does so by reaching out from behind the curtain and clamping a hand over her mouth.
* TheIgor: Count Frankenstein has several assistants: the sycophantic Hans, the hunchback Gregor, and the DepracedDwarf Genz.
* MayDecemberRomance: Count Frankenstein has an affair with his daughter's school friend Krista.

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