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3	''Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks'' (Italian: ''Terror! Il Castello Delle Donne Maledette''[[note]]Terror! The Castle of Cursed Women[[/note]]) is a 1974 Italian horror film.
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5	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.
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7	!!Frankenstein's Castle of Tropes:
8	* 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.
9	* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: The cavemen are explicitly stated to be Neanderthals. They are hulking brutes much larger and stronger than an average man.
10	* BathtubBonding: Maria and Krista bathe together in the mineral springs in the caves. As they rub therapeutic mud into each others skins, they discuss Krista's possible romance with Maria's father.
11	* 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.
12	* EskimosArentReal: Krista believes that Neanderthal Man is a myth. Possibly justified given the time period, but still a strange statement from someone studying anthropology.
13	* FrankensteinsMonster: Count Frankenstein reanimates a Neanderthal man (ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext) to serve as his monster. He christens his creation 'Goliath'.
14	* FrazettaMan: The Neanderthals are ape-like subhumans. Exactly how they have survived into 19th C. Europe is never addressed.
15	* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
16	* GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: There is a surprising amount of glassware in Count Frankenstein's laboratory, given that his process seems to be entirely electrical in nature.
17	* GraveRobbing: Frankenstein's assistants steal a girl's body from the graveyard. Genz takes the opportunity [[ILoveTheDead to grope the corpse]].
18	* 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.
19	* 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.
20	* TheIgor: Count Frankenstein has several assistants: the sycophantic Hans, the hunchback Gregor, and the DepravedDwarf Genz. Also a normal looking assistant actually named Igor...
21	* 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.
22	* KarmaHoudini: Genz, the DepravedDwarf who is involved one way or another in all on screen deaths, is still alive at the end of the movie.
23	* 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.
24	* MadScientist: His name is Frankenstein and he is attempting to revivify the dead. Take a wild guess.
25	* MadScientistLaboratory: Count Frankenstein's laboratory contains operating tables, GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks, and an improbable number of Jacob's ladders. It's even got a secret entrance.
26	* 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.
27	* OutdoorBathPeeping: Genz spies on Maria and Krista while they are bathing in the mineral bath in the caves.
28	* OutWithABang: Genz and Ook kidnap a peasant girl whom Ook rapes to death.
29	* 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]].
30	* PortraitPaintingPeephole: Used by Genz to spy on Krista while she is taking a bath.
31	* TorchesAndPitchforks: The villagers gather torches and pitchforks and march on the caves when they are told that is where the monster is hiding.
32	* {{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 forest (ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext).
33	* 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 too subtly that it is not too late for him to remarry and [[HeirClubForMen father a male heir]].
34	* 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.
35	* [[TheXOfY La X di Y]]: Il Castello Delle Donne Maledette (The Castle of Cursed Women)

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