Alan Talbot is a young man living in New York City who is in love with a girl named Jessica.\u00a0 When we first meet him, he is waiting on a subway platform.\u00a0 A religious zealot approaches him and after she harasses him about his religious convictions, he has some kind of mental breakdown and throws her under the train and flees.<\/p>\n
Jessica and Alan plan to get married and Alan has invited Jessica to go back to his home town to meet his Aunt Mildred.\u00a0 But when he gets back there many of the details seem different from his memory.\u00a0 And when he goes back to his aunt\u2019s house the guy living there denies knowing anything about the Talbots and says he\u2019s been living there for ten years.\u00a0 Utterly confused, Alan checks the town records and finds out there\u2019s no Talbot family there and the college he thought he went to doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n
He heads to the graveyard and instead of the Talbot family he finds the Ryders.\u00a0 While Jessica is driving him back to his hotel, he has another attack and gets out of the car.\u00a0 When Jessica follows him, Alan realizes that he is ready to kill her with a rock and he orders her to flee.\u00a0 Once she runs to her car, he follows her but she drives off in time and he\u2019s left standing in the road.\u00a0 Suddenly a car narrowly misses running Alan over and when he gets up and examines a wound on his forearm, he sees that under his skin is electronic and mechanical components.<\/p>\n
Returning to his hotel he tells Jessica over the phone that he will meet up with her the next morning and straighten things out.\u00a0 He looks up a Mr. Ryder in the phone book and goes to his house.\u00a0 There he meets Walter Ryder.\u00a0 And Ryder is the spitting image of Alan.\u00a0 Walter explains that he created Alan as part of his childhood dream of creating a perfect version of himself.\u00a0 He shows him the two earlier protypes.\u00a0 Then he explains that some fault in his design renders Alan violently insane which explains the earlier homicidal actions.\u00a0 Alan tells Walter about his engagement to Jessica and tells Walter to build an improved version of himself and send it to Jessica.\u00a0 But suddenly Alan has another mental breakdown and attacks Walter.\u00a0 The scene ends with the two of them locked in a life and death struggle.<\/p>\n
In the next scene we see Alan show up at Jessica\u2019s apartment and tell her that he\u2019s now okay and that they can be happy together from then on.\u00a0 She hesitantly listens to him and then accepts his word that his crazy actions are behind him.<\/p>\n
A final scene shows the inanimate body of Alan lying dead on the basement floor of Walter\u2019s laboratory.\u00a0 Walter has replaced his robot in a real relationship that he always wished he could have.<\/p>\n
Wow!\u00a0 Well, you know photog\u2019s rule against robots or mannequins that think they\u2019re humans.\u00a0 There\u2019s one strike right there.\u00a0 But let\u2019s move on.<\/p>\n
Putting aside the mistaken identity and the modern setting this is the story of Frankenstein.\u00a0 The monster seeks revenge on his creator for making him an outcast in the world of men.\u00a0 The ending is a bit talkative and Jessica ending up with Walter is a little trite but I\u2019ll give the story some credit for interaction between Alan and Walter.\u00a0 That portion is at least well written.\u00a0 Well, all things considered I\u2019ll go with a B-.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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