Dr. Freda Frankenstein (Gina Romand) is the main villainess in the 1972 Mexican sci-fi film "Santo vs La Hija de Frankestein", which translates as "Santo meets Frankenstein's Daughter".
Dr. Freda Frankenstein, who is Dr. Victor Frankenstein's female descendant, is an excellent mad scientist in her own right. At a ripe old age, she discovered that the blood of the supernatural masked wrestling hero, Santo, is a youth elixir.
Freda had removed from Eastern Europe and come to a small town in the middle of Mexico to continue her experiments. She is a wicked opponent for Santo, and wears short skirs, leather go-go boots, and a white lab coat.
For years she has been periodically injecting herself, and her henchmen, with a serum made from the blood she wiped from Santo's nose. But now, her body is so saturated with the serum that she needs frequent painful injections to maintain her youth.
Freda is assisted by Dr. Yanco (Roberto Canedo), who plays her tormented lover and second in command.
Before the serum stops working completely, she needs to experiment on more of Santo's blood. Instead of attending another wrestling match, and hoping for another nosebleed, she has her lackeys kidnap Santo's redheaded girlfriend, Norma (Ana Elena Norena "Ariel").
Santo, of course, comes looking for her, accompanied by Norma's beautiful sister Elsa (Sonia Fuentes). What he'll find is a spooky underground cave, filled with corpses, bats and flying daggers. A half-man-half-gorilla will cause him trouble.
Santo has his ultimate battle will be with Frankenstein's old monster, Ursus (Gerardo Zepeda), yet again brought back to life.
In the end, the monster turns on its maker, snapping Freda's neck. In death, Freda turns into a bush-wigged, wrinkle-faced mummy. Blinded by acid, the Monster stumbles into the laboratory's self destruction switch, and the lab blows up.
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- Gina Romand appeared as Countess Mayra in the 1970 Mexican sci-fi film, "The Vengeance of the Vampire Women".
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