Audiences were struck by the film""s downbeat, tragic, dehumanized and ironic ending.While initially considered perfect for drive-ins or as a ""midnight movie"" after its debut in October of 1968, it was soundly criticized as grindhouse schlock and unredeeming gory trash.Thompson glared at the skeleton, recognizing it as he resurrected Freddy that he had once killed.But the creature yanked Thompson off his feet, and threw him into the metal wreckage, impaling his chest on the Cadillac""s jutting tail fin(# 6 death).David Bartlett (Richard Barthelmess), though of plain stock, has been tutored by poets and visions wide as the world.BothFrankensteinfilms were produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr.(the head of Universal) and directed by horror master James Whale, at a time when monster films were diminishing.