Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Your blood will run cold when the monster rises.

Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.

Peter Cushing Shane Briant Madeline Smith David Prowse John Stratton Michael Ward Norman Mitchell Elsie Wagstaff Christopher Cunningham

Hammer Film Productions

foreign horror

99 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Beggarsoshat

    Review by Beggarsoshat ★★★★

    After Horror of Frankenstein failed to make a box office impression, Hammer wisely recalled Peter Cushing back to the title role for what was to be the last of their Frankenstein films. Perhaps realising that the writing was on the wall for the series, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell reunited Cushing with key players from The Curse of Frankenstein, director Terence Fisher and composer James Bernard, along with series veteran writer Anthony Hinds. The film is a worthy send-off for the not-so-good doctor.

    A young surgeon, Simon Helder (Shane Briant, Hawk the Slayer) is fascinated with the work of Baron Frankenstein, and is caught trying to emulate him with a workshop full of dismembered body parts. Sentenced to five…

  • Chris Ward

    Review by Chris Ward ★★★½

    Interesting and surprisingly solid final entry in Hammer's Frankenstein series. Peter Cushing is excellent as always and his wig makes him look very similar to Ernest Thesiger's Dr. Pretorious from The Bride of Frankenstein. However, the creature looks crap.

  • Mark C

    Review by Mark C ★★★½

    The last Hammer Frankenstein film proved to be a fitting and sombre conclusion of their grim fairytales.

    Beautifully shot the whole production seems preoccupied with death, loss and final 'second' chances. Cushing's Frankenstein, now hiding out as an asylum doctor (the very establishment he'd been banished too for his previous crimes in fact; a prime example of the lunatic taking over the asylum) gives a stately dignified air to his Baron's psychopathic tendencies as befits his senior years and new position. But there's still the glimmer of blind fervour in those watery pale blue eyes matched with an intelligence as sharp as his cheekbones. These comes to light when he realise the new inmate (Shane Briant) is a young doctor…

  • David

    Review by David ★★★★

    Dr Frankenstein has buried his old identity and is now working at an asylum where he basically has complete control and harvests the inmates for their body parts so that he may continue his ghastly experiments on reanimation with the help of an ambitious doctor who has been institutionalised. Using pieces from the asylum's most promising inmates, Frankenstein patches up a horrific brute of a monster who is as sad and tortured as he is grotesque.

    Hammer's last Frankenstein film is arguably one of the best of their final years. Director Terence Fisher was back at the helm for one last crack before retiring. Peter Cushing ( sporting a bad wig here) was back in his most famous role. And…

  • Filmslayer

    Review by Filmslayer ★★★½

    Continuing my 2 month Halloween Horror Marathon I decided to watch some Hammer Horror. This one is pretty good. It's not particularly scary but it has a good plot. The script works and the acting is good. There are some weird moments like why is Frankenstein, who was put in an asylum, allowed to practice his work and how has he stricken so much fear in the director to be allowed to. Still it's alright. Peter Cushing does a great job of acting in this. The pacing is good to. Worth a watch.

  • Ira Brooker

    Review by Ira Brooker ★★★

    It's like the old saying goes: If you put Peter Cushing in charge of your mental hospital, don't come crying when he creates an undead abomination.

  • Ian Woolstencroft

    Review by Ian Woolstencroft ★★★½

    After the disappointment of The Horror of Frankenstein, with Ralph Bates taking on the role of the Baron, Peter Cushing did a Sean Connery and returned to the role he’d made his own for one last time. For me there is only one Frankenstein Monster and that is Boris Karloff and likewise there is only one Baron Frankenstein and he is Peter Cushing.

    Despite being a very cheap looking production with some model work that wouldn’t have looked out of place in a Seventies Doctor Who episode and having the worst monster in the series (David Prowse unrecognisable in a monster suit) this is an entertaining entry in Hammer’s long running series. The main source of that entertainment is Cushing…

  • Antony Woolstencroft

    Review by Antony Woolstencroft ★★★

    Not the worst of Hammer's Frankenstein series but far from the best. Cushing, despite being saddled with one of the worst wigs in cinema history, is superb as usual.

  • norliss

    Review by norliss ★★★

    The mad Baron is at it yet again, this time in an asylum where he is helped by a young protege and beautiful mute assistant. The always brilliant Cushing makes the film watchable but the less said about the monster's costume/make-up the better.

    Whilst not up there with previous (particularly the first two) installments, it isn't without merit and Hammer's Frankenstein series goes out on a slightly better note than that of their Dracula films...