The Revenge of Frankenstein
1958 Directed by Terence Fisher
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We Dare You To See It! We Double-Dare You To Forget It!
Baron Frankenstein, working under the protective pseudonym Dr. Victor Stein, together with his assistant Dr. Kleve transplants a dwarf's brain into another body. He creates a deranged cannibal. When Frankenstein's patients attack and kill him Dr Kleve performs the same operation transferring Frankenstein's brain into a new body. As Dr. Frank, the scientist can continue his career.
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‘The Curse of Frankenstein’ (1957) was Hammer film productions’ first foray into gothic horror cinema. With its huge success came a revival of that very same brand first made commercially successful by Hollywood studio Universal in the 1930s and 1940s. Here though with British production company Hammer it was a gorier affair with more shock value. They would base much of their output on the iconic horror monsters made famous by the American studio. They resurrected Dracula a year later in ‘The Horror of Dracula’ (1958) and continuing with ‘The Mummy’ (1959) and ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ (1962). The Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy franchises would have many sequels.
The very same year Christopher Lee would don Dracula’s cape…
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‘The Curse of Frankenstein’ (1957) was Hammer film productions’ first foray into gothic horror cinema. With its huge success came a revival of that very same brand first made commercially successful by Hollywood studio Universal in the 1930s and 1940s. Here though with British production company Hammer it was a gorier affair with more shock value. They would base much of their output on the iconic horror monsters made famous by the American studio. They resurrected Dracula a year later in ‘The Horror of Dracula’ (1958) and continuing with ‘The Mummy’ (1959) and ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ (1962). The Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy franchises would have many sequels.
The very same year Christopher Lee would don Dracula’s cape…
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Moderately successful sequel to Curse of Frankenstein, this one is helped by a wired performance from Peter Cushing and a couple of interesting twists. There is some real stupidity on show, however - Victor is a scientific genius who tries to hide under the daft pseudonym "Dr. Stein". After a narrow escape his section attempt is "Dr. Frank"...
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Dark sequel to The Curse of Frankenstein, it doesn't quite have that film's excitement but it does a decent enough job in continuing the story.
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Frankenstein is saved from the guillotine at the end of Curse by a disfigured hunchback. Setting up in Carlsbruch as 'Dr. Stein,' he uses his position as head of a poor hospital to get parts for his experiments - he's convinced that the key to failure last time was making the creature from decaying corpses, so the living patients become an unwilling organ bank. A local doctor, Hans Kleve (Francis Matthews, Corridors of Blood), figures out who Stein is and asks to help.
The Baron has created a healthy-looking body for the living brain of the dwarf who rescued him, and once animated this new creature (Michael Gwynn, Dunkirk) seems to be recovering well. Until, that is, he becomes obsessed…
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Not my favorite out of the hammersteins but not a bad sequel.
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OCTOBER IS MONSTER MOVIE MONTH
Another interesting Frankenstein film from Hammer Horror studios. No Christopher Lee this time, but Cushing returns as the doc and of course does a great job. Some great effects and solid directing from Terence Fisher, but I feel its just another monster film lost in the annuls of monster movies through out the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. See it for Cushing, nothing really more.
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Cushing stars in a Hammer Horror production that plays a little dry. Even the eventual monster seems to disappoint. The most intriguing aspect are thoughts related to how medical research was once conducted.
The Reverence: A courting experience with one member of a party far more interested in ants.
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We watch Baron Frankenstein escaping from the guillotine and going to Germany. There, he names himself Dr. Stein and plans to restart his experiments by using parts of dead bodies.
This is a strange body-horror movie with Peter Cushing reprising his role - which as per usual he does sublimely. The plot revolves around a hunchback who helped Frankenstein escape death on the promise of being put into a new body - but some rather lame writing ensures things go wrong. Rather cool visuals and ideas, but a shame that there wasn't more thought put into it - feels like it was being made for the sake of it.
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A disappointing but entertaining offering from Hammer featuring Peter Cushing returning as the crazed, arrogant Dr. Frankenstein, trying again to create a new creature, which this time turns out to be a cannibal. Unlike the title implies, there's no revenge, and sadly, not much special. Cushing and the cast are excellent, however, which keeps it enjoyably watchable.