
Rating: 7 stars
Seen 1 time
Seen on: 10/25/2011 (rewatch)
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Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
Rated PG-13 | Length 98 minutes
Peter Cushing | Thorley Walters | Freddie Jones | Timothy Davies | Peter Copley | Simon Ward | Veronica Carlson | Maxine Audley | George Pravda | Frank Middlemass | Windsor Davies | Geoffrey Bayldon | George Belbin | Harry Fielder | Norman Shelley | Dorothy Smith | Harold Goodwin | Elizabeth Morgan | Colette O'Neil | Michael Gover | Jack Armstrong | Allan Surtees | Victor Harrington | Caron Gardner | Jim Collier
I’d seen this before, but it must’ve been on TCM and I must’ve missed the opening scene. Which is too bad really, because the opening scene is perhaps the best part of the entire movie!
I love the mask Cushing wears, and would absolutely love to have a 1/6 scale figure of his Baron Frankenstein character with that mask!
Terence Fisher does a great job with this film, even though the center portion of the film does drag a little.
Cushing’s Frankenstein is an amoralistic beast of a human being in this incarnation. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in a more evil role.
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