Directed by:
Jimmy SangsterCinematography:
Moray GrantComposer:
Malcolm WilliamsonCast:
Ralph Bates, Dennis Price, Jon Finch, Joan Rice, Veronica Carlson, David Prowse, Kate O'Mara, James Cossins, James Hayter, Bernard Archard, Neil Wilson (more)Plots(1)
Teenage prodigy Victor Frankenstein tells his father of his ambition to go to university in Vienna. The Baron objects, so Victor coldly sabotages his shooting rifle. The gun explodes in the Baron's face, killing him. Victor uses his inheritance to decamp to Vienna. Six years pass, and Victor leaves after getting the Dean's daughter pregnant; returning home with fellow student Wilhelm, he rescues his friend Elizabeth and her father, an eminent professor, from two highwaymen. He kills one, and covertly beheads him. Hidden away from housekeeper and 'bedwarmer' Alys, he and Wilhelm set about researches into the revival of dead tissue. The grisly career of the notorious Victor Frankenstein has begun. This bold experiment in horror comedy was directed by Jimmy Sangster in 1970, and is one of the most unusual of all the Hammer horrors. Ralph Bates stars as the young Victor Frankenstein and Dave Prowse (later to embody Darth Vader in Star Wars) plays his monster. (StudioCanal UK)
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Repeated joke is no longer a joke, and so is repeated horror no longer horror. Studio Hammer overall relied on the fact that individual films, not only in the Frankenstein series but also in the Dracula and Mummy series, will actually be the same thing, just in a slightly different guise. This eventually leads to the fact that these films simply become repetitive after some time. They are never completely bad, but the repetition gets boring.
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After half an hour, he only managed to revive a turtle. But there are two passionate, busty ladies around him, one of whom (the brunette) cooks and keeps him company in bed and the other (the blonde) loves him platonically. Besides them, the slow and thin plot is livened up by the rising body count – this Victor is an arrogant prick and spares no one. The monster is OK in terms of musculature but with its eyes of a kind-hearted good guy, it elicits anything but “horror”. The film’s ending is imaginative but unsatisfying after the long slog through the trashy ballast.
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