Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart
Baron Victor Frankenstein, in prison for murder and trying to evade the guillotine, tells a priest how he and his mentor, Paul Krempe, had performed many scientific experiments, eventually leading to ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 1, 2002
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October 30, 2009hammer's version of the familiar story with the always awesome peter cushing as the baron. i have to say i much prefer karloff's monster to christopher lee tho
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October 21, 2007First of the Gothic Hammers and the first of their seven 'Frankenstein' films, all but two of which ("The Evil of..." and "The Horror of...") were directed by Terence Fisher. Christopher Lee did not return to the role of The Monster for subsequent outings. Cushing appeared in all...( read more)
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June 24, 2007Christopher Lee looks odd as the monster because Universal had copyright over the traditional ''bolts through the neck'' makeup. Some say the improvisation is better but you can't help feeling that it would have been nicer to have had the Karloff monster in it.
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November 22, 2006Beautiful, lush and loose adaptation of Shelley's masterpiece. This film set the standard for all Hammer horror films to follow and, just for that, we should all be grateful. Cushing is at his best.
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May 22, 2009My exploration of Hammer horror doesn?t get much rosier with this film, although it is a marked improvement over The Brides of Dracula. The main problem is that, again, this takes forever to get started. The movie wastes a good hour waiting for Frankenstein to finally make his ...( read more)
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September 21, 2009This film starts in a jail cell with the captive confessing his story to a priest. The story starts in his childhood, telling of how his fathered died and he was bequeathed a large sum of money and a title. Bored of school, he hires his own tutor and soon the pair are exploring t...( read more)
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August 11, 2009Much better than I expected, actually. I've only seen a couple Hammer Horror films and loved all of them. This was probably my least favorite of them all, but I still really enjoyed it. The first half was a very slow build up, and I wish the monster was created earlier in the mov...( read more)
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May 7, 2009The first film in Hammers Frankenstein series. Curse is basically a meat and potatoes version of the Shelly classic. And the first film to kick of the trade mark gothic horror Hammer studios were known for.
Peter Cushing really bites into his role as the obsessive Baron Frankens...( read more) -
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