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Horror of Frankenstein
Author: frid2k4 (frid2k4@yahoo.com) from Los Angeles, Ca
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'The Horror of Frankenstein' is one of the best entries in Hammer's series. **SPOILERS** Growing bored in school, Victor Frankenstein (Ralph Bates) has a tendency to show up his teachers and wow the ladies with his charm. Wanting to go to medical school in Vienna, he concocts a scheme to kill hi
s father (George Belbin) and ends up going anyway, upsetting his friends at school, Stephan (Steven Tyler) Maggie, (Glenys O'Brian) and Elizabeth (Veronica Carlson). There in Vienna, he gains a friend in anatomy classmate Wilhelm (Graham Jones) and they begin experimenting on regeneration. Both run
into Elizabeth and they renew their friendship. Returning to his castle, Victor and Wilhelm begin to unload their medical equipment and continues his father's relationship with the maid, Alys (Kate O'Mara). As they continue their experiments, they realize they can bring dead objects back to life. Vi
ctor wants to push the boundaries of the experiments, which starts to offset Wilhelm from the whole thing. When he announces that he wants to bring a human back to life, Wilhelm's feelings about it are resurfaced even stronger than before. Collecting enough parts to build his dream creature (David P
rowse). Spending all hours working on the project finally cracks Wilhelm, and he announces his wish to leave. Undeterred, Victor continues his work without Wilhelm, and is successful at raising the man-made creature from the dead. During these experiments, Elizabeth is evicted from her family's cast
le and comes to live with Victor. He frames Stephan for the murder his creature did, and Victor tries to tame the creature. After several close calls with the monster and the police, Victor decides it is best if he killed the monster. The Good News: Because this is a later film in the Hammer collec
tion, this one can finally let loose with gore and nudity. Both here are in full abundance. There are ample deaths in this movie, both by Victor and the monster. Having a person immersed in acid, another is electrocuted, several are poisoned and another one has a rifle explode in his face. There is
even more gore on the deceased, as a dead person is decapitated, one has his limbs dismembered, and others have other body parts hacked off and sowed together into the creature with massive amounts of blood lost in the process. True, other Hammer films did feature more variety in the deaths, but thi
s one had bloodier deaths. Even the monster had a violent kill, hacking a man with an ax several times. Even the several sex scenes are an improvement in earlier films, as the sexuality of the scenes is now fully capable of being shown in detail. Several women are shown nude, but the best has to be
Kate, as she is shown in several situations and is really nice to view. The castle is a really nice setpiece. The long, dark corridors, the large Gothic interiors are pretty creepy and impressive upon first viewing. It adds immensely to its creepiness and lends a bit more of the original Gothic tone
s in the original novel. The Bad News: The depiction of Victor as a womanizing, lying thief is pretty much the main fault I can grant the movie. I don't feel like it was in good taste to do so, as he was perhaps more villainous than the monster. It didn't serve the movie that well with them doing s
o, although he does play the part well. Also, the monster design looks terrible and he himself is not very imposing. David is a pretty threatening-looking person, but the makeup was a disaster, simply applying scars on the body at various places to look as if he was in fact put together fairly quick
ly. Maybe a large FX budget could've supplies a more grotesque-looking creature. The Final Verdict: The gore and the nudity help push this one up to one of the better entries in the Frankenstein series. Not the best, but this is still a very entertaining entry that all fans of Hammer films and the
series will enjoy. Today's Rating; R: Nudity, Graphic Violence, Adult Language, and several short sex scenes Author: The movie did not move well, but it did allow those Star Wars fans a chance to see the man behind the mask. Darth Vader's mask that is. Yes, the monster is none other than the man i
n black. Apart from this interesting piece of trivia, the movie was a total disappointment as a horror movie and a bore as a hopeful cult classic. Dear Dr. Frankenstein could only be considered a lustful egocentric jerk. The supporting cast seemed better suited for TV commercials. However, I did
enjoy the pleasant banter of the grave digger and his grave digging wife.

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