HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN
Director/Producer - Jimmy Sangster, Screenplay - Sangster & Jeremy Burnham, Photography - Moray Grant, Music - Malcolm Williamson, Makeup - Tom Smith, Art Direction - Scott MacGregor. Production Company - Hammer/EMI. 1970.
Cast: Ralph Bates (Victor Frankenstein), Dave Prowse (The Monster), Kate O’Mara (Alys), Veronica Carlson (Elizabeth Heiss), Graham James (Wilhelm Kastner), Dennis Price (Grave Robber), Bernard Archer (Professor Heiss), Jon Finch (Lieutenant Henry Becker)
On the sudden death of his father, young Victor Frankenstein inherits his title, his castle and his comely housemaid, Alys. Victor decides to leave college and return home, where he can carry out scientific experiments of which his teachers would never approve.
With him goes his close friend, Wilhem. En route, they save a neighboring professor and his daughter, Elizabeth from the clutches of some highwaymen. The professor invites them both to dinner, much to the delight of Elizabeth, who has been in love with Victor since they were at school together.
The next day, Victor tries the first of his experiments , on a pet tortoise. He kills the tortoise and, more by luck than judgement, brings it back to life. Flushed with success, he determines to progress to bigger things, and construct a human being. To do this, he must obtain some corpses...
For this purpose, he hires a grave-robber who with his wife, brings to the castle a grisly load. Having set up a comprehensive laboratory, Victor is now fully equipped to carry out his monstrous experiments. The horror of it all upsets his friend, Wilhem, who announces that unless Victor stops his work forth-with, he will expose him. Without a qualm, Victor kills him and disposes of the body in an acid tank.
The grave-robber has been so efficient that Victor soon has all the human bits and pieces with which to make his monster. All, that is, except a brain. And what better brain could he use than that of the professor? He invites the unfortunate man (and his daughter) to dinner, and drugs his brandy. It is a touching funeral, and the grave-robber knows exactly what to do....The death of her father leaves Elizabeth in a parlous state, and she asks Victor to let her work for him. Much against the wishes of Alys (who sees her position as woman of the house - threatened), Victor agrees.
Meanwhile, the grave-robber returns with the brain, but clumsily drops it. Furious, Victor hits him on the head and heaves him into the acid vat. He then turns to his important work - bringing to life his home-made being. With the aid of a timely electric storm, he produces enough power to jolt the hideous monster into life. Thinking that the storm has ruined his experiment, Victor is unaware of his success, and the monster, not recognizing its creator, knocks him out and escapes to the woods, where it kills an unfortunate workman.
Victor eventually recaptures it, and locks it in a cellar in the castle. When the grave-robber’s wife comes looking for her husband, and threatening to report his activities to the police, Victor releases the monster which kills the woman as she leaves the castle. Likewise, when Alys becomes greedy, and demands money for keeping quiet about all she knows, Victor takes her to the cellar to visit the monster....
But the disappearances and deaths around the castle soon arouse suspicion, and the police arrive. One of the people whom the monster has attacked is a little girl, and it is she who unwittingly causes Victor to watch his handy work go down the drain via the acid vat......!
Disclaimer: Horror Of Frankenstein was copyrighted 1970 by Hammer Film Productions Ltd. and renewed 1992 by EMI. Used for non-commercial purposes; All rights reserved. NO rights given or implied. Do NOT use without permission.
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