Hot Picks

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- Bakemono 2023

- Christmas Harmonny 2018

- Emanuelle's Revenge 2022

- Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls 2023

- Consider the Lilies 2023

- The Wrong Door 1990

- Visitors 2023

- Run Nixon 2023

- Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story 2021

- This is Your Song 2023

- Full Body Massage 1995

- Big Brood 2023

- Night of the Missing 2023

- This is Only a Test 2012

- The Wheel of Heaven 2023

- Rent-a-Man 2023

- Under the Influencer 2023

- Scream Queen 2002

- Do Not Disturb 2022

- The Darkened Cottage 2023

- 15 Cameras 2023

- City of Vultures 4 2023

- 5000 Space Aliens 2021

- Soul Mates 2023

- Shoulder Dance 2023

- Many Keys 2023

- As We Know It 2023

- Ingress 2023

- When the Trash Man Knocks 2023

- The Loch Ness Horror 2023

- Hands of Hell 2023

- Kane 2023

- New Year's Eve 2023

- Screwdriver 2023

- Caralique 2022

- Showtime mit Uwe Boll 2023

- Deadgirl 2008

- Forever Young 2023

- It Be an Evil Moon 2023

- Ghosts of the Void 2023

- Life of Riley 2023

- I Slay on Christmas 2023

- Ethel 2019

- She, Who Dared 2023

- Candela 2021

- The Pact 2023

- The Hive 2023

- Courtney Gets Possessed 2022

- Shaky Shivers 2022

- Lock & Load 2023

- Boy Makes Girl 2023

- Wanderlost 2023

- Alien Intervention 2023

- Beast from Haunted Cave 1959

- Unveiled 2022

- Lion-Girl 2023

- Grieve 2023

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

The Curse of Frankenstein
Frankensteins Fluch

UK 1957
produced by
Anthony Hinds, Michael Carreras (executive) for Hammer
directed by Terence Fisher
starring Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Christopher Lee, Valerie Gaunt, Melvyn Hayes, Paul Hardtmuth, Noel Hood, Fred Johnson, Claude Kingston, Alex Gallier, Michael Mulcaster, Andrew Leigh, Anne Blake
screenplay by Jimmy Sangster, based on Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley, music by James Bernard, conducted by John Hollingsworth

Frankenstein, Hammer's Frankenstein, Frankenstein (Peter Cushing)

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

Available on DVD !

To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat

Always make sure of DVD-compatibility !!!

Related stuff

you might want !!!


Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) is about to be executed by the guillotine when he asks for a priest (Alex Galleir) to tell him what has really happened ...

As a young man (then played by Melvyn Hayes), Victor's parents had died, & he decides to take his scientific education into his own hands (since he is rich enough to afford himself only the best) & thus advertizes for a tutor he finds in Paul Krempe (Robert Urquhart). Soon though he has succeeded over Paul in terms of knowledge, but keeps him in his employ anyways as a perfect assistant. Victor's & Paul's experiments soon center around the reviving of dead animals, & with considerable success, too, then Victor decides not merely to return life but to create it ... which is where his experiments take a considerable turn into the macabre & involve massive graverobbing & acquiring bodyparts from the gallows as well as doubtful sources.

Eventually Paul even decides to quit the experiments for good, but decides to still stick around Victor's manor to watch over Victor's bride to be, his impoverished cousin Elizabeth (Hazel Court).

Even without Paul's help, Victor's experiments on creating life go on, until only a brain is missing ... & to that end, Victor invites professor Bernstein (Paul Hardtmuth) one evening & accidently pushes him down a balcony to his death ... in order to have a most brilliant brain for his creation.

Learning about this, Paul gets upset, &, when getting into a rowe with Victor about it, the brain is damaged ... but Victor carries on anyhow, until one evening the creature (now played by Christopher Lee) is revived prematurely by freak lightning, at first almost kills its own creator, then escapes into the woods & kills a blind man (Fred Johnson), before Paul, who went after it with Victor, is able to shoot it in the head. This should be the end of it, & after they have buried the creature, Paul, feeling there is no longer need to watch over Elizabeth, leaves castle Frankenstein ...

But of course it's not easy to keep a good creature down, & Victor has woon dug it up & revived it by advanced brain surgery ... & when Victor's servant Justine (Valerie Gaunt) wants to blackmail Victor into marrying her when she learns Victor is going to marry Elizabeth, the creature even becomes Victor's partner in crime when it kills Elizabeth ...

On the evening before the wedding, Paul returns to castle Frankenstein for the celebration & to reconcile with his old friend ... but to his horror finds him still conducting his experiments. Realizing it's too late to talk Victor out of it now, Paul heads for the authorities, but by then Victor's creature ahs already freed itself, threatens Elizabeth, & ultimately gets into a fight with Victor, who pzuts all effort into pushing his creature into his own acid tank ... where it quickly dissolves.

Back in the cell with the priest, Victor tries to desperately convince the priest the story about the creature is true - the creature which only Victor & Paul have seen & are still alive - but to no avail, & even Paul denies that such a creature has ever existed ... which makes Victor look like a raving madman, & eventually he is sent to the guillotine ...

 

Only (then) recently had British smallfry production company Hammer had ome success with the sci-fi-horror-films The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) & Quatermass 2 (1957), but Curse of Frankenstein was the film that finally & really put Hammer onto the map (& would spawn the studio's long production line of gothic horrors that ranged from the great to the forgettable):

Curse of Frankenstein to this day stands out as a supreme example of gothic horror moviemaking, in all its glorious gory colours, profiting vastly from Terence Fisher's tight direction & his underastanding of the use of colour in the context of a horror movie - then by no means new but a novelty. The film also vastly shifts away from Universal's romantic depiction of the story (Frankenstein from 1931, a classic in its own right), by turning Frankenstein himself into the actual monster, & relegating the voice of reason to the supporting character of Paul ... which of course works splendidly mainly to the magnificent performance of Peter Cushing (until then only known as a tv actor in Great Britain).

Cushing would repeat his performance of Frankenstein 5 more times as well as assuming the roles of other key Hammer-characters (most notably Van Helsing in Hammer's Dracula series).

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky ?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results ?

The links below
will take you
just there !!!

Find The Curse of Frankenstein
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports ?
Find The Curse of Frankenstein here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai

Something naughty ?
(Must be over 18 to go there !)

x-rated  find The Curse of Frankenstein at adultvideouniverse.com


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!