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Ralph Bates | ... | Victor Frankenstein | |
Kate O'Mara | ... | Alys | |
Veronica Carlson | ... | Elizabeth Heiss | |
Dennis Price | ... | The Graverobber | |
Jon Finch | ... | Lt. Henry Becker | |
Bernard Archard | ... | Prof. Heiss | |
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Graham James | ... | Wilhelm Kassner |
James Hayter | ... | Bailiff | |
Joan Rice | ... | Graverobber's Wife | |
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Stephen Turner | ... | Stephan |
Neil Wilson | ... | Schoolmaster | |
James Cossins | ... | Dean | |
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Glenys O'Brien | ... | Maggie |
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Geoffrey Lumsden | ... | Instructor |
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Chris Lethbridge-Baker | ... | Priest (as C. Lethbridge Baker) |
The brilliant but misunderstood scientist Frankenstein builds a man made up of a collection of spare body parts. The monster becomes alive but he has mental capabilities much below par. The monster is aggressive and wreaks havoc outside the laboratory. Written by Mattias Thuresson
This film fails to deliver, I am afraid to say, any shocks or inject any new ideas into the Hammer Frankenstein saga. It is a thinly veiled reworking of "The Curse of Frankenstein" with some added sexual antics and a few (failed) jokes. The whole film seems to have been made with a tongue-in-cheek mentality and it shows. Ralph Bates is no replacement for Peter Cushing, although he struggles well with the inept script. Kate O'Mara does a very hammy impression of a yokel temptress and Dave Prowse looks rather ridiculous in an oversized nappy (diaper). On the whole, this is a movie best left alone and is one of the least impressive Hammer horror's.