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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

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6.4/10 • 116

1969-05-221h 41m

HorrorScience Fiction

The Most Frightening Frankenstein Movie Ever!

Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.

Directors
Terence Fisher
Characters
Mary Shelley
Editors
Gordon Hales

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  1. Peter Cushing

    Peter Cushing

    Baron Victor Frankenstein

  2. Veronica Carlson

    Veronica Carlson

    Anna Spengler

  3. Freddie Jones

    Freddie Jones

    Prof. Richter

  4. Simon Ward

    Simon Ward

    Dr. Karl Holst

  5. Thorley Walters

    Thorley Walters

    Insp. Fritsch

  6. Maxine Audley

    Maxine Audley

    Ella Brandt

  7. George Pravda

    George Pravda

    Dr. Frederick Brandt

  8. Geoffrey Bayldon

    Geoffrey Bayldon

    Police Doctor

  9. Colette O'Neil

    Colette O'Neil

    Mad Woman

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John Chard

Nov 4, 2017

8/10

I fancy that I am the spider and you are the fly, Frankenstein. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed is directed by Terence Fisher and written by Bert Batt. It stars Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Simon Ward and Freddie Jones. Music is by James Bernard and cinematography by Arthur Grant. The fifth entry in Hammer Film's Frankenstein series is one of the best. Playing as a variant on the original Frankenstein sources, story finds Cushing's Baron Victor Frankenstein as an utterly repugnant individual who is prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve his medical goals. Morally and ethically bankrupt, Frankenstein blackmails young lovers Anna and Karl into helping him achieve his ultimate goal - with disastrously ghoulish results for all concerned. Steered strongly by the hands of the under valued Fisher, pic is not just hauntingly elegant as per being a Gothic mood piece, but it is filled out with macabre shocks, and even gallows humour. Some scenes are striking in their ability to gnaw away at your senses, including the infamous sexual predator scene that has divided opinions (personally I think it's great in showing how low Frankenstein has gotten). It builds to a terrific climax, where Freddie Jones (turning in a super emotionally driven turn as one of the better "creatures" in the series) and Frankenstein indulge in spider and fly bluster. Despair, degradation and disintegration unbound, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed is high-end Hammer Horror. 8/10

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Original Language
English
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