Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
by Terence Fisher
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Actor: Freddie Jones, Peter Cushing, Simon Ward, Thorley Walters, Veronica CarlsonDirector: Terence Fisher
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-27
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Movie Review: Baron Frankenstein is the Jason Voorhees of the 1960's
Summary: 4 Stars
In this splendid Hammer Production, Peter Cushing portrays a most evil, merciless Baron Frankenstein; he will kill anyone in order to ensure the success of his latest experiment: the transplanting of a brain from one human to another. He wields sickles, knives, and torches as he dispatches anyone who interferes. Peter Cushing reminds me of Vincent Price when he portrayed Dr. Phibes in his revenge movies. From its blood-splaterring beginning to its fiery end, this movie continues to shock and horrify. I'm surprised it didn't receive an "R" rating. As always, with a Hammer movie, the film and audio quality are excellent. The sets are lavish. The acting is superb. Veronica Carlson and Simon Ward protray a gorgeous couple who are in love and are being held captive against their will by the baron. They are forced to help him carry out his evil plans. This gothic horror has it all and is a definite must see for fans of Hammer Productions and Peter Cushing. It has a moderate body count. A higher body count would have earned it five stars from me.
Summary of Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Another take on the classic tale. This one's a British version from 1969 with a more heartless version of the mad scientist. Instead of having a lab assistant to do his dirty work, this Dr. Frankenstien pushes a young doctor and his betrothed to kidnap the next victim. They must capture the mentally ill Dr. Brandt so that hi sbrain may be used in Dr. Frankenstein's experiments.Peter Cushing delivers his most cold-blooded portrayal of the mad Baron in his fifth turn as Dr.?Frankenstein. Abandoning his latest experiment after a drunk stumbles into his secret lab (upsetting a severed head) he hurriedly finds new lodgings with a sweet young thing (Hammer glamour babe Veronica Carlson) whose boyfriend (Simon Ward, in his film debut) works in the local sanitarium. Frankenstein blackmails the lovers into complicity with his latest experiment, resorts to kidnapping and murder for his subjects, turns accomplice Ward into a killer, and even rapes Carlson in a coldly brutal scene. The goriest film of the series kicks off with a flamboyant beheading with a scythe (seen only as a spray of blood across a window) and is full of bloody brain surgery, conveniently offscreen but vividly suggested in the slurping sound effects of surgical saws and drills and the gallons of blood left in their wake. Freddie Jones is heartbreaking as Frankenstein's latest creature, a once-insane scientist who awakens to find himself cured but trapped in a grotesque, alien body. When he attempts to communicate with his wife, half hiding in a dark corner while she peers around and sees only a monster, director Terence Fisher offers the most affecting moment of pathos in the entire series. Cushing and Fisher reunited for one more film together, the seventh and final film in the series, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. --Sean Axmaker
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