Frankenstein created a woman

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Movie
German title Frankenstein created a woman
Original title Frankenstein Created Woman
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1967
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Terence Fisher
script Anthony Hinds
production Anthony Nelson Keys
music James Bernard
camera Arthur Grant
cut Spencer Reeve
occupation

Frankenstein created a woman (original title: Frankenstein Created Woman ) is a horror film by the British Hammer Film Productions from 1967 and the fourth of a total of seven Frankenstein films by the production company. The title role of Baron Frankenstein was played by Peter Cushing and directed by Terence Fisher .

action

Baron Frankenstein's experiments have reached a new level. He works with Dr. Hertz on a process for preserving the human soul after death and the possibility of transferring it to a new body. In this way, he is convinced, one can attain immortality.

One day the daily routine is disrupted when Hans, the scientist's assistant, is arrested for murdering the local innkeeper. Hans is innocent because at the time of the crime he was with Christina, the landlord's daughter, whom he loves, even though her face was badly disfigured by an accident. Nobody believes him because his father was already executed for murder. The real culprits, three conceited snobbugs who regularly bump into the bill and ridicule Christina, broke into the inn late at night and held a binge. When the landlord burst in because he had forgotten something, the young men panicked and beat him to death. Hans is guillotined and executed by the court . Christina is completely desperate about it and takes her own life.

Baron Frankenstein seizes the opportunity and brings both bodies to him. He stores Hans' soul in a force field and takes care of Christina's distortions. Since Frankenstein's hands are crippled because of a fire (see: Frankenstein's Ungeheuer , 1964) and can no longer be used for surgery, Dr. Hertz Christina according to his instructions. After her face is restored, the baron plants Hans's soul in her, inadvertently creating an angel of vengeance.

Hans' soul temporarily takes possession of Christina's body and takes bloody revenge on the real murderers who, through their deeds, also brought him death.

Christina suffers so much from the inner turmoil that she can no longer bear it and takes her own life again by throwing herself from a ledge into a raging river.

production

The filming of Frankenstein created a woman was originally supposed to take place in Elstree Studios , which were already occupied. The backdrops designed by Bernard Robinson were then erected in Bray Studios between June 20, 1966 and July 2, 1966 . Two days later, on July 4, 1966, filming began.

At the beginning of the shooting there were problems with the costumes that could not be made available in time for the beginning of the shooting, probably because they were still at the location of the film musical Doctor Dolittle in Hollywood.

For some scenes, shooting on the original locations was necessary, so for a few days the film was shot on a hilltop, in a ravine, on a bridge and in a wooded area. In addition, outdoor recordings took place on the premises of Bray Studios. B. built the backdrops of the café, Kleve's house and a street. Filming ended as planned on August 12, 1966.

James Bernard's score was completed on October 14, 1966, and sounds were added to the film three days later. The Austrian-born actress Susan Denberg was dubbed both in German and in the English original.

In an early screening of the film for the US press, the film still had a running time of 92 minutes, which was cut to 86 minutes in later screenings for the British press.

Frankenstein Created a Woman was planned on a budget of £ 140,020 and eventually cost £ 138,595.

publication

Frankenstein created a woman had been announced as a double screening with The Slave of the Amazons , but was ultimately shown in the United States on March 15, 1967 together with The Curse of the Mummy in the cinemas, with Frankenstein created a woman being the main film.

In the United Kingdom, the film premiered at the New Victoria Theater on May 18, 1967, before opening in theaters on June 18 of the same year.

The film opened in German cinemas on September 28, 1967.

Sequels

Frankenstein's horror (1970) is the only Frankenstein film by Hammer in which Peter Cushing does not appear and Ralph Bates plays Victor Frankensteininstead. The film is also seen less as a sequel, but more as a remake of Frankenstein's Curse (1957) and is therefore actually outside the Frankenstein series.

In the last sequel, Frankenstein's Hell Monster (1974), Cushing can again be seen in the role of Baron Victor Frankenstein.

DVD release

  • Frankenstein created a woman / November 28, 2002 / Anolis Entertainment ems DVD

Reviews

  • Cinema : “ The British Hammer production oscillates between operating table horror and involuntary comedy. "
  • The lexicon of the horror film wrote that Terence Fisher “ succeeded again in his third Frankenstein Hammer production ” “managed to balance on the degree between horror and nonsense without falling into absolute nonsense. From a kind of social drama (prehistory including murder trial) ”the director would create “ a horror tale, the shock effects of which are plush, but still set so densely ”, so“ that friends of the genre would certainly get their money's worth ”.
  • The evangelical film observer also gains positive aspects from the film: “ The mixture of traditional shuddering effects and scenes of staid middle-class life is not a shock, but a horror tale that is tolerable from 16 onwards. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Alan Barnes, Jonathan Rigby: Frankenstein Created Woman . In: Hammer Horror # 5 , Marvel, pp. 22-32.
  2. ↑ Trivia . On: imdb.com (English). Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  3. ↑ Release Dates . On: imdb.com (English). Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  4. ↑ Frankenstein created a woman. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ cf. Ronald M. Hahn & Volker Jansen: Lexicon of Horror Films , Bastei-Lübbe, 1985, page 161
  6. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 416/1967