Frankenstein's horror
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Frankenstein's horror |
| Original title | The Horror of Frankenstein |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Jimmy Sangster |
| script |
Jeremy Burnham Jimmy Sangster |
| production | Jimmy Sangster |
| music | Malcolm Williamson |
| camera | Moray Grant |
| cut | Chris Barnes |
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Frankenstein's horror (Original title: The Horror of Frankenstein ) is a horror film by the British film production company Hammer from 1970. The title role of Victor Frankenstein played Ralph Bates . This film is the only Frankenstein film by Hammer in which Peter Cushing does not appear as Baron Frankenstein. The alternative title is The Abomination of Frankenstein .
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Even in his school days, Victor Frankenstein showed a keen interest in human anatomy, both in scientific terms and in relation to the attractive maid in the Frankenstein household. When his father, the old Baron Frankenstein, cut the financial means for his scientific equipment and forbade him to travel to Vienna to study medicine there, Victor sabotaged his hunting rifle. The shot backfires and Victor inherits the family fortune and the title of baron.
At the University of Vienna he is one of the best students of his year. At this time, Victor begins his first attempts with a severed arm that he stole in anatomy class. After returning to Schloss Frankenstein, he first set up a laboratory and began researching dead tissue and the possibility of reviving it. In his first experiment he succeeds in bringing a dead turtle back to life, but his main goal is to create an artificial human. He assigns a grave robber to provide him with human bodies or body parts. Little by little he completes his blueprint and does not even shrink back from the murder of his best friend Wilhelm, as he has threatened to publicly expose him if he pursues his insane plan. Finally he finished the body and only needs a brain. Professor Heiss, the father of his childhood friend Elizabeth, should deliver this to him. He invites both of them to dinner and gives the old man a poison, to which he ultimately succumbs. The night after the funeral, the grave robber brings the brain to Victor, but drops it in shock when he sees the composite body. Victor gets rid of the unwanted witness by pushing him into the acid tank, in which he dissolves body parts that would otherwise not be needed. After using the brain, Victor electrifies his creature and it truly opens its eyes. It tears itself loose and knocks the young baron down and disappears into the night, where the first thing it does is murder a lumberjack. Victor is able to recapture his monster and blames his rather simple-minded cook for the murder. When the grave robber's wife appears a few days later and asks about her husband's whereabouts, Frankenstein incites his creation on her neck in order to silence her, and when his attractive maid and lover Alys tries to blackmail him because she wants him to live with him Has secretly observed work, he also delivers it to the monster. When the monster breaks out again and a young girl attacks, events come to a head.
The police become suspicious after all the attacks have taken place in the immediate vicinity of the castle and set out to confront Victor. At the last second he manages to hide the monster in the empty acid tank, but by chance it is flooded and the monster dissolves, which removes all evidence of Victor's guilt. He gets off scot-free, but is devastated as everything he did to create his being has been in vain.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international films : “ Another colorless film adaptation of the“ Frankenstein ”material based on the novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who tries in vain to gain a charm from the story by including black humor. "
- Cinema : “ Not enough exciting as a horror film and a failure as a parody. "
Sequels
For Hammer's last Frankenstein film, Peter Cushing returned as Baron Frankenstein.
Others
- Frankenstein's horror is actually outside the Hammer Frankenstein series with Peter Cushing as the corpse baron . Rather, the film can be viewed as a loose remake of Frankenstein's Curse (1957). Allegedly, those responsible at Hammer tried to address a younger audience with a younger actor.
Web links
- The Horror of Frankenstein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frankenstein's horror. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .