Frankenstein's revenge

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Movie
German title Frankenstein's revenge
Original title The Revenge of Frankenstein
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1958
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Terence Fisher
script Hurford Janes
Jimmy Sangster
production Anthony Hinds
music Leonard Salzedo
camera Jack Asher
cut Alfred Cox
occupation

Frankenstein's Revenge (Original title: The Revenge of Frankenstein ) is a horror film by the British film production company Hammer from 1958 . The title role of Baron Frankenstein was played by Peter Cushing and directed by Terence Fisher . The film is the first of a series of sequels from the house of Hammer, which are mostly based only thematically on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley . He was also listed as Ich bin Frankenstein .

action

In 1860, Baron Frankenstein was sentenced to guillotine death for the brutal murders that his man-made monster had committed . But thanks to his helpers and by bribing the executioner, the priest who was supposed to make his last confession is beheaded instead of him.

A few years later in a small German town, the ambitious young doctor Dr. Kleve in the new doctor Dr. Stein took Frankenstein, who was believed dead, and blackmailed him. He wants to learn everything from him and support him in his secret experiments. In return, he keeps his secret.

He assembles a new body from limbs that he gains through his practice. He wants to use the brain of his crippled assistant Karl, whom he has promised a new body as a reward for his help.

After the successful operation, Dr. Kleve Karl in his enthusiasm that from now on he will be the center of attention of all medical professionals. He panics at the thought of being exhibited like a curiosity . He escapes, is in Dr. Stein's practice but caught by the brutal, drunken janitor. He thinks Karl is a burglar and hits him several times until Karl strangles him. After Karl has murdered a young woman, he bursts into an elegant evening party, which is also attended by Frankenstein, and publicly calls him by his real name before collapsing dead.

Questioned by the doctors' assembly, Frankenstein denies being the infamous Baron Frankenstein, but the doctors exhume Frankenstein's grave and discover the priest's body. At the same time, Frankenstein is brutally beaten up in the practice by his angry patients. Dr. Kleve finds the dying baron and immediately takes him to the laboratory, where he transplanted his brain into a replacement body that Frankenstein made as a precautionary measure for such a situation. Baron Frankenstein's body is handed over to the authorities, who now finally declare him dead.

Some time later in London a certain Dr. Franck together with his assistant Dr. Kleve a new practice.

publication

The film opened in the USA on June 1, 1958, in Great Britain on August 27, 1958. It was released in German theaters on September 5, 1958. Frankenstein's Vengeance was released on DVD on September 10, 2002 by Columbia Tristar.

Reviews

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.

Others

  • The British newspaper Daily Telegraph was so shocked by the film that it reported in 1958 that the film had to be given a special classification by the BBFC : "Only suitable for sadists."
  • According to those responsible at Hammer, the BBFC called for the deletion of the scene in which Karl's brain can be seen sliding from a bowl into a glass with liquid. This scene caused discrepancies while the script was being written, but has been included in all accessible versions since the film was released.

literature

  • Karin Kaltenbrunner: Mad Medicine. To represent the scientist in the Frankenstein cycle of Hammer Film Productions (1957–1974) . LIT Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-50562-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World premieres according to IMDb
  2. ↑ Frankenstein's revenge. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Ev. Munich Press Association, Review No. 788/191958