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The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957)

• Director
  • Terence Fisher
• Writers
  • Jimmy Sangster(screenplay)
  • Mary Shelley(based on the classic story by)
• Stars
  • Peter Cushing
  • Hazel Court
  • Robert Urquhart

  Curse of Frankenstein was the "breakthrough" picture for the fabled Hammer Studios. Told in flashback, the story centers around Baron Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing), a dangerously arrogant scientist who takes it upon himself to play God. Using portions of dead bodies, Victor fashions a synthetic monster (Christopher Lee) with a bad attitude. In a radical departure from the Frankenstein canon, it is the imperious Victor who orchestrates the film's two murders by "borrowing" the brain of a learned professor, then leaving his next victim at the mercy of the monster. In 1958, the film spwaned the sequel Revenge of Frankenstein.