UK, 1970
95m, 8,591 feet
35mm film, Technicolor
English
A British horror film directed by Jimmy Sangster. It was the sixth of Hammer’s Frankenstein films and attempted to restart the series albeit in a more jokey manner than before.
Plot Summary
Having engineered the death of his father and inherited his fortune, the ambitious young Victor Frankenstein relocates to Vienna where he attends university. After graduation – and after getting the dean’s daughter pregnant – he returns to the family home and, with his fellow student Wilhelm, begins his experiments in reanimating dead tissue…
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Jimmy Sangster
© MCMLXX [1970] E.M.I. Film Productions Limited
E.M.I. Film Productions Limited present a Hammer Films production
Produced by: Jimmy Sangster
Screenplay by: Jeremy Burnham and Jimmy Sangster
Based on Characters Created by: Mary Shelley
Director of Photography: Moray Grant
Editor: Chris Barnes
Music Composed by: Malcolm Williamson
Recording Director: Tony Lumkin [real name: A.W. Lumkin]
Sound Recordist: Claude Hitchcock
Wardrobe Mistress: Laura Nightingale
Make Up Supervisor: Tom Smith
Hairdressing Supervisor: Pearl Tipaldi
Art Director: Scott MacGregor
Produced at: E.M.I.-M.G.M. Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire, England
Cast
Ralph Bates (Victor Frankenstein)
Kate O’Mara (Alys)
Veronica Carlson (Elizabeth Heiss)
Dennis Price (graverobber)
Jon Finch (Lt Henry Becker)
Joan Rice (graverobber’s wife)
Bernard Archard (Professor Heiss)
Stephen Turner (Stephan)
Graham James (Wilhelm)
Neil Wilson (schoolmaster)
James Hayter (bailiff)
James Cossins (Dean)
Glenys O’Brien (Maggie)
Geoffrey Lumsden (instructor)
C. Lethbridge Baker (priest)
Terry Duggan (1st bandit)
George Belbin (Baron)
Hal Jeayes (woodsman)
Carol Jeayes (little girl)
Michael Goldie (workman)
David Prowse as the monster
Alternative Titles
Frankensteins Schrecken – Germany
Frankensteins skräck – Sweden
Der Greuel von Frankenstein – Germany
De Gruweldaden van Frankenstein – Belgium (Flemish)
Les Horreurs de Frankenstein – Belgian (French)
El horror de Frankenstein – Spain
Horror Frankensteina – Poland
Gli orrori di Frankenstein – Italy
Links
Sequel to
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Frankenstein Created Woman (1966)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Extracts included in
The World of Hammer: The Curse of Frankenstein (1994)
References
Periodicals
- Castle of Frankenstein no.17 p.4
- Cinema of the ’70s no.1 (2020) pp.49-68 – illustrated article (Straight on till ’79: A decade of Hammer horror by Ian Taylor)
- Fangoria no.207 (October 2001) p.68 – DVD review (DVD Dungeon by Matthew Kiernan)
- Film Making August 1977 p.57 – illustrated Super 8mm version review (Collecting S-8: Frank and Drac get their come-uppance by Gerald McKee)
- Filmfacts vol.14 no.11 (1971) p.266 – reprinted reviews
- Films and Filming vol.17 no.5 (February 1971) p.58 – review
- Flesh and Blood no.2 pp.19-20 – credits, review
- Halls of Horror no.27 p.22 – note
- The House that Hammer Built no.7 (February 1998) pp.386-390 – production notes
- Kine Weekly vol.633 no.3257 (14 March 1970) pp.3, 20; 18 – note (Hammer’s first two with all-British finance from EMI-ABPC); credits (Shooting now)
- Kine Weekly vol.633 no.3264 (2 May 1970) p.20(UK) – credits (Shooting now)
- Kine Weekly vol.633 no.3265 (9 May 1970) p.14(UK) – credits (Shooting now)
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.37 no.442 (November 1970) p.226 – credits, synopsis, review
- Screen International no.350 (3-10 July 1982) p.19 – note (News in brief)
- Sight & Sound vol.4 no.1 (January 1994) p.62 – video review
- Today’s Cinema no.9790 (24 March 1970) p.9 – credits
- Today’s Cinema no.9799 (28 April 1970) p.8 – credits (In production)
- Today’s Cinema no.9848 (16 October 1970) p.9 – review
- Variety 21 October 1970 p.22 – credits, synopsis, review
Books
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.221 – illustrated credits, review
- Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction by Phil Hardy (ed) p.293
- British Gothic Cinema by Barry Forshaw pp.49, 58
- The Charm of Evil: The Life and Films of Terence Fisher by Wheeler Winston Dixon pp.280, 334
- Chopped Meat: British Horror of the 1970s by Darrell Buxton p.unpaginated – note
- Chopped Meat: British Horror of the 1970s by Eric McNaughton and Darrell Buxton (eds.) pp.29-30 – illustrated review (by Ian Taylor)
- Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914-2008 by Bruce G. Hallenbeck pp.88-91; 215 – review; credits
- The Encyclopedia of Novels Into Films second edition by John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh pp.141-143 – credits, review (by D.B. [David Blakesley])
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.202, 230
- Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby p.215
- Film Review 1971-72 by F. Maurice Speed (ed) pp.224-255
- Hammer Complete: The films, the Personnel, the Company by Howard Maxford pp.405-407 – illustrated credits, synopsis, review
- Hammer Films: The Elstree Studio Years by Wayne Kinsey pp.181-191
- The Hammer Story by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes p.138 – illustrated article, review
- The Hammer Vault by Marcus Hearn pp.122-123 0 illustrated article
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.175 – credits
- Horror Films of the 1970s by John Kenneth Muir pp.58-59 – credits, synopsis, review
- Horrorshows: The A-Z of Horror in Film, TV, Radio and Theatre by Gene Wright p.90 – credits, review
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.200 – credits
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film Sequels, Series, and Remakes by Kim R. Holston and Tom Winchester p.207 – credits, review
- Ten Years of Terror pp.30-33 – illustrated credits, review (by Harvey Fenton, Jonathan Sothcott)
- Terence Fisher: Horror, Myth and Religion by Paul Leggett p.35
- Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Age of British Horror Films, 1956-1976 by Gary A. Smith pp.124-125
- The World of Fantasy Films by Richard Myers p.36
