Other Titles • The Revenge of Frankenstein • Blood of Frankenstein (1958) • Frankensteins Rache (1958) • I Frankenstein (1958) • Ich bin Frankenstein (1958)
Synopses for The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
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Death has never stopped anyone from crafting a sequel to a successful film, but Terence Fisher and screenwriter Jimmy Sangster rather ingeniously twist the climactic execution of The Curse of Frankenstein into the opening of The Revenge of Frankenstein. With a cold-blooded flourish that would become his trademark, Frankenstein plots his escape and sends an innocent (a priest, no less) to take his place on the guillotine, leaving himself free to continue his experiments. As the new head of a hospital for the poor, he builds a body for his crippled assistant from parts amputated from his patients, but body battles mind for supremacy and turns the newly ambulatory man into a bloodthirsty cannibal. Once again Fisher makes the most of a constricted budget, turning his poorhouse hospital into a cramped, dank hole and splurging on another colorful laboratory of buzzing devices and a centerpiece tank for his suspended creature. There are few innocents in the Frankenstein films and this is no different: high-society dandies are hypocrites, poorhouse patients thieves and opportunists, and of course the driven doctor is willing to sacrifice anything and anyone to achieve his goal. The clever conclusion, which lays the groundwork for the next sequel, was curiously ignored when the third installment finally arrived six years later in The Evil of Frankenstein. --Sean Axmaker
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When Dr. Frankenstein escapes the guillotine he returns to his sepulchral experiments, starting over with fresh body parts and assisted by a hunchbacked dwarf. Running a clinic for the wealthy, he secretly creates another creature from various body parts and places the brain of his hunchbacked assistant in the skull. After an accident, the creature's brain is damaged, setting off a series of violent and unfortunate events. A better than average sequel to THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN from England's revered Hammer Studios. The next in the series was THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN.
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The Terror Rises Again!
Peter Cushing reprises his famous role as Baron Victor Frankenstein in this Hammer horror classic, The Revenge of Frankenstein.
Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz (Oscar Quitak), the Baron relocates to Carlbruck, where he becomes a celebrated society physician, Dr. Stein. But under the guise of charity work, the good doctor continues his gruesome experiments, this time planning to transplant Fritz's brain into his latest creation: a normal, healthy body (Michael Gwynn).
When Hammer released The Curse of Frankenstein in 1957, it was a success for the studio and made an international star out of Peter Cushing. In 1958, Hammer produced this sequel The Revenge of Frankenstein with Cushing once again in the title role. The critics were delighted with both the film and its star. "Cushing is the new Karloff." - N.Y. Daily News
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