Hitchcoc These Hammer films all began with this offering. For the first time in my life I got to see the Frankenstein monster look like something other than Boris Karloff. This is in brilliant color and the bloody corpses are much more believable. Lets face it, the old films often forgot about the implications of robbing graves and pasting together body parts. Christopher Lee is a fine monster. Who was to know that he would be a staple in the horror movie realm along with Peter Cushing. I remember people in the theater screaming when Lee's patchwork face was presented to the public. We would see the monster appear in a great many other films that certainly rivaled the Universal trademark.

Rainey Dawn Peter Cushing was good no matter what film he played in... he took his roles seriously and Dr. Frankenstein was no exception. This one of Peter's better horror films. He's brilliant... played this role with passion.Christopher Lee plays the Creature. It's not role with dialogue but it is a role which conveys feeling - much like a silent film star - and Christopher does well as usual.It's great late night horror film with two of the finest actors Hollywood has ever seen. This Hammer film is well worth the hour it takes to watch it.9.5/10

GL84 About to be executed, a condemned prisoner recounts the story of his incarceration of having brought a friend to help in the conception of a human sewn together from different body parts and how its murderous rampage affected those around him.Overall this one was quite a bland and overrated effort without much to really like. The main thing here is that the film is just really boring for the main part of its running time and doesn't offer up much of anything throughout the entire first hour that gives this any kind of feeling about being a horror film. Though it nicely runs through the begging phase of the novel where he begins his research on human anatomy and the limits of science in that time period, these here don't make the connection that his drive to complete these experiments so they make no sense and instead render him into a state of madness performing these actions without that base. He simply comes off as a raving lunatic doing horrible atrocities simply because he wanted to, making for quite the unappealing supposed hero. This also manages another big flaw here in making the film feel so much like a period drama about a scientist keeping his friends and lover away from his work, and there's so many scenes here that feature this from their conversations about the abomination they've created, the growing threats to notify the authorities of his work or the need to procure the remaining parts here that there's barely any time with the actual creature on-screen who only has so little screen-time the pace is altered dramatically slower than what it should be and appears much longer than it really is. These facets here lower this one so significantly that even the few positives here aren't that appealing. The film's biggest virtue here is that the creature's time here is fun makes it worthwhile, getting the initial early resurrection in the laboratory, a great stalking in the forest where it hunts the travelers lost in the area before the two tracking it catch up to it, and the centerpiece attack at the end which is a nice action scene here with the creature stalking their friend and forcing some decent action to rescue her that ends with some solid Gothic action quite nicely. What really gives these a lot of their big impact is the grisly and genuinely haunting make-up work here which is really shocking with how this one goes about portraying the creation which here looks even more likely as a walking, stitched together corpse with all the sutures and cutting marks across the fact that it creates a shocking look. The last positive here is the decision to streamline the first half, as while it makes the actions here way too problematic being forced through all that would've been torture on the pace with the way it is already in here. Still, the flaws here are way to detrimental to save this one.Today's Rating/PG: Violence.

grantss The essential Frankenstein movie.Based on Mary Shelley's famous novel. A scientist, Dr Victor Frankenstein (played by Peter Cushing) is researching how life can be given / regiven to dead animals. He hits upon the idea of creating a human life by combining body parts from dead people. His research is ultimately successful, but at what cost...?Surely one of the most well known horror-stories of all time. Modern versions are more about the aftermath of Frankenstein's creation, and turn into empty action movies. This version is probably the purest version in terms of telling the original story.Solid plot, good direction. Peter Cushing is great as Dr Frankenstein. Good support from Robert Urquhart, Hazel Court and Valerie Gaunt. Christopher Lee gives his career-defining and - shaping performance as the creature.