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 Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 1970 / Director: Terence Fisher / Actors: Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson ... / DVD ... more  Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (DVD) ... released 21 June, 2004 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: PALNewest Review: ... at his best when he's ruthlessly pursuing his goals. He's dangerously obsessed and completely amoral. The casual ease with ... more ... which he bends others to his will is unpleasant, and he's a lot nastier here than in most of the other Frankenstein films. Cushing also gives an energetic physical performance, getting into two fist fights (sadly his health would desert him within a few years; he was rarely this virile in subsequent films). Apart from a very obvious hairpiece he is perfect.
The rest of the cast... well, it's a Hammer film. So expect bland juvenile leads and older character actors hamming it up. Veronica Carlson and Simon Ward are the ca...more |
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (DVD): More monstrous than the monsters he created! (792 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 24.02.08 (Very useful, 76 readings)
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A review of the Warner DVD. This is classic Hammer, from 1969. It has a much darker, nastier feel to it than most of their horror movies, perhaps because by 1969 horror films *had* to be nasty. But it's still somehow an archetypal Hammer horror. Baron Frankenstein is trying to perfect brain transplants. Learning of a pioneer in the field who is incurably insane, he decides to break him out of the asylum and cure him. Blackmailing his pretty young landlady and her doctor fiancé into helping, things don't quite go to plan. But the Baron will let nothing stand in his way. This was Hammer's fifth Frankenstein film. Unlike their Dracula ...
