The Revenge of Frankenstein

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On Sky Movies Classics 08/01/10 21:00

Director: Terence Fisher

Stars: Eunice Gayson, Francis Matthews, Peter Cushing, Michael Gwynn

Year: 1958 Running Time: 86 mins Rating:

Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) escapes the guillotine and heads of to Germany where he restarts his experiments...this time by using parts of dead bodies, including the brain of a hunchback. The second directorial effort by Terence Fisher - who went on to helm The Earth Dies Screaming, this is a handsomely mounted affair which also stars former matinee idol John Stuart.

Review

Another Jimmy Sangster-written, Terence Fisher-directed horror film with the excellent colour photography that distinguished their earlier entries into the genre.

The police inspector in the case (another Frankenstein creature has gone berserk) is played by former matinee idol John Stuart, whose debut in films was as long ago as 1920, and who went on to become a star in such films as Hitchcock's Number Seventeen.

Best sequence in a handsome-looking production with a sly sense of humour: when the creature gatecrashes a high society soiree.