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    Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)

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    Director Terence Fisher’s swansong (and Hammer Films‘ sixth and final Frankenstein film) finds the Baron (Peter Cushing) as the resident doctor in the famous insane asylum known as ‘Bedlam’ – where he himself was initially housed as an inmate.

    Shane Briant is his young apprentice, Dr Helder and Madeline Smith plays a busty mute known to the inmates as “Angel”.

    Frankenstein is up to his old tricks, pillaging body parts from inmates for the hodgepodge creature he’s building in his laboratory. He selects as his subject the body of an inmate who recently attempted suicide. The man is Neolithic in appearance, easily driven to violence and shows particular interest in dicing up people with broken glass.

    Victor is soon sewing on the hands of a sculptor and making arrangements to acquire the brain of the melancholy (though not insane) Professor Durendel (Charles Lloyd Pack).

    In the final scenes, the monster (played by Dave ‘Darth Vader‘ Prowse) – who looks like a mangy Wookie – runs amok in the madhouse before the inmates turn on the monster and rip it to shreds, literally disembowelling the beast.

    Although the film suffered a critical pasting, it’s more fun retrospectively. Cushing (literally) sinks his teeth into the role, and there’s a colourful supporting cast, even if the philosophical musings have dated better than the makeup.

    Baron Frankenstein (Dr Carl Victor)
    Peter Cushing
    Dr Simon Helder
    Shane Briant
    Sarah (“Angel”)
    Madeline Smith
    Monster 
    Dave Prowse
    Asylum Director
    John Stratton
    Transvest
    Michael Ward
    Wild One
    Elsie Wagstaff
    Police Sergeant
    Norman Mitchell
    Judge
    Clifford Mollison
    Bodysnatcher
    Patrick Troughton
    Ernst
    Philip Voss
    Hans 
    Christopher Cunningham
    Professor Durendel
    Charles Lloyd Pack
    Old Hag
    Lucy Griffiths
    Tarmut
    Bernard Lee
    Muller
    Sydney Bromley
    Brassy Girl
    Andrea Lawrence
    Landlord
    Jerold Wells
    Gerda 
    Sheila D’Union
    Twitch
    Mischa De La Motte
    Smiler
    Norman Atkyns
    Letch
    Victor Woolf
    Mouse
    Winifred Sabine
    Chatter
    Janet Hargreaves
    Coach Driver
    Peter Madden

    Director
    Terence Fisher

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