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    Horror of Frankenstein, The (1970)

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    Hammer revisited the Frankenstein tale on numerous occasions, with The Horror of Frankenstein generally regarded as one of the worst. Without any of the Hammer big guns on the cast list, it stars Ralph Bates as Victor Frankenstein, skipping the misunderstood genius role in favour of the evil, sadistic madman.

    After bumping off his father, Frankenstein heads to university in Vienna to learn his trade as a doctor, then returns to the family castle to expand his interest in anatomy.

    However, anatomy needs body parts – cue an arrangement with the local graverobber (Dennis Price) and a few dastardly deeds by Frankenstein to top up the numbers.

    Despite a mishap with a brain, the monster – played by David Prowse, best known as Darth Vader and the Green Cross Man – is created, but due to that mishap with the brain, not quite as intended.

    Enter a monster with a square head and an interest in killing the locals and eating pigeons, and a doctor desperately trying to cover it all up.

    Bates does an adequate job playing the mad doc, Kate O’Mara a better job of the amorous servant girl and the whole cast does well keeping straight faces playing out a tale with very little in common with the original novel.

    Victor Frankenstein
    Ralph Bates
    The Monster
    David Prowse
    Alys
    Kate O’Mara
    Elizabeth Heiss
    Veronica Carlson
    Graverobber
    Dennis Price
    Lt. Henry Becker
    Jon Finch
    Professor Heiss
    Bernard Archard
    Wilhelm Kassner
    Graham James
    Bailiff
    James Hayter
    Graverobber’s Wife
    Joan Rice
    Stephan
    Stephen Turner
    Schoolmaster
    Neil Wilson
    Dean
    James Cossins
    Maggie
    Glenys O’Brien
    Baron Frankenstein
    George Belbin
    Instructor
    Geoffrey Lumsden
    Priest
    Chris Lethbridge-Baker

    Director
    Jimmy Sangster

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