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Cinema's Most Interesting Frankenstein?

posted 15 years ago by babettegillette
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He is screwing(and often impregnating) everything that moves. The young Victor kills his father(without hesitation) after being refused more time at university. A complete jerk/cad. A brilliant monster creating monsters.

Hammer in its prime(IMHO). Another visually beautiful film from Hammer. Great job Jimmy Sangster! But it departs from the previous Hammer Frankenstein canon and therefore is an abomination? What kind of logic is that after viewing this wonderful freak? Movie critics have their childlike, irresponsible moments.

[–] Postal_Dude_Paradise_AZ 15 years ago

One of the most interesting for sure, especially Ralph Bates take on Doc Frankenstein, as a cold cynic fÜck who wont have anything between him and his "work".

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[–] glenmusher 14 years ago

This one is without a doubt, the most frequently re-shown Frankenstein movie on UK tv (Boris Karloff and Even Hammer cushing versions are now seldom shown, Horror of Frankenstein is getting to be the benchmark by which other frankenstein movies are judged.)

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[–] ericrahn 14 years ago

To my mind, the most interesting part was the oddly anti-climatic ending. The monster dies a quick, quiet death without the usual torch-and-pitchfork drama.

"Farts! Double farts! Turds! Double Turds!"
--Caddyshack, 1980

[–] DogDestroyer 11 years ago

I love how the monster dies.

Flush, and its over!

[–] ericrahn 10 years ago

There's another thing that sets it apart from the other Frankenstein movies that I also thought made this movie more interesting. Notice in every other film (I'm not talking about sequels, just versions of the original story), Frankenstein dies whether the monster does or not. Here we have a movie where the monster is completely obliterated, while Victor stands around with a look on his face that seems to say, "Great. Now what?"

Farts! Double farts! Turds! Double Turds!
--Caddyshack, 1980

[–] nickm2 10 years ago

And Victor doesn't even get to 'nail' the Veronica Carlson character....

Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?

[–] ElectricWarlock 9 years ago

I thought this was one of the best of the series. I think many people hate it just because it dares to do something different and also out of loyalty to Peter Cushing. It isn't a bad film at all, though.