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The Horror of Frankenstein [DVD] [1970]

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Ralph Bates (Actor), Kate O'Mara (Actor), Jimmy Sangster (Director, Producer) Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara, Veronica Carlson, Jon Finch, Dennis Price
  • Directors: Jimmy Sangster
  • Producers: Jimmy Sangster
  • Format: PAL, Colour, Widescreen, Anamorphic
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Studiocanal
  • DVD Release Date: 23 Oct. 2006
  • Run Time: 91 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000HEVTJK
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 26,399 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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This penultimate entry in Hammer's 'Frankenstein' series is the only one not to feature Peter Cushing as the misguided Baron. Instead, Ralph Bates takes on the role of Victor Frankenstein, the scientist whose attempts to create life result in a murderous monster going on the rampage in the local community. Cushing returned for the final instalment, 'Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell' (1973).

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3.0 out of 5 starsDifferent approach divides Hammer Horror followers but it's not without merits.
By Spike Owen TOP 500 REVIEWER on 24 Jan. 2011
Format: DVD
*** This review may contain spoilers ***

The Horror Of Frankenstein is out of Hammer Studios and directed by Jimmy Sangster. Based around the famous characters created by Mary Shelley, the screenplay is co-written by Sangster with Jeremy Burnham. It stars Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara, Veronica Carlson, Dennis Price, Graham James & David Prowse.

After a dastardly deed sees him inherit the family estate, Victor Frankenstein continues with his anatomy experiments......

Originally released as part of a double bill with Scars Of Dracula, The Horror Of Frankenstein saw Hammer Studios take a different approach with the titular monster. Gone was Peter Cushing, who in a publicity shoot was seen "handing over the reins" to the next generation, and in came a more comedic and talky take that takes in the permissive society and the British Welfare State! Sangster's movie should be viewed as a comedy with horror elements, it's clear from the outset that the makers here have tongue firmly in cheek. What else can you derive from a film that has a dismembered hand flicking the V's? Or a casual observation that Kate O'Mara has gained weight in the breast department? I kid you not, and it is damn funny.

The most interesting thing about the film is the young Frankenstein himself, perfectly essayed as being a dandy egotist by Bates. He is in fact the villain of the piece. Here is a man who kills innocents with single minded glee, just so he can create life; deliciously bonkers really. The sexiness comes from O'Mara and Carlson who seem to have entered a "who has got the biggest cleavage contest", while Dennis Price of Ealing fame is wonderfully colourful as a grave robber happy to let his wife dig the graves! Yes it's a wacky movie alright.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsKind Hearts and Cadavers
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 22 Dec. 2007
Format: DVD
"Tomorrow we shall initiate a new series of experiments. Something harmless, like splitting the atom, perhaps?"

Dispensing with Peter Cushing's services and intended to revitalize the series with a younger generation of stars as the studio headed into the uncertain 70s, The Horror of Frankenstein instead found itself on the wrong half of a double-bill with the inferior Scars of Dracula and much detested by many Hammer purists for its tone. Which is a great shame, because this is one of Hammer's best and most delightful latter films as long as you're not expecting the traditional horror film of the title - there may be one of the highest body counts in a Hammer film, but it's not frightening. Instead, despite a wonderfully crude moment with a reanimated hand and the odd joke at the expense of Kate O'Mara's cleavage ("You've put on weight in a couple of places"), rather than pure camp or gothic chiller, this is an elegant comedy of murders with much dry wit. If anything, the influence here is more Kind Hearts and Coronets as the presence of Dennis Price as a grave robber who leaves all the digging to his devoted wife attests. Ralph Bates' young Frankenstein is a sociopath with good table manners but no great purpose: creating life from various assorted body parts isn't a quest to free man from the shadow of mortality, it's just something he wants to do, and if that means killing a tortoise, his father or his best friend then he'll do it without his heart skipping a beat. As the sleeve notes to Anchor Bay's Region 1 DVD note, it's easy to see him as a forerunner of American Psycho's Patrick Bateman.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsperhaps a different title...?
By sean cutter on 14 Sept. 2013
Format: DVD
I had read reviews on Amazon before buying and watching this so I knew what I was getting into. It is a handsomely mounted production with a wonderfully callous Frankenstein and the ever-watchable Dennis Price as a commercial body-stealer. The tongue-in-cheekiness of it all made for amusing viewing if you have seen Hammer's "proper" series of Frankenstein and there are distinct echoes of The Curse of Frankenstein which started it all. The opening scenes jar a little on the mind as the actors are clearly too old to be at school but it is forgiveable given the humorous goings-on. I tried to like this film and am glad I've now (at last!) seen it - and it will rest with my Hammer collection - but...
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3.0 out of 5 starsSangster's fleshy frankenstein
By Zaroff on 23 Aug. 2014
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Dvd picture quality from the Studio Canal/Optimum range is very good, widescreen seems fine, not too cramped. The extra of a documentary on Veronica Carlson is enlightening and forthright, a real pleasure. The film has a seventies overlit appearance much of the time, & limited budget may permit long shots of a real castle, but there is little in the way of Hammer's old gothic wandering through villages or other locales. This is limited to woodland and the castle primarily. Here we find the slightly egocentric or driven Frankenstein minor, plying his trade, or as this film seems to permit, his raison d'etre and his only hobby. But wait, what is this? As he starts showing his satanic ethics, as people start disappearing, and David Prowse begins to take lumpy shape, not only Kate O'Mara bows and scrapes but Veronica Carlson's character is given a career opportunity...

The suggestion often made is that the failing of this film is on a number of levels, mostly due to the tone of the whole. If someone mentions comedy, laughing is often associated. But this is not Carry On humour as such, but mordant, morbid flavoured seventies nod and wink. The entire may be set in gothic middle europe, but the vernacular of the horror of frankenstein is clearly the youth market of the seventies. So much so, that the gothic charms of the past Hammer can be seen to be commented on in almost cynical terms. The humour is one you either latch onto, have a passion for Dr Phibes or the like, or leave it alone. This is not pure gothic hammering, this is Sangster playing with the inherent themes and typical developments that occur confined within gothic text. Indeed, the macabre gallows humour can seem to be pastiche or because of the limited setting & rapid execution, a little Hammer-lite, despite the dark tone.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Not one of the best but still a fun HAMMER!!!!!

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5.0 out of 5 starsThank you

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Published on 20 Sept. 2013 by FJY
3.0 out of 5 starsa half watchable misfire.

i understood before watching "horror of frankenstein" that it was an attempt by hammer to produce something different.
sadly, the results were less than successful. Read more

Published on 17 Sept. 2012 by jeremiah harbottle
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Published on 25 Feb. 2012 by jed
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Top Print and a very informative commentary track add to the enjoyment of this disc.
A short interview with Veronica Carlson is fascinating as are her superb paintings. Read more

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