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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Directed by Terence Fisher
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Overview
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
Rated PG-13 | Length 101 minutes
Actors
Peter Cushing | Veronica Carlson | Freddie Jones | Simon Ward | Thorley Walters | Maxine Audley | George Pravda | Geoffrey Bayldon | Colette O'Neil | Frank Middlemass | George Belbin | Norman Shelley | Michael Gover | Peter Copley | Jim Collier | Allan Surtees | Windsor Davies | Harry Fielder | Caron Gardner | Victor Harrington | Harold Goodwin | Timothy Davies | Jack Armstrong | Elizabeth Morgan | Dorothy Smith
Viewing History (seen 3 times)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/09/2019 | Home Theater | Blu-ray | Owned | 7 stars |
| 10/12/2018 | Home Theater | Blu-ray | Owned | 7 stars |
| 10/25/2011 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
I’d seen this before, but it must’ve been on TCM and I must’ve missed the opening scene. Which is too bad really, because the opening scene is perhaps the best part of the entire movie!
I love the mask Cushing wears, and would absolutely love to have a 1/6 scale figure of his Baron Frankenstein character with that mask!
Terence Fisher does a great job with this film, even though the center portion of the film does drag a little.
Cushing’s Frankenstein is an amoralistic beast of a human being in this incarnation. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in a more evil role.
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