
Penniless, Baron Frankenstein, accompanied by his eager assistant Hans, arrives at his family castle near the town of Karlstaad, vowing to continue his experiments in the creation of life. Fortuitously finding the creature he was previously working on, he brings it back to a semblance of life but requires the services of a mesmerist, Zoltan, to successfully animate it. The greedy and vengeful Zoltan secretly sends the monster into town to steal gold and 'punish' the burgomast... (Full plot summary below)
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Penniless, Baron Frankenstein, accompanied by his eager assistant Hans, arrives at his family castle near the town of Karlstaad, vowing to continue his experiments in the creation of life. Fortuitously finding the creature he was previously working on, he brings it back to a semblance of life but requires the services of a mesmerist, Zoltan, to successfully animate it. The greedy and vengeful Zoltan secretly sends the monster into town to steal gold and 'punish' the burgomaster and the chief of police, which acts lead to a violent confrontation between the baron and the townspeople.
Leave your thoughts about The Evil of Frankenstein.
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonIt's pretty wan and spotty, in fact, though probably not as bad as the most rabid Hammer fanatics would have you believe. Certainly, it is a stunningly terrible sequel. |
| User ReviewDouglas Cpossibly the first Frankenstein film I saw...back in 1973/74...hooked ever since; very much bad-mouthed, this is a little gem of a film. |
| User ReviewR.John XThis was a weird Frankenstein movie. In this one, Baron Frankenstein is pissed because the townspeople stole his possessions after driving him from the town. Then he finds his monster trapped in ice. Then he gets a drunken carnival hypotist to hypnotize the monster back to life. But the monster only listens to the drunk. So the Baron has to burn everything down. There is also a redheaded deaf mute that is of some importance. Still. Weirdo movie. Mostly just a retooling of the CABINET OF DR. CALAMARI, but without the - no really it is just a retooling. |
| User ReviewDylan WA really complex Hammer film to think about. It is out of continuity with the previous two Frankensteins and the monster doesn't look like the monster in the the first one. I, like most people, always hated the monster make-up in this one but watching it this time I realized that it isn't more like a Universal monster film, it is more like a Golem story. This is completely out of continuity with the corpse focused earlier films but as far as ideas go, it is a good one. Frankenstein clearly owes a lot to the Golem concept as a whole. The mesmerist character is amazing. The idea that he uses his powers on the monster is amazing. Freddie Francis is a total genius (a lot of the time) and Cushing makes almost any movie good. But, this movie is still the weakest of the early Frankensteins. The story is not tight enough and Francis isn't a tight director so the film just kind of plods around at points. Mind you, I still think it is great. Just could be better. And that make-up is growing on me. |
| User ReviewAugusto Aso bad that it made me piss myself laughing |
| User ReviewNick FThe most Universal-styled of the Hammer films, with a creature make-up that resembles the Karloff monster and other set pieces that echo the Universal films more then the previous two Cushing entries. Frankenstein is still traveling with Hans but he's seemingly forgotten everything from the last film (either that or its a completely different Hans!). The Baron recounts the original story, perhaps wisely omitting both Paul and his wife and giving his laboratory a big-budget redress. Curiously the creature is found encased in ice, much as in Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, although that doesn't match Cushing's first film. Despite these continuity quibbles, the film is one of Hammer's lushest productions (aside from the make-up) and Freddie Francis' direction is filled with motion and is more exciting then that of stalwart Terrence Fisher. The use of motion in the foreground and the inventive movement of the camera makes this a very interesting film to watch. The finale is the most explosive, literally, until Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. This is one of the better Hammer Frankenstein films. |
| User ReviewMannie Lpeter cushing gives another good performance as the baron of frankenstein |
| User ReviewThomas Aso bad that it made me piss myself laughing |
| User Reviewramis vpeter cushing gives another good performance as the baron of frankenstein |
| User ReviewRobert LPeter Cushing is great, but the monster is SO bad...what is with his make-up? |