Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
- suicide
- experiment
- surgeon
- insane asylum
- mad scientist
- mute
- suicide by hanging
- severed hand
- brain transplant
- frankenstein
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Peter Cushing
Baron Victor Frankenstein aka Dr. Carl Victor
Shane Briant
Simon Helder
Madeline Smith
Sarah
David Prowse
Monster
- John Stratton — Adolf Klauss, Asylum Direktor
- Michael Ward — Transvest
- Norman Mitchell — Police Sergeant
- Elsie Wagstaff — Wild One
- Christopher Cunningham — Hans
- Patrick Troughton — Bodysnatcher
- Clifford Mollison — Judge
- Philip Voss — Ernst
- Charles Lloyd Pack — Professor Durendel
- Bernard Lee — Tarmut
- Sydney Bromley — Muller
- Directed
- Terence Fisher
- Written
- Anthony Hinds
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 119 ratings
- Studio
- Hammer Film Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1970The Horror of Frankenstein
Where it starts.
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
1974 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
