Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence and frights — not a wind-down.
The story
Brilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.
- monster
- based on novel or book
- dark comedy
- castle
- death of father
- mad scientist
- murder
- reanimation
- laboratory
- creature
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ralph Bates
Victor Frankenstein
Kate O'Mara
Alys
Veronica Carlson
Elizabeth Heiss
Jon Finch
Lt. Henry Becker
- Dennis Price — The Graverobber
- Graham James — Kassner
- Bernard Archard — Prof. Heiss
- James Hayter — Bailiff
- Joan Rice — Graverobber's wife
- Stephen Turner — Stephan
- Neil Wilson — Schoolmaster (uncredited)
- James Cossins — Dean
- Glenys O'Brien — Maggie
- Geoffrey Lumsden — Instructor (uncredited)
- Chris Lethbridge-Baker — Priest (uncredited)
- Directed
- Jimmy Sangster
- Written
- Jimmy Sangster, Jeremy Burnham
Production
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 · 91 ratings
- Studio
- Hammer Film Productions, EMI Films
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1970 · You’re hereThe Horror of Frankenstein
Where it starts.
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
1974
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.
