THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN
Director - Freddie Francis, Screenplay - John Elder [Anthony Hinds], Producer - Hinds, Photography - John Wilcox, Music - Don Banks, Special Effects - Les Bowie, Makeup - Roy Ashton, Art Direction - Don Mingaye. Production Company - Hammer. 1964.
Cast: Peter Cushing (Baron Frankenstein), Peter Woodthorpe (Zoltan), Sandor Eles (Hans), Kiwi Kingston (The Monster),
Katy Wild (Rena)
Forced to flee when he is discovered performing an unholy experiment on a still warm corpse which was brought to him by a body-snatcher, Baron Frankenstein and his assistant, Hans, are able to escape to the Baron’s old castle, high in the mountains of Karlstaad.
The castle is a shamble, and Frankenstein explains that it was wontanly wrecked by outraged villagers who had stormed the castle and pillaged it when they found out the Baron had created a living being--an uneartly creature--out of pieces of other beings. The creature, however, had managed to escape, only to die in the bitter cold of the mountain snows.
To cheer themselves up, Frankenstein and Hans decide to attend a carnival in town. Although they are heavily disguised, the Baron gives himself away, and they are almost arrested, but they manage to escape by dodging into the tent of “The Great Zoltan”, a mystical hypnotist.
Afraid to return to the castle, Frankenstein and Hans make their way deep into the mountains, where they meet a deaf-and-dumb beggar girl who befriends them. A violent storm threatens, and the girl beckons them into the cave which is her home.
In the inner recess of the cave, Frankenstein is dumbfounded to find, perfectly preserved in ice, the body of his “creature” of many years ago, and reasons that it must have fallen into the glacier when the villagers chased it into the mountains.
Frankenstein and Hans manage to free the “creature,” and transport it back to the Baron’s castle. Using the electrical power generated by the storm, they reanimate the creature; and though it lives, its brain is dormant.
Frankenstein returns to the fair to ask “The Great Zoltan” to use his hypnotic powers to restore the “Creature’s” brain to activity. Zoltan is able to do this, but the creature is completely under Zoltan’s hypnotic spell, and Frankenstein is forced to accept Zoltan as a “partner”.
Without Frankenstein’s knowledge, Zoltan has the creature commit robbery and murder. By this time, the chief of Police is aware of Frankenstein’s presence in the castle, and arrives to arrest him. Frankenstein tries desperately to make him realize that the creature is on the loose and violent, but the chief refuses to believe him and carts him off to jail.
However, the Baron has already instructed Hans to find the creature and return him to the castle. Hans traces it to the beggar girl’s cave and persuades them both to return with him to the chateau.
Meantime, the chief of Police is now convinced of the monster’s existance and organizes a posse to track it down and kill it. Baron Frankenstein manages to escape from jail and reaches the castle ahead of the posse. He frantically tries to get the creature under control, but it is no use. The monster is in a drunken rage, and has accidentally swallowed a bottle of chloroform. The whole laboratory catches fire, and the creature and his creastor are apparently destroyed in a spectacular, cataclysmic explosion.
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Disclaimer: Evil of Frankenstein was copyrighted 1964 by Hammer Film Productions Ltd. and released by Universal Picture Corp.; renewed by Universal-MCA. Used for non-commercial purposes; All rights reserved. No rights given or implied. Do NOT use without permission.
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