The Curse of Frankenstein

The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions, loosely based on the novel Frankenstein 1818 by Mary Shelley. It was Hammers first colour horror film, and the first of their Frankenstein series. Its worldwide success led to several sequels, and the studios new versions of Dracula 1958 and The Mummy 1959 and established Hammer Horror as a distinctive brand of Gothic cinema. The film was directed by Terence Fisher and stars Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein, Hazel Court as Elizabeth, and Christopher Lee as the creature.

His mothers death leaves the young Frankenstein Melvyn Hayes in sole control of the Frankenstein estate. He agrees to continue to pay a monthly allowance to his impoverished Aunt Sophia and his young cousin Elizabeth whom his aunt suggests will make him a good wife. Soon afterwards, he engages a man named Paul Krempe Robert Urquhart to tutor him.After several years of intense study, Victor Peter Cushing learns all that Krempe can teach him. The duo begin collaborating on scientific experiments. One night, after a successful experiment in which they bring a dead dog back to life, Victor suggests that they create a perfect human being from body parts. Krempe assists Victor at first, but eventually withdraws, unable to tolerate the continued scavenging of human remains, particularly after Victors fiancee his now grownup cousin ElizabethHazel Court comes to live with them. Frankenstein assembles his creation with a robbers corpse found on a gallows and both hands and eyes purchased from charnel house workers. For the brain, Victor seeks out an aging and distinguished professor so that the monster can have a sharp mind and the accumulation of a lifetime of knowledge. He invites the professor to his house in the guise of a friendly visit, but pushes him off the top of a staircase, killing him in what appears to others to be an accident. After the professor is buried, Victor proceeds to the vault and removes his brain. Krempe attempts to stop him, and the brain is damaged in the ensuing scuffle. Krempe also tries to persuade Elizabeth to leave the house, as he has before, but she refuses. ........

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