The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Country: GB
Technical: col 83m
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court
Synopsis:
Victor Frankenstein awaits his own execution for murder, recounting to a priest the history of his hubristic pursuit of Promethean power, how he created a man from found body parts and imbued it with life, only to see it wreak destruction on those close to him.
Review:
The first Hammer horror film exploded onto the screen in lurid colour to the strains of James Bernard's modernist, stridently overwrought musical score. It created two new stars, who would become synonymous with the genre for the next twenty years. The Karloff makeup was not available for copyright reasons, but Lee's makeup is in any case more horrific, though there is also less pathos in his characterization.
Country: GB
Technical: col 83m
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court
Synopsis:
Victor Frankenstein awaits his own execution for murder, recounting to a priest the history of his hubristic pursuit of Promethean power, how he created a man from found body parts and imbued it with life, only to see it wreak destruction on those close to him.
Review:
The first Hammer horror film exploded onto the screen in lurid colour to the strains of James Bernard's modernist, stridently overwrought musical score. It created two new stars, who would become synonymous with the genre for the next twenty years. The Karloff makeup was not available for copyright reasons, but Lee's makeup is in any case more horrific, though there is also less pathos in his characterization.
Country: GB
Technical: col 83m
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court
Synopsis:
Victor Frankenstein awaits his own execution for murder, recounting to a priest the history of his hubristic pursuit of Promethean power, how he created a man from found body parts and imbued it with life, only to see it wreak destruction on those close to him.
Review:
The first Hammer horror film exploded onto the screen in lurid colour to the strains of James Bernard's modernist, stridently overwrought musical score. It created two new stars, who would become synonymous with the genre for the next twenty years. The Karloff makeup was not available for copyright reasons, but Lee's makeup is in any case more horrific, though there is also less pathos in his characterization.