Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 1969
Directed by Terence Fisher
- Horror, Science Fiction
- 101 min
- PG-13
The Most Frightening Frankenstein Movie Ever!
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
- Body horror
- Sexual violence
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Earnest, bleak, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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Cast
- Peter CushingBaron Victor Frankenstein
- Veronica CarlsonAnna Spengler
- Freddie JonesProf. Richter
- Simon WardDr. Karl Holst
- Thorley WaltersInsp. Fritsch
- Maxine AudleyElla Brandt
- George PravdaDr. Frederick Brandt
- Geoffrey BayldonPolice Doctor
- Colette O'NeilMad Woman
- Frank MiddlemassGuest - Plumber
Crew
- Terence FisherDirector
- Bert BattScreenplay
- Arthur GrantDirector of Photography
- James BernardOriginal Music Composer
- Gordon HalesEditor
- Anthony Nelson KeysProducer
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