The Evil of Frankenstein

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Blu B @RT43513976 2 days ago It's one of the most forgettable horror movies I've seen in a while. This is a slog to get through. It feels like auto pilot repeating what the best Frankenstein movies have done with the basic beats of the story. Everything here is so forgettable. The pacing isn't good and is the worst part. It feels like such a slow moving movie and everything feels dragged out. There is some nice shots here and there but it just gets boring. It's things we've seen before and the it just feels like nothing special at all. Everything else is alright. The monster design is bad and looks cheap. Probably the worst thing. The story just feels like it has Cushing just doing stuff like going to the carnival and just having the monster freak out and kill. It's so just one note and soul less feeling if that maes sense but it's prefectly serviceable. Skip it though. This is the type of Hammer movie you put on in the background and can just check every 10 minutes and no what's happening. See more

Joel H @786Joel Oct 4, 2024 What do a hypnotist, a deaf-mute girl, and a clay mask have in common? They don’t really do anything to help The Evil of Frankenstein. I was enjoying this Hammer Film Frankenstein series up to this point, but then they messed with the formula and the results were less than expected. While the sets look good, The Creature’s makeup job is crude and cheap. They also took away a lot of the menace Peter Cushing’s character used to have, and there are long, drawn-out scenes with no dialogue, which just adds to the boredom. They should have spent more time in the lab when creating The Evil of Frankenstein. See more

Michael C @Michael71 Feb 20, 2024 You can't totally dislike a Hammer Horror film. The late Peter Cushing was always terrific in whatever role he played in such films. "The Evil of Frankenstein" is no exception, but overall I felt this particular movie was rather dull and too drawn out. The performances in the movie are fine (Though I did not care that much for the late Peter Woodthorpe as the nefarious hypnotist Zoltan. He hammed it up a little too much for me.). The late Ernest "Kiwi" Kingston does a decent job as Baron Victor Frankenstein's monster (The first of only two film roles for the former professional wrestler.). For me the best supporting role was the late Sandor Eles as Frankenstein's assistant Hans. He ranks second only to Cushing in terms of performance quality on this movie. Even with a running time of just one hour and twenty-four minutes, "The Evil of Frankenstein" felt too long. It is not a terrible movie by any means, but Hammer has produced far better films. See more

CodyZamboni @CodyZamboni Jan 22, 2024 Tolerable Hammer flick with another solid Peter Cushing performance. There are no scares , some exciting electrical creation scenes, lots of annoying characters, and really lame, amateurish monster makeup fx, See more

Dallas H @RT53171010 Jan 21, 2024 Hammer Films rule, even if they feel like the British riffs of the American adaptations of classic horror literature. Peter Cushing is always fun to watch! See more

DanTheMan 2 @DanTheMan2150AD Oct 7, 2023 Swapping out many of Hammer's regular crew for a fresh set of talent, The Evil of Frankenstein feels like a step back for the studio. Any pretext of a connection to The Revenge of Frankenstein is dispensed with in a brazen display of contempt for continuity as The Evil of Frankenstein acts more like a standalone sequel to Curse which even then feels shaky at best. A flashback attempts to create a prior history that is wholly unrelated to the last Sangster-penned script, instead, it feels as if Hammer plundered from Universal's previous library of Frankenstein movies, with many scenes lifted verbatim, to craft this sequel. Hammer puts their co-financing deal with Universal to good use, bringing back the familiar elements of that series only this time in glorious colour. There's a close approximation of Boris Karloff's celebrated make-up design for their monster and familiar set elements from the Universal movies. I can at least give credit to the filmmaking style of director Freddie Francis and cinematographer John Wilcox who give the film a much warmer look than previously, but the film ditches the superstition and hypocrisy angle too quickly to indulge rather mundane trappings. There's always something going on in The Evil of Frankenstein, but being saddled with an uninspiring, often delirious cast and dialogue that sometimes provokes unintended laughter does the always-reliable Peter Cushing no favours who is the sole cast member that commands credibility. See more

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