Review of The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) by Mjs M — 21 May 2009
My exploration of Hammer horror doesn?t get much rosier with this film, although it is a marked improvement over The Brides of Dracula. The main problem is that, again, this takes forever to get started.
The movie wastes a good hour waiting for Frankenstein to finally make his monster, contrast this to the Universal version which wisely has the monster coming alive well before the twenty minute mark. I was hoping this would at least have some good technical elements like the way they killed Dracula in The Horror of Dracula, but that wasn?t to be.
The monster here looks like it was a dude in a slightly above average Halloween costume, its particularly lame when seen in daylight. The film has none of the atmosphere that James Whale was able to evoke in the 1931 production.
It?s also got a really dumb and pointless framing story.
This review of The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) was written by Mjs M on 21 May 2009.
The Curse of Frankenstein has generally received positive reviews.
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