Review of The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) by Richard D — 07 Jun 2018
Peter Cushing returns as the good doctor in Hammer's third Frankenstein film. In this one, Frankenstein and his assistant return to his home town and find the monster he originally created. He revives him, but becomes involved with an evil hypnotist who uses the monster to his own ends.
This one is an oddity in the series since it's not really in continuity with the other films. Hammer had a new distribution deal with Universal which allowed them to use aspects of the Universal Frankenstein films here.
As a result, the monster here looks more like Karloff's monster and the circumstances of his creation look more like the Universal film. I'm not a fan of this version of the monster ... in fact, the make up is just awful.
Generally, this is a more restrained and by-the-numbers outing, and the least successful in the series for me.
This review of The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) was written by Richard D on 07 Jun 2018.
The Evil of Frankenstein has generally received mixed reviews.
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