Fresh
Peter Cushing gets every inch of drama from the leading role, making almost believable the ambitious urge and diabolical accomplishment.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Curse of Frankenstein
The creature created by man and forgotten by nature!
1957 · 1h 23m · Approved
Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by
Terence Fisher
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The Curse of Frankenstein
Overview
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
Director and cast
- Terence Fisher Director
- Peter Cushing as Baron Victor Frankenstein
- Hazel Court as Elizabeth
- Robert Urquhart as Paul Krempe
- Christopher Lee as The Creature
- Melvyn Hayes as Young Victor
- Valerie Gaunt as Justine
- Paul Hardtmuth as Prof. Bernstein
- Noel Hood as Aunt
- Fred Johnson as Grandpa
- Claude Kingston as Little Boy
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Rotten
[A] routine horror picture, which makes no particular attempt to do anything more important than scare you with corpses and blood ...
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Rotten
The whole thing in fact looks surprisingly tacky for a film which sparked a box-office bonanza.
Time Out
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