Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

O2D I was hoping that these newer Frankenstein movies would be better than the original Universal trash but I was very wrong. The only original idea in the entire movie is Victor marrying his cousin. Not a good idea but I don't recall that in the dozen or so other Frankenstein movies I have seen. To me the best thing about this movie is that it opens with on screen text telling us that Frankenstein is from Switzerland. THANK YOU! In all those old movies they never once mentioned where they were. Not that it matters. Just like in the rest, the majority of the people have British or American accents. The eyeball salesman has a full blown Cockney accent, probably very common in Switzerland. If you have trouble falling asleep this movie is for you.

morrison-dylan-fan Watching the extras to the Blu-Ray of Hammer's Dracula a few days ago,I found out that was Dracula was the one to make Hammer's Gothic Horror style famous,that there had actually been a "test run" a year before on Frankenstein. Planning to buy the disc,I was taken aback to learn that the BBC were about to air it!,which led to me getting set to witness the first ever Gothic Hammer Horror.The plot:Waiting in jail to be hanged, Baron Victor Frankenstein tries to convince a priest that a spree of murders were done by a monster,and not him.Weeks earlier:Left in sole control of the family estate after his mum dies, young Frankenstein hires Paul Krempe.Becoming interested in science over the years, Frankenstein and Krempe start working on scientific experiments. Encouraged by them bringing a dead dog back to life, Frankenstein comes up with the idea of bringing a "perfect human" to life from different parts of dead bodies. Soon put off by their corpse robbing,Krempe tries to tell Frankenstein to stop crossing a line in science,but finds he is unable to destroy the dream of Frankenstein's perfect Creature.View on the film:Letting the Hammer Horror relish flow during the Creature's first steps,directing auteur Terence Fisher & cinematographer Jack Asher take a discreet turn to the build up,via covering all the body parts and bloody clothes in jars and test tubes which delicately allow the viewing to build their full image of the horrors that lurk within. Taking a restrained approach to the unveiling of the Creature, Fisher soaks the title in an extraordinary Gothic Horror atmosphere, painting everything in delicious reds,greens and whites, (which shine,even though the original negative is sadly lost) and also displaying a superb eye for the use of space, brilliantly used by Fisher to express how no one can get close to Frankenstein.Aware of Universal Studio's watching over his shoulders as "their" monsters changed hands,the screenplay by Jimmy Sangster gloves Frankenstein in a rich Costume Drama,that allow the Hammer Horror shocks to always feel grounded,thanks to all of them relating to the broken friendship between Frankenstein and Krempe.Bringing Hammer's Gothic Horror bursting to life, Sangster chillingly keeps the Creature silent and deadly,hitting pelts of cracking tension,as Frankenstein begins to lose control of his creation.Complaining about having no dialogue (until his co-star pointed out that he was lucky!) Christopher Lee (who got the role after Bernard Bresslaw asked for too much cash!) gives a roaring performance as Creature,whose handmade nature is perfectly captured by Lee's jerky walk and unsettling stop/start movement of arms and head. Joined by alluring Hazel Court and a passionate Robert Urquhart as Krempe,Peter Cushing offers a glimpse of the fatherly warmth he would give to future Hammer Horror,but wickedly off-sets the calm with an excellent, threatening belief that he spits out at anyone who tries to stop Frankenstein from creating his landmark Creature:the Gothic Hammer Horror.

calvinnme ...and Victor Frankenstein is shown not that sympathetic even as a small boy. The story is being told in flashback by Victor (Cushing) as he awaits the guillotine. Baron Victor's mother has just died, leaving him an orphan, and he looks to be in his young teens, yet he apparently doesn't have a guardian nor a tear for his dead mother. Instead his interest is in hiring a tutor, Paul (Robert Urquhart). Paul takes the job, and their experiments and work together show that Paul is probably neglecting the liberal arts part of Victor's education in favor of the sciences. Their ultimate work together - by now Victor is a grown man - is to bring a small animal back to life.Victor wants to go further, he wants to bring a dead human back to life, and not just a deceased human. He wants to build him from body parts. Paul at first assists Victor in this experiment, but his heart isn't in it. His heart really isn't in it when Victor's distant cousin Elizabeth (Hazel Court) comes to live there, since she and Victor are betrothed. It is an arranged marriage. You get the feeling Elizabeth feels she owes this to Victor for supporting herself and her mother all of their lives, but she is fond of Victor, what little she knows of him, and she does NOT know about the human in progress in the lab.Victor crosses the line you just knew he was going to cross when he invites a great professor to his house to dine and then pushes him off the balcony of an upper floor and makes it look like an accident so he can have his brain for the creature. Paul didn't see the murder, but he does figure it out. Paul damages the brain so it will be useless to Victor, and implores Elizabeth to leave the castle and not marry Victor. Both acts are in vain.Victor builds the creature with the damaged brain anyways, and brings a very angry brute to life. I'd be angry too if I were the creature, since he (Christopher Lee) looks like one of the Beatles, down to the 60's haircut and the Nehru jacket, except a recently deceased version. To further add to Victor's crimes, he is bedding a servant girl in the house, and would probably continue to do so post marriage to Elizabeth, but the servant girl winds up pregnant. Hmmm. What to do? He has an angry murderous creature and a blackmailing overly curious pregnant servant girl. Watch and find out.Now Paul knows the whole story, and knows it to be true. The authorities think that the murdered were the work of Victor. After all, how could a man make a man out of body parts and bring that man to life? Poppycock. A word from Paul and Victor is free. But Paul has grown a fondness for Elizabeth and knows the darkness of Victor's heart. What will he do? Watch and find out.If you want atmosphere go watch the original Universal horror films. If you want pretty good storytelling in a horror film, even if isn't close to the original story, done on a budget but done fairly well- and what isn't done well is funny to the point of being endearing- see the Hammer horror films. They do tend to satisfy.

TheRedDeath30 Let's get the usual caveats out of the way first, which are almost essential when a horror geek like myself is discussing this movie. There are so many historical reasons that this is an "important film". The first, and obvious, being that it was the first color horror film created by Hammer Studios and so launched the studio that would rule Brit horror for more than a decade to follow and change the landscape of the genre. Forgoing its' importance to Hammer, it is also considered by many to have "saved horror". By the late 50s ghouls and monsters and the old Gothic horror tradition had passed out of vogue to be replaced by giant creatures and radioactive animals. This movie brought real horror back to the masses in a big way. The last thing I will point out is that the movie had a huge effect on bringing sex into the horror genre. When you think of modern horror, sex and violence seem almost connected. While there were certainly horror movies before this with a sexual tone, Hammer brought it to the forefront and had a big effect.We don't watch movies for historical relevance, though. We watch them for entertainment, so let's get to the nitty gritty. It's hard to review this without the inevitable comparisons to Universal's movie, which I consider to be superior. The biggest change is that this is not a movie about the monster in any way. This is firmly a movie about Cushing as Dr. Frankenstein and he does a phenomenal job. Cushing established his horror rep here in a role playing a man who was not inherently evil, but obsessed with his dream of creating life and never considering the implications. As that dream gets closer to fruition, he is willing to do whatever necessary to fulfill that dream. He is the force that carries this movie, entirely, which is also what makes it less entertaining that Uni's movie, to me. It could have benefited from a little more monster.While we're discussing the monster, he's almost a cardboard caricature here. The makeup is sort of a mess and not as memorable as the Jack Pierce work. It's definitely a "scarier look" but isn't nearly as iconic. Christopher Lee is given almost nothing to do. The monster has no real personality. He kills because that's what the script needs and there is none of the tragedy of Karloff's role.The look of the movie is fantastic, as with most Hammer. This feels like a Reubens painting come to life, with a vibrant, rich color palette. The sets and costumes are lavish, though the lab is a little more realistic than Colin Clive's lab in the Uni movie and lacks some of the distinction. Hazel Court plays the obligatory beautiful gal and fills that role well.I was trying hard not to compare t the Uni classic, but failed in the end. While it may not be as good as that standard, I still give this a 9 out of 10 because it's still one of greatest horror movies of any era. It's paced well, it's exciting, it features some great acting and it created the Hammer blueprint that would dominate horror.