The Revenge of Frankenstein

1958  NR  HORROR  1h 29min

CAST— Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn, Lionel Jeffries, John Welsh

MUSIC— Leonard Salzado  DIRECTOR— Terence Fisher

     You remember Frankie, right? When last we saw him he was headed for the gallows. Well, he escaped somehow and now Baron Frankenstein lives the life of a village surgeon (call him Dr. Stein, if you please). But, of course, that’s merely his day job; his nights are a bit more complicated, you know with all of the experiments on displaced human remains and the carnivorous chimp with the brain of an orangutan. His real project will be Karl. Karl is Dr. Stein’s lab partner who has faith that the good doctor can cure Karl of his paralysis… but only by placing Karl’s brain into a rather normal looking homemade body (a vast disappointment after the monstrous Christopher Lee in this film’s predecessor, The Curse of Frankenstein [1957]). Success! But soon Stein is to see (again) that playing God only leads to mayhem. More holes than a vat of Life Savers in this one but dank atmosphere keeps things murky.

OUR RATING— * ½

PRECEDED BY— The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

FOLLOWED BY— The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), The Horror of Frankenstein (1970), Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)