Post by Zone Fighter on Aug 27, 2004 20:25:27 GMT -8
I was mistaken, I did get to watch one the horror movies I rented tonight after all:
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein
Hazel Court as Elizabeth
Robert Urquhart as Paul Krempe
Christopher Lee as The Creature
Valerie Gaunt as Justine
Hammer Films first Frankenstein movie.
The film begins with Victor Frankenstein in prison waiting to be executed. Why he is to be executed is explained by the story he tells the local clergyman, which takes up most of the film.
When just a boy his mother died leaving him the Frankenstein fortune. He promises his aunt he will continue to pay her the allowance his mother gave her. Then he hires himself a tutor, Paul Krempe. Years pass. Frankenstein and Krempe carry out experiments trying to find "the secret of life". When they succeed in bringing a dead dog back to life Krempe wants to write a scientific paper, and present it to the medical community so this discovery can be used for the benefit of mankind. Frankenstein however plans to create life from scratch.
This movie's version of Victor Frankenstein is clearly the monster. He seduces his housekepper Justine, promising to marry her, while secretly becoming engaged to his cousin Elizabeth, tries to play god by "creating life", mutilates the dead, and murders a man so he can use his brain in his creature.
Frankestein talks about creating life several times. So it's ironic that when his mistress becomes pregnant he completly failes to release that he has in fact created life the only natural way any man can, but continues to be obssessed with his experiement instead.
There is one major plot hole in this film. Why Frankenstein wants to marry his penniless cousin is never explained. He doesn't love her nor does he gain anything by marrying her. She has no money he can take control off, on the contrary he's been supporting her since they were both children. Elizabeth is just there so Paul has a reason to stick around, having fallen in love with her himself.
Christopher Lee has no lines, just a few grunts.
Cushing and Lee will work together again a year later in "Horror of Dracula".
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein
Hazel Court as Elizabeth
Robert Urquhart as Paul Krempe
Christopher Lee as The Creature
Valerie Gaunt as Justine
Hammer Films first Frankenstein movie.
The film begins with Victor Frankenstein in prison waiting to be executed. Why he is to be executed is explained by the story he tells the local clergyman, which takes up most of the film.
When just a boy his mother died leaving him the Frankenstein fortune. He promises his aunt he will continue to pay her the allowance his mother gave her. Then he hires himself a tutor, Paul Krempe. Years pass. Frankenstein and Krempe carry out experiments trying to find "the secret of life". When they succeed in bringing a dead dog back to life Krempe wants to write a scientific paper, and present it to the medical community so this discovery can be used for the benefit of mankind. Frankenstein however plans to create life from scratch.
This movie's version of Victor Frankenstein is clearly the monster. He seduces his housekepper Justine, promising to marry her, while secretly becoming engaged to his cousin Elizabeth, tries to play god by "creating life", mutilates the dead, and murders a man so he can use his brain in his creature.
Frankestein talks about creating life several times. So it's ironic that when his mistress becomes pregnant he completly failes to release that he has in fact created life the only natural way any man can, but continues to be obssessed with his experiement instead.
There is one major plot hole in this film. Why Frankenstein wants to marry his penniless cousin is never explained. He doesn't love her nor does he gain anything by marrying her. She has no money he can take control off, on the contrary he's been supporting her since they were both children. Elizabeth is just there so Paul has a reason to stick around, having fallen in love with her himself.
Christopher Lee has no lines, just a few grunts.
Cushing and Lee will work together again a year later in "Horror of Dracula".
