FilmRClassic Monsters Sci-Fi Horror Gothic

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell1974

Name: Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Genre: Classic Monsters, Sci-Fi Horror, Gothic, Splatter & Gore
Released: 1974-05-02
Rating: 6.1

“Your blood will run cold when the monster rises!”

Directed by Terence Fisher

6.1

Crypt Score

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IMDb 6.3Rotten Tomatoes 67%Metacritic 37TMDB 6.2

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Year

1974

Runtime

95 min

The premise

Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.

Horror Vault's take

When a young surgeon finds himself imprisoned in a Victorian asylum, he makes a shocking discovery about the institution's secretive director — and is soon drawn into the man's darkly ambitious experiments. Harvested organs, unwilling subjects, and an ever-growing creation lurk behind closed doors in what proves to be the final chapter of Hammer's iconic Frankenstein saga. Peter Cushing brings chilling authority to the role of the Baron, while the asylum setting lends the film a suffocating, claustrophobic dread. Fans of gothic grand guignol will find this a fittingly grim send-off.

Content: Graphic Surgery Sequences, Severed Limbs And Body Parts, Depictions Of Suicide, Violence Against Asylum Inmates, Disturbing Medical Experimentation