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Title: FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL Year: 1974 Rating: ****
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Before STAR WARS, Peter Cushing and David Prowse, Grand Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader, appeared in Hammer's final FRANKENSTEIN titled AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL, with Prowse the monster and we know — directed by veteran Terence Fisher — who Cushing plays...
Although he's Dr. Victor, working in a prison-like insane asylum with his new assistant, pretty boy Shane Briant, technically the second assistant to Hammer ingenue Madeline Smith, more gorgeous than ever and, being mute, acting perfectly without words while The Monster, resembling Al Capone trapped in a bad Neanderthal costume, is far too brooding and reluctant to be the movie's worthwhile creature unlike Briant's fitfully game cohort...
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| David Prowse in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
So the best scenes are before the creation since the asylum, while lacking the colorful Victorian glory of past Hammer horrors (the picture only cost $150 thousand pounds), is a dark, gloomy, Gothic setting that feels very lived-in and palpable while Cushing is as cool, collected and darkly humorous as ever, and beginning his extremely emaciated, gaunt-faced look (legendary in STAR WARS), this is the best Frankenstein since REVENGE, getting right down to business as opposed to the campy hippie-era distractions of the late 1960's or the exploitation nudity ignited into early-1970's...
But, like Alfred Hitchcock was finally allowed to show realistic nudity in a murder during the 1970's, Hammer does let us actually see the surgery's brain, all gooey and gross and right up front, making this Hammer Frankenstein's very own free-for-all equivalent to FRENZY.
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David Prowse in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL
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| Madeline Smith in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| David Prowse in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Madeline Smith & Shane Briant in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Madeline Smith & Shane Briant in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Madeline Smith & Shane Briant in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Peter Cushing & Shane Briant in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Peter Cushing in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Madeline Smith & Shane Briant in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| David Prowse in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Shane Brient & Peter Cushing in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Shane Brient & Peter Cushing in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Madeline Smith in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Peter Cushing and David Prowse in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Peter Cushing and David Prowse in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Peter Cushing and Shane Briant in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Peter Cushing and Shane Briant in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Madeline Smith & David Prowse in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Peter Cushing and Shane Briant in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Peter Cushing and David Prowse in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| David Prowse in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Peter Cushing and Shane Briant in FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL |
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| Peter Cushing, Madeline Smith and Shane Briant in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell |
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| Madelyn Smith Year: 1974 Rating: **** |
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