The Evil of Frankenstein

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Joel H What do a hypnotist, a deaf-mute girl, and a clay mask have in common? They don’t really do anything to help The Evil of Frankenstein. I was enjoying this Hammer Film Frankenstein series up to this point, but then they messed with the formula and the results were less than expected. While the sets look good, The Creature’s makeup job is crude and cheap. They also took away a lot of the menace Peter Cushing’s character used to have, and there are long, drawn-out scenes with no dialogue, which just adds to the boredom. They should have spent more time in the lab when creating The Evil of Frankenstein. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/24/24 Full Review Michael C You can't totally dislike a Hammer Horror film. The late Peter Cushing was always terrific in whatever role he played in such films. "The Evil of Frankenstein" is no exception, but overall I felt this particular movie was rather dull and too drawn out. The performances in the movie are fine (Though I did not care that much for the late Peter Woodthorpe as the nefarious hypnotist Zoltan. He hammed it up a little too much for me.). The late Ernest "Kiwi" Kingston does a decent job as Baron Victor Frankenstein's monster (The first of only two film roles for the former professional wrestler.). For me the best supporting role was the late Sandor Eles as Frankenstein's assistant Hans. He ranks second only to Cushing in terms of performance quality on this movie. Even with a running time of just one hour and twenty-four minutes, "The Evil of Frankenstein" felt too long. It is not a terrible movie by any means, but Hammer has produced far better films. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/24 Full Review CodyZamboni Tolerable Hammer flick with another solid Peter Cushing performance. There are no scares , some exciting electrical creation scenes, lots of annoying characters, and really lame, amateurish monster makeup fx, Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/22/24 Full Review Dallas H Hammer Films rule, even if they feel like the British riffs of the American adaptations of classic horror literature. Peter Cushing is always fun to watch! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/24 Full Review DanTheMan 2 Swapping out many of Hammer's regular crew for a fresh set of talent, The Evil of Frankenstein feels like a step back for the studio. Any pretext of a connection to The Revenge of Frankenstein is dispensed with in a brazen display of contempt for continuity as The Evil of Frankenstein acts more like a standalone sequel to Curse which even then feels shaky at best. A flashback attempts to create a prior history that is wholly unrelated to the last Sangster-penned script, instead, it feels as if Hammer plundered from Universal's previous library of Frankenstein movies, with many scenes lifted verbatim, to craft this sequel. Hammer puts their co-financing deal with Universal to good use, bringing back the familiar elements of that series only this time in glorious colour. There's a close approximation of Boris Karloff's celebrated make-up design for their monster and familiar set elements from the Universal movies. I can at least give credit to the filmmaking style of director Freddie Francis and cinematographer John Wilcox who give the film a much warmer look than previously, but the film ditches the superstition and hypocrisy angle too quickly to indulge rather mundane trappings. There's always something going on in The Evil of Frankenstein, but being saddled with an uninspiring, often delirious cast and dialogue that sometimes provokes unintended laughter does the always-reliable Peter Cushing no favours who is the sole cast member that commands credibility. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Peter Cushing returns as the good doctor in Hammer's third Frankenstein film. In this one, Frankenstein and his assistant return to his home town and find the monster he originally created. He revives him, but becomes involved with an evil hypnotist who uses the monster to his own ends. This one is an oddity in the series since it's not really in continuity with the other films. Hammer had a new distribution deal with Universal which allowed them to use aspects of the Universal Frankenstein films here. As a result, the monster here looks more like Karloff's monster and the circumstances of his creation look more like the Universal film. I'm not a fan of this version of the monster ... in fact, the make up is just awful. Generally, this is a more restrained and by-the-numbers outing, and the least successful in the series for me. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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