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Bookmark this pageThe Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Director: Terence Fisher
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From Time Out Film Guide
A strange, blackly comic reworking of the Frankenstein myth, which was Fisher and Hammer's follow-up to their initial The Curse of Frankenstein of 1956. In one of his best performances, Cushing plays on the ambiguity of the central character, so that the Baron becomes a kind of Wildean martyr, alternating between noble defiance and detached cruelty. Much of the action is set in a poor hospital reminiscent of The Marat/Sade, and there is an extraordinary climax which irresistibly suggests the forces of chaos erupting into a repressive community as a monstrously deformed experimental subject crashes through a window into a smart society ball.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Terence Fisher
Producer: Anthony Hinds
Cast: Peter Cushing, Michael Gwynn, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, John Welsh, George Woodbridge, Lionel Jeffries, Oscar Quitak, Richard Wordsworth, Michael Ripper full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 89 mins
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