Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Short description
Baron Victor Frankenstein is back in exile and in need of fresh subjects for his research. He blackmails a young couple into helping him abduct a former colleague, a doctor confined to an asylum, hoping the man can supply medical knowledge he needs. When the prisoner dies during the journey, Frankenstein and his assistant transplant the dead man's brain into another body and revive it with electrical shocks. The resulting creature finds itself trapped in an unfamiliar form, and a visit to the man's wife ends in rejection rather than recognition. The being turns its anger toward the person responsible for its condition.
Terence Fisher directed the film, the sixteenth of the sixteen features he made, following The Devil Rides Out in 1968. Peter Cushing plays Frankenstein, with Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Simon Ward, Thorley Walters and Maxine Audley in supporting roles. Bert Batt wrote the screenplay, and Anthony Nelson Keys produced for Hammer Film Productions. The film runs 101 minutes.
On IMDb it holds 6.7 out of 10 from about 5,900 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.3 from a small number of ratings. A critics' score of 6.4 from ten reviews places it in roughly the same range as the audience response.
What's left behind the scenes
- The flowers in Frankenstein's buttonhole change color and shape with each shot change when he first invites Mrs. Brant into Anna's house. Initially, there are three yellow tulips and one burgundy one, then it’s a boutonniere of purple and orange flowers during his conversation with Mrs. Brant in the living room, after which, when he accompanies her downstairs – it's the same flowers as at the beginning.
- During the scene where the water pipe bursts, a member of the film crew can be spotted. As Frankenstein enters the house and walks down the hallway, the camera pans to the left, and at that moment someone quickly disappears into a doorway.
- When Anna drags the corpse into the bushes, on the brick shoulder of the road, to the left of the corpse's feet, the shadow of one of the crew members is visible.
- In the scene where Anna receives the knife wound, and in the scene where her husband finds her, the scalpel is positioned differently.
- Peter Cushing expressed regret over the presence of a rape scene in the film and apologized to his co-star, Veronica Carlson.
- The rape scene was added at the last moment, when filming was almost complete, because the head of Hammer Studios, Sir James Carreras, felt the film lacked 'sex'.
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