The Revenge of Frankenstein

The Revenge of Frankenstein begins with Baron Frankenstein facing the guillotine for the murders committed by the creature he built. He escapes execution and settles in the German town of Carlsbruck, where he practises medicine under the name Dr. Victor Stein. He builds a respectable reputation among wealthy patients while running a free ward for the poor, and that charitable work gives him access to the bodies and organs his experiments require. His assistant, Dr. Hans Kleve, shares in the work, and the Baron's research into transplanting a brain from one body to another produces subjects whose minds prove dangerously unstable.

Terence Fisher directed the film, the fourth of the sixteen features he made, following Dracula and preceding The Hound of the Baskervilles. Jimmy Sangster wrote the screenplay and Anthony Hinds produced for Hammer Film Productions with Columbia Pictures. Peter Cushing plays the Baron, with Francis Matthews as Kleve, Eunice Gayson as Margaret Conrad, Michael Gwynn as Karl, John Welsh as Bergman and Lionel Jeffries as Fritz, among twenty-three credited cast members.

Released in 1958 and running ninety minutes, the film sits within Hammer's cycle of Gothic horror productions. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.7 from around 7,000 votes and a TMDB rating of 6.6 from 157 votes, with a critics' rating of 6.6 from fifteen reviews, so the audience and critical scores are close.