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Suggested viewing order for Hammer's Frankenstein films...


I used to find it frustrating that the Hammer Peter Cushing Frankenstein films didn't all flow in a sequence so I made my own sequence that kind of makes sense if you don't think about it too much. It allows for a viewing of all the films with some coherency - in fact only one film is out of the filmed sequence. This is the sequence:

-Curse of Frankenstein

-Revenge of Frankenstein

-Evil of Frankenstein (this one I view as a dream by Baron Frankenstein which can account for differences in the creature and other elements that do not relate to the backstory as seen in 'Curse').

-Frankenstein Must be Destroyed - assuming that 'Evil of Frankenstein' was a dream then this film is the first to have the Baron damaged by fire. I put the Baron's extreme cruelty in this film down to his personality being altered as a result of the new body he received at the end of 'Revenge'. However, the fire at the end of the film made him look at life differently and he mellowed out a bit for 'Created Woman'.

-Frankenstein Created Woman - makes sense coming after 'Must be Destroyed' because the fire at the end of that movie can explain why the Baron cannot use his hands.

-Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell - continues with the Baron unable to use his hands.



Okay - just a suggestion, but if you have a marathon of watching all these movies again then try them in this order and it feels very satisfying.

Long live the Baron!

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I would go along with that, apart from your placing of Evil as a 'dream'; er, little bit hokey! Better to disregard Evil altogether; it wasn't a Terence Fisher movie and the character of the Baron is totally different to how he is in the other films.

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Evil was written by Tony Hinds using as its basis a plot synopsis originally written for Hammer's abortive Tales of Frankenstein TV series. It had been commissioned by Universal (who made the Boris Karloff series) and therefore Hammer were allowed to create a monster similar to the Karloff one on which Universal had the copywrite.

Interestingly, Frankenstein Created Woman was originally announced as the 3rd Frankenstein film as early as 1958.

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I am rewatching them now, and intend to watch the series in the order they were made, leaving out Evil of Frankenstein. While it's fun in its own way for the Hammer fan, it's a pretty bad movie overall, and it's unrelated to the rest of the series.

Started watching them this evening with Curse of Frankenstein and Revenge of Frankenstein. I think Revenge is where the series really comes into its own, especially in terms of the black humour. Curse was a good movie, and pioneering in terms of horror, but in many ways it was rather stiff and conventional, too.

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I'm watching them all week in the order they were released.

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