Tell me name one of your favoriter Frankenstein's Monster from the Hammer Frankenstein movies.
The Cruse of Frankenstein
The Revenge of Frankenstein
The Evil of Frankenstein
Frankenstein Created Woman
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Horror of Frankenstein
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Charles
I liked Christian (Susan Denberg) for obvious reasons!
shareBEST: I liked the Christopher Lee one the best. He's scrawny and looks like a real sticthed together corpse rather than a sterotypical hulking giant.
WORST: The one from Evil of Frankenstein was just a bad homage to the Universal Karloff monster.
Some of them, by the way, don't really count. Frankenstein Created Woman didn't really have a monster in it. Just a girl possessed by the soul of a man avenging his death.
The Cruse of Frankenstein - Best Monster
The Revenge of Frankenstein - Best Film overall
The Evil of Frankenstein - Most underrated, great director Freddie Francis
Frankenstein Created Woman - Sexiest and most original
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed - Great monster (Freddie Jones) and most evil Doctor & great ending!
Horror of Frankenstein - Worst Hammer Frankenstein
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell - Last by Fisher, good one to go out on.
I like Freddie Jones and Susan Denberg (who may or may not be a Monster)
"I am the Master, you will obey me!"
I know it's been over a decade since you posted that, but this is a great list. I agree with these assessments in many ways.
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Personally I'd be awkward and say: Peter Cushing.
One of the things I love about the Hammer take on Frankenstein is the way that Frankenstein himself is both the running character instead of the monster, and he is frequently the source of the purest... destruction in the stories. At times outright vile, and at other times almost benign, he's often very compelling.
And, if I have to justify it, it's worth remembering that for all but two of the films he's inhabiting a body that is a product of his own surgery, as per the end of 'Revenge of Frankenstein' - therefore certainly as much of a 'monster' as Freddie Jones in '...Must Be Destroyed'.
Great point. And by that logic Cushing is easily my favorite Frankenstein monster. Also this is one of the only times it is perfectly acceptable to refer to the Dr. and creature as Frankenstein because he literally is both. I just wish the series explored that aspect more after Revenge but still happy with what we got as the Hammer Frankensteins is their most consistent series.
shareI think as a younger viewer I was sometimes taken aback by the variable behaviour of Frankenstein in these films - which is probably more to do with me than with the character itself. I found it shocking just how vicious Frankenstein was in 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' (particularly the rape, and the vindictive murder of the heroine) - but of course that's certainly consistent with the man we see in the very first Frankenstein film.
My favourite of the performances is probably in 'Frankenstein Created Woman', where he can seem a lot more benign (even though it's more a matter of indifference). I absolutely adore the courtroom scene where he stands as a somewhat bored character witness... but more than anything else I absolutely love what Cushing does with his prop in that scene: Frankenstein, given a Bible to swear on, instead flicks through it, reading passages to himself with clear contempt and frustration at the irrational document...
Freddie Jones gave the best performance. Christopher Lee was also excellent. Michael Gwynn was very good as well. However Susan Denberg has to be the favourite. If I made a monster that's what I'd want it to look like.
shareCurse of Frankenstein has the best monster of the Hammer series, but my all-time favourite is Peter Boyle's portrayal of the monster in Young Frankenstein.
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That's a tricky question, because not all of Cushing's "monsters" were resurrected corpses. Freddie Jones' Brandt from "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed" is just some poor bloke he rescues from death and madness with a brain transplant...never resurrected, never dead. I believe that the Monster in "Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell" was more Reanimator-like... a living being who just kept getting new limbs (and a brain) put into him. "Curse," "Horror," and "Evil" feature more traditionally-resurrected monsters, assembled from the bodies of corpses. So did "Revenge," though it also uses the idea of a living brain put into such a body. "Frankenstein Created Woman" is basically a ghost story about wronged man haunting the body of his true love, albeit one that Cushing resurrects through soul transference. So as far as traditional monsters go, the Hammer films don't give us many to choose from.
That said, my favorite of the "creations" is hands down Freddie Jones in "Destroyed." An at once scheming and heartbreaking portrait of a man who was similar enough to Frankenstein that he knows that he must be destroyed before he gets too far out of control. "Woman" also has a pretty terrific Monster as well....that part when we realize that she's been taking orders from the severed head....*shivers.*