Anyone like the Hammer Frankenstein movies

I like this one...because the monster is attractive, lol

I like the plot line, but I don't know why his hands are burnt in this as they don't get burnt in the one before...although he gets burnt in the next one and has burnt hands in the one after that..so maybe thsi one is set after 'Must Be Destroyed', I don't think so, but that would make sense!

I like all of the Hammer Frankensteins for various reasons (even the much hated Horror of..) but this stands out for me as a very different type of film. I love FCW for all the dialogue right from the pre-credits with the brilliant Duncan Lamont "come on, it's my head... you're going to have it off anyway!" to the cruelty of the three spoiled rich boys "see how gracefully she walks!"

And then there is a great, cold performance from Cushing; a warm one from Thorley Walters (who always seemed destined to play characters 20 or 30 years older than he actually was) and the beautiful Susan Denberg. She was dubbed of course and for once, in a Hammer film, this was probably a good decision. Just listen to her talk in Star Trek TOS "Mudd's Women" and you will hear why.

Terence Fisher gives us scenes of incredible beauty and portents of doom are everywhere but nowhere moreso than the stunning angles depicting the guillotine. Also the film has a wonderfully complex subtext about sexuality and sexual identity unique in 60s horror and was revisited by Hammer later in films like Hands of the Ripper and Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde but, in my opinion, never as successfully as this.

A classic!