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Ralph Bates, Dennis Price, Jon Finch, Joan Rice, Veronica Carlson, David Prowse, Kate O'Mara, James Cossins, James Hayter, Bernard Archard, Neil Wilson (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Coming at the tail end of Hammer Studios' Frankestein cycle (it was preceeded by the classic CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN, and FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED), HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN takes the familiar story in a much different direction than its predecessors. The film finds young Victor Frankenstein (Bates) becoming fed up with his boorish father and his boring classes. Longing to escape to Vienna to experiment in his lab, Victor offs his father and quits school. Soon Victor has successfully re-animated a turtle and begins work on his ultimate creation--a human made out of dead body parts. Taking place in a vaguely mod-ish 18th century where the characters carry on as if they were London during the swingin' 1960s, HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN has its tongue planted firmly in cheek. (Verleiher-Text)
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Die Schildkröte wird erst nach einer halben Stunde zum Leben erweckt. Es rennen dort aber zwei leidenschaftliche Frauen mit einer üppigen Oberweite herum. Eine von ihnen (die Brünette) kocht ihm und geht mit ihm ins Bett, die andere (die Blondine) liebt ihn platonisch. Die langsame und dünne Handlung wird außerdem durch den wachsenden Body Count bereichert – dieser Victor ist ein überheblicher Trottel, der niemanden verschont. Die Muskulatur des Monsters ist OK, die Augen eines liebevollen und guten Menschen wirken aber auf gar keinen Fall horrormäßig. Das Ende ist einfallsreich, nach dem langen Schund-Ballast aber unbefriedigend.
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Repeated joke is no longer a joke, and so is repeated horror no longer horror. Studio Hammer overall relied on the fact that individual films, not only in the Frankenstein series but also in the Dracula and Mummy series, will actually be the same thing, just in a slightly different guise. This eventually leads to the fact that these films simply become repetitive after some time. They are never completely bad, but the repetition gets boring.
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