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Frankenstein Created Woman

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The baron (Peter Cushing) puts an angry man's soul in the body of a woman (Susan Denberg) beautified by surgery.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins As the film progresses, it becomes less a horror picture than an odd coming-of-age drama. Rated: 5/10 Aug 24, 2020 Full Review Alberto Abuín Espinof Fisher's excellent framing work and the contrasts in Arthur Grant's photography provoke tension, uniting sex and violence. [Full Review in Spanish] Aug 27, 2019 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy A solid entry in the Hammer Frankenstein franchise. Rated: 3/4 Jun 15, 2019 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews A disgusting but intriguing script by Anthony Hinds makes for a preposterous but intriguing horror pic. Rated: B Nov 1, 2010 Full Review Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy Even by the standards of the Hammer Gothic aesthetic, this movie has some very loopy notions upon which its plot hangs - yet it never comes anywhere remotely near camp or melodrama. Rated: 8/10 Oct 31, 2010 Full Review Lucius Gore ESplatter The same year as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Summer of Love, Hammer Studios decided to make a great Cushing Frankenstein film. Rated: 3.5/4 Jun 18, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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Joel H After the misstep of The Evil of Frankenstein, my expectations for Frankenstein Created Woman weren’t very high. However, I enjoyed this movie more than I thought I would. The science fiction gets a little muddled as they’ve moved on from switching physical brains in bodies and are now transferring a soul. Also, Dr. Frankenstein is barely in this movie, and he’s still not as menacing as he was in the first two movies. I thought Susan Denberg played her role well, though. Frankenstein Created Woman is a cheesy 60s horror film that probably shocked audiences at the time, but it’s simply amusing now. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/07/24 Full Review Blobbo X Textbook example of Hammer horror from that period. Neither terrible nor wonderful, but passes the time passably. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/24/24 Full Review DanTheMan 2 Deviating significantly from what has come to be expected of a Frankenstein movie, Frankenstein Created Woman takes the focus away from Frankenstein's work and is more interested in the metaphysical dimensions of life, such as the soul's relationship to the body. It took them a while, but after the lacklustre Evil of Frankenstein, Hammer decided to take on The Bride. Cushing is still on top form as the titular doctor, even if he's reduced down to a supporting role in his own movie, while Thorley Walters plays off Cushing with an almost silent respect. All the usual excellent technical aspects that have come to be expected from the people of Hammer are here. Fisher's excellent framing work and the contrasts in Arthur Grant's photography provoke tension, uniting sex and violence. However, the script eventually becomes more concerned with the gory murder spree which follows in the wake of Christina's restoration rather than the more intriguing aspects that, ironically, transform this movie into an odd coming-of-age drama. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/10/23 Full Review CodyZamboni Watchable, but tame riff on Frankenstein legend. Baron this time puts soul of pissed off guillotined man into body of his drowned girlfriend. After months of plastic surgery, she is better looking but confused. She gets possessed by soul of boyfriend, and goes on a head chopping revenge tour. Peter Cushing gives a solid pefrormance, but rest of cast lacks charimsa, especially the lead girl. She is not scary, or menacing. Abrupt ending doesnt help. Hammer Films have done alot better. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/08/23 Full Review dave s Full credit needs to be given to the folks at Hammer for taking a chance and not sticking to the standard Frankenstein formula - man makes monster, monster kills people. Unfortunately, Frankenstein Created Woman turns out to be a bit of a dud. When the soul of a man executed after being falsely convicted of murder is transferred to the body of his girlfriend (who has committed suicide after witnessing the execution of her innocent boyfriend), the young lady exacts revenge on those responsible for the death of her lover. Sounds ridiculous? It is. Despite decent production values, the story is so absurd that it's hard to get overly invested in the shenanigans that take place, proving once and for all that sometimes it's best to just stick to a winning formula. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member From flesh and innocence, Frankenstein has created the ultimate in evil. A beautiful woman with the soul of the devil! With a tagline like that, how can you not watch this movie? The fourth film in Hammer's Frankenstein series, this is the one where we stop thinking about death as a physical matter and start getting into the question of the soul and what it means. The movie starts with Hans Werner watching his father executed by the guillotine. Then, we see him as a young man, working as an assistant to Dr. Hertz and Baron Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing, as it always must be). The doctors have learned how to trap the soul before it leaves the body — they must have been watching The Asphyx* — and think that they can transfer it into another body. They get their chance when Hans is put to death defending the honor of his girlfriend Christina (Susan Denberg, Playboy Playmate of the Month for August 1966) after several rich men abuse her for her deformities and killing her father. After he follows in his father's footsteps, the doctors are able to extract his soul. Unable to live without Hans, Christina drowns herself in a river, but the doctors decide to transfer Hans essence into the body of his lover. For months, the two doctors work to heal her physical maladies and make her the perfect woman. The big problem is that she's haunted by Hans, who she sees as a ghostly apparition, and begins to hunt down the men who killed him and her father. As the film closes, Christina realizes that she should have never come back to life, so she drowns herself again as Frankenstein somehow learns a lesson and walks away. Directed by Terrence Fisher, this is the kind of Hammer film that I love, one that moves away from simply being modern versions of classic horror and creating their own commentary on the world through the lens of the fantastic. *I realize that movie was made five years after this, but the joke was too simple to not use. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The baron (Peter Cushing) puts an angry man's soul in the body of a woman (Susan Denberg) beautified by surgery.
Director
Terence Fisher
Producer
Anthony Nelson Keys
Screenwriter
Anthony Hinds
Production Co
Hammer Films
Genre
Sci-Fi
Original Language
British English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 10, 2017
Runtime
1h 32m