Monster of the Day #3067

Updated on July 16, 2020 By Ken Begg 11 Comments

Amazon Prime week. The last couple of days we’ve looked at some AIP flicks there, but they also have some of the more little-seen ’70s Hammer movies; Captain Kronos, Vampire Circus, and today’s feature, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. That’s the last of the Cushing Frankensteins, I think, and I’ve always heard pretty good things about it.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Is this the one that has Darth Vader in it?

  • Gamera977

    Yeah, I believe it was David Prowse in the costume.

  • Gamera977

    I watched this a few weeks ago, it was one of the Hammer Frankenstein movies I hadn’t seen. Personally, I’d heard some bad stuff about it- but it was pretty good. Not great but good. Frankenstein becomes the doctor at an asylum and sews corpses together to make a monster. I mean what else would Frankenstein do??? You’ve seen it all before a hundred times but typical of Hammer it’s a stylish, well-acted, very well made movie.

  • KeithB

    This was the brother the Zathras’ never talked about.

  • As I recall, it isn’t that bad. It’s just not up to par with the rest of the series.

  • zombiewhacker

    70s Hammer is at worst awful and at best bittersweet since whenever I’m watching either Cushing or Lee being put through their paces one more time I find myself realizing that, if nothing else, a grand era of cinema is coming to an end before my eyes.

    (And thanks to Ken for the heads-up. I’ve never seen Monster From Hell, so I’ll add it to my watchlist.)

  • zombiewhacker

    Prowse: “Ugh!!! I can barely breathe under all this getup!”

    George Lucas: “Hold that thought.”

  • zombiewhacker

    Fun fact: Prowse also played the Frankenstein monster in Horror of Frankenstein (also Hammer), and much earlier, in the original Casino Royale (where, judging from the results, most of the cast and crew were hammered.)

  • Eric Hinkle

    Now if I watch it, I’ll half expect him to start choking someone while Cushing watches on until Tarkin the doctor says, “Enough, release him!”

  • Eric Hinkle

    I remember years ago reading a book about the history of horror movies that made the claim that in the Hammer Frankenstein films, Frankenstein is the real monster and the things he stitches together in the lab are just more of his victims.

  • zombiewhacker

    That was certainly the POV in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed.

    (Also, to a lesser extent, the second entry, Revenge of Frankenstein.)