The Curse of Frankenstein

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The Curse of Frankenstein ★★½ 1957

Young Victor Frankenstein reenacts his father's experiments with creating life from the dead resulting in a terrifying, hideous creature. The first in Hammer's Frankenstein series and followed by “Revenge of Frankenstein.” From the Shelley story. Make-up by Jack Pierce, who also created the famous make-up for Universal's Frankenstein monster. 83m/C VHS, DVD . GB Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Valerie Gaunt, Noel Hood; D: Ter-ence Fisher; W: Jimmy Sangster; C: Jack Asher; M: James Bernard.

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