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THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN 
Released by Universal  Available to buy now.

This 1970 offering from the famed Hammer studios was their attempt to inject a new spark into their Frankenstein franchise bringing in a younger Baron Frankenstein in the form of Ralph Bates (Bates was being groomed for stardom by Hammer at the time appearing in other of their movies such as Lust For a Vampire and Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde). The plot is pretty much your standard Frankenstein one of the mad doctor using human body parts to create his monster, helped by his dimwit servant Wilhelm (Graham Jones) before the monster goes on the rampage and is chased by the township, all on the Hammer backlot pretending to be Vienna or Bavaria or somewheria.

Probably a bit dated to todays jaded horror movie audiences but these Hammer horrors are always great fun, full of great British character actors hamming it up, this one contains a young Kate O’Mara, Veronica Carlson, Dennis Price, the great Jon Finch, Dave “Darth Vader” Prowse as the monster, the lovely James Hayter, Bernard Archard and Geoffrey Lumsden. Great fun.