Review – The Revenge of Frankenstein

For a Hammer rehash of one of the most often redone plots in the history of horror cinema, this one’s actually not too bad. Christopher Lee was busy on another project at the time, but Peter Cushing had the time to play the creepy Dr. Stein (actually Frankenstein on the lam after having escaped his own execution). The good doctor has established a charity clinic where he has free reign to prescribe amputations for the choicest parts from the riff raff in his care. The ultimate goal is to transplant the brain from the de rigeur hunchbacked lab assistant into a physically-perfect body. I guess it probably goes without saying that things go awry. Despite the usual Hammer trappings, this movie makes a few points about medical exploitation of patients and other at least somewhat serious topics. Mildly amusing