Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

1969 · 101 min · EN · PG-13 · 6.3 (136 votes)
Dir. Terence Fisher · Starring Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Simon Ward, Thorley Walters, Maxine Audley · Music James Bernard · Frankenstein (Hammer) Collection

“The Most Frightening Frankenstein Movie Ever!”

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Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.

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A lurid, operatic descent into mad science and monstrous creation. Expect grim atmosphere, shocking experiments, and a relentless pursuit of vengeance. This is Hammer horror at its most lurid and operatic.

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