The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

Terence Fisher

Escritores:

Jimmy Sangster (screenplay)
Mary Shelley (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 junio 1957 (USA)

Género:

Ciencia-Ficción | Horror | Drama

Frase comercial:

Not recommended for people of nervous disposition

Plot:

Victor Frankenstein builds a creature and brings it to life. But his creature behaves not as he intended.

Plot Keywords:

Baron | Creature | Frankenstein | Monster | Experiment

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Still haunting after more than forty years.

Reparto

Peter Cushing	...	Victor Frankenstein
Hazel Court	...	Elizabeth
Robert Urquhart	...	Paul Krempe
Christopher Lee	...	Creature
Melvyn Hayes	...	Young Victor
Valerie Gaunt	...	Justine
Paul Hardtmuth	...	Professor Bernstein
Noel Hood	...	Aunt
Fred Johnson	...	Grandpa
Claude Kingston	...	Little Boy
Alex Gallier	...	Priest
Michael Mulcaster	...	Warder
Andrew Leigh	...	Burgomaster
Ann Blake	...	Wife
Sally Walsh	...	Young Elizabeth

También conocida como:

La maldición de Frankenstein (Spain) [es]

Duración:

82 min | Japan:83 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Clasificación:

West Germany:16 (DVD re-rating) | West Germany:18 (VHS) | USA:Approved (PCA #18481) | Netherlands:16 (video rating) | Finland:(Banned) (1957) | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video rating) (1989) | UK:X (original rating) | Sweden:(Banned) (1957-1965) | UK:12 (video re-rating) (2003) | Australia:M | Canada:PG (Ontario)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Black Park, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Compañía:

Hammer Film Productions

Trivialidades:

For many years this held the distinction of being the most profitable film to be produced in England by a British studio.

Errores:

Anacronismos: When Justine is creeping up to the Baron's Laboratory, she is wearing 20th century high-heeled shoes.

Citas:

Baron Frankenstein: [after his monster has nearly killed him] I did it, Paul!

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en "SexTV: Monstrous Desires: Sexuality and Horror/A Moment with... David Cronenberg (#8.2)" (2005)

Still haunting after more than forty years.

This is a film that almost never was. Originally planned as a 'quota quickie', and, as Terence Fisher stated. "As a send-up," it ended up changing the British Film Industry for all time. It had gone international. Fisher owed Hammer a film, and somehow he managed to pull a script together in much the same manner as the Baron did body parts. It has been said that Jack Warner hated the film, but released it anyway, opening in the very theatre where 'The House of Wax' had premiered several years before. It was a success, much to the delight of Warner, and to Hammer. It also marked the beginning of the screen-teaming of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Today, the film seems a bit slow and not quite sure where it's going, but in 1957 it delivered a wallop in vivid color, to a long-waiting legion of fans. This was the true jumping-off point for Hammer, a small company who had been in production for a number of years, and they filled the void left by the American majors in the production of the 'horror film.' In a way, the film's tag-line kept it's promise.... 'The Curse of Frankenstein will haunt you forever.'

Quite by accident, 'The Hammer Look' changed the face of the fantasy film for all time.