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Katy Wild with Kiwi Kingston and Caron Gardner The Evil of Frankenstein 1964 Rates: ***1/2 |
Hammer's third Peter Cushing Frankenstein THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN is a kind of throwback to director James Whale's second starring Boris Karloff, but instead of Cushing having a BRIDE he seeks help from a small village's carnival sorcerer/charlatan named Zoltan the way Colin Clive needed Doctor Pretorius... both involving two mad scientists reanimating/controlling the one monster...
Here thinned from ice in an old cavern that Cushing and his normal/classy assistant Hans not so accidentally find... with the help of one of the prettiest Hammer starlets: which is saying something for a production company that churned out some of the prettiest faces on the big screen...
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Katy Wild in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN
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In that, young scene-stealer Katy Wild (who would later work for the same director Freddie Francis in THE DEADLY BEES) plays a mousy, mute, red-haired Beggar Girl that led Frankenstein to find the monster that, through flashback, he lost before banishment from the same town he's returned to...
As Hammer pushes the franchise forward with a brand new creature... swapping a bandaged Kiwi Kingston for previous co-star Christopher Lee... and a lower-budgeted lab that's equally antique and ominous...
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Katy Wild and Peter Cushing in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN
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Nicely progressed by that trickster magician (Peter Woodthorpe) turning Frankenstein's otherwise trudging, moaning, brain-dead monster into what's basically a hired-for-vengeance assassin...
And overall making EVIL both the usual Gothic Victorian Horror and (since the monster basically resembles primitive versions of Leatherface and Michael Myers) a proto-slasher body-count exploitation.
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Kiwi Kingston in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Kiwi Kingston in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Kiwi Kingston in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Peter Cushing in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Peter Cushing and Duncan Lamont in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Peter Cushing in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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David Hutcheson and Caron Gardner in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Katy Wild in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Katy Wild in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Peter Cushing and Duncan Lamont in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Katy Wild in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Katy Wild in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN with Peter Cushing
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Katy Wild in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Katy Wild in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Katy Wild in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN with Duncan Lamont
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Katy Wild in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Katy Wild in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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Peter Woodthorpe in THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN |
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