Talk:The Curse of Frankenstein

Plot

The Plot Synopsis is really bad... Suggest rewrite. I would do it myself, but the film is not fresh in my mind. 88.108.115.137 07:23, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

¶ This recently was shown on TCM channel and the synopsis is generally accurate. I wish I could find a source citation for something I once read: The make-up used for Christopher Lee as the Monster (here identified as "the Creature") went for the cadaverous white, with a patchwork stitching effect on the face and hair, to avoid infringing Universal's copyrighted lantern-jaw and bolt-in-neck features used for Boris Karloff. This first Hammer Frankenstein (1957) ended with the doctor being escorted to the scaffold (guillotine) by two guards and a priest; the following year's sequel, The Revenge of Frankenstein, began with a re-enactment of that scene - with the guards replaced by a wretched looking hunchback who was not in the original - and it later turns out that the hunchback was in the doctor's pay to rescue the doctor by having the priest be guillotined. Sussmanbern (talk) 18:04, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Original research?

The following extract from the article looks like a dubious bit of personal interpretation:

The Curse of Frankstein is important for a number of reasons. The film began Hammer's tradition of horror film-making. It also marked the beginning of a Gothic horror revival in the cinema on both sides of the Atlantic, paralleling the rise to fame of Universal's Dracula :and Frankenstein series in the 1930s. The level of gore and violence was pioneering, and much condemned at the time — although this film, and Fisher/Hammer's subsequent Gothic horrors, can be seen as the forebear of the modern horror film.

Hammer's version of Frankenstein differed from Universal's in several important ways:

the films were in colour, not black-and-white,

the focus was on the Baron rather than the creature,

the Baron was assisted by young men eager for greater knowledge rather than hunchbacks (like Fritz in Frankenstein (1931) or Nina in House of Dracula).

The film's structure also opens it up to an interesting interpretation, that being that the story of the creature is nothing more than an hallucination of Baron Frankenstein's. The majority of the film takes place as a flashback, with the Baron relating the story to his friend Paul, which means that this version of the truth of the murders for which the Baron is condemned might be taking place only in his own mind. This is reinforced by Paul's comment to Elizabeth -- who had been the Baron's fiance -- at the end of the film, that there is nothing more they can do for him. Taken one way, they can't help him avoid the guillotine. Taken another way, Paul is cynically sacrificing the Baron (and the truth about the creature's existence) so he can run off with Elizabeth. Taken a third way, Paul recognizes that the Baron is hopelessly insane, and is guilty of the murders, despite his desire to blame them on his imaginary creature. No subsequent Hammer horror film had this level of ambiguity. Colin4C 20:25, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Frankenstein meets Lolita

A clip of The Curse of Frankenstein is used in the Stanley Kubrick film of Lolita (1962). It is shown at a drive-in. Matthew B-G 119.11.8.175 (talk) 09:05, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Horror Classic Game Book

There is a fantasy game book going by the same title, "The Curse of Frankenstein", J. H. Brennan. He also wrote at least one other Horror Classic game book, "Dracula's Castle". 81.132.20.114 (talk) 10:15, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Magnified Eyeball and Head in Acid Bath…?

The article refers to the film being restored and that while the “magnified eyeball“ scene will be restored, the “head in the acid bath” is lost; however, while it seems from the reference that the reader should know about them, these scenes are not previously mentioned or explained in the text, so it is unknown what their significance is. Anybody able to say what they are and where they should go in the film? Jock123 (talk) 13:03, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

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Poster

The current poster (the one that looks like this) is not the original quad poster form the United Kingdom. The original poster showcasing its UK "X" rating can be seen on this poster (here) is the original UK poster. I've updated the poster to showcase this. Andrzejbanas (talk) 06:38, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Sally Walsh is Hazel Court's daughter

I suggest adding an explanatory footnote to Sally Walsh's name in the Cast section to inform readers that she's Hazel Court's daughter. —⁠99.203.54.122 (talk) 19:23, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

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