20° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
A Different Europe 2002

Frankenstein Created Woman

Frankenstein Created Woman

Country: UK
Year: 1967
Duration: 86'


The third episode of the Hammer Frankenstein movies, directed by Fisher and starring Cushing. The monster encounters sex, but before the transplant there is a tragic love story and the baron is the ingenious demiurge who is ruined by the errors of other people. The most melodramatic of the series, in which science and sentiment are most at loggerheads.

Biography

film director

Terence Fisher

Terence Fisher (London, UK, 1904-1980) started working in cinema as an editor and production director first, and then as a filmmaker, directing a wide variety of movies. After meeting in the Fifties the production company Hammer, he came up with a whole new genre of B movies mixing fantasy and horror, which made him famous. 

FILMOGRAFIA

The Curse of Frankenstein (La maschera di Frankenstein, 1957), Horror of Dracula (Dracula il vampiro, 1958), The Revenge of Frankenstein (La vendetta di Frankenstein, 1958), The Hound of the Baskervilles (La furia dei Baskerville, 1959), The Mummy (La mummia, 1959), The Brides of Dracula (Le spose di Dracula, 1960), The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll (Il mostro di Londra, 1960), The Phantom of the Opera (Il fantasma dell'Opera, 1962), The Gorgon (Lo sguardo che uccide, 1964), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (Dracula, principe delle tenebre, 1966), Frankenstein Created Woman (La maledizione dei Frankenstein, 1967), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (Distruggete Frankenstein!, 1969), Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (Frankenstein e il mostro dell'inferno, 1973).

Terence Fisher, Antony Darnborough:
The Astonished Heart (Lo spirito, la carne, il cuore, 1950), So Long at the Fair (Tragica incertezza, 1950).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Terence Fisher.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: John Elder (pseudonimo di Anthony Hinds).
Director of photography: Arthur Grant.
Music: James Bernard.
Art director: Bernard Robinson.
Editor: James Needs, Spencer Reeve.
Cast and characters: Peter Cushing (Victor Frankenstein), Susan Denberg (Christina), Thorley Walters (dottor Hertz), Robert Morris (Hans), Duncan Lamont (il prigioniero), Peter Blythe (Anton).
Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys.
Production company: Hammer Film Productions.
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