Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

"The Most Frightening Frankenstein Movie Ever!"

Feb 11 1970 PG-13 1h 38m
Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

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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Plot

Baron Frankenstein travels to a new town to meet Dr. Brandt with whom his has been corresponding and with whom he had hoped to collaborate. He arrives however to learn that Brandt is in a mental institution, having lost his mind completely. He takes a room in a boarding house run by the pretty young Anna who just happens to be engaged to Karl, a doctor who works at the asylum where Dr. Brandt is being kept. When Frankenstein learns that Karl has been stealing drugs, he blackmails him and Anna to work as his assistants. He is desperate to learn a secret that Brandt was going to share with him and kidnaps him with the intent of extracting that secret by transplanting his brain into another body.

Written by

Bert Batt, Anthony Nelson Keys, Mary Shelley

Directed by

Terence Fisher

Cast

Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones

Crew

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Production Countries

United Kingdom

Production Companies

Hammer Film Productions

Languages

English

Awards

1 nomination total

Trailers
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 1970 TV trailer
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed / Original Theatrical Trailer (1969)
Scores
# of Votes
5,875
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
74
Popularity
NA