Review: The Horror of Frankenstein
Ralph Bates is the arrogant, amoral but highly intelligent young Dr. Frankenstein, who finds his university studies most tiresome. What he’s really interested in is reanimating the dead and creating life. He enlists the help of sloshed grave robber Dennis Price and his wife Joan Rice in digging up enough corpses to use as body parts in his experiments. David Prowse, as The Monster, is the result of these experiments, and naturally he’s not a very co-operative subject. Veronica Carlson is the gorgeous local girl whom Bates never shows much romantic interest in, despite her obvious interest in him. But then, when you murder a girl’s father just to acquire his brain for your fiendish experiments, you probably have a hard time looking the innocent lass in the face, I guess. Kate O’Mara is the family maid and former lover of Frankenstein’s father, whose ‘services’ the young doctor also enlists from time to time. Jon Finch is Lieutenant Henry Becker, an acquaintance of Frankenstein’s, who be...