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Frankenstein Created Woman
Frankenstein Created Woman is a 1967 British Hammer horror film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing and Susan Denberg. The screenplay was written by Anthony Hinds (as John Elder). It is the fourth film in Hammer's Frankenstein series.
Years after witnessing his father being executed by guillotine, Hans Werner is working as an assistant to Dr Victor Frankenstein, who survived the destruction of his castle in the last film. Victor, with the help of Dr Hertz, is in the process of discovering a way of trapping the soul of a recently deceased person. Victor believes he can transfer that soul into another recently deceased body to restore it to life.
Hans is also the lover of Christina Kleve, daughter of cowardly innkeeper Kleve, whose entire left side is disfigured and partly paralysed. Young dandies Anton, Johann and Karl frequent Kleve's inn and cause a disturbance. Johann threatens to have his father revoke Kleve's licence, if he complains. The three insist that they be served by Christina and mock her for her deformities. The taunting angers Hans, who fights the three of them and cuts Anton's face with a knife. Kleve runs away and fetches the police. Hans tells the police to keep away, that the other three are only getting what they deserve, but the police grab hold of him and Kleve takes the knife from his hand; Hans angrily threatens him. Asked if he wants to press charges, Kleve says no. Anton wants Hans charged, but when the policeman suggests that a fight with three men against one will not look good in court, he relents. Eventually, the dandies leave the inn. They return in the night to steal wine and when Kleve catches them in the act, they beat him to death.
Meanwhile, Hans spends the night with Christina, and, in the morning, watches her leave on the stagecoach to visit another doctor her father has paid, to find out if there is a treatment to help her. Returning to town, he sees a crowd outside Kleve's tavern and when he asks what has happened, the crowd looks at him accusingly. Since the overcoat Dr Hertz had given him is found by the body, and the police heard him angrily threaten Kleve the night before, Hans is immediately a suspect in the murder and is arrested. He would not reveal his time with Christina as an alibi and, known for his short temper, is tried. The trial is a farce, with Anton testifying against Hans, and Hans's father's execution being brought up in evidence. The judge urges him to say where he was that night, but Hans refuses, and, despite Victor and Hertz's defences against the accusations, Hans is convicted and executed. Seeing this as an opportunity, Victor gets hold of Hans's fresh corpse and traps his soul.
Returning from her visit to the specialist, a distraught Christina arrives in time to witness Hans's death and throws herself in the river. The peasants fish out her body and bring it to Hertz to see if he can do anything. Victor and Hertz transfer Hans's soul into her body. Over months of complex and intensive treatment, they cure her physical deformities. The result is a physically healthy woman with no memory of her past life. Victor insists on telling her nothing but her name, and keeping her in Hertz's house. Despite coming to her senses regarding her identity, Christina is taken over by the spirit of the vengeful Hans.
Christina kills Anton and Karl, driven mostly by the ghostly insistence of Hans. Victor and Hertz become suspicious of her behaviour and take her to the guillotine, where Hans and his father were executed. However, they believe she subconsciously retains the memories of Hans's father's death rather than of Hans himself. By the time Victor realises the truth, he finds her already murdering Johann. Despite Victor's pleas, Christina knows she, now, has no one and nothing left to live for, and drowns herself again. Victor, disappointed, and having apparently learned a lesson, walks away silently.
Frankenstein Created Woman was originally mooted as a follow-up to The Revenge of Frankenstein during its production in 1958, at a time when Roger Vadim's Et Dieu créa la femme (And God Created Woman) (1956) was successful (the film's original working title was And Then Frankenstein Created Woman). The film finally went into production at Bray Studios on 4 July 1966. It was Hammer's penultimate production there.
Variety wrote that the film has "the excellent technical aspects which have come to be expected of the Hammer Film people," but that the script "often seems overly influenced by other and better-written screen efforts."
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Frankenstein Created Woman
Frankenstein Created Woman is a 1967 British Hammer horror film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing and Susan Denberg. The screenplay was written by Anthony Hinds (as John Elder). It is the fourth film in Hammer's Frankenstein series.
Years after witnessing his father being executed by guillotine, Hans Werner is working as an assistant to Dr Victor Frankenstein, who survived the destruction of his castle in the last film. Victor, with the help of Dr Hertz, is in the process of discovering a way of trapping the soul of a recently deceased person. Victor believes he can transfer that soul into another recently deceased body to restore it to life.
Hans is also the lover of Christina Kleve, daughter of cowardly innkeeper Kleve, whose entire left side is disfigured and partly paralysed. Young dandies Anton, Johann and Karl frequent Kleve's inn and cause a disturbance. Johann threatens to have his father revoke Kleve's licence, if he complains. The three insist that they be served by Christina and mock her for her deformities. The taunting angers Hans, who fights the three of them and cuts Anton's face with a knife. Kleve runs away and fetches the police. Hans tells the police to keep away, that the other three are only getting what they deserve, but the police grab hold of him and Kleve takes the knife from his hand; Hans angrily threatens him. Asked if he wants to press charges, Kleve says no. Anton wants Hans charged, but when the policeman suggests that a fight with three men against one will not look good in court, he relents. Eventually, the dandies leave the inn. They return in the night to steal wine and when Kleve catches them in the act, they beat him to death.
Meanwhile, Hans spends the night with Christina, and, in the morning, watches her leave on the stagecoach to visit another doctor her father has paid, to find out if there is a treatment to help her. Returning to town, he sees a crowd outside Kleve's tavern and when he asks what has happened, the crowd looks at him accusingly. Since the overcoat Dr Hertz had given him is found by the body, and the police heard him angrily threaten Kleve the night before, Hans is immediately a suspect in the murder and is arrested. He would not reveal his time with Christina as an alibi and, known for his short temper, is tried. The trial is a farce, with Anton testifying against Hans, and Hans's father's execution being brought up in evidence. The judge urges him to say where he was that night, but Hans refuses, and, despite Victor and Hertz's defences against the accusations, Hans is convicted and executed. Seeing this as an opportunity, Victor gets hold of Hans's fresh corpse and traps his soul.
Returning from her visit to the specialist, a distraught Christina arrives in time to witness Hans's death and throws herself in the river. The peasants fish out her body and bring it to Hertz to see if he can do anything. Victor and Hertz transfer Hans's soul into her body. Over months of complex and intensive treatment, they cure her physical deformities. The result is a physically healthy woman with no memory of her past life. Victor insists on telling her nothing but her name, and keeping her in Hertz's house. Despite coming to her senses regarding her identity, Christina is taken over by the spirit of the vengeful Hans.
Christina kills Anton and Karl, driven mostly by the ghostly insistence of Hans. Victor and Hertz become suspicious of her behaviour and take her to the guillotine, where Hans and his father were executed. However, they believe she subconsciously retains the memories of Hans's father's death rather than of Hans himself. By the time Victor realises the truth, he finds her already murdering Johann. Despite Victor's pleas, Christina knows she, now, has no one and nothing left to live for, and drowns herself again. Victor, disappointed, and having apparently learned a lesson, walks away silently.
Frankenstein Created Woman was originally mooted as a follow-up to The Revenge of Frankenstein during its production in 1958, at a time when Roger Vadim's Et Dieu créa la femme (And God Created Woman) (1956) was successful (the film's original working title was And Then Frankenstein Created Woman). The film finally went into production at Bray Studios on 4 July 1966. It was Hammer's penultimate production there.
Variety wrote that the film has "the excellent technical aspects which have come to be expected of the Hammer Film people," but that the script "often seems overly influenced by other and better-written screen efforts."