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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) in Movies

Nov 5, 2020  
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
1957 | Classics, Drama, Horror
8
8.0 (2 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Peter Crushing (1 more)
Christopher Lee
The Monster Inside
The Curse of Frankenstein- is a great movie. Hammer films is a excellent studio, cause their brought back the universal monsters and put their own spin on it. And with The Curse of Frankenstein their put their own spin on Frankenstien. And did it work, yes.

The plot: Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) is a brilliant scientist willing to stop at nothing in his quest to reanimate a deceased body. After alienating his longtime friend and partner, Paul Krempe (Robert Urquhart), with his extreme methods, Frankenstein assembles a hideous creature (Christopher Lee) out of dead body parts and succeeds in bringing it to life. But the monster is not as obedient or docile as Frankenstein expected, and it runs amok, resulting in murder and mayhem.

It was Hammer's first colour horror film, and the first of their Frankenstein series.

Professor Patricia MacCormack called it the "first really gory horror film, showing blood and guts in colour".

Peter Cushing, who was then best known for his many high-profile roles in British television, had his first lead part in a movie with this film. Meanwhile, Christopher Lee's casting resulted largely from his height (6' 5"), though Hammer had earlier considered the even taller (6 '7") Bernard Bresslaw for the role.

Unlike the Universal Frankenstein series of the 1930s and 1940s, in which the character of the Monster was the recurring figure while the doctors frequently changed, it is Baron Frankenstein that is the connective character throughout the Hammer series, while the monsters change.

Its a excellent film.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Old (2021) in Movies

Jul 24, 2021  
Old (2021)
Old (2021)
2021 | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
6
6.1 (12 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Another slab of high-concept tosh from M Night Shyamalan. Tourists on a remote beach find themselves subject to accelerated ageing. Senescence is one of the universal fears so you'd think there'd be fruitful material here for a horror film, but Shyamalan struggles to find a way to make dying of old age visually interesting or exciting, resulting in a schlocky film without much structure to it. Not the first film by this director to resemble an extended Twilight Zone episode, and he tries hard to make the revelation as to what's really going on credible, but in the end this is a film which doesn't make a great deal of sense, isn't especially frightening, and doesn't feel like it has much point to it.