Tag: Frankenstein
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By the time The Revenge of Frankenstein hit screens in 1958, Hammer was no longer testing the waters — it was baptizing itself in blood. The Curse of Frankenstein had shattered the old order, turning the genteel Universal monsters into something vivid, violent, and human. The Abominable Snowman had cooled the chaos, testing the moral…
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We’ve already ventured into the coffin of Hammer’s Dracula — that blood-soaked fever dream that redefined Gothic horror and drenched British cinema in technicolour blasphemy. But before the Count ever bared his fangs, before Cushing and Lee carved their names into horror’s stone altar, there was another experiment — quieter perhaps, but no less revolutionary.…
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I’m a huge fan of anything Frankenstein-related. Whether it’s the old Universal films, the not-quite-as-old (but still pretty old) Hammer movies, or newer reimaginings like The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, I’m always down to watch a film inspired by Mary Shelley’s classic novel. So naturally, when I first heard about Lisa Frankenstein, the…