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The lowdown: Made in 1974, 'Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell' was the last in Hammer Studios' cycle of films based on Mary Shelley's famous creation. As usual, it stars Peter Cushing as Baron Victor Frankenstein, although this time he has assumed an alias. The film opens in a cemetery, where a bodysnatcher (Patrick Troughton) is disturbed by a policeman while digging up a grave. The bodysnatcher manages to overpower the officer and flees with a corpse, which he delivers to Simon Helder (Shane Briant), a young doctor who is fascinated by Frankenstein's research and is trying to emulate his work. The policeman from the graveyard catches up with the bodysnatcher at the local public house, and the bodysnatcher turns in Helder in order to save himself. Helder is arrested, convicted of sorcery and sent to an asylum, where he discovers that the asylum's surgeon, Dr Carl Victor, is none other than Frankenstein, who had been presumed dead. Frankenstein is of course working on a new project to create life, and Helder becomes his willing assistant. The
verdict: 'Frankenstein and the Monster
From Hell' is not the greatest in Hammer's long-running series of films,
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