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Victor Frankenstein
Terror of Frankenstein
Sweden/Ireland 1976
produced by
Calvin Floyd for Aspect, National Film Society of Ireland
directed by Calvin Floyd
starring Leon Vitali, Per Oscarsson, Nicholas Clay, Stacey Dorning, Jan Ohlsson, Olof Bergström, Mathias Henrikson, Harry Brogan, David Byrne, Jacinta Martín, Archie O'Sullivan, Tor Isedal, Per-Axel Arosenius
screenplay by Calvin Floyd, Yvonne Floyd, based on Frankenstein by Mary W.Shelley, music by Gerard Victory
Frankenstein
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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North Pole picks up a new passenger, Doctor Frankenstein (Leon Vitali),
& he tells his tale to the captain - tells of his studies in
Ingolstadt, his first experiments with elec´tric lightning & human
corpses & how he created life. It was only then that he rejected his
creation in horror of his own errors, but of course it was already to
late, for the creation (Per Oscarsson) followed him from Ingolstadt to
his hometown Geneva, where he killed his small brother, later met up
with his creator & te tell him (in painfully great detail) about him
learning to speak, trying to make friends and the like. He forced his
master to make him a bride, which Frankenstein set out to do but
destroyed his second creation at the last moment. The monster then went
on a killing spree, killing first Frankenstein's best friend (Nicholas
ClayI), then his bride (Stacey Dorning) at their wedding night. From
then on, Frankenstein went onto a hot pursuit of his monster, leading
him to the Arctic (& the beginning of the story). The monster
appears out of eternal ice, Frankenstein dies from a heart attack, the
monster disappears into the darkness.
No doubt, this is a to the letter-adaption of Mary W.Shelly's novel,
which is more a curse than a blessing, because even though the overall
message of the book (man is not destined to play god) is still
relevant today, but many sequences seem just terribly dated (hardly
surprising though, the book was wtritten in 1812) and furthermore, it
was not written with a 90 minute movie in mind, so some sequences are
rather padded (e.g. the monster's education), which works quite well in
the book but pretty much destroys any suspense the movie might have had
in the first place. Also, the direction, while adequately accurate in
historical detail (which is not necessarily a good thing) lacks all and
any creativity, inspiration or at least feel for horror & suspense,
thus making many supposedly strong scenes - the monster killing
Frankenstein's bride at their wedding night, the monster & the
creator finally meeting each other - actually into anti-climaxes. &
none of this is helped by the very mediocre leads & the boring
monster make-up.
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