{"id":38964,"date":"2025-05-18T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T19:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38964"},"modified":"2025-05-18T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T19:41:33","slug":"curse-of-frankenstein-1957-directed-by-terence-fisher-starring-peter-cushing-and-christopher-lee-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38964","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Curse of Frankenstein&#8221; (1957) directed by Terence Fisher, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z051825zview_cursefrankenstein.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Curse of Frankenstein <\/strong><\/em>(1957)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Terence Fisher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Jimmy Sangster;<\/strong> based on FRANKENSTEIN by<strong> Mary Shelley<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Peter Cushing, Hazel Court<\/strong><strong>, Christopher Lee<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> PLEASE TRY NOT TO FAINT. Not recommended for people of nervous disposition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As he waits for his execution, Victor Frankenstein recounts how he ended up headed to the gallows.\u00a0 Frankenstein was obsessed with bringing the dead back to life since he was a boy.\u00a0 Working with Paul Krempe, another scientist,\u00a0 the two achieved success with reviving a dead dog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Krempe wanted to share their results with the world.\u00a0 Frankenstein wanted to keep their success a secret and begin experimenting with reviving dead humans.\u00a0 Very quickly Krempe sees that Frankenstein is obsessed.\u00a0 Frankenstein robs graves, pays for body parts and even resorts to murder to get the parts he needs.<\/p>\n<p>When his creature comes to life, Frankenstein is shocked to learn he cannot control it.\u00a0 And the monster isn&#8217;t happy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Curse of Frankenstein<\/em> was a huge box office success.\u00a0 Over the years, the film&#8217;s reputation has grown.\u00a0 I&#8217;m in the minority, because the movie just doesn&#8217;t resonate with me.\u00a0 I hate the creature&#8217;s design.\u00a0 It reminds me of a bad attempt to monsterize Cesare the the somnambulist from 1920&#8217;s <em>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari<\/em>.\u00a0 Dr. Frankenstein is totally unlikable, so who cares if he hangs?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christopher Lee (who plays the monster) reportedly complained to Peter Cushing during the start of filming, that he had no lines.\u00a0 Cushing replied, &#8220;You&#8217;re lucky. I&#8217;ve read the script.&#8221;\u00a0 If this isn&#8217;t true, it should be.<\/p>\n<p>As always, your mileage may vary but for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Curse of Frankenstein (1957) <\/strong><\/em>rates 2 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z051825zview_cursefrankenstein2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curse of Frankenstein (1957) Director:\u00a0 Terence Fisher Screenplay: Jimmy Sangster; based on FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley Stars: Peter Cushing, Hazel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38965,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38964\/revisions\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}