Peter Cushing owns the role of a driven and devious Dr. Frankenstein in this fun sequel to Hammer’s The Curse of Frankenstein. It’s the second film in the series. Here, everyone thinks that Frankenstein is dead, but he’s actually hiding in Germany where he practices medicine under a fake name. There, he mostly treats the poor and collects their organs so he can continue his efforts to create life with transplanted brains and body parts. He makes sure to get a good brain this time, but, of course, things don’t go according to plan and Frankenstein’s new creation (a drooling and mewling Michael Gwynn) turns psychotic. Along the way, director Terence Fisher provides more fine gross-outs that turned stomachs and revolted critics in 1958. We get fresh brains dropped into jars, disembodied eyeballs, and a swollen pulverized face.
Hammer’s next Frankenstein film, The Evil of Frankenstein, would come out six years later.