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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

The Most Frightening Frankenstein Movie Ever!

1969 · PG-13 · 1h 41m

Directed by Terence Fisher

6.3

TMDB audience score
137 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.

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Cast

  • Peter Cushing
    Baron Victor Frankenstein

  • Veronica Carlson
    Anna Spengler

  • Freddie Jones
    Prof. Richter

  • Simon Ward
    Dr. Karl Holst

  • Thorley Walters
    Insp. Fritsch

  • Maxine Audley
    Ella Brandt

  • George Pravda
    Dr. Frederick Brandt

  • Geoffrey Bayldon
    Police Doctor

  • Colette O'Neil
    Mad Woman

  • Frank Middlemass
    Guest - Plumber

  • George Belbin
    Guest - Playing chess

  • Norman Shelley
    Guest - Smoking pipe

  • Michael Gover
    Guest - Reading newspaper

  • Peter Copley
    Principal

  • Jim Collier
    Dr. Heidecke

  • Allan Surtees
    Police Sergeant

  • Windsor Davies
    Police Sergeant

  • Harry Fielder
    Villager (uncredited)