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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

The Most Frightening Frankenstein Movie Ever!

  • Movie
  • 1969
  • PG-13
  • 1h 41m

Directed by Terence Fisher

6.3

TMDB audience rating
6.3 out of 10 from 137 votes

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Overview

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 and crew

  • Peter Cushing

    Peter CushingBaron Victor Frankenstein

  • Veronica Carlson

    Veronica CarlsonAnna Spengler

  • Freddie Jones

    Freddie JonesProf. Richter

  • Simon Ward

    Simon WardDr. Karl Holst

  • Thorley Walters

    Thorley WaltersInsp. Fritsch

  • Maxine Audley

    Maxine AudleyElla Brandt

  • George Pravda

    George PravdaDr. Frederick Brandt

  • Geoffrey Bayldon

    Geoffrey BayldonPolice Doctor

  • Colette O'Neil

    Colette O'NeilMad Woman

  • Frank Middlemass

    Frank MiddlemassGuest - Plumber

  • George Belbin

    George BelbinGuest - Playing chess

  • Norman Shelley

    Norman ShelleyGuest - Smoking pipe

  • Michael GoverGuest - Reading newspaper

  • Peter Copley

    Peter CopleyPrincipal

  • Jim CollierDr. Heidecke

  • Allan Surtees

    Allan SurteesPolice Sergeant

  • Windsor Davies

    Windsor DaviesPolice Sergeant

  • Harry FielderVillager (uncredited)

Director
Terence Fisher
Writer
Anthony Nelson Keys and Bert Batt
Music
James Bernard
Cinematography
Arthur Grant