Format: DVD from NetFlix on the new portable.
Hammer horror movies are sort of their own thing; you either love them or you don’t. As it happens, I love them. The Curse of Frankenstein is in many ways the Ur Hammer horror film. The Curse of Frankenstein was the first horror hit for the studio. It also has the honor of being the first real on-screen pairing of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. They’d been in movies together before, but not in starring roles. This was the movie that created their friendship, which lasted until Cushing’s death.
There was some interesting controversy regarding the film as well. Evidently, Hammer was not allowed to do anything that was reminiscent of the Universal Frankenstein films, which meant that everything here had to go in a very different direction. The plot is still in the same direction as Mary Shelley’s novel, of course, but it’s significantly different, especially in the look of the monster.
