The Horror of Frankenstein

The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) is a Hammer gothic horror you can watch online on iFILM. Young Victor Frankenstein has been obsessed with anatomy since his schooldays, and he'll let nothing stand between him and the work.

He walks out of university, shuts himself inside the family castle, and starts stitching a living creature together from other people's body parts. Anyone in his way, or anyone who knows too much, the baron disposes of without flinching. Then the thing wakes up, and keeping it on a leash turns out to be impossible.

This was a directing debut for Jimmy Sangster, long one of Hammer's house writers. Ralph Bates plays Victor, with Kate O'Mara and Veronica Carlson beside him. The film swaps gothic solemnity for black comedy and a coldly amoral lead, which makes it a curious case of Hammer reworking its own classic. Stream The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) online on iFILM.