SYNOPSIS
An obsessive scientist is determined to create life, and builds a creature using parts taken from various corpses. He succeeds in animating the monster, but its brain is damaged in the process, driving it mad and causing it to embark on a killing spree. The first in Hammer's series of horror films inspired by Mary Shelley's novel, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
- Peter CushingVictor Frankenstein
- Hazel CourtElizabeth
- Robert UrquhartPaul Krempe
- Christopher LeeThe Creature
- Melvyn HayesYoung Victor
- Valerie GauntJustine
- Paul HardtmuthProf. Bernstein
- Fred JohnsonGrandpa
- Noel HoodAunt
- Michael MulcasterWarder
- Alex GallierPriest
- Claude KingstonLittle Boy
- Andrew LeighBurgomaster
- Anne BlakeWife
- Sally WalshYoung Elizabeth
- Middleton WoodsLecturer
- Raymond RayUncle
- Josef BehrmannFritz
- Henry CaineSchoolmaster
- Trevor DavisUncle
- Jock EastonHanged Man / Burning Creature
- Helen FordEllen
- Jack HetheringtonParty Guest
- Marjorie HumeMother
- Ernest JayUndertaker