This fifth Frankenstein offering from Hammer is not so much a continuation as a character assassination. The reckless fanatic of the previous films is now a blackmailer, rapist and serial killer. Hammer cross a line with this one, into the nastier, grimmer horror of the seventies. It is a fast-paced and exciting film though.
Frankenstein is continuing his experiments under cover, murdering people when it suits him. On discovering that a former colleague in brain transplantaion is now languishing in an asylum, he blackmails a young doctor there Karl Holst ( Simon Ward ) and his fiance Anna into helping him extract the man and put his brain into the body of another man ( Freddie Jones ).
Sex : Fankenstein rapes Anna
Death : Stabbed in the abdomen by Frankenstein
Both Veronica and Cushing objected to filming the rape scene which was inserted after the rest of the film had been completed.
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