Rating: 6 out of 10, dated but another solid effort from Hammer retelling the horror classics from the 1930s. Lee struck me as way too skinny to be the monster. Cushing is great as the driven, and morally corrupt Baron Frankenstein. He and his childhood tutor get together to experiment that eventually leads to the creation of the monster. The tutor pulls out and tries to convince the baron of the error of is ways. That the movie is told from the Baron's death row cell in flashback forms tells you how successful he was. Really solid acting at all levels here. It also has one of the scariest falls I've ever seen in the movies when the Baron kills a respected scientist to get his brain. It really looks like the actor goes head first into the floor from two stories up.
MVP: Cushing as the Baron Frankenstein, corrupt and loving it.
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