{"id":5204,"date":"2022-04-08T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2023-01-22T22:06:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:06:16","slug":"film-review-and-frankenstein-created-woman-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5204","title":{"rendered":"FiLM REViEW: Frankenstein Created Woman, 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Love the title font!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Teresa chose this from her Hammer box tonight. What fun it was! Completely ludicrous, as you\u2019d expect from Hammer. But a rather wonderful and nostalgic form of batsh*t crazy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The face of Hammer horror!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Peter Cushing is solid and reliable as the gaunt bony-cheeked Baron, and Dietlinde Ortrun Zechner, better known to history as Susan Denberg is bodacious as Christina Kleve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This would be the former Playboy centrefold\u2019s most challenging acting role; starting out as a physically disfigured barmaid, before the Baron ultimately reanimates her, post-mortem, as a psychotic sex kitten with a split personality!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christina Kleve mit ein cleaver!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The plots of films like these are hardly worth the effort of synopsising, as they are so formulaic and silly. It\u2019s all good clean sex\u2019n\u2019horror-sploitation fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I suppose aorta at least have a stab (groans). The film starts with young Hans seeing his papa guillotined. Later in life Hans is working for Doc Hertz and Baron Frankincense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like many Hammer movies, it\u2019s set in some German locale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At a local tavern, Kleve, the patron, his daughter Christina, and Hans, become embroiled in troubles with three toff oiks, the upshot being Kleve\u2019s demise, for which Hans is blamed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hans is guillotined, like his ol\u2019 dad, this time with Christina as witness. She tops herself, alowing Baron Frankenfurter and doc Hertz to put Hans\u2019 soul in Christina\u2019s body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hans goes the way of his farter\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And to add some spice to the sauce, the diabolical duo perfect the formerly flawed Christina. Physically, at any rate. Alas, the dual residency of Hans\u2019 and Christina\u2019s tortured souls doesn\u2019t pan out so well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Denberg mit Spock!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There are many familiar faces (I recognised Denberg from Star Trek!), such as Peter Thorley as Doc Hertz (who looks like the perfect Geppetto to me!), and the trio of toff villains, Anton, Johann and Karl (Peter Bythe, Derek Fowlds and Barry Warren).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A nice photo taken during a break from filming.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In a bizarre \u2018crisp of fate\u2019, given the plot of this movie, in real life, apparently, actor Barry Warren would later change and live out last five years of his life as a woman!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doing some mad blasphemous science!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not sure why these silly old movies are such nostalgic fun. But they really are. They\u2019re kind of awful in many ways. But I love them. The technicolour, the hammy acting, the formulaic clich\u00e9s – from characters to scenarios – and yet they\u2019re just so much fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hammer did a sexy promo photo shoot\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 but this \u2018scene\u2019 was never actually part of the film. \u2018Twas always just a saucy means of getting the film noticed. Methinks it works!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christina about to serve up revenge to Karl.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Baron gets hands on with his creation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With rather hilarious irony, Wikipedia describes this movie thus: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Where Hammer’s previous Frankenstein films were concerned with the physical aspects of the Baron’s work, the interest here is in the metaphysical<\/a> dimensions of life, such as the question of the soul<\/a> and its relationship to the body.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Denberg\u2019s Playboy shoot brought her to Hammer\u2019s attention.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Technically speaking this is of course true. But of course the very alluring physicality of Denberg as Christina also has a compelling part to play in this movie\u2019s charms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teresa chose this from her Hammer box tonight. What fun it was! Completely ludicrous, as you\u2019d expect from Hammer. But a rather wonderful and nostalgic form of batsh*t crazy! Peter Cushing is solid and reliable as the gaunt bony-cheeked Baron, and Dietlinde Ortrun Zechner, better known to history as Susan Denberg is bodacious as Christina … <\/p>\n

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