Villain(s)  Mad doctor, reanimated body

Actor(s):  Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara, Veronica Carlson, Dennis Price

Brief Description  The Horror of Frankenstein is a 1970 British horror-comedy film produced by Hammer Film Productions. Directed and co-written by Jimmy Sangster, the film serves as both a semi-parody and a loose remake of Hammer's initial 1957 classic, The Curse of Frankenstein. Notably, it is the only entry in Hammer's six-movie Frankenstein cycle that does not star Peter Cushing; instead, it casts a younger Ralph Bates as a cold-blooded, highly libidinous version of the Baron.

Plot:
Teenage prodigy Victor Frankenstein clashes with his father, the Baron, who objects to Victor's expensive anatomical experiments and his ambition to study in Vienna. Victor coldly rigs his father's hunting rifle to explode, killing the Baron and inheriting the family fortune and title. Victor moves to Vienna for school but spends six years indulging in affairs, eventually fleeing the city after impregnating the Dean's daughter. On his journey home with classmate Wilhelm, they rescue his childhood friend Elizabeth and her father from highwaymen. Victor kills one of the bandits and secretly decapitates him to harvest the head. Back at the castle, Victor balances an affair with his scheming housekeeper and "bedwarmer" Alys while setting up a secret laboratory with Wilhelm.

He employs a local graverobber to gather premier body parts, assembling a towering, grotesque creature. Upon reanimation, the lumbering monster escapes. Controlled loosely by Victor's commands, the monster goes on a killing spree throughout the countryside, murdering anyone who threatens to expose Victor's gruesome work—including the graverobber and eventually Wilhelm. As the authorities close in on the mounting bodies, the monster is accidentally destroyed when it falls into a vat of acid in Victor's lab. Due to a series of comedic misunderstandings and a lack of remaining physical evidence, Victor escapes legal consequences entirely, left alone to continue his twisted ambitions. It debuted in the UK on October 8, 1970, running as a popular double-bill alongside Scars of Dracula.