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“Its refusal to behave is the point.”
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Frankenstein Created Woman
Horror · Science Fiction · 1967
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
Movie details
Frankenstein Created Woman
“Now Frankenstein has created a beautiful woman with the soul of the Devil!”
1967 Horror · Science Fiction 1h 32m
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
TMDB
6.4 / 10
Community rating
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
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The archetype split
Who fights over Frankenstein Created Woman?
For the defence
The Arthouse Gremlin
“The stranger, the better.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Popcorn Loyalist
“Big screen, big feelings, no apologies.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
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The Revenge of Frankenstein
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Man-Made Monster
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Scanners
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
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The Bride!
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A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them imagined.
The Fly
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When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
The Resurrected
Horror · 1991
Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.
Annihilation
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A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
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Names above the title
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Cast & crew
Directed by
Terence Fisher
Written by
Anthony Hinds
Peter Cushing
Baron Frankenstein
Susan Denberg
Christina
Thorley Walters
Dr. Hertz
Robert Morris
Hans
Duncan Lamont
The Prisoner
Peter Blythe
Anton
Barry Warren
Karl
Court is in session
Put Frankenstein Created Woman on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist
“Oddness is not depth.”
A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.