Film

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

1969 · 1h 41m · Horror · Science Fiction

The Most Frightening Frankenstein Movie Ever!

IMDb

6.7

Rotten Tomatoes

70%

Metacritic

74

Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.

Peter Cushing

Baron Victor Frankenstein

Veronica Carlson

Anna Spengler

Freddie Jones

Prof. Richter

Simon Ward

Dr. Karl Holst

Thorley Walters

Insp. Fritsch

Maxine Audley

Ella Brandt

George Pravda

Dr. Frederick Brandt

Geoffrey Bayldon

Police Doctor

Colette O'Neil

Mad Woman

Frank Middlemass

Guest - Plumber

George Belbin

Guest - Playing chess

Norman Shelley

Guest - Smoking pipe

Michael Gover

Guest - Reading newspaper

Peter Copley

Principal

Jim Collier

Dr. Heidecke

Allan Surtees

Police Sergeant

• Terence FisherDirector
• Bert BattScreenplay · Story
• Anthony Nelson KeysProducer · Story
• Arthur GrantDirector of Photography
• James BernardOriginal Music Composer
• Gordon HalesEditor
• Irene LambCasting

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed / Original Theatrical Trailer (1969)Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 1970 TV trailerFrankenstein Must Be Destroyed ≣ 1969 ≣ Teaser

Release date

May 22, 1969

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

PG-13

Genres

Horror, Science Fiction

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