Peter Cushing Hazel Court Robert Urquhart Christopher Lee
Cinematography
Jack Asher[1]
Edited by
James Needs[1]
Music by
James Bernard
Color process
Eastmancolor
Production company
Hammer Film Productions
Distributed by
Warner Bros.[1]
Release dates
2 May 1957 (1957-05-02) (London)
20 May 1957 (1957-05-20) (United Kingdom)
Running time
83 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
£65,000[2][3] or $270,000[4][5]
Box office
$8 million[4] 728,452 admissions (France)[6]
Christopher Lee as the creature.
The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions, loosely based on the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley.[7] It was Hammer's first colour horror film, and the first of their Frankenstein series.[8] Its worldwide success led to several sequels, and it was also followed by new versions of Dracula (1958) and The Mummy (1959), establishing "Hammer Horror" as a distinctive brand of Gothic cinema.[9]
The film was directed by Terence Fisher and stars Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein and Christopher Lee as the Creature, with Hazel Court and Robert Urquhart.[7] Professor Patricia MacCormack called it the "first really gory horror film, showing blood and guts in colour".[10]
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Commercial Contexts of The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958), Historical Journal
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^ abTom Johnson and Deborah Del Vecchio, Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography, McFarland, 1996 p124-126
^"Gimmicks did well in 1957". Variety. 6 November 1957. p. 6.
^Box office information for Terence Fisher films in France Archived 10 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine at Box office Story
^ ab"The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)". BFI. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
^"BFI Screenonline: Hammer Film Productions Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk. Archived from the original on 27 October 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
^Sinclair McKay (2007) A Thing of Unspeakable Horror: The History of Hammer Films
^"Frankenstein: Behind the monster smash". BBC. 1 January 2018. Archived from the original on 27 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
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