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Frankenstein’s Creature didn’t start life in a Bray Studios lab; he started on a wet summer’s night in Geneva, in the mind of an eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley.
Getting from there to Peter Cushing striding around in a blood-stained apron took over a century of adaptation and reinvention, and scriptwriter and novelist Stephen Volk is here to walk you through every twist of it.
This one covers the novel’s Gothic roots, the decades of cinema that borrowed (and butchered) Shelley’s ideas long before Hammer got there, and exactly what it was that made our 1957 version the one that rewrote the rules of horror for good. Consider it the prequel to everything you thought you knew about the Creature.
Studio: Hammer