Frankenstein Must Be DestroyedThis 1969 instalment, the fifith in the British Hammer cycle of Frankenstein horror films inspired by Mary Shelley's eponymous story, is directed by regular Hammer helmer Terence Fisher, a prolific director of Hammer productions in the vein of gothic and supernatural horror.
Peter Cushing's Baron Frankenstein is certifiably mad at this juncture and not above blackmail or murder to further his own ruthlessly single-minded ends, while the Baron's hapless Creature (Freddie Jones) is - atypically, for a Hammer production - sympathetically rendered as a bewildered, literate innocent who ultimately turns the tables on his creator/persecutor.
"The best of Terence Fisher's films and most certainly the finest of Hammer's Frankenstein films" Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
