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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
UNITED KINGDOM · 1969

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

Terence Fisher
mad scientist brain transplantation body horror blackmail and coercion identity and alienation
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Synopsis

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

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