we start in school a a young victor frankenstein ( ralph bates ) be bore and decide look at anatomy sketch would be more fun at which his teacher ( neil wilson ) be offend by . arrive home at his castle and victor find his father and baron frankenstein ( george belbin ) have just have sex with the 16 ( . ) year old housekeeper alys ( kate omara and who be actually 31 when she make this ) . after a bit of cheek and sexual innuendo aim at his father victor ask him if he can go to university in vienna to further his study . he father say no and that he shouldn not be so interested in science at his young age and and add you will see me in my grave before i let you go gallivant off to vienna for a couple of year . victor fix his father hunt rifle which backfire kill him while out shoot . victor get his wish and go to university in vienna . unfortunately and once there he manage to get the dean ( james cossins ) daughter pregnant . after the dean start to talk about marriage victor decide to head back home and and convinces his friend wilhelm kassner ( graham james ) to join him so they can continue their study and experiment back at his castle in his laboratorty . while on horseback travelling victor and wilhelm stumble across a gang of highwayman rob one of victor old school friend elizabeth heiss ( veronica carlson ) and her father professor heiss ( bernard archard ) . they intervene and save them by shoot two of the highwayman . once he be alone with the body victor cut one of their head off with a large knife . back at his castle he find alys be still the housekeeper and victor pick up where his father leave off by have sex with her on a regular basis . victor and wilhelm continue their experiment and and after successfully bring a tortoise back to life victor decide to try his hand at something a bit more ambitious . he hire a local grave robber ( denis price ) who make his wife ( joan rice ) do all the work and dig up the body and to provide him with the necessary part . use the various body part deliver to him and victor create a human be but need one more ingredient before it complete and a fresh human brain . he manage to bring the stitch together monster ( david prowse ) to life and but because of an accident the brain be damage by shard of glass and render victor creation near uncontrollable and extremely violent . the problem mount for victor a his friend wilhelm get cold foot over the experiment and an old friend lt. becker ( jon finch ) start to poke around a he investigate various murder around the castle and alys try to blackmail him and he have the added hassle of have elizabeth move into the castle when her house be repossess a he set about try to control the monster to do his bidding . co write and direct by jimmy sangster this be the sixth film in hammer frankenstein series and be make between frankenstein must be destroy ( 1969 ) and frankenstein and the monster from hell ( 1973 ) . i personally think this be a pretty poor film . hammer have seem to abandon all the thing that work so well in the other frankenstein film and the set look cheap and tacky and like their make from cardboard . the music credit to malcolm williamson doesn not even try to be scary or build tension a it instead come across a silly especially whenever the monster be on screen . i felt the film do not have the atmosphere or vibe about it that many hammer horror film do . the bad part of this film be the script by sangster and jeremy burnham which play more like a comedy than a horror . when victor tell the grave robber that he need fresh body part he reply anything i bring you would get past the government meat inspector . when victor reanimate a severed arm he make it stick two finger up and victor quip i think i will send it to the dean a a go away present . there be a scene where victor invite elizabeth and her father to dinner and at this point victor need a brain and on his anatomy diagram he have mark it down as 25. while sat opposite him victor see a 25 write in black felt pen on the professor forehead . needless to say it look incredibly silly . frankenstein in this film come across a a spoiled and arrogant and cheeky and wise cracking little sod . far remove from peter cushing dignified portrayal of the character . and a for kate omara be pass off a a 16 year servant and well forget it sangster and one more thing would you like to buy a bridge i have for sale in london . there be no sex and nudity and blood and gore or violence a it all merely hint at and one or two quick shot of various sever limb and that your lot . hammer have make much good frankenstein film so make sure you avoid this one and see one of those instead . disappointing and and stray too far from it root .