The 1957 film ‘The Curse of Frankenstein’ was based on a novel by which author?
The Curse of Frankenstein a script by Donne Avenell (based on the John Burke novelization). The cover of issue 2 featured a painting by Brian Lewis of the Baron being attacked by his creation. The Curse of Frankenstein The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions, loosely based on the novel "Frankenstein" (1818) by Mary Shelley. It was Hammer's first colour horror film, and the first of their Frankenstein series. Its worldwide success led to several sequels, and the studio's new versions of "Dracula" (1958) and "The Mummy" (1959), and established "Hammer Horror" as a distinctive brand of
The Curse of Frankenstein tribute to it as an influence on their work. Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 80%, based on , with a rating average of 7/10. Unlike the Universal Frankenstein series of the 1930s and 1940s, in which the character of the Monster was the recurring figure while the doctors frequently changed, it is Baron Frankenstein that is the connective character throughout the Hammer series, while the monsters change. Peter Cushing played the Baron in each film except for "The Horror of Frankenstein", which was a remake of the original "The Curse of Frankenstein" done with a