Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) on Netflix
PG-1319691h 41mDramaHorrorSci-Fi
Baron Victor Frankenstein wants the secret formula of Dr. Frederick Brandt, held in an asylum. He blackmails Karl Holst, a doctor there, and Karl's fiancée Anna Spengler into helping him.
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Plot summary
Baron Victor Frankenstein takes a room under an assumed name in a boarding house kept by Anna Spengler, who is engaged to Karl Holst, a doctor at the asylum holding Victor's former colleague Dr. Frederick Brandt. Brandt was committed after losing his mind. Karl has been stealing drugs from the asylum to pay for Anna's mother's treatment, and Victor threatens to expose him unless he helps. Victor wants the formula behind Brandt's experiment, and he builds a laboratory in the cellar of the house. Victor uses Karl and Anna to kidnap Brandt from the asylum. A thief reports a severed head to Inspector Frisch.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
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- The scene where Victor Frankenstein rapes Anna Spengler was not in the original script; Peter Cushing and Veronica Carlson objected, but Hammer executive James Carreras insisted on it to keep the American distributors happy. Director Terence Fisher halted the filming when he felt enough was enough.
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed was the last film released under the Warner Bros. Pictures name by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, before the company was acquired by Kinney National Company.
