The Curse Of Frankenstein
1957

The film starts with young Victor Frankenstein's education. After the funeral of his father, Victor is tutored by Paul Krempe. Victor is a very able student who absorbs everything that Paul Krempe can teach him. Their experiments soon turn to finding the secret of life itself, and they successfully manage to revive a dead puppy. Victor wants to take it a stage further and create human life from dead tissue, but Paul is against the idea.

After grudgingly coming round to Victor's way of thinking, they both embark on a mission to create human life. Victor brings paul's attention to a highywayman, who has recently been hanged. They retrieve the body but realise that some parts of the body will have to be replaced, in particular the brain. Victor finds a dastardly way to get his hands on a brain - murder!

After inviting Professor Bernstein to the castle, a man with a brilliant mind, Victor kills him and obtains his brain. Unfortunately the brain is damaged in a quarrel when Paul discovers how Victor obtained it. When Paul disowns Victor but stays at the castle to protect his fiancee, Victor continues the work on his own. When he finally manages to create an animated human life after much work, he is devastated to find that it is a psychotic one. The creature eventually escapes and goes on a murderous spree. Can Victor keep his experiments secret from the authorities, or will his madness destroy him?