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Baron Frankenstein, with the aid of Dr Hertz, has proved through
experimentation on himself that the soul remains within the
body at least an hour after death. He plans to imprison the
soul of a dead person, repair the body, and return it, giving
the person life once more. He will cheat death itself. When
a young man called Hans is wrongly accused of murder and executed
at the guillotine, Frankenstein obtains the body and secures
the soul. However, a scarred and twisted but otherwise beautiful
young woman called Christina was in love with Hans and commits
suicide by drowning herself. Frankenstein and the doctor repair
her body and instil the soul of Hans. His soul soon takes
control and the woman sets out to take retribution on those
men really responsible for the murder...
Although
not a patch on The
Curse of Frankenstein, this 1967 version of
the story is different enough to maintain your interest. Rather
than the securing together of body parts to make a living
creature, here we have an intact but surgically improved (her
large facial scar is healed and her spine deformity corrected)
woman returned from the dead with a soul not her own. Although
she initially has no idea of her former identity, Hans, in
the form of a soul, seems to have maintained his integrity
and faculties.
Hans
in life had slept with Christina but has no intention of darkening
her honour in front of others, even if it is the police and
it means he has an alibi for his whereabouts on the night
of the murder. This is all very proper, if unlikely (even
in this setting of more than a hundred years ago), but it
has to beggar the question: If Hans was so genuine his entire
life, not even arguing or raising his voice during the trial,
why would his soul (which if anything would presumably be
pure) want to suddenly start killing, no matter how justified?
Ty
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