The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)

Cinematic hit-piece from Hammer films choses to focus only on Frankenstein's evil qualities and ignore the good. That's a joke of course but it kind of works because this is not a good movie, mostly it feels lazy and cheap. This lackluster and belated follow up to 1957's The Curse of Frankenstein and 1958's The Revenge of Frankenstein has Peter Cushing again playing Dr. F, this time returning to his home castle roughly 10 years after the events of the first two films to resume is research, and like previously things don't work out that well for him. Though generally unimpressive perhaps the most memorably bad thing about this film is the monster itself, very different from the innovative look of Christopher Lee as the creature in the first film, this time the ghoul (played by New Zealander wrestler Kiwi Kingston) is a kind of puddy variation on the classic Boris Karloff take and looks plan terrible. Lame. **