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Peter Cushing returns for Hammer’s first sequel to their highly successful Curse of Frankenstein. Cushing’s mad doctor escapes the guillotine and sets up camp in a new town, where he transplants the brain of his deformed assistant into a reanimated corpse. For campy horror fun, Revenge of Frankenstein begins and ends well, but the middle portion is pretty unremarkable — an uninspired rehash of the original film, but with Michael Gwynn in the Christopher Lee role. Gwynn makes a sympathetic patient (victim?), and Francis Matthews plays an eager apprentice who ends up saving the Baron’s life in a most fitting way.