Hardly the best of Hammer Studios' Frankenstein epics,
The Evil of Frankenstein
is too much the mixture as before to be truly memorable. Back in business once more is Baron Frankenstein (
Peter Cushing
), who finds his fabled monster (Kiwi Kingston) frozen in a block of ice. Once the creature is thawed out, the Baron, worried that the big lug might develop a mind of his own, engages the services of a hypnotist (
Peter Woodthorpe
). Instead of keeping the monster docile, the hypnotist decides to use old "Frankie" for his own evil designs, and we're off and running again. At 84 minutes,
Evil of Frankenstein
was too short for a two-hour network TV slot, so Universal (the film's American distributor) tacked on 13 minutes of pointless additional footage, featuring timorous villagers
Steven Geray
, Maria Palmer and
William Phipps
. The film was followed by a vastly superior sequel,
Frankenstein Created Woman
.