Inevitable spoilers.
I understand from another site that Christina's voice was dubbed by Jane Hands because her Austrian accent was too strong. If so, the dubbing is well done.
The trailers, the tagline and the video box say 'A Beautiful Woman With the Soul of the Devil'. Yes?! Like many films this is a tale of private revenge, after the justice system has failed. In the many hundreds of films where a man exacts vengeance, he is not described as 'the soul of the devil'.
The biggest annoyance are Christina's knee-length dresses - in the mid 19th century?! Worse, bit not actually in the film, the video box has two photographs of Christina in 1960's underwear.
OK, Frankenstein fixes her scar and limp - he is after all a doctor - but why does he bleach her hair?
At Hans' trial, as a witness, Frankenstein insists that he is a Doctor of Law as well as of Medicine. As a lawyer, standing passively by while his employee is wrongly convicted of murder, he is a total failure.
Most summaries of the plot say that Frankenstein puts the soul of Hans into Christina's body. Frankenstein himself says that is what he has done. But Christine never protests that she is in fact Hans. Indeed she opens his grave and starts carrying his head around with her, and responds to his demands as if he is a different person. Nor does she ever act like a man in woman's body. She does not show any curiosity about her new body, although she does know how to use it to get the three upper-class hooligans to follow her to their deaths. PopcornQ Movies says "The poor guy can't handle the prospect of a penis-free existence and runs around stabbing people. The film has its effective moments, though, in representing the rage of nonconsensual embodiment." This is a delightful misreading of the film, but really the film does not support it. Her killings of the three upper-class twits is conceivable as a female revenge killing film that might have been made in later decade. As she is carrying and listening to Hans' dead head, it would be better to read her as a Trilby to its Svengali.
Why her second suicide at the end. Unimaginative closure? Largely so I think. Perhaps she mainly thinks of herself as a return from the dead, and now her task is over.
I understand from another site that Christina's voice was dubbed by Jane Hands because her Austrian accent was too strong. If so, the dubbing is well done.
The trailers, the tagline and the video box say 'A Beautiful Woman With the Soul of the Devil'. Yes?! Like many films this is a tale of private revenge, after the justice system has failed. In the many hundreds of films where a man exacts vengeance, he is not described as 'the soul of the devil'.
The biggest annoyance are Christina's knee-length dresses - in the mid 19th century?! Worse, bit not actually in the film, the video box has two photographs of Christina in 1960's underwear.
OK, Frankenstein fixes her scar and limp - he is after all a doctor - but why does he bleach her hair?
At Hans' trial, as a witness, Frankenstein insists that he is a Doctor of Law as well as of Medicine. As a lawyer, standing passively by while his employee is wrongly convicted of murder, he is a total failure.
Most summaries of the plot say that Frankenstein puts the soul of Hans into Christina's body. Frankenstein himself says that is what he has done. But Christine never protests that she is in fact Hans. Indeed she opens his grave and starts carrying his head around with her, and responds to his demands as if he is a different person. Nor does she ever act like a man in woman's body. She does not show any curiosity about her new body, although she does know how to use it to get the three upper-class hooligans to follow her to their deaths. PopcornQ Movies says "The poor guy can't handle the prospect of a penis-free existence and runs around stabbing people. The film has its effective moments, though, in representing the rage of nonconsensual embodiment." This is a delightful misreading of the film, but really the film does not support it. Her killings of the three upper-class twits is conceivable as a female revenge killing film that might have been made in later decade. As she is carrying and listening to Hans' dead head, it would be better to read her as a Trilby to its Svengali.
Why her second suicide at the end. Unimaginative closure? Largely so I think. Perhaps she mainly thinks of herself as a return from the dead, and now her task is over.
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