Harmes, Marcus K. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5104-1967
(2015)
The curse of Frankenstein.
Devil's Advocates.
Columbia University, Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom.
ISBN 9781906733858
Abstract
Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office returns: 1957’s The Curse of Frankenstein was a big success and sent Hammer Films down a new and lucrative path. In his Devil’s Advocate, Marcus Harmes goes back to where the Hammer horror production started, looking at the film from a variety of perspectives: as a loose literary adaptation of Mary Shelley s novel; as a film that had, for legal reasons, to avoid adapting from James Whale's 1931 film for Universal Pictures; and as one which found immediate sources of inspiration in the Gainsborough bodice rippers of the 1940s and the poverty row horrors of the 1950s.
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