IT WAS THE ROLE THAT nailed #PeterCushing to the movie map and made both him and Christopher Lee into household names, with a mini budget movie produced by an even smaller UK film company called, #Hammerfilms. Jimmy Sangster wrote a scaled down script of the classic novel by Mary Shelley, #Britishfilm director, Terence Fisher called the shots, and 'The Curse of Frankenstein' not only hit huge box office success, it also changed the style of horror films and rebooted the Frankenstein film. Peter Cushing would go on to appear in a further FIVE Frankenstein films for Hammer. 'The Curse of Frankenstein' also presented Christopher Lee as an often child-like but savage 'monster-creation', his appearance compared to that of the traditional Universal #BorisKarloff Jack Pearce make up artist style, was quite a different. Hammer films continued their #Frankenstein series, but again in a different style to the Universal horror films, in a clever turn, they created a focus on adventures of The Baron himself, instead of the '#TheMonster'. It was a brilliant and box office friendly plan, as not only did the audience get a different creation for every new story and title, but also Cushing's amazing Baron for the price of one ticket!
FOR DECADES the character of Baron Frankenstein has fascinated audiences with new theatre, television and cinema productions being produced every year. And it is maybe this and the fact that that the company behind the Frankenstein Museum , #Bath Attractions . . is based in the very city where #MaryShelley wrote the iconic 'Frankenstein' novel in 1818! READ ON . . .
PLANS ARE BEING DRAWN UP for ‘Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein’ to
celebrate the author’s “extraordinary life and her most lauded work” -
much of which was penned in the Somerset city. #Bath Attractions Ltd are planning to convert Grade II-listed offices in
Gay Street - a few doors up from the Jane Austen Centre - and hope it
could open later this year. The planning application says: “Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein is
a new multi-sensory, fully immersive family-friendly visitor attraction
proposed for the City of Bath, and the UK’s first attraction dedicated
to #MaryShelley and her novel, Frankenstein, one of the world’s most famous, iconic and lauded creations.
“Exploring her complicated and tragic personal life, literary career and
the novel’s continuing relevance today in regards to popular culture,
politics and science, the attraction aims to deliver a sophisticated,
entertaining and visceral experience like no other, and one which we
hope the city of Bath can be proud of.”
THE AUTHOR'S LINKS to Bath are commemorated on a plaque at the site of 5
Abbey Church Yard, where she took lodgings arriving in the city in
September 1816, then named Mary Wollstenecraft Godwin. It was there that she wrote much of #Frankenstein , which was published anonymously in 1818 and is now regarded as the world’s first #sciencefiction novel.
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