#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: BEHIND YOOOOU!! Next time you happen to be tucking into your Barbacoa
Romana nice and cripsy crust at Whitstable's Pizza Express, take a look
at the wall behind you...!
#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: WHEN MICHAEL GWYNN (above) in Hammer films, 'The Revenge of
Frankenstein' (1958) played the disfigured Karl, most of the
character's frightening characteristics, the twisting and contorting
features, the crooked legs and stance, by contorting his own body. Even
though in the original make up tests carried out by Phil Leakey, then
plan was for him to have a disfigured nose, a rough wig and .....a
right cheek, of what looked like raw sausage meat! After Christopher
Lee's appearance in 'The Curse of Frankenstein' which, in Lee's own
words, 'looked like a car crash'...with everything bar the kitchen sink
thrown in, Gwynn's no nonsense scare scowl was a refreshing and
convincing change.
AND ON THE SUBJECT of The Revenge of Frankenstein make up, on the left, Peter Cushing in a make up continuity reference photograph, revealing the bruises, cuts and breakages from the Baron's mega duffing from the hospital patients...now, there's gratitude for you! While on the right, even though Eunice Grayson doesn't perhaps receive the same acknowledgement and exposure, as other Hammer Frankenstein actresses, in this rare early publicity. . . she's not too shy of exposing, some of her 'pieces effrontes feminines'! That surely would have got Frankenstein in a flap!
Marcus Brooks
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