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Released
1957 · FILM

The Curse of Frankenstein

Desperate to conquer death, ambitious scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a monstrous being that unleashes terror and vengeance upon the world.

“The creature created by man and forgotten by nature!”

Directed by
Terence Fisher
Written by
Mary Shelley, Jimmy Sangster
Runtime
83 min
HorrorSci-FiThriller
Streaming on
  • HBO Max

Synopsis

Baron Victor Frankenstein has uncovered the secret to life and set in motion a chilling sequence of events through his creation: a tormented being with a grotesque appearance—and a habit of taking lives.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by James NeedsShot by Jack AsherScored by James BernardDesigned by Bernard Robinson

Box Office

1957 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 30× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$8.0M

Budget$270K
Worldwide gross$8.0M
break-even (2.5×)

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Also known as

  • Frankensteins Fluchde
  • Curse of Frankensteinen
  • La maldición de Frankensteines
  • Frankenstein s'est échappéfr
  • La maschera di Frankensteinit

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