Filmen er en fortælling om Bella Baxter, en ung kvinde, der genoplives af den geniale og uortodokse videnskabsmand dr. Godwin Baxter. Den videbegærlige Bella hungrer efter at opleve verden, så hun stikker af med Duncan Wedderburn, en slikket og amoralsk advokat, på et hæsblæsende eventyr over flere kontinenter. Befriet for datidens moraliserende bånd bliver Bellas liv en stræben efter lighed og frigørelse.
Da de engelske Hammer Studios startede på at genindspille de gamle Universal monsterfilm, ofte, som her, med Christopher Lee og Peter Cushing i ledende roller, blev det også begyndelsen på en ny skrækfilm-æra, der skæppede godt i selskabets kasse. Ingen af de nye film nåede vel højderne fra de bedste af de gamle, men disse havde det nye publikum alligevel glemt alt om. I denne, fra 1957, har Frankenstein historien har fået et blodigt pift opad.
Hvem husker endnu Lou Abbott og Bud Costello? De lavede en række komedier for Universal Studios af varierende kvalitet, hvoraf den bedste af dem, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, regnes for en klassiker. En eller anden fandt på at parre dem med selskabets egne monstre, herunder også Wolfman og Dracula, som alle spilles af de originale skuespillere og gør det seriøst, mens de to komikere fastholder den muntre stil. En genial kombination.
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
Part live-action, part animated story about a boy who, after an awful amusement park accident, gets a brain transplant, which allows him to see cartoon characters in real life.
The Revenge of Frankenstein går baron Frankenstein i ledtog med en læge i en lille tysk by, i hans seneste og mest skræmmende eksperiment med at skabe et monster ud af stumper og stykker fra flere lig, heriblandt hjernen fra en dværg. Men noget går galt, og monsteret ender som en kannibal, der må og skal udslettes.
An evil scientist implants the brain of a murdered high school student into an animatronic Tyrannosaurus, who later wreaks vengeance on the bullies who killed him, and is reunited with his sweetheart.
Peter Cushing spiller baron Frankenstein, den gale videnskabsmand, der skaber endnu et grotesk monster – angiveligt for at tjene videnskaben – da han transplanterer hjernen af en sindssyg læge ind i en anden krop.
A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
A student receives a serial killer's brain in a transplant after being thrown into a pool with no water in it
After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months and her doctors want to try a new procedure on her. To regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with the neural patterns of a woman who has just died. It works and Kaylie fully recovers. However, she begins to relive the dying moments of her donor and realizes that she was murdered! Along with her husband and mother, she tries to find out what happened.
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...
Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try and salvage this tale.
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Janes husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful womans husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.
A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister was one of the victims swears vengeance against the Mad Doctor.
The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain transplant.
A white man's brain is transplanted into a black man's skull.