The TV host said this is one of the scariest sequels in cinema history, and many agree. Well, I don't, even as the Hammer horror film fan I am. I was particularly surprised given that Terence Fisher directs and Jimmy Sangster wrote the script. Things didn't begin well for me when the TV host revealed the twist about the guillotine and the priest. Afterwards it all went downhill. The script, the main culprit, is contrived, full of predictability and lameness: a girl appears for no apparent reason except that there must be a beautiful lady in the plot, and then the deformed man meets her and falls in love, and after that, following a lead from the conveniently-placed ugly ward employee who is supposed to be funny, she is alone with Karl in his new body, tied up, and of course she is going to untie him, and later he will seek her. Everything goes great with the surgery but then Dr. Stein must step out, and of course something wrong will happen: Karl escapes, and so that you are assured that things are going to go really wrong the doctor and his assistant discuss the possibility of Karl becoming a carnivorous monster if he suffers a traumatic blow, and voila! Karl receives a blow and becomes a carnivorous monster, and then to make sure we understand, the doctor and the assistant arrive at the scene and the assistant asks: Do you think the fight may have affected Karl? By the way, how did he know there was a fight? The story of a lady and her daughter goes nowhere. There's no revenge. Meanwhile another body hangs around for no apparent reason, except of course for the unfathomable one we see at the end. Did the assistant also transplant the face of the doctor? With his old face, how is he going to hide his identity? Who knows? Who cares?
Review of The Revenge of Frankenstein
