Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks

Feb 19, 1974

1h 30m

★ 4.1

Terror stalks the castle when the secret of life falls into the wrong hands.

Overview

Mad Dr Frankenstein recruits an evil dwarf, a Neanderthal man, and others to help him put a brain in the body of a brute.

Genres

Horror

Production Companies

Classic Films International

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Cast

Count Frankenstein

Rossano Brazzi

Genz

Michael Dunn

Prefect Ewing

Edmund Purdom

Igor

Gordon Mitchell

Goliath

Loren Ewing

Hans

Luciano Pigozzi

Kreegin

Xiro Papas

Ook

Salvatore Baccaro

Maria Frankenstein (as Simone Blondell)

Simonetta Vitelli

Eric

Eric Mann

Valda

Laura De Benedittis

Krista Lauder

Christiane Rücker

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