
The Curse of Frankenstein(1957)
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.


“Here is horror that can happen NOW... TO YOU!”
Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them. A police doctor's investigation of the deaths leads to the discovery of an army of dead criminal musclemen restored to life, remotely controlled by a vengeful former crime boss and a former Nazi scientist, from the latter's laboratory hidden in the suburbs.

Richard Denning
Dr. Chet Walker

S. John Launer
Capt. Dave Harris

Michael Granger
Frank Buchanan

Gregory Gaye
Dr. Wilhelm Steigg

Angela Stevens
Joyce Walker

Linda Bennett
Penny Walker

Charles Evans
Chief Camden

Tristram Coffin
Dist. Atty. MacGraw

Pierre Watkin
Mayor Bremer

Harry Lauter
Reporter #1
Creature with the Atom Brain is a science fiction, horror film released in 1955 exploring themes of nazi, police, hitman, gangster, detective, radioactivity. Directed by Edward L. Cahn, it stars Richard Denning, S. John Launer, Michael Granger. Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them. A police doctor's investigation of the deaths leads to the discovery of an army of dead criminal musclemen restored to life, remotely controlled by a vengeful former crime boss and a former Nazi scientist, from the latter's laboratory hidden in the suburbs.
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