#peter cushing frankenstein

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Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) and ADHD based moodboard~ For an anon, hope you like this!

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My beloved Victor Frankensteins (from left to right; Kenneth Branagh, Peter Cushing, James McAvoy)!!

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Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)

[fanofspooky]

Scream King - Peter Cushing

[lonelyzarquon]

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) dir. Terence Fisher

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Peter Cushing and Susan Denberg in Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)

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Victor Frankenstein (1957): The Could-Have-Been Tumblr Sexyman

Tonight I watched 'The Curse of Frankenstein', the first of the Hammer Horror Frankenstein series, and all I could think was that if this film had come out more recently than the late 1950s, Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) would have been the absolute lust object of the best and most unhinged Tumblr-goers.

Look at this man. He is elegant, he has a thousand great Victorian-era outfits. He has cheekbones for days and pretty blue eyes. He's tall and thin as a rail. He exudes a palpable aura of superiority and bitchiness at all times.

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But all this gentlemanliness is a facade, barely covering the feral wet-possum-man hidden underneath. He's twitchy, he's weird. He has absolutely crazy blue eyes. He's obsessed with SCIENCE.

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He's committed unspeakable crimes! So many crimes, and is constantly one scene away from being roughed up (mostly choked, because I swear the director of this movie had a thing about Peter Cushing getting choked by Christopher Lee ... it happens a lot).

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He is absolutely, undeniably a freak and a monsterfucker.

He would be cancelled a thousand times. He is the absolute worst. A terrible human being. He would be so many people's Problematic Fave(TM). He would have so many Tumblr-goers cheering on his crimes and hoping he gets worse. And he would! For multiple slutty, slutty sequels.

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And he was played by a genuinely sweet actor who adored his wife, liked painting miniatures, and was very open about being best friends for life with his looming, 6'5" oft-costar (who another large chunk of Tumblr would be absolutely feral about, but that's another story for another day).

Truly one of the great losses of the passage of time (and the fact that the Hammer Horror flicks really do take a certain sort of taste to actually enjoy), is that Peter Cushing's Frankenstein doesn't get his moment as the Tumblr It Girl of some fabulously-dressed, unhinged, crime-filled, bitchy Halloween season.

[petercushings]

I'm afraid that stupidity always brings out the worst in me.

PETER CUSHING as BARON VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN in FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED (1969) dir. Terence Fisher

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Dr. Frankenstein meets Count Dracula

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Frankenstein Created Woman, 1967

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The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) + sequels. This is one of Peter Cushing’s best roles; I love his interpretation of Frankenstein. The thin veneer of gentlemanhood hiding a burning obsession, bloodied suits and half-second smiles. The perfect mad scientist movie to me

[gurumog]

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) Hammer Film Productions Dir. Terence Fisher

Peter Cushing as Baron Victor Frankenstein

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The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)

[leresq]

His last wishes were for this to never happen. They did it in Rogue One nearly 30 years later, and now they're doing it again, against his last wish, and this is supposed to be a 'Halloween treat'. Selling the dirt above his grave would have been more respectful.

[citizenscreen]

Hammer Film Productions’ first color horror title, Terence Fisher’s THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, premiered in London #OnThisDay in 1957.

This film gave new life to the horror genre.

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Peter Cushing in Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)