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Frankenstein: Legend of Terror

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Appearances

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Lucky (First appearance; dies)
  • Victor Frankenstein (First appearance; dies)
  • Elizabeth Frankenstein (First appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

  • Zuckel (First appearance; dies)

Other Characters:

  • Belbeau (First appearance)
  • Emma (First appearance)
  • Emily Frankenstein (First appearance)
  • Phillip (First appearance)

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Plot

In 1860, Victor Frankenstein, joined by his assistant, Zuckel successfully brings the monstrous creation to life, but tragedy strikes when the monster turns on his creator, leading to a violent confrontation that ends with a fall from a cliff. Believing that the monster is to be dead, Victor rejoins his wife, Elizabeth and his daughter, Emily. Meanwhile, inspector Bellbeau begins an inquiry into a series of gruesome and unexplained killings. Unbeknownst to Victor, his former assistant, Zuckel, who had lost an eye during the confrontation against the monster, resurfaces and resorts to blackmail.

Victor's paranoia escalates as he increasingly experiences horrifying nightmares about his creature, convinced that he is inherently evil. Despite his fall, the monster manages to survive and in a state of confusion, resorts to stealing clothes and food from the villagers, inadvertently causing their deaths, including that of Zuckel. Meanwhile, Victor's daughter, Emily forms a bond with her wise and blind grandfather, Mr. Frankenstein, who had previously warned Victor against his experiments. Unexpectedly, the monster stumbles upon Mr. Frankenstein's cabin and discovers kindred spirits in Emily and the old man. Recognizing that the creature simply yearns for love, they give him the name, "Franken" and forge a friendship.

In Victor's quest to eliminate any trace of his experiments, he resolved to track down Franken and end his existence. Although Emily and Franken becomes acquainted with the concept of god. Tragically, when a devastating fire erupts in the woods, Franken was able to saved her grandfather, Mr. Frankenstein, he also tries to save Emily's mother, Elizabeth, but he was too as she was incinerated by the flames. A tragic turn of events unfolds as Philip mistakenly takes aim at Franken, inadvertently meeting his own demise.

Emily believes that Franken had intentionally caused the situation, leading her to shoot his hand. This leaves Franken isolated once again. In search of solace, he takes shelter in a church. While standing before a crucifix, Franken observes the shared affliction of a hole in both christ's and his own hand. Overwhelmed, with emotions, he weeps and pleads, with god for forgiveness. Victor convinced that, Franken is responsible for his wife, Elizabeth's death, discovers him in the church, but he fails to capture him as he swiftly escapes.

Mr. Frankenstein informs Emily that, her mother, Elizabeth's death was not caused by Franken's actions, prompting her to embark on a journey to find him and to apologise Franken forever doubting him, in the mountains, Bellbeau and his police force attack Franken, but Emily steps in to save him and in that moment, he utters her name for the first time, feeling weary of a life he never desired, Franken chooses to end his existence by hurling himself off a cliff.

Victor tormented by the havoc he has wrought, he succumbs to madness and takes his own life with a gunshot to the chest. Bellbeau pays a visit to Franken's grave, while Emily, now under the care of her grandfather, Mr. Frankenstein, embraces a new life. As a symbol of their connection, the red scarf Emily had given Franken dissipates in the wind.

Cast

JAPANESE CAST

Hōsei Komatsu as Frankenstein's Monster

Nachi Nozawa as Dr. Victor Frankenstein

Ichirō Nagai as Grandfather

Jouji Yanami as Inspector Belbo

Kei Tomiyama as Skel

Mami Koyama as Emily Frankenstein

Minori Matsushima as Elizabeth Frankenstein

Yoku Shioya as Phillip

Banjou Ginga as Detective 1

Kaneto Shiozawa as Detective 2

Kei Tomiyama as Sukeru

Keiko Yamamoto as Housekeeper

Makoto Terada as Dean


ENGLISH CAST

Greg Finley as Victor Frankenstein

Rebecca Forstadt as Emily

Dan Woren as Detective 1 and Mob 2

Joe Perry as Farmer Father, Mob 1, Sergeant and Wedding Guest 2

Louise Chamis as Emma

Michael Reynolds as Grandpa Frankenstein

Richard Epcar as Franken

Robert V. Barron as Detective 2, Mob 3, Wedding Guest 4 and Wedding Venue Worker

Steve Kramer as Chief Insp. Belbeau

Ted Lehmann as Chicken Farmer, Scientist and Wedding Guest 1

Tom Wyner as Zuckel

Tony Oliver as Phillip

Notes

Frankenstein Legend of Terror is a 1981 Japanese animated television film based on Mary Shelley's novel and the Marvel comic book Monster of Frankenstein. The film was dubbed into English and released in the U.S in 1984. The dubbed version never had an on-screen title but was advertised as both Monster of Frankenstein and Frankenstein: Legend of Terror.

Trivia

  • A lot of online versions are 88 minutes long. People think this is because the film has been edited, but it's purely shorter due to the adverts being edited out.

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