Plodding, occasionally queasy screamer from Hammer Films set in Victorian England. Baron Frankenstein blackmails a young doctor and his fiancée into helping him kidnap a mental patient from an asylum in order to transplant the brain of a professor into the patient's noggin. Beginning with some whiplash bloodletting--and carrying on through a messy surgery sequence (not to mention a violent rape)--this is one of the most distasteful of the Hammer horrors. Peter Cushing, the possessor of the finest cheekbones ever to grace a blood-spattered monster movie, retains his cool, detached dignity in the lead, and there are a handful of well-directed moments, including a fiery finale. *1/2 from ****