Considered by Hammer aficionados to be the best Frankenstein made by the House of Horror, this offbeat entry from veteran director Terence Fisher finds the good doctor experimenting with soul transference. Reanimating the corpse of a young girl - played by Susan Denberg, once Playboy's Miss August - the ever-dependable Peter Cushing (in his fourth outing as the mad doctor) gives it the soul of her boyfriend, who was wrongly guillotined for murder. The chilling result is a vengeful creature luring his/her enemies to remote places with the promise of romance and delivering death instead. Fisher's neat balance of fairy-tale fear, psychological horror, murky sexuality and engaging lunacy makes this a fine addition to the genre.

A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.