Trick Or Treat Studios Hammer Horror Films The Curse of Frankenstein The Creature 1:6 Scale Figure
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00:00even for monsters they're more than the sum of their parts here's your look in
00:04the trick-or-treat studios hammer house of horror the curse of Frankenstein 1 6
00:08scale creature figure
00:20no one who saw it lived to describe it trick-or-treat studios is proud to
00:24present the officially licensed hammer films the creature 1 6 scale figure from
00:29the hammer horror classic the curse of Frankenstein featuring the likeness of
00:33the incomparable Christopher Lee as the creature the figure comes complete with
00:36shackles with chains and detailed wardrobe while someone's got some
00:41strange science experiments going on in Switzerland I'm gonna be here grabbing
00:44the tape measure to see how tall the curse of Frankenstein creature stands
00:48while doing this I'd also like to thank the folks over at trick-or-treat studios
00:51that were kind enough to provide the sample hey good news if you guys are
00:54interested and would like to get your hands on the creature before he gets his
00:57hands on you the figure is right now in stock on their site for $179 if you've
01:02just recently watched my review of the Count Dracula that figure is actually
01:06$20 more than what we're getting here with Frankenstein and I could see the
01:09justified reasons for that we'll talk more about in a moment $179 upfront or
01:14you can also go as well the for interest-free installment route of $16
01:18and 16 cents every single month until this guy gets paid off
01:21Frankenstein's gonna go stand at about 11 and a half inches in height or the
01:26creature is gonna stand 29 centimeters tall both characters would have been
01:30played brilliantly by actor Christopher Lee though with the curse of
01:34Frankenstein this actually predates the earlier looked at Dracula by nine years
01:38curse of Frankenstein 1957 Dracula though was from 1966 the thing though
01:44about it though is that both movies also feature Peter Cushing but if you're
01:47looking at the two if both were played obviously by the same actor then the
01:51figure should be about the same size if you were though to line up the two
01:54eyelines you can see though that Frankenstein though is just a little bit
01:58shorter than Dracula here thing I was mentioning earlier about the justified
02:01prices is that the creature from the curse of Frankenstein is currently going
02:05on their site for $179 on the other hand though the Prince of Darkness Dracula is
02:09$199 so it's a difference though between the two of $20 but you really though
02:13have to look at the accessory count that comes in clue with Dracula not only did
02:17he have some additional afforded material used for his cape but he had
02:20not just one but two superior head sculpts and three swappable hands if you
02:25then look at the creature we get from curse of Frankenstein he doesn't have
02:28first of all any additional hands and the only other things that he has other
02:31than his body is that he also comes with a pair of shackles the shackles are nice
02:35though for what they are they are obviously real working chains and they
02:38seem to be actually metal as well these don't open up in any way so in order to
02:42get them around his existing hands you actually have to remove the hands from
02:46his forearms we'll do that right now it's just a case honestly of rolling up
02:49the sleeves you just take the hands and wiggle them back and forth until
02:53eventually remove them from the post take then your shackle slide it up the
02:57forearm I know you guys have probably already seen this a couple of times
02:59already with other figures and just basically pop the hands over top of that
03:03it's a look that you can choose for yourself how you want to have it
03:06displayed on the shelf but I mean obviously for me I'd like to have I'd
03:09like to have Frank it's not really for that matter with shackles and again
03:12those just slide over top of his hands like that pop the new hands back in
03:15place and now you got yourself Frankenstein with the shackles the
03:19shackles do add a little bit of weight to it just by the material that they've
03:22decided to use I'm glad again that they've used metal and not just plastic
03:26because it gives a nice little real weighted feel to it but it does look
03:29good and it adds a little bit more to it the simplicity though has to be
03:32acknowledged here when it comes to the creature the thing I really liked always
03:35about the hammer version of Frankenstein if you want to call it Frankenstein is
03:38that the monster was very simplified I mean certainly when it comes to his
03:42his face is far from being simplified and one of the things that also is
03:46really interesting is that they had to obviously make a design of the creature
03:49that looked nothing like Boris Karloff's version of Frankenstein's monster what
03:52we get though is a nice little change of pace although there's still enough
03:56reading here that you can really recognize that this is the creature
03:59first of all obviously is the state staples all across the head there in the
04:02stitches that really adds first of all that likeness to the Frankenstein
04:06without flat-out just telling you that there's the bolts on the sides of his
04:09neck and not really obviously replicating the look that Karloff had
04:12done so successfully from before one thing that hammer has done really well
04:16is that they redesigned all their characters so still looking at this it
04:20has the blueprints the DNA the building blocks of Frankenstein without flat-out
04:24saying like this looks exactly like a carbon copy of the Universal Monster who
04:27got before has got looks fantastic though I don't know how painful this
04:31would have been for Lee to wear this makeup one of the things notably is that
04:35he has this dead eye on one side of his face it seems though in the movie that
04:39it looks almost painful him to wear it probably would have been again an
04:42additional prosthetic contact lens but it makes his eye almost larger on this
04:46side than it does on this side here again I can't even imagine the amount of
04:50pain they probably would have it probably would have been certainly
04:52uncomfortable not to mention as well some additional layering of makeup they
04:55would have had some scarring there on the sides of his face it's just a
04:58grotesque looking Frankenstein I also really like the way that trick-or-treats
05:02have approached this well again we don't get a secondary head sculpt that we
05:05would have got like for example when we looked at the Prince of Darkness
05:07Dracula really more than make up for it with a really stellar looking sculpt of
05:11the characters not really much in the way of paint I mean the paint is clearly
05:14there but there's not really a lot of darker lighter colors for example
05:17there's very much kind of a really pasty look to his face like you would have had
05:21in the movie and it's only really just a few little traces of the red that he has
05:24not to mention the ears underneath his eyes and all these nice little stitches
05:27that he has all across the top of his forehead that really again just give
05:31this guy a really off-putting look to him one thing I really also like about
05:35this version of Frankenstein is the way they they outfit this guy so like in the
05:40movie he obviously would have had bandages at one point he basically just
05:43would eventually take them off and then he wears this very long jacket it's a
05:48it gives him this odd-looking silhouette to him because it's only really just his
05:52hands and his head that stand out everything else is just a long very
05:55tapered off shape the jacket itself as you can see has a very high collar I
05:59mean this whole section would be buttoned up the front in the actual
06:03movie itself what they've done though for the sixth scale release is that
06:06there's a snap here if I get my hand out of the way there's a snap right there
06:09there's a snap there and there's a snap there if you were to unsnap these which
06:13I really didn't want to do underneath this would actually be if I just peel
06:17this away his outfit underneath and then the outfit itself does also have some
06:20additional snaps so there is the means if you wanted to you know okay we'll
06:23just unsnap everything take the middle one off and we'll open it up so you can
06:28see even though you're maybe you have no intended plan to ever really take the
06:32jacket or even for that matter open up the jacket at least you can see that
06:36they've done just as much work on the inside tailoring of the shirt as they
06:39did for the outer end of the jacket again I would never really display the
06:42figure with the jacket open like this but you can see like the shirt itself
06:46looks good and if we also open that up even though there's really no some
06:50additional no sculpting on the inside of it they've at least kept the colors that
06:53pale color to match the top of his head even if like for me you decided to peek
06:58underneath the hood to see what's exactly going on and what makes this
07:01monster tick you can see that at least they used matching colors and obviously
07:05that comes more apparent true when you look at the forums the forums obviously
07:08have to match the hands and again like the plastic being that this is molded
07:11and then this part is painted it's pretty close and pretty seamless and of
07:16course we'll just have to button that back up the buttons themselves they only
07:19are snapping in two places so you got a snap here on the top which again you've
07:23got this tiny little snap it's not the easiest thing Dracula also had this as
07:27well where you had these snaps though on the front and these just snap back in
07:31place I may even have to go back and do this a little bit later those just snap
07:34in I mean ideally they could have also used velcro the only thing about velcro
07:40is it sort of looks unsightly especially from the side snaps are the clear
07:45cleanest way of going unfortunately though it just means a little bit more
07:48work on your part to get them closed if you ever decide you want to open up the
07:51jacket like this for the rest of the sculpting of course most of it is just
07:54handled here in the hands you got these nice pale looking hands very little in
07:58the way of some additional paints not that it necessarily needed it either the
08:02fingers don't look grimy and I don't really feel like there's so much work
08:06that they've done say up here I don't feel like they need to do anything
08:09really when it came to the hands they could have maybe bruised the hands up
08:11make it maybe look a little grimy or something like that but I really don't
08:15think the hands necessarily needed them but again you got the very long
08:18jacket the jacket continues its way down to about the areas of the knees and then
08:22you got the slacks underneath the slacks if you were to roll them up you also got
08:26as well the shoes underneath which are actually different shoes they seem than
08:29the the Dracula we've already had a look at very flat soles on the bombs you can
08:35also see as well they've even sculpted and this is one thing I'm really glad to
08:38see that the speaking of attention to detail is that they've actually put the
08:41part where the heel of the shoe would have been attached by the shoemaker very
08:45very cool the way they've done that but for the articulation though for the
08:48creature I'm gonna go back to his head sculpt here so with his head if you've
08:52already had a look at my curse of Frankenstein or the curse of
08:54Frankenstein the Prince of Darkness Dracula the articulation for the head
08:58is gonna be exactly the same so the head is attached to the neck it's all one
09:02piece but despite having what you would imagine be limitations for the head
09:05actually if quite freely moves up and down it's basically sitting itself onto
09:10a ball joint the head can also rock back and forth for all intensive purposes to
09:14you be able to rotate it all the way around as well for the arms despite
09:17having though the long jacket like this the arms can easily come out 90 degrees
09:20you take the arms and move forward you can move them back there is a swivel
09:23though at the bicep a double hinge like with Dracula before and the hands also
09:27rotate all the way around for the legs the legs do split out you can bring them
09:32forward you can bring them back there is a swivel though at the top of the thigh
09:36boat three quarters the way up the thigh there's a swivel cut the figure also
09:39does have a double hinge on the knee and like with Dracula before even though
09:42really these boots are all molded in plastic and the plastic goes fairly high
09:46on the ankle it still seems to retain some decent levels of posability you can
09:51rock the ankle back and forth and you can certainly as well move them up and
09:53down as well all in all though I'm really liking the look of a Frankenstein
09:57or the creature if you prefer the creature probably could have used a
10:00little bit of dusting roughing up of his jacket but I actually kind of like the
10:04way it looks just like a stark black and again speaking of characters bringing
10:08back in Dracula we've already had a look at again played both perfectly by
10:12Christopher Lee I know obviously a lot of people tend to think of like Boris
10:15Karloff as the go-to Frankenstein's monster but you also really need to look
10:19into and branch off into the stuff that hammer was producing as well in the 60s
10:23and 70s I mean the stuff with Frankenstein for example still
10:26frightening the grotesque nature of his design of his face I would imagine still
10:31it would probably be quite uncomfortable for the actor Christopher Lee to probably
10:34wear the prosthetic and the makeup that he would have been wearing in that movie
10:37he would have had to really suffer a whole lot less when he was obviously
10:40Dracula nine years later but the Frankenstein's monster while having more
10:44simplicity to the way they approach not only the the outfit but also as well the
10:48accessory count because keeping in mind again like this guy has one less head he
10:52has three less hands and the only thing that he really has to his to his credit
10:55is that fact he also has some additional shackles that go on to his wrist despite
10:59that though the figure you have to keep in mind is $20 less than Dracula and
11:03still for $179 you've got to imagine like that's pretty decent pricing when
11:09you think of like six scale figures how many other six fail six scale figure
11:13companies on the market are producing figures for under that $200 price point
11:17by the way though the Frankenstein or creature was also sculpted by the
11:21talented artist Alexander Ray the same in fact artists that also sculpted both
11:25the head portraits for the Prince of Darkness Dracula as again as it is right
11:29now both of these are available right now they are though listed on
11:32trick-or-treats site as being limited edition which might very well mean that
11:37they were also produced in smaller numbers that means if you guys are fans
11:41of the hammer horror collection the hammer horror films of the 60s and 70s
11:45you may want to get your hands on Frankenstein before he moves away it is
11:50a shame actually that Christopher Lee is such a memorable Dracula that it ends
11:53up ultimately casting a shadow over the other monster he played in the hammer
11:56horror universe the 1957 curse of Frankenstein creature such very
12:01different approached roles obviously he probably had an easier time playing the
12:05Prince of Darkness from the standpoint of makeup and so many more layers of
12:08stuff added to his face to portray the role of the creature from the 50s film
12:12one of the other things too is just the fact he had that prosthetic dead eye
12:16which looking at him in the movie it looks like it would have been really
12:19painful this portrayal of Frankenstein is very much the departure from the
12:24Karloff approach that we got from the the original Universal monsters and
12:27obviously that was one of the things that hammer had to do differently
12:30because they couldn't tread on the same territory that the earlier monster did
12:33they had to do their own thing and even though again it's not a character that
12:37maybe stands out as much in the annals of horror films maybe as much as at
12:41least performance obviously in Dracula because Dracula you have to consider as
12:44well had like what nine films behind his role he had a lot less obviously
12:49time to portray the creature but it's still for me a memorable role and I like
12:53with hammers they approached it differently than what we got before with
12:56Boris now if you guys are interested and we're a big fan of the original creature
13:00they obviously from curse of Frankenstein like to get your hands on
13:03this one he is available right now as as we speak at trick-or-treat studios for
13:07hundred and seventy nine dollars as I already mentioned it's gonna be twenty
13:10dollars less than the Prince of Darkness himself so if you guys are interested
13:13you can click the link down below in the video description I'd like to
13:17obviously back back that up a bit by thanking the folks over a trick-or-treat
13:20studios that were kind enough to provide the sample of the 1957 horror movie
13:24classic the curse of Frankenstein creature that we had the chance to have
13:28a look in this review yeah what do you guys think of this figure let me know
13:30down below in the comment section have you guys ever had the chance to watch
13:33the 50s Frankenstein and let me know what you guys think of the design I mean
13:37obviously I could put a poll down below of when you're asking you guys which
13:39Frankenstein you prefer but I know most people tend to think the og with
13:43Karloff's portrayal but don't overlook this sleeper of a monster this
13:48Frankenstein was pretty cool as well if you guys did enjoy this video though why
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