Second installment of Hammer’s Cushing-fronted Universal copyright-dodging franchise, with the good doctor eluding the death sentence meted out to him by angry burgermeisters at the end of the first film, dropping the ‘Franken’, and setting up as a GP in another town. Rather a lot of needless amputations from his patients pave the way for a patchwork monster, who goes from society gadabout to drooling violent imbecile via the standard ‘Abbie Somebody’ brain slip-up.
