Horror Favourites – Paul Dudbridge

Beware Frankenstein Legacy as director Paul Dudbridge (Fear the Invisible Man) reanimates the legend with a brand-new fear-filled period feature, that stars a stellar cast of acting talent and is brought to life on digital this March thanks to 101 Films. The main behind the monster chats to us about what horror films he loves the most.

England, 1875. A century after Victor Frankenstein’s doomed experiment, his journals have traded hands for decades. Stolen at knifepoint, traded in shadowy back alleys and chased by a shadowy cabal who want them destroyed. Now, in the hands of gifted scientist Millicent Browning (Juliet Aubrey), what darkness is set the befall her?

Millicent’s beloved husband (Philip Martin Brown) is desperately ill with a degenerative disease and she will stop at nothing in her determination to find a cure before it’s too late. Their son William (Matt Barber), a doctor in the local asylum, voices his concerns but she pays no heed.

When her husband kills himself, she finally snaps, disappearing into an unhealthy obsession that sees her spending every waking hour devouring the journals for answers.

Driven by a desperate need to keep her husband by her side forever, she digs up his body and must find new flesh to restore him… but with her son’s suspicions increasing, will she find the bodies she needs to create her Monster? If she can bring him back to life – what will he become in a body without a soul?

Below Paul Dudridge director of Frankenstein Legacy talks about his favorite scary movie:

“A film that scarred me for life was The Fly [1958], which I watched with my mum when I was about 10 on holiday in our caravan. It was the ending with David Hedison as the fly caught in the spider’s web calling out for help to Vincent Price and Herbert Marshall. To me, it was terrifying on many levels; the fact that he was about to be eaten by a big spider, plus his distress and helplessness.

Both these things made the scene work so well, but also made the 10-year-old me not sleep that night. Years later, I watched the remake with Jeff Goldblum and loved it and it’s one of my favourite horror films to this day.”

Frankenstein Legacy is on digital 4 March 2024 (101 Films)