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Released in Japan under the sensational title \u003cstrong data-start=\"514\" data-end=\"536\"\u003eフランケンシュタイン 恐怖の生体実験\u003c\/strong\u003e (“Frankenstein: Fearful Biological Experiment”), this is a superb and highly dramatic piece of late-1960s Japanese horror paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"667\" data-end=\"1232\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"667\" data-end=\"686\"\u003eFilm background\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"686\" data-end=\"689\"\u003eProduced by \u003cstrong data-start=\"701\" data-end=\"728\"\u003eHammer Film Productions\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong data-start=\"730\" data-end=\"765\"\u003eFrankenstein Must Be Destroyed!\u003c\/strong\u003e is the \u003cstrong data-start=\"773\" data-end=\"788\"\u003efifth entry\u003c\/strong\u003e in Hammer’s Frankenstein cycle and one of the strongest and darkest of the series. 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The design combines a fractured, collage-like structure with vivid scenes of the Baron’s \u003cstrong data-start=\"1387\" data-end=\"1419\"\u003eruthless medical experiments\u003c\/strong\u003e, centring on \u003cstrong data-start=\"1433\" data-end=\"1450\"\u003ePeter Cushing\u003c\/strong\u003e in the laboratory alongside the bandaged victim and the disturbing aftermath of his surgical obsession. Behind them looms a stark, graphic background image that gives the sheet a wonderfully uneasy, almost hallucinatory quality. The huge blood-red Japanese title \u003cstrong data-start=\"1714\" data-end=\"1725\"\u003e恐怖の生体実験\u003c\/strong\u003e crashes across the bottom with tremendous impact, while the blue \u003cstrong data-start=\"1791\" data-end=\"1805\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eフランケンシュタイン\u003c\/strong\u003e panel above anchors the composition beautifully. 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