One of the most visually striking publicity images associated with FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN (1967), bringing Peter Cushing’s Baron Frankenstein and Susan Denberg together amid the elaborate machinery of his laboratory.

Denberg stands dramatically restrained by metal wrist shackles and chains while Cushing tends to Frankenstein’s equipment beside her. For the serious Hammer collector, this is classic Frankenstein imagery distilled into a single photograph—the Baron, his creation, the laboratory and the machinery that defined Hammer’s Gothic world.

PETER CUSHING & SUSAN DENBERG – FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN (1967) Chained in Laboratory Hammer Horror Photo

The photograph’s carefully balanced composition immediately commands attention. Cushing occupies one side of the frame beside the laboratory controls while Denberg stands prominently at center, her pale costume contrasting dramatically with the darker machinery and rich colors surrounding her.

The restraints provide one of the image’s strongest visual details. Large metal cuffs encircle Christina’s wrists, with chains descending beside her as she stands almost motionless amid Frankenstein’s equipment. The combination of beauty, confinement and machinery creates an unmistakably Hammer interpretation of the Frankenstein mythology.

Cushing’s presence completes the composition. Dressed as Baron Victor Frankenstein, he appears absorbed in his work while surrounded by gauges, controls, cables, pipes and laboratory apparatus. Rather than overwhelming the actors, the elaborate equipment frames them and gives the photograph the dense Gothic-scientific atmosphere associated with Hammer’s Frankenstein productions.

This is precisely the kind of image that can become a centerpiece within a growing Hammer Frankenstein archive. It doesn't merely provide portraits of Peter Cushing and Susan Denberg; it brings together the essential visual ingredients of FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN in one exceptionally composed image.

FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN is a 1967 Hammer Films production directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters and Robert Morris. It was the fourth Hammer Frankenstein film starring Cushing as Baron Victor Frankenstein.

The film takes the series beyond the physical assembly and reanimation of a body. Frankenstein becomes concerned with the human soul, developing a method of capturing it after death and ultimately transferring the soul of the executed Hans into the restored body of Christina.

Susan Denberg’s Christina consequently occupies an unusual place among Hammer’s Frankenstein creations. Rather than the grotesque physical monster traditionally associated with the story, the film presents a beautiful restored woman whose body becomes the vessel for another person’s soul.

Peter Cushing’s Baron Frankenstein remained the constant presence throughout Hammer’s evolving interpretation of Mary Shelley’s mythology. His controlled performance, combined with Terence Fisher’s direction and Hammer’s distinctive production design, helped give the studio’s Frankenstein cycle an identity entirely its own.

For collectors of Cushing, Denberg and classic Hammer Horror, the appeal here is immediate: two essential performers, dramatic restraints, elaborate laboratory equipment and one of the film’s strongest visual configurations—all preserved within a single richly detailed publicity photograph.

Carefully restored and professionally printed from archival source material, this museum-quality photograph is a distinctive collectible for admirers of Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN, Terence Fisher, Hammer Films and classic British Gothic horror.