The sparse screenplay of a potent story laced with revenge, murder, and hate was written by former crime reporter Sidney Boehm and based on aSaturday Evening Postserial (published in early 1953) and the hard-hitting, brutal 1953 novel by William P.His experiments to recreate human life, and his demands for corpses "were becoming dangerous":Waldman: Herr Frankenstein is greatly changed.From a nearby vantage point, hunter Orcs spotted the "Dwarf-scum" and heir camp, and reported back to their leader.She was attempting to live a normal life (but under the pretense of an assumed false identity to escape her past), while she was heavily medicated and experiencing frightening nightmares and paranoid visions of Michael appearing everywhere - she saw the killer in her dreams, in window reflections, and in her mind.