Being a huge slasher fan I was very pleasantly surprised when I watched this as it is an obvious precursor to the slasher subgenre. I was expecting slow and atmospheric- things that both Hammer and Terence Fisher are known for. Instead, this film is really rather quickly paced, but not at the expense of characterization and backstory.
I really would have liked for it to have continued where Fisher's The Revenge of Frankenstein had left off but the fact that it didn't wasn't really a deal breaker. This film was interesting enough for what it is.

Frankenstein Created Woman is more cerebral than many Frankenstein films, at least at first, as the migration of the soul is considered. The good doctor wants to create/preserve life, but the body can't be a soulless monster. It's the original Flatliners! Parallel to that is the story of his assistant Hans, his love for a disfigured girl, and their struggle with the rich town bullies. It makes for a slow start, but an involving one. Once Frankenstein gets up to his old tricks and people invariably start dying, you're very well invested in who needs to be avenged and against whom. (It still leaves one character on the table who needed to die, in my opinion, but who am I to question revenant politics?) With its neat twist on both the Frankenstein's Monster and spirit of vengeance formulae, Frankenstein Created Woman is a lot of lurid fun, with some excellent comic horror in the editing when it comes to the kills. Note also one of Mudd's Women, Susan Denberg, in the creature's role - as if her blip of a career had her typecast as a woman only artificially beautiful.

bizarre class and gender clash concerning ego, justice, and retribution – not very scary, not in the book

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