At the beginning a man is being taken to the guillotine and is beheaded, the beheading is offscreen but the blade is shown dropping.

Many surgeries are preformed throughout the film.

Body parts such as eyes and arms are seen in water.

A brain is shown being transferred from a tray to a glass jar of fluid, which was very gruesome for 1958.

Several people are shown drinking, mostly at a pub.

the guillotine scene although unshown where a priest was beheaded is fairly frightening, immediately followed by a woman's scream in the next scene.

Frankenstein transfers a brain from a tray to a jar of fluid with blood present, Viewers who cannot handle much gore and blood should beware for this scene.