Classic Horror 

 

Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 

The story of The Monster (Boris Karloff) continues as he is persecuted by mobs.  He learns more of the world and eventually demands a female be made for him.    

Quick Review: Seldom does a sequel match the original, much less improve upon it, but Bride of Frankenstein does.  It takes what was good in the first and adds humor.

It begins with a prolog intended to calm censors and churches, with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Elsa Lanchester) claiming her tale is "a moral lesson and the punishments that befell a mortal man that dared to emulate God."  Of course the movie is far from that.  The Monster is shown even more sympathetically than in the first, an innocent savage abused by a cruel society.  As for punishment, Henry, who is addicted to acting as a god, goes on to a happy life.  It is The Monster who suffers, and he deserved better.
 

The other six films in the series are are Frankenstein (1931), Son of Frankenstein (1939), Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man (1943), and House of Frankenstein (1944), and House of Dracula (1945).

   Back to Mad Scientists Back to Classic Horror