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The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

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Reviews Counted: 38

Fresh: 38

Rotten:0

Average Rating: 8.9/10

Consensus: An eccentric, campy, technically impressive, and frightening picture, James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein has aged remarkably well.

Runtime: 75 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, a masterly mix of horror and black comedy, is the first in a series of sequels to FRANKENSTEIN (SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN). In the wry prologue, Mary... THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, a masterly mix of horror and black comedy, is the first in a series of sequels to FRANKENSTEIN (SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN). In the wry prologue, Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester) resumes her gothic tale after the face-off in a burning windmill between Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his horrific creation, the Monster (Boris Karloff). Presumed dead, the fiend rises again, immediately dispatching two villagers and wandering into the forest. Meanwhile, at chez Frankenstein, the archly villainous Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger) arrives, demanding to see Henry "on a secret grave matter." In a touching scene, the Monster, chased by countless angry mobs, finds brief respite with a blind hermit (O.P. Heggie) who befriends him and teaches him to speak. Mad-as-a-hatter Pretorius blackmails unwilling Henry into creating a female monster, culminating in another gorgeously filmed laboratory scene of lightning, flying kites, and whirring gizmos. Once the lightning-streaked, big-haired, white-robed Bride (Elsa Lanchester again) walks, how will the Monster react; who will live and who will die? Horror fans will delight in Whale's superb camera work of sweeping crane shots and canted angles, the cavernous, shadowy sets, and the atmospheric Franz Waxman score. [More]

Starring: Elsa Lanchester, Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson

Starring: Elsa Lanchester, Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Gavin Gordon, Douglas Walton, Una O'Connor, E. E. Clive, Lucien Prival, O.P. Heggie, Dwight Frye

Director: James Whale

Director: James Whale
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Composer: Franz Waxman

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Screenwriters Hurlbut & Balderston and Director James Whale have given it the macabre intensity proper to all good horror pieces, but have substituted a queer kind of mechanistic pathos for the sheer evil that was Frankenstein.

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10/07/08
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10/16/07
Cole Smithey
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A must for anyone with even a passing interest in horror, this not only confirms Karloff as a master of the genre, but also shows, more than any of Whale's subsequent films, the influence of his vision.

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09/24/07
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Whale's erudite genius brings it all together. He sculpts every nuance of self-parody, social satire, horror, humour, wit and whimsy into a dazzling whole, keeping every one of his fantastical plates spinning until the tragic, inevitable finale.

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09/24/07
Simon Braund
Empire Magazine

Karloff manages to invest the character with some subtleties of emotion that are surprisingly real and touching.

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06/04/07
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Whale added an element of playful sexuality to this version, casting the proceedings in a bizarre visual framework that makes this film a good deal more surreal than the original.

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06/04/07
Don Druker
Chicago Reader
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one of the greatest movies i've ever seen

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05/27/07
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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The greatest of all the Frankenstein films.

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10/24/06
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Another astonishing chapter in the career of the Monster.

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08/08/06
Frank S. Nugent
New York Times
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Whale's most perfectly realised movie, a delight from start to finish.

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

Classic - the pinnacle of Universal horror

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10/28/05
Pete Vonder Haar
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08/17/05
Rob Blackwelder
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07/06/05
Emanuel Levy
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06/09/05
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

My Big Fat Monster Wedding.

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03/30/05
James Plath
Reel.com

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01/31/05
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

[The film impresses] with its painterly and dramatic lighting, beautiful dissolves and tracking shots, sophisticated effects, and unexpected eccentricities.

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12/01/04
Doug Cummings
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One of those extraordinary films that transcends genre and period to provide fresh, untold pleasures year after year.

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10/17/04
Matt Bailey
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Absolute classic horror, the best of the 'Frankensteins.'

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10/14/04
Steve Crum
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Among the best of what Hollywood has to offer.

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07/08/04
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