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 Frankenstein / The Bride Of Frankenstein (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 1931 / Director: James Whale / Actors: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke ... / DVD released ... more  Frankenstein / The Bride Of Frankenstein (DVD) ... 11 October, 2004 at Universal Pictures UK / Features of the DVD: Black & White, Full Screen, PAL / Two classic Universal monster films.Newest Review: ... more of interest as a historical artefact than a rewarding film experience, though. Although there are some undeniably ... more ... impressive moments, most of them were copied by so many films later on that you’ll have seen it all before (there is one genuinely affecting scene, when a grief stricken man carries the body of his dead child through a crowd of celebrating peasants). The film isn’t scary at all, of course, and has that early-30s dated feel. Karloff is superb as the creature, an overgrown child who only wants to be loved, lashing out in frustration when everyone reacts to him with horror, but the rest of the performances are very of thei...more |
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Frankenstein / The Bride Of Frankenstein (DVD): To a new world of gods and monsters! (1428 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 13.11.05 (Very useful, 143 readings)
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Frankenstein, made by Universal in 1931, is probably the most famous horror film of all time. A very loose adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, it gave us one of the most recognisable icons of cinema in Boris Karloff’s monster – a huge, hulking brute with big shoes, a flat head and bolts through his neck. It was enormously popular at the time and, along with Dracula the same year, sparked off a horror boom which produced some of the best known and most enduringly popular films of the 30s. Directed by sardonic Englishman James Whale, the film tells how Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) abandons his wholesome fiancée (Mae Marsh) in order to try and bring life to ...
