The Bride of Frankenstein
by James Whale
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Actor: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger, Valerie HobsonDirector: James Whale
Brand: Universal
Writer: Edmund Pearson
Writer: John L. Balderston
Writer: Josef Berne
Writer: Lawrence G. Blochman
Writer: Mary Shelley
Writer: Morton Covan
Writer: Philip MacDonald
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The Bride of Frankenstein
Movie Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
One of the few sequels that's unequivocably better than the original, "Bride" benefits from a greater exploration into the monster's character, a wonderfully over-the-top performance by Ernest Thesiger as Dr. Pretorius, and the swan-like Elsa Lancaster as The Bride herself; you can pretty much avoid the original and just watch this superior film instead.
Summary of The Bride of Frankenstein
One of the most popular horror classics of all time and an acclaimed sequel to the original Frankenstein. The legendary Boris Karloff reprises his role as the screen's most understood monster who now longs for a mate of his own. Colin Clive is back as the overly ambitious Dr. Frankenstein, who creates the ill-faed bride (Elsa Lanchester). Directed by the original's James Whale (hislast horror film) and featuring a haunting musical score, The Bride of Frankenstein ranks as one of the finest films not only of the genre, but for all time.It appeared, at the end of the epochal 1931 horror movie Frankenstein, that the monster had perished in a burning windmill. But that was before the runaway success of the movie dictated a sequel. In Bride of Frankenstein, we see that the monster (once again played by Boris Karloff) survived the conflagration, as did his half-mad creator (Colin Clive). This remarkable sequel, universally considered superior to the original, reunites other key players from the first film: director James Whale (whose life would later be chronicled in Gods and Monsters) and, of course, the inimitable Dwight Frye, as Frankenstein's bent-over assistant. Whale brought campy humor to the project, yet Bride is also somehow haunting, due in part to Karloff's nuanced performance. The monster, on the loose in the European countryside, learns to talk, and his encounter with a blind hermit is both comic and touching. (The episode was later spoofed in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein.) A prologue depicts the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, being urged to produce a sequel by her husband Percy and Lord Byron. She's played by Elsa Lanchester, who reappears in the climactic scene as the man-made bride of the monster. Her lightning-bolt hair and reptilian movements put her into the horror-movie pantheon, despite being onscreen for only a few moments. But in many ways the film is stolen by Ernest Thesiger, as the fey Dr. Pretorious, who toasts the darker possibilities of science: "To a new world of gods and monsters!" Absolutely. --Robert Horton
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