The biggest highlight is Bela Lugosi giving the greatest performance of his career as the broken necked Ygor. The two female monsters look ridiculous. Nice-looking lab, though, even if it does rip off the 1931 version. The first Frankenstein film, this silent short from the Edison Company may develop the story's doppelgänger theme better than any of the features listed here. An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.The classic Frankenstein film, this one confirmed that shockers were a viable genre for Universal after their initial success of This list is a ranking of all of them that I've reviewed, from the classic Universal series, to the Technicolor Hammer splatters and beyond. Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.So bad it's laughable 1950s teen B-picture. A journey plotting helps the film move at a good pace. Scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts; the monster comes alive and wreaks havoc. After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".The basic idea here is to replace the ending of the 1935 "Bride of Frankenstein" with two hours of boring and unoriginal wretchedness. Supposedly a sequel to the above "Frankenstein Conquers the World" (1965), this kaiju film doesn't have much of anything to do with Frankenstein. The monster speaks this time around and Karloff has gained a little weight, making him a lot more jovial looking.
This one also benefits from a slightly larger production than the original listed directly below, and its hunchback and brain transplant business is heavily indebted to the Universal series. a list of 10 titles Upon returning to his home village to continue his experimental research, the destitute Dr. Frankenstein revives his old creature, but a hypnotist wants the monster to control for himself. Judging by its current 4.7 rating on IMDb, I consider this the most underrated entry on this list.
I couldn't imagine the monster from the first movie, as creepy as he is, being able to do some of the things that he does in this movie. We're about to unfold the story of Frankenstein, a man of science who sought to create a man after his own image without reckoning upon God. The Shelleys visit Lord Byron and compete to write a horror story.Like "Rowing with the Wind" and the introduction to "Bride of Frankenstein," both listed above, this one deals with Mary's creation of the Frankenstein story, which itself is about creation. The monster is taken by Cagliostro and he now controls the monster and plans to have it mate and create the perfect master race.I ranked two of Jess Franco's Dracula films very low in my other list, but this Frankenstein feature of his is a surprisingly well-composed and constructed picture, which is underscored by the narrative's focus on sight, including hypnotic eyes, a sex cult of spectators, and a blind soothsaying vampire. Unfortunately, that means it's merely a picture of two guys in monkey costumes wrestling around on miniature sets. The notorious monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for some sinister purpose.While its X-Men's Wolverine meets Bram Stoker's Dracula gets most of the attention in this postmodern monster rally, there's a nice black-and-white homage to the 1931 film in the beginning, and the creature is portrayed as an absinthe-induced creation with a visibly green electrical brain. Baron Frankenstein escapes from the guillotine and goes to Germany. There's also a female hunchback, for a change. …
For the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," I re-read it and, then, reviewed a bunch of Frankenstein films. a list of 10 titles For my full IMDb reviews on these movies, links are posted at the bottom of each entries' brief summary below.