Frankenstein,
This early 1931 Directed by James Whale, is a cracking reminder to us all, that most movie science fiction eventually becomes science fact.
Starring Colin Clive as the Mad/Genius Doctor Frankenstein and Dwight Frye has is slightly retarded and deranged hunchbacked assistant.
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"It's alive! Alive!" shouts Colin Clive's triumphant Dr. Frankenstein as electricity ... more
buzzes over the hulking body of a revived corpse. "In the name of God now I know what it's like to be God!" For years unheard, this line has been restored, along with ...
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Boris Karloff stars as the screen's most memorable monster in what many consider to be the ... more
greatest horror film ever made. Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster (Karloff) out of lifeless body par...
"It's alive! Alive!" shouts Colin Clive's triumphant Dr. Frankenstein as electricity ... more
buzzes over the hulking body of a revived corpse. "In the name of God now I know what it's like to be God!" For years unheard, this line has been restored, along with ...
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Boris Karloff stars as the screen's most memorable monster in what many consider to be the ... more
greatest horror film ever made. Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster (Karloff) out of lifeless body p...
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Boris Karloff stars as the screen's most memorable monster in what many consider to be the ... more
greatest horror film ever made. Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster (Karloff) out of lifeless body par...
The Full Director's Cut version of the ITV1 drama Frankenstein. DVD includes the unseen ... more
Director's Cut and also includes the ITV1 version. Victoria Frankenstein is conducting ground breaking but highly controversial work in the field of stem cell research and medical biotechnology. She is obsessed with her research The Universal Xenograft Project (UX) generating a multi-organ bank to create organs which are fit for human transplant. Her obsession is not driven by a desire for fame or adulation but to save her dying son William. Maddened by grief and desperation Victoria steals a sample of William's blood and introduces it to her research programme. Deep inside her lab in the confines of a purpose built tank the cells grow at an extraordinarily accelerated rate. As they diversify mutate and re-form a horrified Victoria realises that she has lost control of the experiment; the UX is alive - what has she created? Impossible Pictures (Primeval) and Jed Mercurio (Bodies) give Mary Shelley's classic horror story a fresh new twist as literature's most infamous creator Dr Victor Frankenstein is re-born in the 21st Century as a female biologist in this modern re-working of a tragic tale of obsession.
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Production Year: 1998 - Horror - Director: Stephen Norrington - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal Logue, Udo Keir, Traci Lords, Udo Kier
Advantages: classic movie Disadvantages: a bit dated for the younger generation
...Clive as the Mad/Genius Doctor Frankenstein and Dwight Frye has is slightly retarded and deranged hunchbacked assistant.
Obsessed with the possibility of producing life from dead body parts, Frankenstein pushes the boundaries of science to the max.
Eventually after obtaining parts from the local morgue they have a male the body prepared, (Should of gone to the body shop). all they need now is a brain. Frankenstein's obsession ... ...But is it the life Frankenstein wanted? Has he created the ultimate Man or Monster?
A very dated movie now, but one I think the older generation would still enjoy, even if just for remembering past movies,
My teenagers found it quite boring and certainly not frightening in the least, in fact if it wasn't so boring said one, it would be comical.
I quite preferred some of the later versions, with the flute playing ... more
Frankenstein, This early 1931 Directed by James Whale, is a cracking reminder to us all, that most movie science fiction eventually becomes science fact.
Starring Colin Clive as the Mad/Genius Doctor Frankenstein and Dwight Frye has is slightly retarded and deranged hunchbacked assistant. Obsessed with the possibility of producing life from dead body parts, Frankenstein pushes the boundaries of science to the max.
Eventually after obtaining parts from the local morgue they have a male the body prepared, (Should of gone to the body shop). all they need now is a brain. Frankenstein's obsession at playing God, makes him develop a body of super strength and only the best brain will do, he wants to produce the ultimate human specimen.
But alas as with all good plans, something goes amiss, unknown to Frankenstein, there's a mix up of brains following a laboratory accident, and the brain is swapped with that of a deranged murderer.
Frankenstein's ,worried fiancée Elizabeth (Mae Clark), arranges for the couples friends to come and try to find out, what it is that has such a grip on her fiancé, as she sees a change in the man she loves, what has him so spell bound that he has shut himself of in a world of his own?
Well soon they find out, as the final experiment takes place, a life is born on the operating table of Frankenstein's lab. But is it the life Frankenstein wanted? Has he created the ultimate Man or Monster?
A very dated movie now, but one I think the older generation would still enjoy, even if just for remembering past movies, My teenagers found it quite boring and certainly not frightening in the least, in fact if it wasn't so boring said one, it would be comical.
I quite preferred some of the later versions, with the flute playing Egore with his crooked broken neck.
It is however an Horror classic, which sparked of many sequels and similar movies over the coming years, and Frankenstein is name still well known in present day, with a relatively recent adaptation screen named Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
A short movie of only 69 minutes.
Directed by James Whale.
Starring Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Mae Clark, John Boles, Edward Van Sloane and Dwight Frye.
Re- released in 2003 on DVD and is readily available at most good outlets, at varying prices.
Advantages: Good spooky film, easy to get a hold of, not too long Disadvantages: bit dated
...be scared silly of the Frankenstein Monster films and I think this was the one that scared me the most.
It's very short, only just over an hour long, and probably not very scary if you watch it now as an adult but when you are young it's terrifying. It's in black and white was made in 1931 so it's almost as old as me!
It stars Colin Clive as Doctor Frankensein who is on the quest to make a real live bloke out of the dead parts of other blokes. ... ...the brain (or head) of Frankenstein gets swapped with the brain (or head) of a mad man and then all hell breaks out.
It stars our hero Boris Karloff as the most unattractive 'son' of Frankenstein and you have to feel sorry for the guy as nothing seems to go right for him. Lasses just run of screaming when they see him as his 'dad' made him look proper unattractive, with an odd face and a humpy back. Frankenstein also has a really funny (strange) ...
dingledot 07.01.2009
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Mary Shelley, John L. Balderston, Peggy Webling, Garrett Fort
Art Director
Charles D. Hall
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Main Language
English
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Special Features
Audio Commentary, Trailer, Featurette - 1. THE FRANKENSTEIN FILES
Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0 English
DVD Description
FRANKENSTEIN is James Whale's first stylish, expressionist film (INVISIBLE MAN, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN) to grace the Universal horror cycle of the 1930s and 1940s (DRACULA, THE MUMMY). Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his hunchbacked assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye), embark on an unholy mission by stealing a body from a graveyard and a human brain from a medical college. Unbeknownst to Frankenstein, however, Fritz takes a violent and murderous abnormal brain. Henry's strange letters about his experiments worry his fiancee, Elizabeth (Mae Clark), and friends Victor (John Boles) and Dr. Waldman (Edward Van Sloan). They arrive at Frankenstein's laboratory to find the spectacular scene of creation under way and Frankenstein intoxicated with his own godlike power. FRANKENSTEIN is in many ways the original horror classic, virtually creating the genre itself, leading to numerous sequels and myriad imitators. Whale's ability to give humanity to the Monster is one of the film's most stunning successes.
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