Frankenstein
Obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein attempts to create life by assembling a creature from deceased body parts. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but it flees into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc. From TMDB
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Viewers praise the film's iconic status and its importance to horror cinema. [1][2] Boris Karloff's performance as the Monster is widely acclaimed for its emotional depth. [2][3] Some note the film deviates from Mary Shelley's novel but retains the tragic essence. [1][4]
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Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God! We will always see debates about which of the original wave of Universal Monster movies is the most important. With Dracula being released just under a year before Frankenstein, that tends to give the vampire crowd a sense of justifiable cause for a trumpet fanfare. Perhaps the more pertinent question is which is the better movie? Surely the most …
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Frankenstein, a movie primarily about how Doctor Henry Frankenstein deals with the fallout of his monster actually coming to life, holds up very well almost ninety years from its release. Starting with the monster itself, we find a fantastic character. Without any lines of dialogue, the filmmakers and Boris Karloff had to use actions and emotions to display the motivations of the monster, and they did a fantastic …
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Iconic Gothic horror tragedy This Universal classic from 1931 was based on the 1927 play by Peggy Webling rather than Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel. For those interested in versions fairly faithful to the book, I suggest Kenneth Branagh's 1994 version with De Niro as the creature or the 2004 version with Luke Goss as the monster, the latter of which runs almost 3 hours. Of course, the gist of Shelley’s story is here and …
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Very well made monster movie featuring fine performances all around, even Boris Karloff as the Monster even though he only grunts throughout. Some good set pieces and just an all around entertaining flick. 4.25/5
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I’m watching Frankenstein my first horror-esque film and I’m wanting someone to sit with 👉🏻👈🏻
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60 of 225 · most liked firstJohn Lennon was Best Man at his wedding, his Movie career included Young Frankenstein, Joe, Taxi Driver, The Candidate, The Friends Of Eddie Coyle and he was of course ‘Frank Barone’ in the hit Sitcom EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND The late great PETER BOYLE.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 26th anniversary to The Digimon Movie! This movie is 100% responsible for shaping my taste in music. I understand that its a bit divisive amongst the fanbase as it absolutely tears apart 3 OVAs to make a super-Americanized Frankenstein of a movie.. but I will always treasure and appreciate it
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie theatre marquee and display for Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s Film Selection🍿🎥🎬: Mel Brooks did Frankenstein like nobody else ever dreamed of. An absolutely brilliant comedy film. #TonightsFilmSelection
positive · AI labelView post →I’m watching Frankenstein my first horror-esque film and I’m wanting someone to sit with 👉🏻👈🏻
neutral · AI labelView post →Some of my storyboards from Victor Frankenstein #storyboards #film #filmart
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s revisits/cartoons this week for my #LastFourWatched. The Shining was in the theater- finally! ✅ (Not pictured due to Looney Tunes: In the Mouth of Madness & Bud Abbot & Lou Costello meet Frankenstein). Switched up my favorites this #LetterboxdFriday too. Cheers, all. #FilmSky 🎥 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie night, and one of my all-time faves. Young Frankenstein is forever in my top 10
neutral · AI labelView post →#VintageToyTuesday 1986 IMPERIAL TOY CORPORATION CLASSIC MOVIE MONSTERS Universal Pictures DRACULA FRANKENSTEIN (Frankenstein's Monster) WOLFMAN THE MUMMY My second favorite toys ever after Remco Mini Monsters I remember the day when we found them with my dad at the store on sale, we bought 3 sets!
neutral · AI labelView post →Yesterday’s movie snippet answer: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein , 1948 Did the movie deliver on what the poster promised?
neutral · AI labelView post →Young Frankenstein ( Colorized, 1974). Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks. The screenplay was co-written by Brooks and Gene Wilder. Wilder also starred in the lead role as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Victor Frankenstein. Peter Boyle portrayed the monster.[4] The film co-stars Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, and Gene Hackman. This version is colorized, but why? I don't…
neutral · AI labelView post →Frankenstein, James Whale (1931). Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code horror film directed by James Whale and produced by Carl Laemmle Jr.. It is adapted from the 1927 play Frankenstein: An Adventure in the Macabre by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday! What's YOUR #LastFourWatched? Full focus this week on my October Horrorfest! I went from a spin on vampires to the uncut remake of my favorite horror movie to a tightly wound mortuary creepfest to a spin on Frankenstein with a delicious ending. #Letterboxd
neutral · AI labelView post →Halloween approaches 🎃 so remembering 196️⃣7️⃣ Hammer Horror film🦇 Frankenstein Created Woman 🎬 starring Peter Cushing 🇬🇧 as Baron Victor Frankenstein💥 and Susan Denberg 🇬🇧 as Christina Kleve 👻 It is the fourth film in Hammer's Frankenstein series 🧟♂️ #HammerHorror #FrankensteinCreatedWoman #PeterCushing
neutral · AI labelView post →Frankenstein (1931 720p) [Halloween-A-Thon]. Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code horror film directed by James Whale and produced by Carl Laemmle Jr.. It is adapted from the 1927 play Frankenstein: An Adventure in the Macabre by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The Webling play was adapted by John L. Balderston, while the screenplay was written by Garrett Fort and Francis Edward Faragoh, with uncredited…
neutral · AI labelView post →Listened to an anecdote from Mel Brooks about seeing Frankenstein (the 1931 Karloff movie) when he was 5 & being terrified. He locked his windows. It was stifling in the tenement. His mother carefully explained the trip Frankenstein's monster would have to take, by ship, and bus to get to Brooklyn--
neutral · AI labelView post →James Whale opening BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN with the monster casually slaughtering the entire family of the little girl he killed in the first movie is a real indicator that the tone we're going for this time is 'malevolent prank'.
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN on the big screen tonight. Was really charmed to see the theater was more than half full, mostly people in their 20s and 30s, seeing a 90 year old movie on a weeknight. No phones, no loud talking, everyone there to see the movie.
positive · AI labelView post →FRANKENSTEIN (1910) NOSFERATU (1922) SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE (2000) BLITHE SPIRIT (1945) 🧟♂️🧛🏻♂️👻 #LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Exciting Booooooos! I will be doing three film introductions at the Tampa Theatre this month as part of their annual "Nightmare on Franklin Street" series! BURNT OFFERINGS - Sat 10/24 YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN - Sun 10/25 HALLOWEEN III SEASON OF THE WITCH - Sat 10/31 tampatheatre.org/tour-categor...
neutral · AI labelView post →I love gay Halloween—what do you mean you’re francesca, the big-tittied ginger assistant to Dr. Frankenstein in the 1967 stop-motion film ‘Mad Monster Party?’ by Rankin Bass?
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, yes, though the horror scene in the 1920s was quite different. Silas likes what's he's seen of it, though. I imagine he's read Dracula and Frankenstein, and maybe some Algernon Blackwood as well. He might also have watched Nosferatu at the movie theater. #QueerWritersChat
neutral · AI labelView post →FILM FREAK FRIDAY #FilmFreakFriday ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) We welcomed in the Halloween season by watching this classic comedy again, at Joe Furey's home theater. What joy! What genuine laughs. My daughter's favorite movie. Essential viewing.🎥 Available on Amazon Prime.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally got things setup, though getting my printer to be recognized was frustrating. Not sure how it finally connected, but it is. To relax, for night 10 of Spooky Season: “Frankenstein” (1931) starring Boris Karloff and directed by James Whale. An amazing film.
positive · AI labelView post →The Criminal Code (1931, 1080p). The _Frankenstein_ post reminded me I recently saw Karloff shine in a non-horror role in this Howard Hawks-directed prison drama from earlier in 1931, as I've been watching films shot by cinematographer [James Wong Howe](https://eggplant.place/movie/1wJDozGgElvU6PzkfsKPBq) > After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes…
neutral · AI labelView post →watching Frankenstein (1931) and my first immediate thought is that daniel radcliffe would make a fucking insanely good Igor in a modern day film
neutral · AI labelView post →#VintageToyTuesday 1986 IMPERIAL TOY CORPORATION CLASSIC MOVIE MONSTERS Universal Pictures DRACULA FRANKENSTEIN (Frankenstein's Monster) WOLFMAN THE MUMMY These were sold carded separately or loose in a display box. My mom put them in our window sill for Halloween for more than a decade
neutral · AI labelView post →#VintageToyTuesday 1986 IMPERIAL TOY CO CLASSIC MOVIE MONSTERS Universal Pictures DRACULA FRANKENSTEIN (Frankenstein's Monster) WOLFMAN MUMMY Here are my originals from childhood. It's fun to spot these in movies and TV shows, they were popular set dressings for kids rooms. Home Alone, X-Files, etc.
neutral · AI labelView post →Below, a scene from Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. Set in Fascist Italy, it's not only a really great, maybe the best, version of Pinocchio, it's also my favorite de Toro film. Harder edged than Frankenstein, believe it or not. #botd in 1964 (del Toro, that is!) #botd #moviesky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Asylum of Horrors Spook Show presents Frankenstein (1931) ad for one-time screening of Frankenstein, likely held on December 8, 1953, at the historic Dunkin Theatre in Cushing, Oklahoma.
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a SCARY movie title that begins with the letter C 🎥🖤 Curse of Frankenstein
neutral · AI labelView post →#OctoberMovieChallenge Day 7. Something assembled in a movie Frankenstein (2025) #Filmsky #Moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →In these photos, you can clearly see the difference. I've included a pre-war FL, a '57 Hydra Glide (which would have been new in the movie), Mutt's shitty Frankenstein bike, and a stock '07 Springer Classic (I misspoke with the Heritage Springer thing)
neutral · AI labelView post →Abbott and Costello kicked off their famed movie series with Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. They followed up the success of this film by "meeting" the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the Mummy, and more.
neutral · AI labelView post →Plans for this film started in 1933 with ‘The Return of Frankenstein’ to be directed by Kurt Neumann #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein
neutral · AI labelView post →name a bit part in a film, played to perfection. Gene Hackman. Young Frankenstein
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a SCARY movie title that begins with the letter F 🎥🖤 Frankenstein (1931)
neutral · AI labelView post →According to Joe Perry of Aerosmith, the title of their single "Walk This Way" from their "Toys In The Attic" album came from a scene in the Mel Brooks movie, "Young Frankenstein". The rest of the song is about a schoolboy and his first "romantic" experience with a (probably older) cheerleader.
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ #FilmSky #NowWatching Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Dir. James Whale
neutral · AI labelView post →I have a pet theory that everyone has at least one horror film that they love. Even people who don't do scares probably like at least one version of "Dracula" or "Frankenstein" or "The Mummy."
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 16: Frankenstein (2025) #31daysofhorror #horror #film
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man for Tax Purposes
neutral · AI labelView post →Top: One of the first scenes of BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Bottom: One of the last scenes of BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. #horror #film #halloween #movies
neutral · AI labelView post →31 Days Of Horror Films with @mikebagford.bsky.social Day 14: Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man (1943) Yesterday was crappy and deserved a crappy movie. #31DaysOfHorror
neutral · AI labelView post →Important question 📽️: If one were to want to acquire the movie YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN on blu ray, which version should be the one? It's me. I'm one. Cover art would be helpful. I'm seeing multiple versions including a colorized which I do NOT want.
neutral · AI labelView post →The other three Imperial Classic Monsters have fair enough actor likenesses the card backs themselves are based on Universal Monster movie photos. Bela Lugosi as Dracula (his Star amulet has way too many points though) Boris Karloff as Frankenstein (Frankenstein's Monster) Lon Chaney Jr. as Wolfman
neutral · AI labelView post →I guess this little game has come and gone, but two movie quotes I use all the time are: "Could be worse. Could be raining," from Young Frankenstein. "Home again, home again, jiggity jig," from Blade Runner.
neutral · AI labelView post →Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film. Father of the Bride of Frankenstein
neutral · AI labelView post →Ron Howard you can always change your JD Vance movie like it's a Star Wars special edition. Have him get eaten by a Frankenstein or something.
neutral · AI labelView post →So Lon Chaney jr. played both the Wolf-Man and, as of the most recent film, the Frankenstein monster. However for their crossover film they'd have to recast one of them if they're going to interact. You'd think it'd be the Wolf-Man since his character died at the end of that film, but no.
neutral · AI labelView post →28. Eyes Without a Face (1960) dir. Georges Franju I first watched this film as a double feature with Almodovar's 'The Skin I Live In' as part of a class on Frankenstein...I was instantly hooked. #31daysofhalloween #nowwatching #horrorsky 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →Following up yesterday's Frankenstein festivities with Young Frankenstein (Yes I'm counting this as today's horror movie, let me have this)
positive · AI labelView post →> since I realise this is a common trope for all sorts of kids stories, bonus points for people who can get one that isn’t a kids story. You want a wholesome, lovable monster who isn't in a kid's story? [Easy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Lecter).  > One key to the film's appeal is that audiences like Hannibal Lecter...He may be a cannibal, but as a dinner party guest he would give value for…
neutral · AI labelView post →Once in a while, the stars align and someone gifts us a take so hot that, for a moment, it can blot out all our differences and unite the whole internet in disagreement. Today is such a day. Praise be. #frankenstein #frankensteinmovie
neutral · AI labelView post →Lisa Frankenstein film review: a bit Edward Scissorhandsy ⭐⭐⭐⭐
neutral · AI labelView post →TONIGHT! It's "FEAR CITY CINEMA" vol 1, pt 1 When it came to choosing a vampire movie for a NYC-focused look at horror, there are plenty of options, but when it comes to a Frankenstein flick, there can only be FRANKENHOOKER; stream starts at 8:00PM EST… www.wonderville.nyc/events/the-f...
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a SCARY movie title that begins with the letter “B” 🎥 B is for… Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Just became aware of an Asylum movie from two years ago called Monster Mash where Michael Madsen is Dr. Frankenstein, trying to create an unstoppable hybrid monster and Dracula and the rest have to stop him before it's too late. I... kind of want to watch that?
neutral · AI labelView post →My 🎃 horrorfest has begun! Film 1. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958). Revisiting this film every decade has not diminished my affection for it. Michael Gwynn's sympathetic 'creature' + Richard Wordsworth's mischievous Dickensian type orderly, particularly impress. #horrorsky #filmsky #moviesky
positive · AI labelView post →Name: JP Sign: Capricorn Sexuality: 🍳 Hobbies: horror, magic the gathering, drawing Fav Animal: bats and rats Fav Pokémon:Hypno Fav Movie: the wolfman, house of 1000 corpses, clerks, young Frankenstein, clue, LOTR Fav Bands: Cradle of filth, ghost, slipknot, rob zombie, aborted, Calabrese
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