Frankenstein (1931)
In a stunning invention by a doctor who is trying to break the rules of humanity. The doctor named Henry Frankenstein performs a dangerous task by trying to create a new human being by assembling the parts of a deceased person. The doctor will succeed in that task but to no avail will create a monster that deals with life and people dramatically in a story that carries the meaning of hope and perhaps excitement.
22 February 1899, Salina, Kansas, USA
June 13, 1889 in Naples, Italy
19 August 1924, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 October 1895, Greenville, Texas, USA
14 August 1881, Portland, Maine, USA
1 November 1882, Chaska, Minnesota, USA
April 26, 1914 in Fort William, Ontario, Canada
16 August 1910, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
11 October 1858, London, England, UK
28 December 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 November 1880, Paxton Hall, England, UK
23 November 1887, Camberwell, London, England, UK
October 07, 2013
Shocking in its day and still a genuinely creepy experience, director James Whale's primitive yet enthralling interpretation of Mary Shelley's classic tale of man playing God is the most influential genre movie ever made.
October 10, 2012
The film has a touching, almost childlike humanity that allowed audiences to actually identify with the monster.
October 07, 2008
[Whale] did it in the Grand Guignol manner, with as many queer sounds, dark corners, false faces and cellar stairs as could possibly be inserted.
August 10, 2010
Frankenstein is a horror film that turns (miraculously) into an existential tale of man's fear of abandonment
June 05, 2007
One of the most deservedly famous and chilling horror films of all time.
November 16, 2014
James Whale has done a great job in his direction. This is not an easy thing to direct -- just how far to go in playing upon an audience's credulity, it's sympathy, it's nerves. Whale seems to have gone far enough, but not too far.
January 26, 2006
The film is unique in Whale's work in that the horror is played absolutely straight, and it has a weird fairytale beauty not matched until Cocteau made La Belle et la Bête.
September 24, 2007
Maximum of stimulating shock is there, but the thing is handled with subtle change of pace and shift of tempo that keeps attention absorbed to a high voltage climax.
November 04, 2012
...a watchable yet consistently uneven horror flick that feels long even at 70 minutes...
October 20, 2016
The most influential horror film ever made, this stark and stylish work has a weird fairytale beauty.
January 01, 2011
Classic monster movie still electrifies.
