Frankenstein (1931)
Obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein attempts to create life by assembling a creature from body parts of the deceased. He succeeds and creates a monster that has to deal with living again.
7 April 1880, London, England, UK
14 August 1881, Portland, Maine, USA
April 26, 1914 in Fort William, Ontario, Canada
March 31, 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA
12 May 1867, Wimbledon, London, England, UK
23 November 1887, Camberwell, London, England, UK
22 February 1899, Salina, Kansas, USA
1 November 1882, Chaska, Minnesota, USA
24 November 1880, Paxton Hall, England, UK
16 August 1910, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
June 13, 1889 in Naples, Italy
28 December 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA
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28 October 1895, Greenville, Texas, USA
15 March 1886, Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]
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20 January 1900, St. Malo,
June 14, 1914 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
January 01, 2011
Classic monster movie still electrifies.
August 10, 2010
Frankenstein is a horror film that turns (miraculously) into an existential tale of man's fear of abandonment
November 04, 2012
...a watchable yet consistently uneven horror flick that feels long even at 70 minutes...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
October 20, 2016
The most influential horror film ever made, this stark and stylish work has a weird fairytale beauty.
