LIT 3212 - Frankenstein (Philpotts)

In The Bride of Frankenstein, Boris Karloff reprises his role as the silver screen's most misunderstood monster who now longs for a mate. This critically acclaimed sequel introduces Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger) as a deranged scientist who forces Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) to help him create a companion for the monster.

Comedy meets horror when the screen's funniest duo, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, encounter Universal's classic monsters in the Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters Collection.

The mad Baron Frankenstein is married to his sister, Katrin. With their two children they live a demented sitcom family's life; hubby rushes off to his lab and wife complains of neglect. With his trusty servant, Otto, the baron has constructed a heroic female and now plans to make her a male mate.

An adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel about the scientist who creates a terrifying monster. Restored with footage cut after the initial release. Adapted by John L. Balderston from a play by Peggy Webling based on the story by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Videocassette release of the 1931 motion picture.

This edition is dedicated to the creators, producers and actors of the Frankenstein-monster genre. The Frankenstein-monster was more to be pitied than centured ; while the vampire-monster (Nosferatu) was an evil and blood-thirsty killer, an un-dead creature. This was cinema's first Frankenstein film and Nosferatu was cinema's first vampire film. These two films were the genesis of Monster and Horror films that followed.

Dr. Frankenstein's daughter carries on his experiments--and only the monster she creates can satisfy her strange desires!

The story of a young doctor whose obsession with death leads him to create a life. But his "creature," crafted from the bodies of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist, is a hideous mockery of humanity.

A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

The chilling adaptation to Mary Shelly’s gothic novel. Fueled by his obsession to overcome death, and using the body parts of corpses, Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates a rampaging monster.

Filming in glorious black and white, Brooks re-created the Frankenstein laboratory using the same equipment from the original Frankenstein (courtesy of designer Kenneth Strickfaden), and this loving attention to physical and stylistic detail creates a solid foundation for nonstop comedy.