The Bride of Frankenstein [VHS]
by James Whale
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Actor: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger, Valerie HobsonDirector: James Whale
Writer: Edmund Pearson
Writer: John L. Balderston
Writer: Josef Berne
Writer: Lawrence G. Blochman
Writer: Mary Shelley
Writer: Morton Covan
Writer: Philip MacDonald
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Running Time: 75 minutes
Release Date: 1992-03-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Universal Studios
Studio: Universal Studios
VHS Movie Reviews of The Bride of Frankenstein [VHS]
Movie Review: Here Comes The Bride! Run!
Summary: 5 Stars
There's plenty of background and film historical knowledge back of this film. You won't find that here!
Elsa Lanchester in the company of a couple of hot shot 19th century poets on a dark and stormy night, discuss Frankenstein's monster. She revels them with more of the story as they thought it was over. No way!
Several scenes work for me. Use of dark and light shadows as in German expressionism. The sympathetic monster. And the introduction of a new member of the cast: Dr. Pratoreus. Apparently a professor of Dr. Frankenstein and who was later "booted out", Pratoreus wants to show the good doctor what he's accomplished and wants him to cooperate with him and pool their resources to make a woman.
And what a woman, but I digress!
Pratoreus' tiny people in jars including a cool mermaid. Great effects and I still have no idea how they did that. Perhaps through separate filming and super-imposition?
Meantime the Monster lives. He approaches people in a friendly manner and they scream at him, shoot him, hit him, and throw fire at him. The guy just can't win!
Eventually the townsfolk lock him up in chains. Even the burgermeister is not convinced he's a monster, just some crazy person. However the monster breaks the chains and runs amok. Hell breaks loose.
The rest of the film deals with the Monster and builds sympathy for him. The blind man scene is especially touching. Great parody of that scene with Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. John Carradine plays a small part in interrupting the monster's pleasure with the blind man. What a party crasher!
Meantime, Pratoreus now controls the monster and with promises of female companionship, the monster follows his bidding. Frankenstein meantime wants nothing to do with further experiments. Forcing him through betrayal and death is a sure deterrent however and changes his mind big time.
Soon, the unveiling, but the reception for the bride is not to be, I'm afraid.
James Whale's best production yet of the Frankenstein monster. Having as complete control as an independent film maker would have today, his vision was perfect. The perfect monster movie.
Summary of The Bride of Frankenstein [VHS]
It appeared, at the end of the epochal 1931 horror movie Frankenstein, that the monster had perished in a burning windmill. But that was before the runaway success of the movie dictated a sequel. In Bride of Frankenstein, we see that the monster (once again played by Boris Karloff) survived the conflagration, as did his half-mad creator (Colin Clive). This remarkable sequel, universally considered superior to the original, reunites other key players from the first film: director James Whale (whose life would later be chronicled in Gods and Monsters) and, of course, the inimitable Dwight Frye, as Frankenstein's bent-over assistant. Whale brought campy humor to the project, yet Bride is also somehow haunting, due in part to Karloff's nuanced performance. The monster, on the loose in the European countryside, learns to talk, and his encounter with a blind hermit is both comic and touching. (The episode was later spoofed in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein.) A prologue depicts the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, being urged to produce a sequel by her husband Percy and Lord Byron. She's played by Elsa Lanchester, who reappears in the climactic scene as the man-made bride of the monster. Her lightning-bolt hair and reptilian movements put her into the horror-movie pantheon, despite being onscreen for only a few moments. But in many ways the film is stolen by Ernest Thesiger, as the fey Dr. Pretorious, who toasts the darker possibilities of science: "To a new world of gods and monsters!" Absolutely. --Robert HortonHorror VHS Video
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