After bringing a woman to life, Baron Frankenstein goes back on his decision to give her to his monster and decides to keep her for himself while he roams the world and eventually comes back to claim what is rightfully his.
This turned out to be quite a middling effort that doesn't really offer up a whole lot of interesting values. The opening shots of the creation of the bride are pure Gothic splendor and some of the most exciting in the film with the storm going out of control before finally making its endgame a reality and her creation is assured, only for the rejection and dismissal to cause a huge fire that burns the whole place to the ground. It really makes for a grand opening that sets the stage here quite well overall, and is nicely echoed by the finale which does similar good in the final retribution of the monster. Their brawl is quite thrilling and violent and really seems quite one-sided which is what it should be with this one taking on a really enjoyable outcome. That's mainly due to the sympathy gained for him throughout the movie which comes into play here, but otherwise this one doesn't seem to do a whole lot that really makes for an entertaining effort. The main thing with this one is the fact that there's just nothing really interesting throughout here with the film abandoning the horror for the most part to concentrate instead on two utterly irritating story lines that have nothing to do to make them all that interesting. The first storyline involves his training her for Victorian society under the guise of an amnesia victim he's treating but unable to hide her monstrous past which keeps coming to the forefront at the most unexpected moments is bland period drama that resorts to a few snarls and rabid screaming to help sell that she's actually a monster, yet none of this is all that original or pleasing at all and tends to come off as way too overwrought with hardly anything of value happening during this time. The second storyline involving the monster's quest through the countryside in the circus just doesn't ring any sort of familiar tropes and just tries to build sympathy for him in the most arbitrary matter by showing the cruelty of others toward him but doesn't do anything special with this rather bland and expected method. It's all quite lame and really doesn't make this much of a horror effort at all, which really holds this down.
Rated PG-13: Violence, some Language and Brief Nudity.
This turned out to be quite a middling effort that doesn't really offer up a whole lot of interesting values. The opening shots of the creation of the bride are pure Gothic splendor and some of the most exciting in the film with the storm going out of control before finally making its endgame a reality and her creation is assured, only for the rejection and dismissal to cause a huge fire that burns the whole place to the ground. It really makes for a grand opening that sets the stage here quite well overall, and is nicely echoed by the finale which does similar good in the final retribution of the monster. Their brawl is quite thrilling and violent and really seems quite one-sided which is what it should be with this one taking on a really enjoyable outcome. That's mainly due to the sympathy gained for him throughout the movie which comes into play here, but otherwise this one doesn't seem to do a whole lot that really makes for an entertaining effort. The main thing with this one is the fact that there's just nothing really interesting throughout here with the film abandoning the horror for the most part to concentrate instead on two utterly irritating story lines that have nothing to do to make them all that interesting. The first storyline involves his training her for Victorian society under the guise of an amnesia victim he's treating but unable to hide her monstrous past which keeps coming to the forefront at the most unexpected moments is bland period drama that resorts to a few snarls and rabid screaming to help sell that she's actually a monster, yet none of this is all that original or pleasing at all and tends to come off as way too overwrought with hardly anything of value happening during this time. The second storyline involving the monster's quest through the countryside in the circus just doesn't ring any sort of familiar tropes and just tries to build sympathy for him in the most arbitrary matter by showing the cruelty of others toward him but doesn't do anything special with this rather bland and expected method. It's all quite lame and really doesn't make this much of a horror effort at all, which really holds this down.
Rated PG-13: Violence, some Language and Brief Nudity.