![]() ![]() ![]() She's played by Elsa Lanchester, who reappears in the climactic scene as the man-made bride of the monster. (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. The monster, on the loose in the European countryside, learns to talk, and his encounter with a blind hermit is both comic and touching. Whale brought campy humor to the project, yet Bride is also somehow haunting, due in part to Karloff's nuanced performance. ![]() ![]() 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. 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). But that was before the runaway success of the movie dictated a sequel. It appeared, at the end of the epochal 1931 horror movie Frankenstein, that the monster had perished in a burning windmill. ![]()
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