Top billed cast

1. 

   Colin Clive

   Henry Frankenstein

2. 

   Mae Clarke

   Elizabeth

3. 

   John Boles

   Victor Moritz

4. 

   Boris Karloff

   The Monster

5. 

   Edward Van Sloan

   Doctor Waldman

6. 

   Frederick Kerr

   Baron Frankenstein

7. 

   Dwight Frye

   Fritz

8. 

   Lionel Belmore

   The Burgomaster

9. 

   Marilyn Harris

   Little Maria

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Reviews

A review by Gimly

Written by Gimly on 2019-12-22

Not a totally faithful adaptation of the Mary Shelley book, still extremely important for not just horror movies, but movies as a whole. I thought about coming at this review from the perspective of what 1931's _Frankenstein_ meant for the future of cinema, and how it was still essentially in its infancy and doing anything even close to what _Frankenstein_ did, changing the culture forever and remaining in the zeitgeist even now, almost a hundred years later, is a monumental achievement and should be viewed as such. But that's never really been my jam. _Frankenstein_ might have been great for ...read the rest

Recommendations

1. Frankenstein76%
2. The Horror of Frankenstein58%
3. Victor Frankenstein59%
4. The Bride!61%
5. The Resurrected61%
6. The Mist69%
7. The Surrender59%
8. The Fly74%
9. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple71%
10. Firestarter63%
11. 28 Years Later66%
12. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed63%
13. The Revenge of Frankenstein66%
14. Annihilation64%
15. The Relic60%
16. The Girl with All the Gifts65%
17. Dark Light62%
18. Die Alone62%
19. Splinter61%
20. The Return66%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$291,000.00

Revenue
$12,000,000.00

Keywords

• fire
• monster
• experiment
• based on novel or book
• halloween
• reanimation
• laboratory
• mad doctor
• black and white
• pre-code
• body part
• angry mob
• grave robbing
• reanimated corpse
• woman in peril
• villager
• body snatching
• human monster
• frankenstein
• introspective
• wistful