Directed by James Whale
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Universal)
Picking up where the original story left off, Frankenstein's monster survives the windmill attack and is loose again. He kills several villagers (he later explains: "love the dead, hate the living") and even manages to make a friend with a blind hermit who teaches him to speak, drink and smoke. Meanwhile, Dr. Frankenstein is recovering at home with his fiance when an old professor shows up and reveals that he has been carrying out similar experiments to create life. When Dr. Frankenstein refuses to help, the mad professor kidnaps his fiance and forces him. The two retire once again to the bell tower where they bring a new monster to life, this one a woman intended as a mate for the original monster. The plot occasionally takes a detour into the ridiculous, like the "little people" the professor keeps in jars, and the whole bride angle just doesn't work for me, but the psychological and emotional development of the monster does and it is that plot thread, combined with Karloff's performance, that keeps things interesting.
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