Directed by James Whale
My rating: 4 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Universal)
Scientist Colin Clive and his hunchbacked assistant Dwight Frye dig up bodies from the grave or cut them down from the gallows to provide him with the raw materials for a body he intends to bring to life with the power of lightning. The experiment proves to be a success one night during a thunderstorm, but the creature, given the brain of a criminal and tormented by the hunchback, goes on a killing rampage. One of his victims is a small girl, whom he throws into a lake and drowns, which turns the drunken residents of the small town into a lynch mob. The film still manages to shock nearly a century later, with scenes of death and disfigurement, but also elicit sympathy for the monster who never asked to be created, and even for Dr. Frankenstein, drunk on his own power, who later regrets it.
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