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Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 38
Rotten:0
Average Rating: 8.9/10
Consensus: An eccentric, campy, technically impressive, and frightening picture, James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein has aged remarkably well.
Runtime: 75 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, a masterly mix of horror and black comedy, is the first in a series of sequels to FRANKENSTEIN (SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN). In the wry prologue, Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester) resumes her gothic... [More]
Starring: Elsa Lanchester, Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson
Director: James Whale
Screenwriters Hurlbut & Balderston and Director James Whale have given it the macabre intensity proper to all good horror pieces, but have substituted a queer kind of mechanistic pathos for the sheer evil that was Frankenstein.
Top Critic A must for anyone with even a passing interest in horror, this not only confirms Karloff as a master of the genre, but also shows, more than any of Whale's subsequent films, the influence of his vision.
Top Critic Whale's erudite genius brings it all together. He sculpts every nuance of self-parody, social satire, horror, humour, wit and whimsy into a dazzling whole, keeping every one of his fantastical plates spinning until the tragic, inevitable finale.
Karloff manages to invest the character with some subtleties of emotion that are surprisingly real and touching.
Top Critic Whale added an element of playful sexuality to this version, casting the proceedings in a bizarre visual framework that makes this film a good deal more surreal than the original.
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Top Critic Whale's most perfectly realised movie, a delight from start to finish.
[The film impresses] with its painterly and dramatic lighting, beautiful dissolves and tracking shots, sophisticated effects, and unexpected eccentricities.
One of those extraordinary films that transcends genre and period to provide fresh, untold pleasures year after year.
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