![]() 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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