ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Benas Mcloughlin Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

George Taylor Simply brilliant. This film is filled with terror, pathos, wit and a great cast. Picking up right after the original ends, with Mary Shelley telling the story of what happened, it never has a dull moment. While Karloff didn't want the monster to talk, his speech and his friendship with the hermit is the highlight of the movie. Just an excellent film that can be watched again and again.

cinephile-27690 Bride of Frankenstein, when compared to the original, is not as great. As the sequel though, it is a great movie! It may surprise you though that it takes a full hour for the Bride to be made. And for Disney fans, the Bride is played by Elsa Lancaster, the nanny who quits in Mary Poppins. James Whale was the director, as he was for the original. It was planned for Frankenstein to be released and the sequel to come out the next day, but it took 4 years for Whale to agree to make a sequel(the person who advised him to make it wanted no other director.)It's great in itself, but not as great as the original.

Pumpkin_Man I've been watching all the old Universal monster movies to get read for Halloween. Yesterday, I watched Bride of Frankenstein and it was a lot better than I remembered from the last time I watched it. In my opinion, I think it's better than the original 1931 classic. It continues the story right where the original leaves off without being too repetitive, like most sequels. It really advances the story like the monster meeting a blind man and befriending him. The man teaches the monster how to talk. Meanwhile, a doctor named Pretorius comes to Henry and wants to work with him in creating a mate for the monster. Henry refuses, but Pretorius teams up with the monster and kidnaps Elizabeth to get Henry to do what they want. If you want a good decent old school sequel, you'll love BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN!!!

GL84 Having survived the fire, the creature's quest for companionship drives him into the arms of another mad doctor who has plans on recreating another creature to be it's mate and tries to get his creator on board to doing it and giving him his desires.This here was quite the exceptional sequel with so much to really like here. Much like the original, there's quite a lot of work here involving how to interact with the concepts of life and death, which here is reversed into being more about life against the original which focused on death. The idea of not only moving on from the previous experiments for the life together and how he gets roped through his insecurities by the friend who gets to him through his experiments in the glass-jars which is a great scene overall and their debates trying to get him onboard later on showcase that thread incredibly well. As well, the central scene in the hermit's cottage where we finally learn that the monster is able to show compassion and friendship is a crucial part of this thread as it shows a sense of humanity to the creature that never really showed it before where not only does the show of compassion to it give it a joy that wasn't there before which really highlights this factor. While this here is quite fun enough as it is, the fact that there's such a plentiful amount of action here that gives this one such a fantastic pace as there's the absolutely spectacular opening that not only follows through on fixing the ending from the other film while generating the proper action to start this one nicely, the following chase through the woods gives this plenty of great shots showing the villagers forcing him through the area is really exciting as the halting chases are utterly enjoyable as he escapes several times leading to even more brawls and chasing, and the film's main centerpiece sequence with the encounter with the Bride at the finale. There's so much to really love with the intensity of the creature coming back to life matching the original and it lifting off the table elicits the same eerie chills, and with it again playing into the life and death there's absolutely crazy finale in the castle tower which is the explosive, frenzied spectacle of the whole place coming and burying everything inside which is rather fun. Alongside the fine monster makeup for both creatures, these here are what make this one hold up incredibly well. There's only one flaw here, which is that the Bride comes into play so late in the film and doesn't really do much that it seems almost like an afterthought as there's so little screen time that it doesn't have much to do beyond its appearance. This here is what really holds it back.Today's Rating/PG: Violence.