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Frankenstein Primitive horror by today's standards, and not really scary. On the other hand, Victorian horror (the novel was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley's wife, Mary Woolstonecraft Shelley, in the mid-19th century) is always more interested in the moral and ethical implications of horror than in the pure terror of it. Frankenstein asks what right a human being has to attempt to create life, and depicts the terrible things that happen when one doctor does it. Frankenstein's monster (definitively portrayed by Boris Karloff) comes across as a sympathetic character. Certainly, he does some horrible things, but they all result from his innocence and ignorance, not from any conscious destructiveness. Don't expect to be frightened, but this is one of the definitive horror films, and carved the image of Frankenstein into the modern psyche for all time. ***1/2 out of **** Cast Year of Release:
1931 Other Films in the Frankenstein
Series: Other Classic Universal Horror Films:
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