Frankenstein is a 1931 American gothic pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale, produced by Carl Laemmle Jr., and adapted from a 1927 play by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.The Webling play was adapted by John L. Balderston and the screenplay written by Francis Edward Faragoh and Garrett Fort ...

Frankenstein: Directed by James Whale. With Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff. Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

A body of 187 films feature some version or interpretation of the character Frankenstein's monster, first created by Mary Shelley in her 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.. Frankenstein's Monster is a retelling of the cultural Golem myth. This list does not include creatures more directly inspired by The Golem, but focuses on those that Shelley's novel directly inspired.

For the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," I re-read it and, then, reviewed a bunch of Frankenstein films. This list is a ranking of all of them that I've reviewed, from the classic Universal series, to the Technicolor Hammer splatters and beyond. A few are fairly faithful adaptations, more are loose reworkings and some have ...

Frankenstein is an upcoming American Gothic science fiction horror film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein. The film stars Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, Charles Dance, Felix Kammerer, and Christoph Waltz. [1]

Aug 1, 2021 · Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale, produced by Carl Laemmle Jr., and adapted from a 1927 play by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

Frankenstein: Directed by Guillermo del Toro. With Mia Goth, Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Ineson. Dr. Pretorius tracks down Frankenstein's monster, who is believed to have died in a fire forty years before, in order to continue the experiments of Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

Oct 11, 2020 · Dr. Frankenstein and his menacing Monster have endured as two of the longest-running characters in the history of horror cinema. Created by Mary Shelley, the characters were first introduced onscreen in 1910 via the 16-minute short film, Frankenstein, directed by J. Searle Dawley. Two decades later in 1931, director James Whale helmed the first feature-length adaptation of Shelley's novel ...

Jan 30, 2025 · Netflix has released a first-look image at Guillermo del Toro‘s “Frankenstein” and revealed that the film will be released in November. The new photo shows Oscar Isaac, who portrays the ...

Feb 21, 2025 · The movie begins with a prologue in which the audience is warned about the horrifying tale to follow. At a castle in the Bavarian mountains, Dr. Henry Frankenstein (played by Colin Clive) and his hunchbacked assistant Fritz (Dwight Frye) succeed in piecing together a human body out of parts stolen from various corpses. As they prepare to give it life through the application of electricity ...