Frankenstein (Blu-ray)
The man who made a monster.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 11 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 17, 2013
- Originally Released: 1931
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Colin Clive & Boris Karloff | |
Performer: | Mae Clarke, John Boles, Edward Van Sloan, Frederick Kerr, Dwight Frye, Lionel Belmore, Marilyn Harris, Michael Mark, Arletta Duncan, Pauline Moore & Francis Ford | |
Directed by | James Whale | |
Edited by | Clarence Kolster | |
Screenwriting by | Francis Edward Faragoh & Garrett Fort | |
Composition by | Bernhard Kaun | |
Art Direction by | Charles D. Hall | |
Produced by | Carl Laemmle | |
Director of Photography: | Arthur Edeson & Paul Ivano |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"It's alive! It's alive!"
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Shocking in its day and still a genuinely creepy experience, director James Whale's primitive yet enthralling interpretation of Mary Shelley's classic tale of man playing God is the most influential genre movie ever made.
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Radio Times
The film has a touching, almost childlike humanity that allowed audiences to actually identify with the monster.
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Combustible Celluloid
The film is unique in Whale's work in that the horror is played absolutely straight, and it has a weird fairytale beauty not matched until Cocteau made La Belle et la Bête.
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Time Out
A complete reimagining of the Mary Shelley novel, Whale's version makes the monster an object of both terror and pity...
New York Times
James Whale has done a great job in his direction. This is not an easy thing to direct -- just how far to go in playing upon an audience's credulity, it's sympathy, it's nerves. Whale seems to have gone far enough, but not too far.
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Hollywood Reporter
The most influential horror film ever made, this stark and stylish work has a weird fairytale beauty.
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Village Voice
Maximum of stimulating shock is there, but the thing is handled with subtle change of pace and shift of tempo that keeps attention absorbed to a high voltage climax.
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Variety
Product Description:
FRANKENSTEIN is James Whale's first stylish, expressionist film (INVISIBLE MAN, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN) to grace the Universal horror cycle of the 1930s and 1940s (DRACULA, THE MUMMY). Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his hunchbacked assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye), embark on an unholy mission by stealing a body from a graveyard and a human brain from a medical college. Unbeknownst to Frankenstein, however, Fritz takes a violent and murderous abnormal brain. Henry's strange letters about his experiments worry his fiancée, Elizabeth (Mae Clark), and friends Victor (John Boles) and Dr. Waldman (Edward Van Sloan). They arrive at Frankenstein's laboratory to find the spectacular scene of creation under way--and Frankenstein intoxicated with his own godlike power.
FRANKENSTEIN is in many ways the original horror classic, virtually creating the genre itself, leading to numerous sequels and myriad imitators. Whale's ability to give humanity to the Monster is one of the film's most stunning successes.
FRANKENSTEIN is in many ways the original horror classic, virtually creating the genre itself, leading to numerous sequels and myriad imitators. Whale's ability to give humanity to the Monster is one of the film's most stunning successes.
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