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14th June 2013, 03:03 PM
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 The Best Of Universal's 30's Frankenstein Films
Which is your favourite, and why? . Frankenstein (1931) . Bride of Frankenstein (1935) . Son of Frankenstein (1939) My choice? Frankenstein was pretty good, but it could drag. I like it though, especially the lab scenes. Bride of Frankenstein was FAR superior! The best thing about it was Boris Karloff as Frankenstein and Ernest Thesiger as Dr Pretorius. Frankenstein gets more intelligent here, so Karloff gets the opportunity to do more with the character, which results in my favourite portrayal of the monster out of the whole series. Pretorius was just a great villain! I will never forget that scene in the crypt... Son of Frankenstein was also great. Karloff is back and on great form, but his performance here is not as good as the one in Bride. If anything, Bela Lugosi was the greatest thing about this movie. His portrayal as Ygor was very good. So... I'm going to say Bride. The original was good and Son was really good (almost Bride's equal), but Bride is one of my favourite movies of all time. A case where the sequel not only rivals the original, but dominates it!  |
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14th June 2013, 04:14 PM
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Never been a massive fan of the Frankensteins (or the Draculas for that matter) but I love The Mummy, The Invisible Man and Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (the 30s one), all fantastic!
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14th June 2013, 05:51 PM
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Why haven't you mentioned House of Frankenstein from 1944.? Sure, it doesn't have the same gravitas as the earlier groundbreaking efforts but, i defy anyone to say it isn't more fun. You have Karloff as the deranged Dr. Niemann, John Carradine as Dracula, Lon Chaney Jr reprising his Wolfman role and Glenn Strange as Frankenstein's monster. Thats before we start on the excellent Ghost of Frankenstein.  Rik likes this. |
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14th June 2013, 05:53 PM
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I love all of them, and all the other Universal Monster films, but if I had to pick one favourite then it would have to be Bride of Frankenstein 
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14th June 2013, 06:00 PM
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However my favourite Universal horror is The Black Cat from 1934. Nordicdusk and Dave Boy like this. |
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14th June 2013, 06:16 PM
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Out of the three listed, I would have to say Son Of Frankenstein, as it was the very first horror film I ever watched on telly, as a kid. It was the springboard to my love of horror movies.
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#7
14th June 2013, 07:11 PM
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I was going to include those from Ghost of Frankenstein onwards but then I realised that this is a 30's thread and decided to include only those made in that era. I'm sure a thread for the rest can be started on the 40's movies. And yes, Ghost of Frankenstein is a really good one too (I liked it more than the original). House of Frankenstein was pretty good, although I prefer House of Dracula. Not yet seen the one with Abbot and Costello... |
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