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We begin in the home of [[Lord Byron]], entertaining his friends Percy and Mary Shelley as a [[It Was a Dark and Stormy Night|storm rages outside]]. At Byron's urging, Mary continues the story of Frankenstein, picking up about where the original film left off.
Henry Frankenstein just barely survives the collapsing windmill, but so does the [[Not Quite Dead|monster]]. Shortly thereafter, Frankenstein receives a visit from his old mentor, [[Camp Gay|Dr. Pretorius]], who wants to join forces and continue Frankenstein's experiments to create life. In one of the movie's most memorable scenes, Pretorius shows Frankenstein a series of little people in jars, including a [[
Meanwhile, the monster has several encounters with angry villagers and is eventually taken in by a kindly old blind hermit. The hermit teaches the monster to speak, and is the only friend he's ever had. Naturally, the villagers show up and drive the monster away, and he goes to a graveyard to find solitude among the dead. And whom should he happen to meet but [[Contrived Coincidence|Dr. Pretorius gathering parts for the new creature]]. Enticed by the possibility of having a friend, the monster forms an alliance with Pretorius.
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