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[[File:elsa-lanchester-bride-of-frankenstein-c10102251-1_7942.jpg|frame|The most famous hairdo in movie history.]]
|'''Dr. Pretorius'''}}
▲{{quote|''To a new world of gods and monsters!''|'''Dr. Pretorius'''}}
|'''[[Frankenstein's Monster]]'''}}
The 1935 sequel to the 1931 film ''[[Frankenstein (1931
▲{{quote|''We belong dead.''|'''[[Frankensteins Monster]]'''}}
We begin in the home of [[Lord Byron]], entertaining his friends Percy and Mary Shelley as a [[It Was a Dark
▲The 1935 sequel to the 1931 film ''[[Frankenstein 1931 (Film)|Frankenstein]]'', this is widely considered to be the best of the old [[Universal Horror]] movies. [[Boris Karloff]] and Colin Clive reprise their roles as the monster and Dr. Henry Frankenstein, respectively, while Ernest Thesiger joins the proceedings as as Dr. Septimus Pretorius and Elsa Lanchester plays the titular Bride.
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 [[
▲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.
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.
▲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 [[Mer Maid]], a ballerina and a little [[Satan|devil]]. Pretorius can make people, but he can't get them up to normal size. Frankenstein, meanwhile, has created a giant. And so Pretorius proposes a plan: Frankenstein will provide the body, and Pretorius will provide the brain.
Frankenstein, meanwhile, is getting cold feet about creating another monster. In a sequence reminiscent of the original novel, the creature and Pretorius kidnap [[I Am Not Shazam|Frankenstein's young bride, Elizabeth]], and threaten to kill her unless he makes the monster a mate. It all leads up to an explosive conclusion in Frankenstein's laboratory, where the new monster has finally been born.
▲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.
One thing to note: Although the monster is childlike and [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|rather sympathetic]], he still kills
▲Frankenstein, meanwhile, is getting cold feet about creating another monster. In a sequence reminiscent of the original novel, the creature and Pretorius kidnap [[I Am Not Shazam|Frankenstein's young bride, Elizabeth]], and threaten to kill her unless he makes the monster a mate. It all leads up to an explosive conclusion in Frankenstein's laboratory, where the new monster has finally been born.
▲One thing to note: Although the monster is childlike and [[Woobie Destroyer of Worlds|rather sympathetic]], he still kills people -- a ''lot'' of people. Film historians put the original death count at 21, but it was edited down to 10 due to the [[Executive Meddling|censorship of the time]]. At one point the monster seems to break into an elderly couple's house and kill them [[For the Evulz|just because]]. Like [[King Kong]]'s tendency to eat people, the monster's violent nature is often glossed over to facilitate a "[[Humans Are Bastards|we are the REAL monsters]]" aesop.
''[[{{PAGENAME}}]]'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 1998.
▲The franchise was continued in ''[[Son of Frankenstein (Film)|Son of Frankenstein]]''.
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* [[Answer Cut]]: ''See'' [[Inadvertent Entrance Cue]]'', below.''
* [[Axe Before Entering]]
* [[Beehive Hairdo]]: The Bride famously sports one of these.
* [[Blind and
* [[Camp Gay]]: Dr. Pretorius, director James Whale reportedly told the actor to play him "like an over the top caricature of a bitchy and aging homosexual
* [[Call Back]]: Clive repeats his legendary "It's alive!" line (this time amended to "She's alive!").▼
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: After witnessing the monster's return, Minnie attempts to tell about it but is just scoffed at.
▲* [[Call Back]]: Clive repeats his legendary "It's alive!" line (this time amended to "She's alive!").
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "[[Hypocritical Humor|It's my only weakness]]."
* [[Comic Relief]]: Minnie, [[The Scrappy|to the point of annoyance]].
* [[Creating Life]]
* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: Shown when the villagers have caught and tied up the monster.
* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Dr. Pretorius could have become famous for his telephone-like invention ''in 1819''. [[A God Am I|That is, if he cared about money at all, rather than playing God]].▼
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Never in her career Elsa Lanchester did look so good.
▲* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Dr. Pretorius could have become famous for his telephone-like invention ''in 1819''. [[A God Am I|That is, if he cared about money at all, rather than playing God]].
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Elizabeth
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: The monster, after realizing that no-one will ever love him.
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* [[Fainting]]
* [[Grave Robbing]]
* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: Minnie describes Dr. Pretorius as "a queer fellow".
** Which ''may'' have been deliberate -- ''see'' [[Camp Gay]]'', above.''
* [[Hostile Weather]]: Storm rages outside in the prologue, much to [[Lord Byron]]'s joy.
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* [[Hulk Speak]]: How the monster speaks.
* [[Hysterical Woman]]: Minnie.
* [[I Am Not Shazam]]: Lord Byron himself actually calls the monster Frankenstein at one point, and Pretorius is quick to dub the new female monster "[[Title Drop|the bride of Frankenstein]]".
* [[Immune to Bullets]]▼
** Although perhaps he was using the word "of" in the same manner as in [[Marvel Comics|"Monster of Frankenstein"]]
* [[Inadvertent Entrance Cue]]: Elizabeth describes a vision of an evil apparition which will entangle Henry, and says she sees it drawing
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted. ''Again''.
* [[Instant Sedation]]
* [[
▲* [[Immune to Bullets]]
* [[Large Ham]]: Lord Byron in the opening.
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Pretorius, who is revealed to have been [[The Man Behind the Man]] to Dr. Frankenstein.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Pretorius to both Frankenstein and his monster.
* [[Mix-
* [[Morally
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: The monster.
* [[One
* [[Owl Be Damned]]
* [[People Jars]]
* [["Previously On..."]]: Lord Byron brilliantly recaps the previous film's events as being the story that Mary Shelley wrote. Considering they mention that the novel hasn't even been published yet, this may make Byron something of a naive psychic.
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: The monster, due to him possessing the brain of a criminal. He murders several people but doesn't do it for any particular reason until the end when he kills Pretorious. He just doesn't understand his own actions or the world around him until hes taught some very basic ethics by the hermit.
* [[Rage Against the Reflection]]: After seeing his reflection on water, the monster splashes it angrily.
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* [[Smug Snake]]: Pretorious all the way.
* [[Suddenly Voiced]]: The monster learns to speak, although this was subsequently dropped for the next film.
* [[Taking You
* [[Title Drop]]
* [[Torches and Pitchforks]]: As usual.
* [[Tortured Abomination]]: The monster. He blows himself and his bride up with the comment, "we belong dead."
* [[
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Well, hot ''bride''.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: [[Dwight Frye]], who played Frankenstein's [[The Igor|hunchbacked assistant]] Fritz in the original film, appears here as Karl, a non-hunchbacked toady to Pretorius. The monster ''also'' kills him.
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