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{{quote| ''"Your father was Frankenstein, but your mother was the lightnink!"'' }}
 
'''''[[The Ghost of Frankenstein''']]'' is the fourth partinstallment in [[Universal]]'s series of ''[[Frankenstein]]'' films, released in 1942.
 
Following the ''[[Son of Frankenstein (Film)|Son of Frankenstein]]'', we find out that Ygor ([[Bela Lugosi]]) survived being shot and still lives in the Castle Frankenstein. When the angry local villagers blow up the castle to get rid of the so-called "Frankenstein's curse", the [[Frankenstein's Monster]] (Lon Chaney Jr.) is accidentally freed from the sulfur pit where it fell in the last film.
 
Ygor then decides to take the monster to meet Ludwig Frankenstein, [[Remember the New Guy?|previously unmentioned son of the original Dr. Frankenstein]], to persuade him to restore the Monster's strength.
 
''The Ghost'' was the last of the original ''Frankenstein'' films and subsequent movies featuring the Monster were [[Monster Mash|Monster Mashes]], starting with ''[[Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (Film)|Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man]]''.
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=== ''The Ghost of Frankenstein'' brings us these all new thrills: ===▼
 
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* [[Alliterative Name]]: Erick Ernst.
* [[Axe Before Entering]]
* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: Ygor has survived being shot in the last film.
** [[You Should Know This Already|And of course, the Monster returns from being plunged into a sulfur pit.]]
* [[Blackmail]]: Ygor threats Ludwig to reveal Frankenstein's reputation to the citizens of Vasaria if he won't help The Monster.
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* [[Diary]]: Ludwig consults his father's diary for help.
* [[For Science!]]
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: This happens to both the ambitious [[Mad Scientist|Doctor Bohmer]] and [[Complete Monster|Ygor]]. Ygor gets his brain transplanted into the Monster, only to go blind because he has a different blood type from the original intended transplantee; and a raging Ygor then hurls Bohmer into the machinery, electrocuting him.
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]
* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Ygor wants to have his brain put into the Monster so he can live forever. He gets his wish and then [[Gone Horribly Wrong|everything goes sour]]. First he goes blind, and then {{spoiler|he gets burned alive in the laboratory}}. And [[It Got Worse|it only gets worse]] if you remember that the Monster never gets a new brain in the series but is reduced in intellect to [[Dumb Muscle|a lumbering brute]]. [[Fridge Horror|Which means that Ygor was trapped inside an inarticulate monster's body]] [[And I Must Scream|forever.]]
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: This film establishes the lightning as the Monster's power source.
* [[Lightning Reveal]]: Monster's shadow is cast on a wall when lightning strikes.
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* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Ludwig's lab blows up when the blinded monster starts thrashing around.
* [[Torches and Pitchforks]]:
* [[UberwaldÜberwald]]
* [[The Voiceless]]: The Monster until the brainswitch.
* [[Voices Are Mental]]: Even with his brain in the Monster's body, Ygor keeps his voice.
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