Frankenstein - 1931

Frankenstein 1931 Limited Edition
27 in. x 41 in.

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The classic horror film, adapted from Mary Shelley's famous 1818 novel, from the great director James Whale. With his hunchbacked, twitchy assistant Fritz (Frye), fanatical mad scientist Dr. Frankenstein (Clive) steals bodies from graves to assemble a creature - a mute, lumbering, flat-headed and browed Monster (Karloff) with visible facial scars, bolts in his neck and sunken eyes. Frankenstein shouts: "It's alive! Alive!" during the fantastic creation scene in his castle, when the hulking body comes alive with electricity harnassed from lightning. The revived, childlike brute with a criminal brain is misunderstood, and while playfully tossing flowers into a lake heaves in an innocent eight-year-old girl - who he imagines as another flower - to her drowning death.

The Bride of Frankenstein - 1935

Bride of Frankenstein, Boris Karloff, 1935 Photographic Print
18 in. x 24 in.
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The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), a masterpiece of classic horror films of the 1930s, appears as a series than the original prototype of Frankenstein (1931). [There are so few sequels that are superior to their predecessors - Another example would be The Godfather, Part II (1974).] Although the film was in production, it was titled The Return of Frankenstein until that it is released. The film's title is actually a misnomer - the bride "is not the Frankenstein monster's bride, but Elizabeth (played by seventeen years Valerie Hobson), wife of Dr. Frankenstein. [Mention of the film often falls on the "The" title of the film.]

The macabre, satirical film is generally regarded as one of the greatest horror movies of all time - a spectacular, bizarre, high-camp, too, humor, slapstick and surreal film. Both films were produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. Frankenstein (the head of Universal) and directed by horror master James Whale, at a time when monster movies were diminishing. The film reunites Colin Clive (as Dr. Frankenstein) with Boris Karloff as the monster, but has introduced two new characters in the foreground: Ernest Thesiger as a necromancer who has miniaturized and detained several people in glass jars, and Elsa Lanchester the Monster Bride.

Whale provided all parodies of horror with its current and future workforce, insurmountable swansong on-the-top in the genre. The next two films in the series have been second sequel to Universal's original 1931 film - Director Rowland V. Lee 's Son of Frankenstein (1939), with the third and final appearance as the Karloff monster in a feature film. It was followed by the all-star House of Frankenstein (1944), with Boris Karloff in the role of evil scientist Dr. Niemann.