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Frankenstein throughout shows the influence of the silent European horror films that preceded it; the lighting and the camera-work are heavily Expressionistic. A former production designer and stage director, James Whale had successfully adapted for the screen his own stage production of the play Journey’s End, then scored a second triumph with his filming of Waterloo Bridge. Based on the novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (London, 1818), and the composition of John L. Frankenstein VillageFrankenstein Village is the location of Frankenstein Castle, the ancestral home of the family, the earliest known ancestor of which was Baron Frankenstein, who lived at the manor with his son, Heinrich von (Henry) Frankenstein.

Pierce was hired as the make-up artist along with Pauline Eells as the wig maker (Full Cast and Crew). Though included in the film's initial run, his next exclamation of "Now I know what it feels like to be God! Dracula cast members Edward Van Sloan and Dwight Frye were effectively asked to reprise their earlier roles by playing Frankenstein’s mentor, Dr Waldman, and his hunchbacked assistant, Fritz, respectively. The university finished that year's school term, and left Ingolstadt in May 1800, bringing to a quiet end the school that had, at its peak, been one of the most influential and powerful institutes of higher learning in Europe.Widely considered as the grandfather of the horror genre, it combines a beautifully simplistic tale with the potent topic of man vs. The first thing we see of Henry Frankenstein in this film is his hand, pressing down upon the shoulder of the over-eager Fritz, as the two wait for the funeral mourners to depart. You can understand why all this was left in the script – and you can easily imagine the impact it must have had upon the stage – but for all its iconic value, this sequence is easily the silliest in the whole film. Many productions of the 1930s suffer from a slightly cramped feeling, due to the struggles of the cameramen of the time to conceal the limitations of the sets on which they were shot. And then, having mysteriously “intuited” which was Frankenstein’s house, made its way there, distracted everyone else in the house and broken in, the Creature simply goes away once it has made Elizabeth faint.

His father, the most parasitic of aristocrats, is utterly scornful of the notion of his son working at all. Young Frankenstein’s setting commences in New York where a neurosurgeon by the name of Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder), lives.

The figure is lowered again and, as those gathered watch in horror and fascination, its hand begins to move. It was an intense vision that produced one of the greatest and powerful horror stories n the western literature, it is a story which assumed a mythic view as it taken into account the profound result concerning understanding of a man of his position in the world and the results of transgressing against nature and God (Gilbert, 2000, 1-4). He resorts to robbing graves and hangman's gallows to amass a parcel of sometimes less than acceptable body parts.

It is a gesture repeated after the film’s great tragedy, the accidental drowning of the child, Maria. Universal Studios gives the 1931 release of Boris Karloff's Frankenstein the regal treatment with its inclusion in the Monster Legacy DVD Gift Set. The file for the film in the MPAA/PCA Collection at the AMPAS Library contains a letter, dated 18 Aug 1931, in which the Hays Office informed Universal that its only concerns about the film were "gruesome [scenes] that will certainly bring an audience reaction of horror.The aim of these experiments, Waldman reveals, was to create human life… The three decide to see Frankenstein at the ruined watchtower in which he has built his laboratory. Victor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was a fictional student at the University of Ingolstadt. A short time later, Wolf von Frankenstein, his American bride Elsa and their son Peter came to live in Frankenstein Village. Henry and Elizabeth’s wedding preparations are disrupted when Victor arrives with the announcement that Waldman’s body has been found at the watchtower— who found it? The Illuminati movement was founded on May 1, 1776, in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt (d.

That we continue to react so strongly to the centrepiece of a film over seventy years old is proof positive that cinematic miracles do sometimes happen. nature to create a horrific fairy-tale that continues to mesmerize more than seven decades after its release. The prominent director James Whale created a timeless classic by utilizing the outstanding make-up artist Jack P. He is described as about fifty years old and both his kindness and his perspective on science make an impression on Frankenstein. This is also in keeping with the original Mary Shelley novel which used Switzerland as its primary setting.Unlike Dracula, however, Frankenstein was destined never to see the light of day in America—or at least, not as a play: it was this version to which Universal ultimately acquired the rights. He is a professor at Ingolstadt University who specializes in chemistry and is a mentor of Victor Frankenstein. Of course, Clive had the advantage of being well served by the screenplay; the other actors had to make do with very little, and on the whole they failed dismally. Waldman (portrayed by Edward Van Sloan) was a professor of anatomical studies at Goldstadt Medical College.