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Escaped convict Edmond Bateman (Karloff) is manipulated into cooperating with Vollin; an operation to change his appearance goes horribly wrong and Bateman is now more hideous than ever. Vollin promises that he will correct the surgery if Bateman helps him carry out his twisted plans and Bateman has no choice but to agree. Vollin hosts a dinner part for Jean, Jerry and her father, but in reality it is merely a trap to allow him to torment his guests in his torture devices.

It is Edinburgh in 1831 and Dr. Wolfe ‘Toddy’ MacFarlane (Henry Daniell) runs a medical school, but there is a small problem in obtaining human cadavers to work on. That isn’t an issue for nasty cabman John Grey (Boris Karloff); he is more than willing to help the good doctor out by obtaining fresh bodies even if it means resorting to murder. This article is supported by WikiProject Film - American cinema task force (assessed as Top-importance). Even though the film is entitled The Raven and is supposedly inspired by the works of Poe, there is very little that is associated with Poe other than a stuffed raven on Vollin’s desk and the pit and the pendulum set up in the basement. In the end, Bateman turns the tables and saves the couple from the savagery of Vollin. Bateman is gunned down by the maniacal Vollin who meets his end in one of his own devices. Karloff plays against type and is actually a sort of good guy despite his hideous appearance. The nature of Fritz' injury is undetermined. He is seen walking with a limp, but in the graveyard scene in the beginning of the film, he's holding his cane in his left hand. Later at the Watchtower, he is holding his cane in his right hand.They visit Doctor Waldman's office. Waldman fears that Henry's ambition has driven him towards obsession. He recalls his work at the university, citing that Henry demanded human bodies for his experiments, and that he was not particular where the bodies came from. Elizabeth grows more concerned and asks Waldman to come with them to see Henry. The film opens on a storm night as Percy Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon) praise Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester) for her story of the Promethus Unbound, Frankenstein. Mary Shelley tells her audience that the monster was not destroyed and that there is more to tell; the scene shifts to the end of the 1931 film and continues from there. Hey, everyone! This is an idea that's been brewing in my mind for quite sometime. I've connected the classic Frankenstein novel to its famous film versions and to other early works featuring mad scientists. This was not at all intended to be such a long entry, but I figured that I needed to explain the various adventures of Victor's descendants in some detail or it'd be confusing for those who don't know their classic horror movies. I hope you like it! Let me know if there's any way you feel this can be improved, whether it's adding, deleting, or just changing something. Let's discuss!

The film is based on a Robert Louis Stevenson short story, and the true life crimes of Burke and Hare, an infamous pair of murderers that sold corpses to the Edinburgh medical school. Ace student Donald Fettes (Russell Wade) is hired to be a teaching assistant to Dr. MacFarlane, and he soon uncovers the diabolical truth behind the steady supply of bodies supplied by the ruthless cabman, Gray. Gray holds a deadly secret over the good doctor and it is that covert fact that holds him powerless in the sway of the evil Gray. The 18th century gave rise to the Enlightenment, a movement that in some quarters was opposed to the church-run universities of which Ingolstadt was a prime example. The Jesuits gradually left the university as it sought to change with the times, until the university finally had become so secular that the greatest influence in Ingolstadt was Adam Weishaupt, founder of the secret society of the Illuminati. On November 25, 1799, the elector Maximilian IV announced that the university’s depleted finances had become too great a weight for him to bear: the university would be moved to Landshut as a result. 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. In 1826 King Ludwig I moved the university to the capital Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). The modern successor of Bavaria’s oldest university is the WFI – Ingolstadt School of Management (founded in 1989 as part of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), one of Germany’s foremost business schools. In popular culture At Castle Frankenstein, the maid announces the arrival of Mister Victor Moritz, a friend to Elizabeth, Henry's fiancé. Elizabeth is concerned about Henry and reads Victor a disturbing letter from him. Henry's letter includes fanatical statements concerning his experiments; claims that he has solved the mystery between life and death. Victor tells her that he will go to Goldstadt and consult with Henry's old mentor, Professor Waldman. Elizabeth says that she wants to come along. Henry could not deal with his failure and came to realize that all he accomplished was the creation of a monster. He suffered a mental breakdown and passed out in his laboratory. His family brought him home and he spent the next several days convalescing. Professor Waldman elected to remain behind at the laboratory to watch over the monster. Henry put all thoughts of his work behind him and concentrated on his pending marriage to Elizabeth.Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090616114714/http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2009/6/14/guillermo-del-toro-casts-doug-jones-in-frankenstein.html to http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2009/6/14/guillermo-del-toro-casts-doug-jones-in-frankenstein.html

The Illuminati movement was founded on May 1, 1776, in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt (d. 1830), who was the first lay professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt. The movement was made up of freethinkers, as an offshoot of the Enlightenment. Writers at the time, such as Seth Payson, believed the movement represented a conspiracy to infiltrate and overthrow the governments of European states. Some writers, such as Augustin Barruel and John Robison, even claimed that the Illuminati were behind the French Revolution, a claim that Jean-Joseph Mounier dismissed in his 1801 book On the Influence Attributed to Philosophers, Free-Masons, and to the Illuminati on the Revolution of France. I kid you not, there is a real Frankenstein Castle in Germany and it really was home to a supposed professional alchemist! Actor Colin Clive later admitted in an interview that he hated doing horror movies and was not particularly fond of his work in the Frankenstein films. In Branagh's film, it is Professor Shmael Augustus Waldman (portrayed by John Cleese) —first and middle name revealed in the comic adaptation of the film—who teaches Victor how to re-animate dead tissue. He previously followed the same path Victor will eventually take, conducting illegal experiments on the human body, only to stop after they brought about "abomination." Waldman and Victor are administering vaccines to the local townspeople. One townsperson (portrayed by Robert De Niro) resists and kills Waldman, resulting in his hanging. Victor uses the killer's body, Waldman's brain, and the leg of a late fellow student named Schiller (portrayed by Hugh Bonneville) who died from Cholera to form the Monster (also portrayed by Robert De Niro). [ citation needed] Other versions [ edit ] Previous films based on Shelley's story were Frankenstein, produced by Edison Mfg. Corp. in 1910 and directed by J. Searle Dawley; and Life Without Soul, produced by Ocean Film Corp. in 1915 and directed by Joseph W. Smiley (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1911-20; F1.2472). An Italian version called Il Mostro di Frakestein [sic], directed by Eugenio Testa, was released in 1920. The first of numerous sequels to the 1931 Frankenstein were Universal's The Bride of Frankenstein (see above), again directed by James Whale and starring Clive and Karloff; and Son of Frankenstein (see below), directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Basil Rathbone. The 1931 Frankenstein was first re-released in 1937.Henry's Friend, who along with Elizabeth and Dr. Waldman, also tries to find out about his experiments.