just for fun is a 1963 british black and white musical film directed by gordon flemyng .

it was written by amicus co-founder milton sobotsky .

just for fun ( film )

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may just want to have fun but for the rest of us this concept is just wishful thinking .
“fun size” is rated pg - 13 ( parents strongly cautioned ) for some humor possibly too ribald for children under 13 but probably fine for the mall on a friday night .
u . k . film . excellent quality . 16 : 9 widescreen .
the big teen musical made just for you !
teenagers struggle to win the right to vote in this fun and swinging rock and roll musical .
logan lucky puts a west virginia spin on an ocean’s 11 - style heist . it’s terrific fun .
victoria justice , left , and jane levy in “fun size , ” which is set on halloween .
led by a solid ensemble , ant - man brings a lot of fun into the marvel cinematic universe .
jason bailey is the film editor at flavorwire . he is the author of the ultimate woody allen film companion .
the hitman ' s bodyguard has all the makings of a fun summer hit . what makes it so dull ?
this teen dance comedy is a lot of fun , girls will especially like this movie for the romance and parker ' s character . i really liked this movie .
note : the following contains spoilers for arrival , a movie many fine people love for some reason .
the overwhelming , self - serious sense that we are watching something very important blissfully doesn ' t exist in ant - man . it ' s just plain fun : light , breezy , simple and enjoyable .
a typical early 60 ' s film , ie pre - beatles . story - line immaterial , just a vehicle for numerous pop acts of the day in black and white , shot as cheaply as possible . has some interest for the pop - historian ?
. yet people came out to see it in their thousands and critics raved about a horror film , which just does not happen . the film has a a - rating from audiences on cinemascore , which as some have pointed out is
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
i ' ve seen two mass - market movies already this weekend that were more thought - provoking than the ' death of film culture ' essay i just read .
for one thing , it is all over the place , and not just because of the increasingly convoluted plot - it feels messy because of the inconsistent tone throughout .
[ ants are ] pests , and that ' s just a weird place to start for a superhero , especially if he never strays too far from his origins .
it’s in the film of 2010 that the big world - saving stakes come to the forefront . and the film updates that final message , too :
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film quality is excellent . this film is must have if you are a david janssen fan . the beautiful and flirty joyce taylo . . . read more
and honeycutt underlines just how far digital cinema and visual effects had come under the guiding hand of george lucas .
and dead men tell no tales is probably the closest the series has come since that film to recapturing that aesthetic . ( film three , 2007’s at world’s end , was pointlessly lugubrious and self - impressed ; 2011’s on stranger tides was a listless bore . ) just when things seem like they’re flagging , it will rally for another rambunctious action sequence , and it’s fun to see , say , jack sparrow in a guillotine that almost keeps chopping his head off but never quite does .
the movie will probably be hit or miss for some , but it doesn ' t leave you with a bad taste for the genre .
peele said the stepford wives , because of the way it “dealt with social issues in regards to gender” , was an inspiration for get out . “i just thought , that’s proof that you can pull off a movie about race , that’s a thriller and entertaining and fun , ” he said . his debut has managed to do just that , and like the daily show – a satirical news show which became must - watch social commentary – peele has placed real issues in an unlikely context , this time a horror film , and said something painfully true about them . get out will be one of this year’s biggest conversation starters . just don’t expect it to be comfortable .
i discovered that not only is girls just want to have fun a delightful party of a movie , it’s an absolutely bonkers party , like someone dosed the punch with ecstasy and mushrooms . there are events in this movie that make no earthly sense , but it doesn’t matter in the slightest , because it’s just that much fun . i instantly regret not murdering my babysitter and stealing her vhs tape of this film , as my childhood would have been immensely improved by watching it weekly . possibly daily . but now , as a grown - ass man , i can say , my vague and faulty memory didn’t begin to do the movie justice .
here in the uk on friday , may 13 , 2005 , peter bradshaw writing for the guardian had little good to say about the film , citing the stock and clichéd complaints about the film — too much spectacle , not enough heart .
and just glancing at imdb ' s user vs . critic scores , i can see i ' m not alone . the film has a 7 . 7 / 10 score with users , and just 32 / 100 with critics . on rotten tomatoes , the film gets a 26 %
rotten
from critics , with 83 % of viewers liking it . something ' s not right about such a discrepancy . something ' s rotten , but i ' m not sure it ' s the film .
i would be open to a single car chase movie , if it were done well . it would be fun to experience a real - time escape that borrowed from
the panel selects drumlin . mcconaughey’s avatar - of - christianity , full of despondent self - righteousness , tries to convince arroway that , darn it , he just had to vote with his conscience . “i just couldn’t , in good conscience , ” he tells her , “vote for a person who doesn’t believe in god . ”
needless to say , international box office will register in the hundreds of millions . the real question is how much money the entire series , now ready for packaging and repackaging for all sorts of formats and media , will eventually take in . let’s just say a lot . ”
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i find the best way to spot a mediocre film is to gauge just how much of its running time i spend thinking about what i’m going to order for dinner afterward . so let me tell you about the poutine order i placed after seeing pirates of the caribbean : dead men tell no tales .
the movie starts off as a promising dark comedy , with a scene of mrs k skilfully slapping two young robbers to the ground while she is baking curry buns in her kitchen . she then sits them down to taste the bread as she lectures them on becoming better people , and it is all just marvellous fun .
great film quality and sound . mickey rooney is great in his role and was a good
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as the 10th anniversary of episode iii approaches , urltoken revisits the film ' s first reviews .
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a great showcase for some of the 60 ' s acts of the time .
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just received this wonderful movie today and i watched it almost immediately . the quality is excellent . i should have . . . read more
so popular was mark in his film debut that a further film just for you was made . mark is seen with diana dors taking delivery of his first car – an austin healey sprite . this period also encompassed thank your lucky stars and two appearances on itv ' s big night out , first with kathy kirby and secondly with kenneth more . mark then had his own six part tv series call in on wynter .
the story of two sibling thieves named pretty eyes and slanty eyes . when the two make the mistake of lightening the wallet of a mob assassin who just got paid for a hit , they find themselves in dire trouble .
but those good things are mostly stranded in a desert of meaningless subplots and b - stories . for whatever reason , the response to the lightning - bolt success of the first pirates movie back in 2003 ( a legitimately fun film that felt like nothing else at the time ) was to pile on a bunch of characters and a bunch of backstory . and over the three films between that one and this one , those characters and backstory kept piling up — to the point where this film keeps cutting away to geoffrey rush’s captain barbossa ( the first film’s villain , the second film’s plot twist , the third film’s unwilling ally , etc . , etc . ) seemingly because rush heard a pirates movie was filming , showed up on set , and couldn’t be turned away .
this post proves my theory that trump - bashers tend to be low - iq hotheads . just look at all those exclamation marks after every sentence .
– is remarkable for lots of reasons . this is a first - time film from a respected , but essentially cult comedian , with no real big - name stars and a premise that is
sunshine offers another possibility , tough , bleak , and truly hopeful . maybe the sun won’t shine again for us . but we can make sure it shines for someone else .
the perfect escapism is definitely fine escapism plus you cannot find any cause fun ought not to be when well - made when the rest of the elements discovered have got a definitely priceless individuals practical experience .
review : guardians of the galaxy vol . 2 is marvel’s funniest film , and much braver than the original
movies and tv shows are certified fresh with a steady tomatometer of 75 % or higher after a set amount of reviews ( 80 for wide - release movies , 40 for limited - release movies , 20 for tv shows ) , including 5 reviews from top critics .
are the standard for women action heroes , anything is better than nothing . but to celebrate
ostensibly based on the hit single by cyndi lauper , girls just want to have fun is actually a spoof of the mtv generation . high school chums janey ( sarah jessica parker ) and lynne ( helen hunt ) desperately try to enter a dance contest on a major cable - tv channel . the major obstacle to this goal is janey ' s father , stiff - necked colonel glenn ( ed lauter ) . the girls ' most hated rival is rich - witch natalie sands ( holly gagnier ) , who buys her way into the dance show . the plot , what there is of it , falls apart long before the final scene , but girls just want to have fun gets by thanks to the winning performances of stars parker and hunt .
suicide squad has pushed its fun , whimsical strengths ( like its grungy hot topic aesthetic , guardians of the galaxy vibe , and margot robbie & apos ; s harley quinn ) from the very start . but this new trailer , and virtually everything about its marketing campaign—plus rumored reshoots to add more
humor ,
which director david ayer claims are actually to beef up the movie & apos ; s action —point to just how unusually important this movie has become for its studio .
i recognize that many will reject plot as irrelevant in a mad max film . “it’s just a fun movie , ” they’ll say , or “mad max , is just a living comic book . ” but giving up the ghost at the outset is inexcusable . movies are art ; they must be done well . the best escapism is good escapism and there is no reason why entertainment should not be as well - made as all the other things we need to have a truly valuable human experience . the first two mad max films were both well written and interesting . the third was dumb but campy . there is no reason why this one had to be so bad .
i knew the contents of this film from a vhs tape that i ' d owned for many years . i am in my 60s and many of the artistes in the film are of interest to me . the quality of the visual aspect of the film is as good as , i feel , we can expect - 50 years on - and the sound provided by the performers is pretty good , as well . no prospective purchaser should expect a serious storyline !
or a while , it became understandably easy to ridicule hollywood studios for buying up the rights for essentially anything they could find . transformers ! a ouija board ! angry birds ! that bit of chicken you just spat out ! the madness was contagious and so was the desire to write thinkpieces about how it was all signaling the official end of originality and quite possibly the apocalypse .
warcraft isn ' t a perfect movie , but it ' s lots of high - action , epic fantasy fun . maybe critics were expecting another lord of the rings . maybe expectations are at fault . whatever the case , i ' d urge you not to simply take the rotten tomatoes score at face value and go see it for yourself .
hank , please abstain from insinuating you are some film savant , you ' re a self righteous cynic . with an intelligence quotient most likely just north of a field mouse . as it must be to defend a plot as lack luster and anticlimactic as this . i fail to see your validity in the defense of this film . and it only aggravates me because your ego seems to ooze bull shit . it ' s sticky , and it smells .
revenge of the sith is a masterpiece . the final piece of the puzzle lucas first presented me at age 6 . 27 years later , the jigsaw is complete and damn if it isn’t just damn near the most tragically cool thing i’ve ever seen put to film . we won’t see another like this . this is it .
on rotten tomatoes , wonder woman has a 93 percent rating as of friday morning — a hugely positive number that easily surpasses batman v superman : dawn of justice ’s 28 percent , suicide squad ’s 25 percent , and man of steel ’s 55 percent . it also ranks just below christopher nolan’s the dark knight , which sits at 94 percent , and beats every film in the entire marvel cinematic universe except for the first iron man movie .
malaysian director ho yuhang ( at the end of daybreak , 2009 , which also starred wai ) , probably too used to showing off his artistic sensibilities , tries to elevate his first commercial film here by throwing in awkward mood shots for no reason .
a woman , who takes care of two young siblings , and a criminal start to fall for each - other .
this might be fine if dead men tell no tales were content to simply be a collection of setpieces , each bigger than the last . that describes , say , indiana jones and the temple of doom , and that movie’s action sequences are a whole lot of fun .
what a terrific experience watching this film . i moved to the village in the early 1960s and remember the bleeker and . . . read more
garbage article . garbage ppl bashing fury road . none of you understand genre filmmaking or film in general or the mad max series . garbage .
neither max , or furiosa would have been able to survive if they had not crossed oaths . the film makes that clear over and over their partnership , and how they save each other . furiosa would not have been able to escape without max . rewatch the film if yiu wish .
i bought this because it came up in conversation recently and i ' d seen it in the cinema in 1963 . shakespeare it isn ' t but a weak storyline to allow a list of singers and groups from the 60s to play in a film . it ' s fun , slightly naff and nostalgic . the only issue is that it is in us format and can ' t be played through a normal dvd .
it ' s not a question of whether the film is good or not , ( and most probably it is not ) but it ' s the sheer pleasure of watching clips of singers that were big when i was a kid . strictly for nostalgic music fans .
wow . you really got all of that from watching her drive a truck for 1 . 5 hours of screen time ?
finally , as a side note , this isn ' t going to be a great film for a lot of kids , as some of the stuff is really scary and dark . some of the death scenes are really gross , and the orcs can be pretty frightening .
durotan in particular is just a tremendously great character . my only complaint is that we didn ' t see more of him . he ' s a brave , tragic figure whose arc is really surprising and sad .
if anything , my complaint about all these characters is that we don ' t get enough time with any of them , and that the story moves on at such a breakneck pace that we feel a bit robbed . of course , that ' s because the film had to cut nearly an hour of material for its theatrical release . i can ' t wait for the director ' s cut .
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as a success , rather than the best worst option , is to set up the next decade for more of the same . this isn’t a mad max movie , it’s a furiosa movie , but until she gets top billing , and until her character gets substance , it’s just an excuse to see explosions and fashion models jumping around in gauze .
the picture quality was far better than i expected . outstanding ! this film is a quick snap shot of alan freed and the . . . read more
writing in the new york times on may 16 , a . o . scott wondered if the film would satisfy a list of requirements he had amassed .
but the reason is made abundantly clear by the end : merchandise . the action - packed plot allows for a multitude of toys to grace the screen and one can almost sense a “buy it now” tab appearing at the bottom . its bluntness is just about countered by the script’s smattering of laughs that feel well - tailored to an audience less interested in playing with lego at home . the franchise is showing signs of fatigue but for now , there’s enough here to play with .
o ' hehir is one of our finest film writers , but this kind of bell - ringing and doom - saying has been going on for decades ( see david denby and david thompson last month in the new republic by and james wolcott last spring in vanity fair ) . and the idea that a vibrant film culture is dead was all but neutralized by the immediate tizzy the piece prompted on twitter and the blogosphere—which was probably the aim to begin with . if there ' s any revelation here , it ' s that everyone fell for the taunt one more time .
film - makers have used absurd horror to tackle race before , like in timo vuorensola’s 2012 film iron sky , which placed the action on the dark side of the moon where the nazis had been hiding out , plotting to forcibly make black people white . but in get out , peele brought the action much closer to home . some have dubbed the film an “ african - american nightmare movie ” ; it isn’t . this is an american horror story . ( it comes after an impressive run of low - budget two - word - title horrors that place the action in middle america , and prod at issues bubbling just beneath the surface : don’t breathe , it follows and you’re next . )
there’s an effervescent tempo to “fun size , ” a gleeful “after hours” for all hallow’s eve , but for tweens and teenagers , and set in cleveland . victoria justice ( nickelodeon’s “victorious” ) is wren , a high school student intent on new york university , if she can only survive her eccentric mom , joy ( a deft chelsea handler ) , who dates a guy too young for her , and wren’s prankish little brother , albert ( jackson nicoll , a devilish pantomime ) , who hasn’t spoken since dad died . wren hopes to hit a halloween party with her bff , april ( a wry and winning jane levy , of “suburgatory” ) , but mom demands she take albert trick or treating .
but actually , arrival more closely resembles contact , a film about jodie foster wearing headphones and listening to those headphones and then listening really hard to those headphones .
it ' s difficult to shake the sense that the film was assembled hurriedly and somewhat haphazardly . which , from all available evidence , is exactly what happened .
the second problem for the film is that it doesn’t follow its own rules . the beauty of science fiction is that you can suspend normalcy . math can go awry , history can be toyed with , physics can be adjusted , and technicians can reverse the polarity of anything . but for science fiction to work , it has to be internally consistent . for the philosophers in the crowd , science fiction moves from a correspondence theory of truth to coherence . science fiction does not have to depict reality ; it only has to remain true to its own narrative .
this collection of british documentary material has six episodes ; the most effective for me were
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a well - known gangster is released from prison , and decides look for his daughter with the help of a troubled young woman .
start with the basic poutine — nice , squeaky cheese curds over fries , drizzled in gravy . then , because this is america , douse it in bacon cheeseburger bits . add some nice peppercorn seasoning , to give everything a smoky kick . and , finally , just a dab of chili . hit it with a shot of malt vinegar , and you’re in business . so , you ask , how was it ? well , it was excellent . just the thing you want to have waiting for you when you exit a movie that’s , conservatively speaking , longer than the history of the universe .
whether it ' s a one - on - one battle between orcs , or a huge battle scene , or a crazy ( and really funny ) magical fight , just about every action scene in warcraft is really well done . again , some of it feels rushed , but almost every action scene in the film is a wild ride that made me wish world of warcraft had similarly intense combat .
kirk honneycutt , writing on may 6 in the hollywood reporter was effusive in his enjoyment of the film , going so far as to request an immediate repeat viewing .
buzzing comedies such as the spy who dumped me await you in our summer movie guide . check in for all the info you need .
no , the movie belongs to the girls , and not just because the title tells us so . they’re all so exuberant and ready for anything , the screen physically lightens with their presence . even shannon doherty’s pouty self gets some great moments , like when drew accidentally hits on her , then defensively calls her a “punk , ” to which she happily cries , “do you really think i’m punk ? ” in contrast , janey is portrayed as a goody two - shoes whose need to dance unearths a rebellious streak . as a result , her outfits run the gamut from the school uniform she wears at the beginning to the aerobicizing leotard / tank top combo she’s got on here . just some casual around - the - house workout gear , for sure .
my final complaint is about the women in the film . there are many who celebrate the film because of the supposedly strong female characters and , in fact , charlize theron is the most compelling member of the cast . this defense is made all the more vehement in response to the manufactured pre - movie outrage depicting the movie as anti - male ( my wife wonders whether this was a paid guerrilla advertising campaign orchestrated by the movie’s producers ) . further , the film , despite its problems , passes the
did it much better , with more depth and more realism . while it may not seem possible , the women in this film are even more cartoonish than the men .
the latest example of this is the warcraft movie , based on the games and characters created by blizzard entertainment . this is a movie widely panned by critics , and laughed at and written off as just another terrible video game movie by many .
don’t get me wrong : i do believe there are times when separating the art from the artist — but acknowledging that the artist has done horrible things — is important . there are an awful lot of people who have done awful , awful things , and sometimes , you just want to enjoy a favorite movie without having to think about that . the line for everybody will be different .
if you are a fan of the 1960s you will love this film . very much of the period . brought back many happy memories . a bit slapstick but i loved it
let’s end with the legendary roger ebert , writing on may 19 , who had plenty of positives to highlight from the film , as he always had throughout the two trilogies .
a must for all jeffrey hunter fans . excellent picture quality and sound . susan harrison is sexy and evil . dennis ho . . . read more
we all like what we like and i begrudge nobody for having a good time . if you enjoyed this film , more power to you . but don’t confuse liking something with it being good . this is not a “masterpiece” as the paid reviewers are claiming , and it won’t be a game changer . it will be forgotten quickly . the movie is stupid . it’s a product of lazy writing and a video game mindset . it’s too violent and shockingly unsophisticated , even for a summer action flick . it’s also kind of offensive , and for the life of me , i can’t figure out why so many people like it .
hard decisions have to be made . the crew turns against itself , kind of , and people turn against themselves , for reasons that are maybe justified . then the movie takes an infamous left turn : an astronaut ( played by mark strong looking like a fleshpile from hellraiser ) from a previous mission somehow gets onboard , and starts killing people . what had been a capital - m meditation on the cosmos becomes a slasher film . it’s possible that sunshine needed the final act turn to get made — that , unable to find financing for a film about smart people feeling sad on a spaceship , someone had the brilliant idea of wedging in a serial killer .
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remember – this isn’t a star wars movie to cheer for , to erupt into applause and call cool . if you really love star wars – this one is heart ache . not only is it the end of a nearly 30 year journey for us… it really is the story of how things got so bad , that the good guys had to be a rebellion , where the jedi had to hide and how evil ruled the galaxy . wow , i’ve seen my last new star wars film . ”
it ' s not bad , but it ' s definitely a movie that has lost its way in the process of business / movie making . you can see what this movie could have been . you ' ll still enjoy it , it ' s just a shame .
shortly before a general election teenagers are given the vote . incensed by a decision to cut down on television pop music , mark and cherry get up a petition for both parties to sign . this is ignored and so the teenage party is formed . as a climax to their campaign they organise a spectacular pop music programme on television . too late the right and left parties realise what has happened and try unsuccessfully to sabotage the show . the teenage party wins the election with the promise of fun but with dire consequences .
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maybe you think all the end - of - the - world stuff isn’t what arrival is really about ; that’s all just background , the macro b - plot to banks’ micro a - plot . someone on twitter told me the aliens are just a metaphor , and the movie is about loneliness . but that argument has no merit , i think , since arrival is in not a movie about a lonely woman achieving connection ; it is a movie about a lonely woman achieving connection while she is saving the world . sometimes , the medium is the message .
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i have a soft spot for cheesy 80 ' s comedies , and this is definitely near the top of my list ! with awesome music , 80 ' s - clever dialogue , and the amazing sarah jessica parker , it just can ' t be beat . also starring a young and oh - too - cute shannen doherty , this movie is what i watch when i need a quick pick - me - up . it ' s fabulous !
however , here & apos ; s a funny thing about suicide squad : as of last weekend , we & apos ; ve gotten three whole trailers for the movie and none of them have really explicitly said a word about it & apos ; s plot . sure , we know the premise behind the titular squad—they & apos ; re a black ops squad of dc comics supervillains sent on missions with an extremely low chance of survival—but we really don & apos ; t know from the trailers what they & apos ; re supposed to doing in this movie . what the trailers have told us instead is what the movie is supposed to do for us . which is , namely , be a fun movie .
in the midst of mrs k ' s urgent rescue efforts , for example , she decides to drive her car through the car wash . the scene captures her supposed anxiety through close - ups of her furrowed brows , juxtaposed against shots of the water dripping on to the windshield . it really makes little sense for the story .
a typical 60 ' s film on pop . corny story line but very enjoyable . the music is excellant and picture quality is excellent . some of my favorite artists on this . basily a film about older people not liking pop music . so ld verse young oe visa versa . well worth having and i am pleased to have got it after all these years so i can watch it when ever
i did predict some of the film ' s twists , but i sure as hell didn ' t predict all of them , let alone some of the more tragic character deaths . i was actually pretty stunned at how some of the movie ' s fights turned out , and left the theater feeling a bit shocked and depressed . director duncan jones didn ' t pull any punches with the film ' s main characters .
this is the monologue for the latest episode of why ? radio . the topic was “can a philosopher govern the united states ? the case of f . a . . .
surprisingly good for a film about one of the least interesting superheroes .
ant - man
has all the polished special effects , sets and costumes you would expect in the umpteenth superhero blockbuster - - but it ' s funnier and has more heart than the typical marvel tent pole . it ' s better than many that have come down the studio chute in the last few years .
owen glieberman at entertainment weekly , writing on may 18 , notes that with the completion of the — then — final film , the previous two films had succeeded in their mission to set up the grand finale .
more times than i should have in dead men tell no tales — which is to say with just about every new scene — i found myself wondering , “why are these people doing this ? ” sometimes , this was because the film’s editing places the effect before the cause : you’ll see a character do something , wonder why they’re doing it , then see the reasoning behind it one shot later . but a lot of the time , it boiled down to something like , “why are these people falling in love ? ”
in 2014 , christopher nolan delivered interstellar , a film which gilds wormhole physics with daddy - daughter emotionality . it’s a film i gather some people love — currently # 32 on the imdb top 250 , whatever that means anymore . and it’s unquestionably a nice film . it declares that the whole fourth dimensional architecture of time and space is made out of love . it sends a man into a wormhole , where the universe sends him back to his daughter . interstellar even has its own variation of heptapods : extra - dimensional beings , evolved from humanity , who exist outside of time , so they can save humanity and provide third - act catharsis .
1968 presented yet another new opportunity in a movie horror flick , the haunted house of horror , something of a cult film today and the recipient of mark ' s favourite review - ' mark wynter died wonderfully ' .
joshua tyler at cinemablend , writing on may 19 , 2005 , was certainly enamored by the scale and grandeur of the film , highlighting the connections it made to the beloved first trilogy and the importance of george lucas .
israel and gaza are at war ; there really is no other word for it . and as the fighting escalates , so does the propaganda . the fact of the . . .
if there & apos ; s anything that can be said with certainty about batman v superman : dawn of justice ( and a lot has been said ) , it & apos ; s this : it & apos ; s not very fun . it is ponderous and serious and very , very loud , but it & apos ; s not much of a romp . it is , however , patient zero for an entire dc entertainment cinematic universe of films , so its negative critical reception and massive - yet - still - somehow - disappointing box office performance kind of presents a bit of a problem .
and while the caffeinated freneticism of everyone else’s moves are startling enough on their own , sarah jessica parker ( or her stunt double , more accurately ) has janey dance in a way that is inexplicable . although janey blows everyone away at the audition , but the move that earns her the pass to the finals isn’t inventive . in fact , it’s not even dancing . she wins a dance competition by doing gymnastics , which even in 1985 i’d wager were understood to be two separate things . not in the world of girls just want to have fun , though . here , it’s like janey is the first person to realize backflips could exist outside a gym , and no one else has ever seen a backflip in their entire life .
, and while i can’t argue that this film won’t make lots of money , i can explore its lack of quality . ultimately then , what i offer here is a meditation on what makes a defensible movie plot . i’m going to focus on four criteria : the plot must serve its purpose in the genre , be consistent in the world in sets up , be well - crafted , and respect its characters . these are not the only requirements for a good movie , of course—acting and cinematography are tremendously important , too—but plot is complicated enough of a subject for one blog post .
“ revenge of the sith has some almost decent things . yoda is good value as ever , though his character is never allowed to breathe in the airless galaxy lucas creates , and there is a good sequence at the end showing the “birth” of darth vader while princess amidala is delivered of her twins . it has what the rest of the film so conspicuously lacks : a spark of real dramatic life . but it comes far too late and it is over immediately . how depressing to compare any of this with the fun and gusto of harrison ford , carrie fisher and mark hamill in the first movie . as for the elephantine trilogy as a whole , it was all too clearly a product of george lucas’s overweening production giant industrial light and magic . no magic , little light , but an awful lot of heavy industry . ”
like o ' hehir , i ' ve come to this conclusion after two weeks of preparation for the 50th new york film festival—a time in which i ' ve seen a great many films , from antonio mendez esparza ' s quietly powerful here and there to cristian mungiu ' s riveting yet low - key beyond the hills to christian petzold ' s modest character drama barbara . but i have to confess that i ' ve seen nothing at the nyff that resonated as deeply or engaged me as thoroughly as looper —yes , a bruce willis action movie , but one with an ingeniously worked - out plot , surprisingly deep emotions , and a thing or two to say about the uncertainty of inevitability . moreover , it ' s a lot of fun , which is a quality that doesn ' t have to exist separately from cinematic brilliance . it would be easy to presume otherwise ; too many film writers turn up a collective nose at films aimed at reaching and cheering a mass audience , as though truly great cinema must be met ( at least ) halfway .
the film was directed by neill blomkamp , who has since admitted that the story wasn’t quite all there . blomkamp had a reputation as a sci - fi thinker after district 9 , but he’s never been as pretentious as his partisans . he likes action scenes , and he likes space guns . elysium is , in that sense , a fairly standard contemporary blockbuster action film . it suffers from our modern story gravity : the world is at stake .
some films in this genre get around the “budget” thing with a lo - fi aesthetic . the brilliant time travel potboiler primer was shot for lunch money in houses and public spaces . the clever ex machina won an oscar for its digital effects , but it’s cheaper to build a robot woman when she spends the movie talking in one room . but spaceships are a problem you can’t fake with clever lighting . arrival cost a reported $ 47 million and seems to have 17 production companies , and the film still has to deal with people saying things like “the aliens don’t look all that convincing . ”
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and that’s all in the first 10 minutes of the movie . we’re just getting warmed up—much like the dancers in this film , i would say , but these people don’t need to warm up so much as make sure they’re not going into debt on what is undoubtedly a massive budget for cocaine . “dance like no one’s watching” takes on new meaning in this movie , which features people dancing not only as though no one was watching , but also as if they’ve never seen dancing in their lives , and were instructed to make it up from scratch . and make it up they do , from the initial audition scene starring a cast of hundreds and an outdoor stage perfect for doing every type of dance imaginable , especially once the competition begins . ( apparently dance tv needs ballet , in the eyes of some . ) it’s difficult to say how this tryout was organized , but it’s executed with the smooth precision of a mass lemming suicide .
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produced on an estimated budget of $ 113 million , the film arrived on may 19 , 2005 with an opening day haul of $ 50 , 013 , 859 from an estimated 9 , 400 screens at 3 , 661 locations , for what was then the biggest single days take in movie history . a colossal north american first weekend gross of $ 108 , 435 , 841 on 3 , 663 screens followed , with a final domestic tally of $ 380 , 270 , 577 and a mammoth $ 848 , 754 , 768 worldwide . wowing fans of the saga , it brought the prequel trilogy home in bombastic fashion , showing the tragic events which led to the creation of darth vader , the fall of the jedi , and the formation of the galactic empire . the circle was now complete , but how did the film fare when it came to the critical opinions of the wider film press ?
as soon as her daughter gets kidnapped , however , the film loses that sense of playfulness and goes into serious action - thriller mode , which would have been fine if it did not also keep trying to be more than that .
but separating the art from the artist is a lot easier when the artist in question seems to be pushing themselves and trying new things . whatever you think of casey affleck’s oscar win for manchester by the sea , he gave a stunning performance in that film . by contrast , even depp seems bored by jack sparrow in this movie ( except , amusingly , when he shares the screen with paul mccartney for a couple of minutes ) , which only led me to wonder why his career seems to have surged in the wake of heard’s accusations . ( this movie was already in production at the time heard made her accusations . )
in a lot of ways , this rushed first entry felt like a really great setup for a better , more in - depth movie to follow . i hope they make a sequel or two .
revenge of the sith isn’t just a great star wars movie , it’s a flat out great film . yes it’s technically proficient and yes it’s visually beautiful . those things are a given . what hasn’t been is how solidly the film is constructed . revenge of the sith is a powerful , big budget experience . yet it is the way that it fits so wonderfully into the existing star wars mythos that best sells it , the way it nestles so nicely into 1977’s episode iv : a new hope that makes it special . the real beauty is that you could easily toss out the previous two awkward attempts , watch only this in sequence with the original films , and come out completely satisfied . attack of the clones and the phantom menace are best forgotten . lucas’s real miscalculation was in not making this movie right from the start . he tried to stretch the story when all we needed was vader’s rise in its purest form . star wars fans have finally been rewarded for their patience . george has made another masterpiece . ”
if that sounds like fun : congratulations , you’re the moviegoer hollywood can’t afford to believe in . making science fiction without rayguns generally demands a big budget and generally promises no easy thrills . people barely want to see science fiction movies as it is . fantasy has always been more popular at the box office — especially depending on which bucket you toss star wars into . ( it has spaceships , but also swordfights ; it has rayguns , but also wizards . )
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let no man write my epitaph .
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? is it the only moment of comedy relief in the entire film ? no one knows , but what it does do is take the viewer outside the action at every sighting . it is impossible to remain enthralled when this idiocy is on screen . as my very non - violent wife remarked after the film , “every time i saw that stupid fucking guitar guy on screen i wanted to punch the director in the head . ” and she has a ph . d . in english .
when albert gets lost , wren , abetted by the nerdy roosevelt ( thomas mann ) and peng ( osric chau ) , ventures deep into the night to find him , and wren and albert’s peregrinations take them to a chicken takeout , a nightclub , the party , a cemetery and the home of a bilious metalhead ( johnny knoxville ) . character accessories include firecrackers , toilet paper and for wren’s “wizard of oz” costume , glittering ruby - red converse high - tops . movie merits include a good cast , a tidy script and jokes just provocative enough .
“i still remember the first time i really became aware of george lucas . we swarmed to anything that had his name on it , ate up every ewok adventure or star wars christmas special because we knew george lucas had created it . we didn’t just love star wars , we loved the mythos of george lucas , a man who somehow seemed magical .
the smartest thing i’ve ever heard about the series was from a friend , who was trying to defend dead man’s chest , the very first sequel from 2006 , after i found it not just disappointing but actively irritating . that film was , he said , a series of looney tunes shorts about the character jack sparrow , as though he were bugs bunny transplanted into our reality , made to look like johnny depp , but subjected to the same old slapstick shit . the movie didn’t have a plot because it didn’t need one — it was an excuse to see depp run around and do goofy things .


frankenstein 's great aunt tillie is a 1984 comedy film about frankenstein that is based in transylvania .

june wilkinson , who had a part in the film , was interviewed in the book screen sirens scream ! about her role .

the film 's music was written about in the book musique fantastique .

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2004 : frankenstein made for tv film based on dean koontz ' s frankenstein .
there have been innumerable movies based on the premise of frankenstein , or the modern prometheus ( 1818 ) by mary shelley or on the play frankenstein ( 1927 ) by peggy webling , itself based on shelley ' s original . these movies are of varying interest , as indicated by the discussion below . some , like frankenstein ' s great - aunt tillie ( 1983 mexico / usa ) , have been omitted either deliberately or through ignorance ; the pool of frankenstein movies is virtually bottomless .
has ( possibly ) the worst role of his entire career ; even worse than his noxious roman emperor claudius in warrior queen ( 1985 ) . he ' s baron victor frankenstein , who shows up in the small transylvanian village of
mucklefugger ,
along with his
190 - year - old
feminist
aunt
fraulein matilda
tillie
frankenstein (
1942–1948 : universal did
monster rally
films featuring frankenstein ' s monster , dracula and the wolf - man . included would be frankenstein meets the wolf man , house of frankenstein , house of dracula and abbott and costello meet frankenstein . the films introduced glenn strange as frankenstein ' s monster .
it ' s frankensteen
: dr . frederick frankenstein meets igor for the first time .
1988 : frankenstein ( フランケンシュタイン ) is a manga adaptation of shelley ' s novel by junji ito .
quoted in spark , 157 , from mary shelley ' s introduction to the 1831 edition of frankenstein .
1985 : the bride . specifically , a remake of 1935 ' s the bride of frankenstein which incorporated the novel ' s bride - motif omitted from the 1931 film .
1991 : frankenstein : the college years , directed by tom shadyac , is another sequel - spoof in which frankenstein ' s monster is revived by college students .
donawerth , jane . frankenstein ' s daughters : women writing science fiction . syracuse : syracuse university press , 1997 .
there’s not a great deal positive to say about this final product : it’s universally thought to be one of the worst offerings of ’84 , a horror spoof about transylvania town leaders trying to repossess the frankenstein castle , just as the eponymous family happens to come back to reanimate the monster . despite an impressive cast of formerly impressive talents such as donald pleasance , yvonne furneaux , aldo ray , and zsa zsa gabor , the aging talents could not save this one . zsa zsa’s role was edited down to a few seconds of a flashback scene . for furneaux , it had been a long time since her great performance in the mummy ( 1959 ) and it shows .
eberle - sinatra , michael , ed . mary shelley ' s fictions : from
frankenstein
to
falkner
. new york : st . martin ' s press , 2000 .
23 . andy warhol ' s frankenstein ( vt carne per frankenstein ; vt the devil and dr frankenstein ; vt flesh for frankenstein ; vt the frankenstein experiment ; vt up frankenstein ; vt warhol ' s frankenstein ) italian / french movie ( 1973 ) . cc champion & 1 / bryanston . pr andrew braunsberg , carlo ponti , jean - pierre rassam , jean yanne . dir paul morrissey , antonio margheriti . screenplay morrissey . starring joe dallesandro , arno jürging , udo kier ( frankenstein ) , monique van vooren . 100 mins . colour .
frankenstein : celluloid monster at the national library of medicine website of the ( u . s . ) national institutes of health
scott , grant f .
victor ' s secret : queer gothic in lynd ward ' s illustrations to frankenstein ( 1934 ) .
word & image 28 ( april–june 2012 ) : 206–232 . urltoken
there ' s also an incredibly mind - bogglingly bad gag poking fun at the original frankenstein ( 1931 ) . when the monster (
behrendt , stephen c . , ed . approaches to teaching shelley ' s
frankenstein
. new york : mla , 1990 .
26 . frankenstein ' s castle of freaks ( vt dr frankenstein ' s castle of freaks ; vt house of freaks ; vt monsters of dr frankenstein ; vt terror castle ) italian movie ( 1973 ) . dir robert h oliver . starring rossano brazzi , sylvia koscina , edmund purdom , christiane royce . 81 mins . colour .
botting , fred . making monstrous :
frankenstein
, criticism , theory . new york : st . martin ' s , 1991 .
tillie was filmed in mexico , at the same mexico city studio as other , better , films of 1984 such as dune and conan the destroyer . the production company was s . a . filmier , a mexican firm that specialized for its three - film run in the 1980s in getting american movies made in mexico . they were responsible , in addition to tillie for quell and co . ( not to be confused with the trendy little company , whom i endorse , selling easy - on - the - eyes ways to keep your devices de - cluttered ) in 1982 , an underrated , but by that point anachronistic , western , and drug runners in 1988 , which seems to be to the miami vice - style narco - cop genre that is what tillie is to , say , serious art films , which i simply must blog about soon :
1957–1974 : hammer films in england did a string of frankenstein films starring peter cushing , including the curse of frankenstein , the revenge of frankenstein and frankenstein must be destroyed . co - starring in these films were christopher lee , hazel court , veronica carlson and simon ward . another hammer film , the horror of frankenstein , starred ralph bates as the main character , victor frankenstein .
1972 : a comedic stage adaptation , frankenstein ' s monster , was written by sally netzel and produced by the dallas theater center . [ 54 ]
baldick , chris . in frankenstein ' s shadow : myth , monstrosity , and nineteenth - century writing . oxford : oxford university press , 1987 .
smith , johanna m . , ed . frankenstein . case studies in contemporary criticism . boston : bedford / st . martin ' s , 1992 .
1965 : toho studios created the film frankenstein conquers the world or frankenstein vs . baragon , followed by war of the gargantuas .
1989 : frankenstein the panto . a pantomime script by david swan , combining elements of frankenstein , dracula , and traditional british panto .
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tropp , martin . mary shelley ' s monster . boston : houghton mifflin , 1976 .
the last of hammer ' s frankenstein outings sees young dr helder arrested for trying to repeat the baron ' s experiments and sent to the lunatic asylum where frankenstein was committed years ago . although officially dead , frankenstein has become the asylum ' s physician , and is also – aided by the beautiful sarah ( nicknamed the angel ) , mute since her father , the asylum ' s director , years ago tried to rape her – building a new creature from deceased inmates . discovering that frankenstein ' s hands are wounded so that he can no longer perform surgery himself , helder pitches in . the resultant monster in due course goes berserk and is ripped to gobbets by the other inmates . cushing seems bored . [ jg ]
further reading : the annotated frankenstein ( 1977 ) by leonard wolf ; it ' s alive ! : the classic cinema saga of frankenstein ( 1981 ) by gregory william mank covers the eight universal features in considerable detail and summarizes much of the remainder of the monster ' s career ; hideous progenies : dramatizations of frankenstein from mary shelley to the present ( 1990 ) by steven earl forry ; the illustrated frankenstein movie guide ( 1994 ) by stephen jones .
rauch , alan .
the monstrous body of knowledge in mary shelley ' s frankenstein
. studies in romanticism 34 . 2 ( 1995 ) : 227–53 .
douthwaite ,
the frankenstein of the french revolution
chapter 2 of the frankenstein of 1790 and other lost chapters from revolutionary france ( frankenstein of 1790 and other lost chapters from revolutionary france , 2012 ) .
hodges , devon .
frankenstein and the feminine subversion of the novel
. tulsa studies in women ' s literature 2 . 2 ( 1983 ) : 155–64 .
by taking aldiss ' s jeu d ' esprit recursive fantasy at face value , fu transforms a technofantasy into schlock . this undermines the movie ' s moralizing : the analogy between frankenstein ' s creation and the
monster
buchanan was creating is hammered home mercilessly , as is the presumed belief of scientists that they are outside all ethics . [ jg ]
in 1910 , edison studios released the first motion - picture adaptation of shelley ' s story .
brandt and frankenstein have corresponded about their researches into brain transplantation . frankenstein takes lodgings at the boarding - house run by spengler . soon he discovers both that spengler ' s fiancé holst is dealing in drugs and that brandt is in the local madhouse , one of his doctors being holst . frankenstein blackmails holst and spengler into helping him abduct brandt , murder the madhouse ' s surgeon richter , and transfer brandt ' s brain ( rendered newly sane by use of a bradawl ) into richter ' s body . richter / brandt awakes after the operation , is almost murdered by spengler , who is wilfully murdered by frankenstein . richter / brandt destroys frankenstein ( but only until 20 ) , after the baron has been grievously battered by a vengeful holst .
frankenstein discussed controversial topics and touched on religious ideas . victor frankenstein plays god when he creates a new being . frankenstein deals with christian and metaphysical themes . the importance of paradise lost and the creature ' s belief that it is
a true history
brings a religious tone to the novel . [ 52 ]
the creature has often been mistakenly called
frankenstein
. in 1908 one author said
it is strange to note how well - nigh universally the term
frankenstein
is misused , even by intelligent people , as describing some hideous monster
. [ 30 ] edith wharton ' s the reef ( 1916 ) describes an unruly child as an
infant frankenstein .
[ 31 ] david lindsay ' s
the bridal ornament
, published in the rover , 12 june 1844 , mentioned
the maker of poor frankenstein .
after the release of james whale ' s popular 1931 film frankenstein , the public at large began speaking of the creature itself as
frankenstein
. a reference to this occurs in bride of frankenstein ( 1935 ) and in several subsequent films in the series , as well as in film titles such as abbott and costello meet frankenstein .
, 2 ( december , 1976 ) , 23–25 . milton and the romantics .
frankenstein wade , phillip .
shelley and the miltonic element in mary shelley ' s
chapman , d . that not impossible she : a study of gender construction and individualism in mary shelley ' s frankenstein , uk : concept , 2011 . isbn 978 - 1480047617
lew , joseph w .
the deceptive other : mary shelley ' s critique of orientalism in frankenstein
. studies in romanticism 30 . 2 ( 1991 ) : 255–83 .
medical professor lippzigger leaves his effects , including frankenstein ' s logbook and frozen monster , to star student mark . mark and buddy jay reanimate the monster , frank . the rest of the movie concentrates on their efforts , helped by their girlfriends , to conceal frank ' s identity in the face of ambitious professor loman ' s eagerness , aided by moronic muller , to steal the fruits of lippzigger ' s research . after a poor start , this becomes enjoyable . [ jg ]
mary ' s and percy bysshe shelley ' s manuscripts for the first three - volume edition in 1818 ( written 1816–1817 ) , as well as mary shelley ' s fair copy for her publisher , are now housed in the bodleian library in oxford . the bodleian acquired the papers in 2004 , and they belong now to the abinger collection . [ 21 ] on 1 october 2008 , the bodleian published a new edition of frankenstein which contains comparisons of mary shelley ' s original text with percy shelley ' s additions and interventions alongside . the new edition is edited by charles e . robinson : the original frankenstein ( isbn 978 - 1851243969 ) . [ 22 ]
at the end of victor ' s narrative , captain walton resumes the telling of the story . a few days after the creature vanishes , the ship becomes entombed in ice and walton ' s crew insists on returning south once they are freed . in spite of a passionate speech from frankenstein , encouraging the crew to push further north , walton realises that he must relent to his men ' s demands and agrees to head for home . frankenstein dies shortly thereafter .
the titan in the greek mythology of prometheus parallels victor frankenstein . victor ' s work by creating man by new means reflects the same innovative work of the titan in creating humans .
conger , syndy m . , frederick s . frank , and gregory o ' dea , eds . iconoclastic departures : mary shelley after
frankenstein
: essays in honor of the bicentenary of mary shelley ' s birth . madison , new jersey : fairleigh dickinson university press , 1997 .
there are numerous novels retelling or continuing the story of frankenstein and his monster .
though eager to forget his family history , young frankenstein travels to transylvania on inheriting grandfather victor ' s estate . discovering his grandfather ' s laboratory and equipment , he succumbs to the family obsession and constructs a monster . after a merry melange of parodied clichés , he saves the monster from the mob by transferring part of his own genius into it . the monster marries frankenstein ' s frightful fiancée elizabeth ( who comes more and more to resemble elsa lanchester ' s portrayal of the bride in 2 ) , while frankenstein finds joy with lovely assistant inga . the various set - pieces – notably the scenes with the little girl and the blind man – represent highpoints of movie parody . the parody of 3 ' s krogh ( here called kemp ) is blissfully cruel . [ jg ]
walton discovers the creature on his ship , mourning over frankenstein ' s body . walton hears the creature ' s misguided reasons for his vengeance and expressions of remorse . frankenstein ' s death has not brought him peace . rather , his crimes have increased his misery and alienation , and his words are almost exactly identical to victor ' s own in describing himself . he vows to kill himself on his own funeral pyre so that no others will ever know of his existence . walton watches as he drifts away on an ice raft that is soon lost in darkness , never to be seen again .
a painstakingly careful recreation of shelley ' s original . although beautifully made , this tends to plod because of its fidelity – in particular , the original ' s concern with the miseries of the creature . [ jg ]
mary shelley maintained that she derived the name frankenstein from a dream - vision . despite her public claims of originality , however , a number of other sources have been suggested as shelley ' s actual inspiration . literally , in german , the name frankenstein means
stone of the franks
. the name is associated with various places in germany , such as castle frankenstein ( burg frankenstein ) in darmstadt , hesse , or castle frankenstein in frankenstein , palatinate . there is also a castle called frankenstein in bad salzungen , thuringia , and a municipality called frankenstein in saxony . until 1945 , ząbkowice śląskie , now a city in silesia , poland , was known as frankenstein in schlesien , which was the location of the 1606 gravediggers affair—yet another suggested inspiration for the writer . finally , the name is carried by the noble house of franckenstein from franconia .
) . the three inadvertently stir up a variety of problems for the townspeople , who have been free of the antics of the frankenstein family for over a hundred years . tillie saves the
cradle of compassion
orphanage and holds
era
rallies where the women protest for equal rights by holding up signs that say
no vote , no whoopee !
they spray seltzer water on cops , demand a woman get a place on municipal counsel and wear
bloomers
to piss the guys off . tillie and co . must also come up with money to pay back taxes on the castle before it is repossessed and discovers a frankenstein monster in the basement , that is brought back to life for more lame gags . the creature is big , blue , has bangs , wears suspenders and has very little to do in this movie .
an english editorial cartoonist conceives the irish fenian movement as akin to frankenstein ' s creature , in the wake of the phoenix park murders . illustration from an 1882 issue of punch [ 28 ]
1826 : henry m . milner ' s adaptation , the man and the monster ; or the fate of frankenstein opened on 3 july at the royal coburg theatre , london . [ 53 ]
knoepflmacher , u . c . and george levine , eds . the endurance of
frankenstein
: essays on mary shelley ' s novel . berkeley : university of california press , 1979 .
2012 : frankenweenie , tim burton ' s feature film remake of his 1984 short film of the same name .
a possible interpretation of the name victor derives from paradise lost by john milton , a great influence on shelley ( a quotation from paradise lost is on the opening page of frankenstein and shelley even allows the monster himself to read it ) . [ 35 ] [ 36 ] milton frequently refers to god as
the victor
in paradise lost , and shelley sees victor as playing god by creating life . in addition to this , shelley ' s portrayal of the monster owes much to the character of satan in paradise lost ; indeed , the monster says , after reading the epic poem , that he empathises with satan ' s role in the story .
frankenstein : penetrating the secrets of nature / exhibit text
( pdf ) .
9 . the curse of frankenstein uk movie ( 1957 ) . hammer / warner . pr anthony hinds ( 1922 - 2013 ) . exec pr michael carreras . dir terence fisher . mufx phil leakey . screenplay jimmy sangster . starring hazel court ( elizabeth ) , peter cushing ( victor frankenstein ) , valerie gaunt ( justine ) , paul hardtmuth ( bernstein ) , melvyn hayes ( young victor ) , noel hood ( aunt sophie ) , christopher lee ( monster ) , robert urquhart ( paul krempe ) . 83 mins . colour .
ygor and the monster have survived being killed in 3 . the pair reach the village of vasaria and the clinic of a fresh frankenstein – ludwig , wolf ' s younger brother – and his surgical colleagues kettering and bohmer . young kettering is killed by the monster . ludwig seizes on the notion that transferring kettering ' s brain into the monster will render it a force for good rather than evil . the monster would prefer the brain of cloestine , a village girl , and ygor bribes bohmer to substitute his – i . e . , ygor ' s – brain in place of kettering ' s . ygor ' s plan succeeds , but his implanted brain is rejected by the monster ' s tissues , and most of the main cast perish in his final , maddened fury .
this essay was included in the 2005 publication of fantasmagoriana , the first full english translation of the book of ' ghost stories ' that inspired the literary competition resulting in mary ' s writing of frankenstein .
2014 : i , frankenstein is a 2014 fantasy action film . the film stars aaron eckhart as adam frankenstein and bill nighy . the film is based on the graphic novel .
1935 : james whale directed the sequel bride of frankenstein , starring colin clive as the doctor , and boris karloff as the monster once more . this incorporated the novel ' s plot motif of doctor frankenstein creating a bride for the monster omitted from whale ' s earlier film . there were two more sequels , prior to the universal
monster rally
films combining multiple monsters from various movie series or film franchises .
2014 : bruce vs . frankenstein , a comedic adaptation directed by and starring bruce campbell , is loosely based on the original book and a sequel to campbell ' s own 2007 film my name is bruce .
in fact , the comedians have to cope with not only the monster but dracula ; aided by the wolf man , they thwart a plot by dracula to have costello ' s brain transplanted into the monster ' s body . [ jg ]
29 . victor frankenstein irish / swedish movie ( 1975 ) . dir calvin floyd . starring per oscarsson ( creature ) , leon vitali ( frankenstein ) . 92 mins . colour .
1910 : edison studios produced the first frankenstein film , directed by j . searle dawley .
lawson , carol ( 7 january 1981 ) . frankenstein
nearly came back to life
lauritsen , john .
the man who wrote frankenstein
. pagan press , 2007 .
yes , you ' ve never heard of it either . no , it ' s not a diamond in the rough .
11 . frankenstein ' 70 ( vt frankenstein 1970 ) us movie ( 1958 ) . allied artists . pr aubrey schenck . dir howard w koch . screenplay richard landau , g worthing yates . starring boris karloff ( frankenstein ) , mike lane ( monster ) . 83 mins . colour .
2005 : frankenstein vs . the creature from blood cove , a 90 - minute feature film homage of classic monsters and atomic age creature features , shot in black and white , and directed by william winckler . the frankenstein monster design and make - up was based on the character descriptions in mary wollstonecraft shelley ' s novel .
30 . frankenstein ' s island us movie ( 1982 ) . dir jerry warren . starring tain bodkin , steve brodie , john carradine , robert clarke , andrew duggan , laurel johnson , cameron mitchell . 91 mins . colour .
14 . furankenshutain tai baragon ( vt frankenstein conquers the world ; vt frankenstein and the giant lizard ; vt frankenstein versus the giant devil fish ) japanese / us movie ( 1965 ) . toho / american international . pr reuben bercovitch , henry saperstein , tomoyuki tanaka . dir inoshiro honda . spfx eiji tsuburaya . screenplay kaoru mabuchi . starring tadao takashima ( frankenstein ) . 95 mins . colour .
1998 : billy frankenstein is a very loose adaptation about a boy who moves into a mansion with his family and brings the frankenstein monster to life . the film was directed by fred olen ray .
clery , e . j . women ' s gothic : from clara reeve to mary shelley . plymouth : northcote house , 2000 .
1994 : mary shelley ' s frankenstein appeared in theatres , directed by and starring kenneth branagh , with robert de niro and helena bonham carter . its all - star cast also included john cleese , ian holm , and tom hulce .
1920 : the monster of frankenstein , directed by eugenio testa , starring luciano albertini and umberto guarracino .
2014 : frankenstein , a critically acclaimed original musical adaptation from south korea based on the original book .
douthwaite , julia v .
the frankenstein of the french revolution ,
chapter two of the frankenstein of 1790 and other lost chapters from revolutionary france . chicago : university of chicago press , 2012 .
michaud , nicolas , frankenstein and philosophy : the shocking truth , chicago : open court , 2013 .
the hunchback ygor was hanged for bodysnatching but , although his neck was broken , he has survived , and has been making the monster ( still alive ) kill the jurors who condemned him . henry ' s son wolf frankenstein comes to the village to inherit , and gradually discovers the situation . at last wolf kills ygor in self - defence ; the monster vengefully prepares to cast wolf ' s son peter into a boiling pool of sulphur beneath the laboratory , but is hurled into the sulphur himself . wolf and his family hand over the frankenstein estates to the villagers , and depart . the movie is stolen by lugosi ' s eagerly cackling performance as ygor . ( the character of krogh was hilariously parodied in 28 . ) with the debatable exception of 4 , this was the last of universal ' s frankenstein movies to display integrity . [ jg ]
the novel frankenstein is written in epistolary form , documenting a correspondence between captain robert walton and his sister , margaret walton saville . walton is a failed writer who sets out to explore the north pole and expand his scientific knowledge in hopes of achieving fame . during the voyage the crew spots a dog sled mastered by a gigantic figure . a few hours later , the crew rescues a nearly frozen and emaciated man named victor frankenstein . frankenstein has been in pursuit of the gigantic man observed by walton ' s crew . frankenstein starts to recover from his exertion ; he sees in walton the same over - ambitiousness and recounts a story of his life ' s miseries to walton as a warning .
2011 : frankenstein : day of the beast is an independent horror film based loosely on the original book .
bann , stephen , ed .
frankenstein
: creation and monstrosity . london : reaktion , 1994 .
1973 : andy warhol ' s frankenstein . usually , the doctor is a man whose dedication to science takes him too far , but here his interest is to rule the world by creating a new species that will obey him and do his bidding .
there are many similarities between victor and percy shelley , mary ' s husband . victor was a pen name of percy shelley ' s , as in the collection of poetry he wrote with his sister elizabeth , original poetry by victor and cazire . [ 37 ] there is speculation that one of mary shelley ' s models for victor frankenstein was percy , who at eton had
experimented with electricity and magnetism as well as with gunpowder and numerous chemical reactions
, and whose rooms at oxford were filled with scientific equipment . [ 38 ]
ryan , robert m . mary shelley ' s christian monster . university of pennsylvania , n . d . web . 22 october 2011 . urltoken
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2014 : frankenstein , md , a web show by pemberly digital starring victoria , a female adaptation of victor .
radu florescu argues that mary and percy shelley visited castle frankenstein , near darmstadt , in 1814 during their return to england from their elopement to switzerland . it was at this castle that a notorious alchemist , konrad dippel , experimented with human bodies , and florescu reasons that mary suppressed mention of her visit in order to maintain her public claim of originality . [ 32 ] a literary essay by a . j . day supports florescu ' s position that mary shelley knew of and visited castle frankenstein before writing her debut novel . [ 33 ] day includes details of an alleged description of the frankenstein castle that exists in mary shelley ' s ' lost ' journals . according to jörg heléne , the ' lost journals ' , as well as florescu ' s claims , cannot be verified . [ 34 ]
1974 : young frankenstein . directed by mel brooks , this sequel - spoof has been mentioned [ 57 ] as one of the best movie comedies of any comedy genre ever made , even prompting an american film preservation program to include it on its listings . [ 58 ] it reuses many props from james whale ' s 1931 frankenstein and is shot in black - and - white with 1930s - style credits . gene wilder portrayed the descendant of dr . frankenstein , with peter boyle as the monster .
directed by george waggner , staring lionel atwill , lon chaney jr . , anne nagel , frank albertson , samuel s . hinds , and william davidson .
1915 : life without soul , the second film adaptation of mary shelley ' s novel , was released . no known copy of the film has survived .
2012 : a nightmare on lime street , fred lawless ' s comedy play starring david gest staged at the royal court theatre , liverpool . [ 61 ]
3 . son of frankenstein us movie ( 1939 ) . universal . pr rowland v lee . dir lee . spfx john p fulton . mufx jack p pierce . screenplay willis cooper . starring lionel atwill ( inspector krogh ) , donnie dunagan ( peter von frankenstein ) , josephine hutchinson ( elsa von frankenstein ) , boris karloff ( monster ) , bela lugosi ( ygor ) , basil rathbone ( baron wolf von frankenstein ) . 96 mins . b / w .
despite the reviews , frankenstein achieved an almost immediate popular success . it became widely known especially through melodramatic theatrical adaptations—mary shelley saw a production of presumption ; or the fate of frankenstein , a play by richard brinsley peake , in 1823 . a french translation appeared as early as 1821 ( frankenstein : ou le prométhée moderne , translated by jules saladin ) .
a film about james whale , director of the classic frankenstein film ( 1931 ) and sequels , using many themes from mary shelley ' s novel . written and directed by bill condon , starring ian mckellan , brendan fraser , lynn redgrave , jack betts , and rosalind ayres .
since a complete list of films based directly or indirectly on frankenstein would run into the thousands , it ' s convenient to exclude films with only a tangential relationship to the original novel : those , for instance , with only a mad scientist , a raising - from - the - dead theme , or a creature cameo . this chronological list includes most of the major feature films between 1910 and 2005 based on shelley ' s novel .
2009 : anuman interactive ( french publisher ) launches frankestein , a hidden objects game freely inspired by mary shelley’s book , on iphone and ipad . [ 60 ]
dunn , richard j .
narrative distance in frankenstein
. studies in the novel 6 ( 1974 ) : 408–17 .
veeder , william . mary shelley & frankenstein : the fate of androgyny . chicago : university of chicago press , 1986 .
in the best - known versions of the prometheus story by hesiod and aeschylus , prometheus merely brings fire to mankind . but in other versions such as several of aesop ' s fables ( see in particular fable 516 ) , sappho ( fragment 207 ) , and ovid ' s metamorphoses , prometheus is the actual creator of humanity .
1939 : son of frankenstein was another universal monster movie with boris karloff as the creature . also in the film were basil rathbone as the title character and bela lugosi as the sinister assistant ygor . karloff ended playing the frankenstein monster with this film .
orthodox science knows organ transplants impossible – but not according to professor bill frankenstein . he and assistant karlton assemble teenage body parts in the traditional way , feeding the leftovers to a tame alligator . the monster escapes and kills a woman . returning , he is persuaded by frankenstein to kill the latter ' s fiancée margaret , who has learnt too much , and a young man , so the monster may have his face . just before being dismembered for export to england , the monster breaks loose , feeds frankenstein to his own alligator and electrocutes himself .
the descendants of baron frankenstein return to the family castle to search for the family fortune that is supposed to be hidden there .
37 . frankenstein : the real story us movie ( 1992 tvm ) . turner . exec pr david wickes . dir wickes . spfx graham longhurst . mufx mark coulier . screenplay wickes . starring patrick bergin ( victor frankenstein ) , fiona gillies ( elizabeth ) , ronald leigh hunt ( alphonse , baron frankenstein ) , john mills ( de lacey ) , jacinta mulcahy ( justine ) , randy quaid ( monster ) , timothy stark ( william frankenstein ) , lambert wilson ( clerval ) . 112 mins . colour .
draft of frankenstein (
it was on a dreary night of november that i beheld my man completed . . .
)
although a mess , and enfeebled by sting ' s woodenness , tb has some merits beyond its visual opulence , notably the identification of eva not only with mary shelley but also , less obviously , with the monster – in that , to the intellectually emasculated frankenstein , she becomes another monster of his own creation . tb ' s most effective sequences , aside from its spectacular opening , come in the long ( but irrelevant ) subplot involving rinaldo and victor . [ jg ]
frankenstein ; or , the modern prometheus , is a novel written by english author mary shelley about eccentric scientist victor frankenstein , who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment . shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen , and the novel was published when she was twenty . the first edition was published anonymously in london in 1818 . shelley ' s name appears on the second edition , published in france in 1823 .
35 . frankenstein unbound ( vt roger corman ' s frankenstein unbound ) us movie ( 1990 ) . warner / mount . pr roger corman , kobi jaeger , thom mount . dir corman . vfx syd dutton , bill taylor . mufx nick dudman . spfx renato agostini . screenplay corman , f x feeney . based on frankenstein unbound ( 1973 ) by brian w aldiss . starring nick brimble ( monster ) , catherine corman ( justine moritz ) , bridget fonda ( mary shelley ) , john hurt ( joseph buchanan ) , michael hutchence ( percy bysshe shelley ) , raul julia ( victor frankenstein ) , jason patric ( byron ) , catherine rabett ( elizabeth ) . 85 mins . colour .
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the direct sequel to 9 . frankenstein , aided by hunchbacked karl – to whom he has promised a new body – has the attendant priest guillotined instead . the two flee to carlsbrück , where frankenstein practises as dr victor stein , doing much work at the poor hospital , from whose patients he collects organs and limbs . local dr kleve , recognizing him , demands to be taken on as assistant . the operation is a success , but trauma to the new karl ' s transplanted brain transforms him into a psychopathic cannibal ; also , it leads to the return of his deformity and , soon , death . as he dies he divulges frankenstein ' s true identity , and soon all carlsbrück knows . frankenstein is beaten to death by his own hospital patients ; before he dies , his brain is rescued by kleve and transplanted into a new cobbled - together body . [ jg ]
hobbler , dorthy and thomas . the monsters : mary shelley and the curse of frankenstein . back bay books ; august 20 , 2007
gigante , denise .
facing the ugly : the case of frankenstein
. elh 67 . 2 ( 2000 ) : 565–87 .
behind the camera there were some pretty interesting dramas going on , as june wilkinson ( playing “randy” ) remembers it : pleasance didn’t like gabor , though he was too polite to call her out on whatever was bothering him ; and director myron gold had conflicts with furneaux , who apparently was able able to manipulate the set so that the last scene was shot as she wanted , rather than what gold envisioned . ( the final scene was supposed to be done in the rain ) also , wilkinson remembers that aldo ray was in between some of his famous struggles with alcohol , and had been offered a role in one of 1984’s great films , dune , but that he was dropped from dune when he fell off the wagon .
in this horror spoof , after not paying his yearly taxes , dr . frankenstein is in danger of being kicked off of the family estate .
london , bette .
mary shelley , frankenstein , and the spectacle of masculinity
. pmla 108 . 2 ( 1993 ) : 256–67 .
10 . i was a teenage frankenstein ( vt teenage frankenstein uk ) us movie ( 1957 ) . american international / james h nicholson & samuel z arkoff . pr herman cohen . dir herbert l strock . mufx philip scheer . screenplay kenneth langtry . starring whit bissell ( frankenstein ) , robert burton ( karlton ) , phyllis coates ( margaret ) , gary conway ( monster ) . 72 mins . b / w , with short colour finale .
1992 : frankenstein became a turner network television film directed by david wickes , starring patrick bergin and randy quaid . john mills played the blind man .
the second edition of frankenstein was published on 11 august 1822 in two volumes ( by g . and w . b . whittaker ) following the success of the stage play presumption ; or , the fate of frankenstein by richard brinsley peake ; [ 25 ] this edition credited mary shelley as the author .
a reasonably faithful adaptation , told appropriately in flashback from the arctic , where the monster and frankenstein have their final confrontation . one significant change from convention is that , rather than build the monster from fragments of corpses , frankenstein
grows
him in a nutrient soup – in effect cloning his creation from himself , and thereafter being always empathically linked with him ( there is a jekyll and hyde subtext ) . this is a classy production enhanced by some good performances , notably quaid ' s . [ jg ]
7 . house of dracula us movie ( 1945 ) . like 6 , a dracula - frankenstein - wolf man team - up . > dracula movies .
2014 : penny dreadful ( tv series ) is a horror tv series that airs on showtime , that features doctor victor frankenstein as well as his creature .
2015 : paul mcguigan is working on a new version , with james mcavoy as dr . frankenstein and daniel radcliffe as the assistant igor . [ 56 ]
forry , steven earl . hideous progenies : dramatizations of
frankenstein
from mary shelley to the present . philadelphia : university of pennsylvania press , 1990 .
heffernan , james a . w .
looking at the monster : frankenstein and film
. critical inquiry 24 . 1 ( 1997 ) : 133–58 .
o ' flinn , paul .
production and reproduction : the case of frankenstein
. literature and history 9 . 2 ( 1983 ) : 194–213 .
weak black comedy , set in the present day . the doctor ' s wife is dead but he has kept her head alive ; he rebuilds her body using bits of passing hitch - hikers . [ jg ]
1942 : the ghost of frankenstein featured brain transplanting and a new monster , played by lon chaney jr . the film also starred evelyn ankers and bela lugosi .
1973 : the tv film frankenstein : the true story appeared on nbc . the movie starred leonard whiting , michael sarrazin , james mason , and jane seymour .
d . l . macdonald and kathleen scherf ,
a note on the text
, frankenstein , 2nd ed . , peterborough : broadview press , 1999 .
parts of the movie grate , but it is full of poignant and abiding images : henry ' s boyish exhilaration as the monster ' s hand twitches into life , the charm of shared innocence as the monster and maria play together with flowers , the advancing tide of torches as the mob ascend a nighttime hillside – all have become icons , as has the sorrowing visage of the shambling , much - wronged creature . [ jg ]
1967 : i ' m sorry the bridge is out , you ' ll have to spend the night and its sequel , frankenstein unbound ( another monster musical ) , are a pair of musical comedies written by bobby pickett and sheldon allman . the casts of both feature several classic horror characters including dr . frankenstein and his monster .
lunatic surgeon niemann and equally lunatic hunchback daniel – who hopes niemann will transplant his brain into a new body – succeed in reviving dracula , whom they harness to niemann ' s vengeful aims . later , in the cellars of the frankenstein castle , they discover the frozen bodies of the wolf man and the monster , both of whom they revive . all ends in tears . [ jg ]
this was the first hammer movie to use a semblance of pierce ' s makeup for the monster ( > 1 ) , which universal had copyrighted . there is an excellent performance from wild as the mute . [ jg ]
8 letter 3 to mrs . saville , england july 7th , 17 my dear s . . . . . . urs itself out thus . but must finish . heaven bless my beloved sister ! r . w . 9
17 . jesse james meets frankenstein ' s daughter us movie ( 1966 ) . circle / embassy . pr carroll case . dir william beaudine . spfx cinema research corp . screenplay carl hittleman . starring rayford barnes , cal bolder , jim davis , estelita , william fawcett , steven geray , john lupton , narda onyx , nestor paiva ( movie lacks proper credits ) . 82 mins . colour .
part of frankenstein ' s rejection of his creation is the fact that he does not give it a name , which gives it a lack of identity . instead it is referred to by words such as
monster
,
creature
,
demon
,
devil
,
fiend
,
wretch
, and
it
. when frankenstein converses with the creature in chapter 10 , he addresses it as
vile insect
,
abhorred monster
,
fiend
,
wretched devil
, and
abhorred devil
.
1 . frankenstein us movie ( 1931 ) . universal / carl laemmle . pr carl laemmle jr . dir james whale . spfx kenneth strickfaden . mufx jack p pierce . screenplay john l balderston , francis edwards faragoh , robert florey , garrett fort . based on webling ' s play . starring john boles ( victor moritz ) , mae clarke ( elizabeth ) , colin clive ( henry frankenstein ) , dwight frye ( fritz ) , marilyn harris ( maria ) , boris karloff ( monster ) , edward van sloan ( waldman ) . 71 mins . b / w .
the story is prefaced by a scene in which byron and shelley persuade mary to continue her story . elsa lanchester ' s dual portrayal of mary and the bride is noteworthy . the movie is sequelled by 31 . [ jg ]
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f : tts is largely black comedy ( > humour ) , with mccallum especially revealing a brilliant comedic streak . there is intriguing ambiguity as to the identity of the creature : is he victor ' s alter ego , his physique decaying like the picture of dorian gray while his creator ' s moral integrity does likewise ; or is he a manifestation of clerval ? this reworking is thoughtful , handsome and often , amid the humour or horror , moving . [ jg ]
4 . the ghost of frankenstein us movie ( 1942 ) . universal . pr george waggner . dir erle c kenton . mufx jack p pierce . screenplay w scott darling . starring evelyn ankers ( elsa frankenstein ) , lionel atwill ( dr theodor bohmer ) , ralph bellamy ( erik ernst ) , lon chaney jr ( monster ) , janet ann gallow ( cloestine ) , sir cedric hardwicke ( dr ludwig frankenstein ) , bela lugosi ( ygor ) , barton yarborough ( dr kettering ) . 67 mins . b / w .
1973 : frankenstein : the true story has the monster be originally very handsome but become progressively uglier as the story progresses . it incorporates many elements from the hammer horror series .
1986 : gothic , directed by ken russell , is the story of the night that mary shelley gave birth to frankenstein . starring gabriel byrne , julian sands , natasha richardson .
freedman , carl .
hail mary : on the author of frankenstein and the origins of science fiction
. science fiction studies 29 . 2 ( 2002 ) : 253–64 .
1990 : frankenstein unbound . combines a time - travel story with the story of shelley ' s novel . scientist joe buchanan accidentally creates a time - rift which takes him back to the events of the novel . filmed as a low - budget independent film in 1990 , based on a novel published in 1973 by brian aldiss . this novel bears no relation to the 1967 stage musical with the same name listed above .
psychopathic victor murders his father so that he can go to university in vienna . there he impregnates the dean ' s daughter , and flees for home with friend wilhelm ; en route they save elisabeth and her father , the professor , from highwaymen , one of whom victor kills and beheads , taking the head for experimentation . their first successful revivification is of the professor ' s pet tortoise gustave . victor has a graverobber steal human parts ; when wilhelm threatens exposure , victor murders him . professor heiss is murdered for his brain , but his death bankrupts elisabeth ; she comes to schloss frankenstein – which maddens housekeeper / bedmate alys , who knows much of the truth . victor next murders the graverobber , but not before the latter has accidentally damaged the professor ' s brain ; the animated monster , immensely strong , is thus psychopathic . the body - count rises until at last the monster is inadvertently destroyed by a meddlesome child .
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tcof oozes b - movie , but its huge success spurred the long hammer frankenstein series . added interest lies in its introducing a baron who is murderous rather than merely unwise . [ jg ]
28 . young frankenstein us movie ( 1974 ) . gruskoff / venture / crossbow / jouer / 20th century - fox . pr michael gruskoff . dir mel brooks . screenplay brooks , gene wilder . novelization young frankenstein * ( 1974 ) by gilbert pearlman . starring peter boyle ( monster ) , marty feldman ( igor ) , teri garr ( inga ) , gene hackman ( blind man ) , madeline kahn ( elizabeth ) , cloris leachman ( frau blücher ) , kenneth mars ( inspector kemp ) , wilder ( dr frederick frankenstein ) . 108 mins . b / w .
1931 : universal studios ' frankenstein , directed by james whale , starring colin clive , mae clarke , john boles , edward van sloan , dwight frye , and boris karloff as the monster .
2011 : the national theatre , london presented a stage version of frankenstein , which ran until 2 may 2011 . the play was written by nick dear and directed by danny boyle . jonny lee miller and benedict cumberbatch alternate the roles of frankenstein and the creature . the national theatre broadcast live performances of the play worldwide ( at 13 : 00 and 19 : 30 ) on 17 march .
frankenstein has been both well received and disregarded since its anonymous publication in 1818 . critical reviews of that time demonstrate these two views . the belle assemblee described the novel as
very bold fiction
( 139 ) . the quarterly review stated that
the author has the power of both conception and language
( 185 ) . sir walter scott , writing in blackwood ' s edinburgh magazine congratulated
the author ' s original genius and happy power of expression
( 620 ) , although he is less convinced about the way in which the monster gains knowledge about the world and language . [ 47 ] the edinburgh magazine and literary miscellany hoped to see
more productions from this author
( 253 ) .
on 22 february 1815 , mary shelley delivered a two - month premature baby and the baby died two weeks later . percy did not care about the condition of this premature infant and left with claire , mary ' s stepsister , for a lurid affair . [ 40 ] when victor saw the creature come to life he fled the apartment , though the newborn creature approached him , as a child would a parent . the question of victor ' s responsibility to the creature is one of the main themes of the book .
chaney took over from karloff as the monster for this movie ; karloff never played the part again ( although he did appear in 6 and , as frankenstein , in 11 ) . [ jg ]