num_pages: 68
description: Generally considered a greater film that its predecessor, Frankenstein , this sequel starred Elsa Lanchester as the eponymous heroine and Boris Karloff repeating his role as the monster. Manguel gives a detailed and highly sensitive account of the film's felicities of inventive filmmaking. He also traces the literary roots of the Frankenstein myth, the creation of a living being by a man usurping the powers of a jealous God. And he finds echoes in the work of modern artists such as Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp of the Bride as a kind of femme fetale, monstrous and threatening.
language: English
title: Bride of Frankenstein
titlecomplete: Bride of Frankenstein (BFI Film Classics)
genres: Nonfiction, 20th Century, Film, Horror
ratings_count: 57
publisher: British Film Institute