Frankenstein's Monster

**Frankenstein's Monster** is a character from Mary Shelley's 1818 classic novel, *Frankenstein* and was famously played by Boris Karloff in the classic Universal monster films Frankenstein (1931) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935).

## Description

Frankenstein's monster is a large humanoid creature who was created by corpse material stitched-together and reanimated by Doctor Frankenstein, albeit with an abnormal brain which causes the monster to inadvertently cause violence.

## History

### Background

#### Halloween Horror Nights

*Following the Creature's history as depicted in Halloween Horror Nights. However, the continuity of Universal Classic Monsters in Halloween Horror Nights events is of unknown canonicity status. The many depictions of the Frankenstein story featured at Halloween Horror Nights also may not be of shared continuity.*

##### Creation of the Damned

This creature was created in the 19th century by Doctor Frankenstein. The monster escaped or was abandoned by its creator, who continued his torturous experiments in the monster's absence. The monster returned to Frankenstein Castle within a fortnight to exact his revenge, When the Monster returned, Frankenstein was in the process of creating "The Bride of Frankenstein".

The monster also strangled Frankenstein's hunch-backed assistant to death upon his arrival within the laboratory. After this, the monster had strung up its creator in electrical cables to be suspended from the ceiling as punishment for his crimes.

##### The Bride of Frankenstein Lives

The Bride of Frankenstein survived the destruction of the building, and realized that she did love the dead monster after-all. Because of this, she became a mad-scientist like her creators in order to reassemble and reanimate the monster with vampiric blood, assisted by the Brides of Dracula. When the Brides of Dracula turned on the Bride of Frankenstein, she reanimated the monster who assisted her in killing and beheading Dracula's brides.

##### Later history

In 1931, Universal released the film *Frankenstein*. In 1935, this film received the sequel, *The Bride of Frankenstein*.

The story of *Frankenstein: Creation of the Damned* may have been connected to an odd incident at the *Universal Palace Theater* prior to the theater's closure. In one October, the theater's vicinity had a series of unusually strong thunderstorms which disrupted showings at the Universal Palace Theater. Thirty minutes into a movie screening, lightning struck the Universal Palace Theater causing a thirty-minute blackout. When management sent the theater's repairman to repair the lighting fixture on the lobby level balcony, only to find it smouldering and completely destroyed. The repairman then inspected the wiring within, opened an electrical box, and returned to the lobby balcony. Another bolt of lightning then hit the theater, causing sparks to explode from the theater walls and kill a patron within the balcony who used the balconies to avoid the weather and drink liquor which the theater doesn't allow being brought in. The electrocution destroyed the man's body leaving it completely burned and charred. The theater's phantom, The Usher, was spotted during this incident.

A black-and-white Universal movie version of Frankenstein's monster was ripped from the silver screen at the haunted Moonlight Drive-In theater of Los Angeles, seemingly in connection to the powers of the Usher. Similarly, the black-and-white Universal film versions of Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, and Doctor Frankenstein were amongst the film monsters seemingly summoned in the haunted *Carey "Die"-In* theater of Carey, Ohio.

In the year 2010, the paranormal-investigation organization *Legendary Truth: The Collective* accidentally freed the God of Fear into Universal Studios Florida. Fear attempted to gain power and become freed, the "Creation of the Damned" Frankenstein's monster appeared on the Universal property as part of this event.

## Appearances

Frankenstein's monster has sometimes appeared as a streetmosphere character, sometimes accompanied by the Bride of Frankenstein.

### All Hallows Eve Boutique

The monster's likeness has appeared in this shop. During the "Monster Grams Picture" overlay, he was listed as director of the fictional movie, "Revenge of the Red Planet".

### Beetlejuice's Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue

The creature was one of the monsters who joined Betelgeuse in this extinct attraction.

### Halloween Horror Nights

#### Fright Nights

The Universal Classic Monsters acted as unofficial icons of the first HHN event, *Fright Nights*.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 22

Frankenstein's monster was identified as a member of the Kerezans Legion.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 29

##### Universal Monsters

The final sequence was based on the Bride of Frankenstein and had Frankenstein's monster as a scare actor, electrocuting and torturing his creator.

#### Halloween Horror Nights Tribute Store

The 2020 Tribute Store had a black and white photograph of Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Bride of Frankenstein at Fright Nights.

### Universal Studios Classic Monsters Cafe

A sculpture of the monster adorned this building. The monster appeared in the decor inside.

## References

1. ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2023/06/monster-gram-pictures-all-hallows-eve-theming/