Frankenstein (75th Anniversary Edition - 2-DVD)

The man who made a monster.
Frankenstein (75th Anniversary Edition - 2-DVD)
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Format:  DVD  (2 Discs)
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DVD Details

  • Featurette: Karloff: The Gentle Monster
  • Interactive pop-up facts to be read during viewing of film
  • Audio Commentary with Rudy Behlmer and Historian Sir Christopher Frayling
  • Featurette: The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
  • Frankenstein Archives
  • Documentary:
  • Boo!, A Short Film
  • Audio: English
  • Subtitles: English SDH, Espanol, Francais
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 11 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 26, 2006
  • Originally Released: 1931
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Memorable Quotes and Dialog:

"It's alive! It's alive!"

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh100%

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Total Count: 46

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 41,524
A complete reimagining of the Mary Shelley novel, Whale's version makes the monster an object of both terror and pity...
New York Times
Sep 26, 2006
The most influential horror film ever made, this stark and stylish work has a weird fairytale beauty. Full Review
Village Voice
Oct 20, 2016
The film has a touching, almost childlike humanity that allowed audiences to actually identify with the monster. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Oct 10, 2012
Rating: A -- Another undisputed classic from the mind of James Whale. Full Review
Movie Chambers
Oct 23, 2014
Rating: 2.5/4 -- ...a watchable yet consistently uneven horror flick that feels long even at 70 minutes... Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Nov 4, 2012
Frankenstein's "it's alive!" moment has left more of an imprint upon science fiction and horror filmmaking than any other big-screen scene before or since. Full Review
Flicks.com.au
Jul 12, 2018
The best of the Universal monster movies, it boasts a fragile beauty.
Total Film
Jan 1, 2004

Description by OLDIES.com:

Boris Karloff is the screen's most tragic and memorable monster in the Frankenstein 75th Anniversary Edition. Tampering with life and death, Dr. Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to create a human monster. Director James Whale's 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley's masterpiece novel remains a timeless classic, and this 2-disc 75th Anniversary Edition offers an all-new digitally remastered picture of the greatest horror movie of all time. Frankenstein: It's alive!

Product Description:

FRANKENSTEIN is James Whale's first stylish, expressionist film (INVISIBLE MAN, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN) to grace the Universal horror cycle of the 1930s and 1940s (DRACULA, THE MUMMY). Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his hunchbacked assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye), embark on an unholy mission by stealing a body from a graveyard and a human brain from a medical college. Unbeknownst to Frankenstein, however, Fritz takes a violent and murderous abnormal brain. Henry's strange letters about his experiments worry his fiancée, Elizabeth (Mae Clark), and friends Victor (John Boles) and Dr. Waldman (Edward Van Sloan). They arrive at Frankenstein's laboratory to find the spectacular scene of creation under way--and Frankenstein intoxicated with his own godlike power.

FRANKENSTEIN is in many ways the original horror classic, virtually creating the genre itself, leading to numerous sequels and myriad imitators. Whale's ability to give humanity to the Monster is one of the film's most stunning successes.

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