Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

George Taylor Simply brilliant. This film is filled with terror, pathos, wit and a great cast. Picking up right after the original ends, with Mary Shelley telling the story of what happened, it never has a dull moment. While Karloff didn't want the monster to talk, his speech and his friendship with the hermit is the highlight of the movie. Just an excellent film that can be watched again and again.

Pumpkin_Man I've been watching all the old Universal monster movies to get read for Halloween. Yesterday, I watched Bride of Frankenstein and it was a lot better than I remembered from the last time I watched it. In my opinion, I think it's better than the original 1931 classic. It continues the story right where the original leaves off without being too repetitive, like most sequels. It really advances the story like the monster meeting a blind man and befriending him. The man teaches the monster how to talk. Meanwhile, a doctor named Pretorius comes to Henry and wants to work with him in creating a mate for the monster. Henry refuses, but Pretorius teams up with the monster and kidnaps Elizabeth to get Henry to do what they want. If you want a good decent old school sequel, you'll love BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN!!!

robert-259-28954 As many would agree, this film was rare in that it surpassed even the landmark, Universal original. Along with Boris Karloff reprising his signature role, and the new additions of Elsa Lanchester playing two iconic roles, and a fabulously demented Ernest Thesiger, as "Dr. Pritorius," this remake added many dramatic improvements which made it the classic in Gothic horror that it is. First, a memorable, atmospheric soundtrack that was superior to anything else, before or since, second, an enlarged cast of tremendously interesting and inventive characters, and finally, actual DIALOGUE being written by for the once silent Monster, played with such perfection by Karloff as to beggar the imagination. His absolute mastery of both pantomime AND voice not only gave the creature added dimension, but an understated sense of humanity and compassion unseen in the first.A word on the performances. It's fact that the most difficult kind of acting is NON-VERBAL acting. If this be the barometer of true skill, Boris Karloff deserves the crown. He was remarkable. I must have watched this film 100 times since my early childhood, and still it horrifies, captivates, and entertains me. No other actor but Karloff could have made the Monster come alive, his lumbering, zombie-like movements setting the standard for all other movie monsters to come. Nobody did it better. Just watch the way the Monster enjoys his first cigar, then suddenly delivers a whimper in the back of the throat that only a first-time cigar smoker would understand. Classic. Now, for "The Bride," Elsa Lanchester. Watch her wide eyed movements—staccato, bewildered, unsure. I later discovered that she actually patterned her approach to the part after the wild swans she observed in a London public park. Genius. But her crowning moment was when she uttered that primal hiss at the Monster, just before the end. Again, she was imitating the sound of nature, an angry, captive mountain lion she had once seen in a movie years before, waiting for the moment she could actually use that sound in a performance. Well, she got her chance... AND HOW.

O2D Even though the monster has only been referred to as "The Monster" through two entire movies, Dr. Pretorius immediately calls the female monster the Bride of Frankenstein. How would he even think of that? Did I mention that this time the woods/mountains have trees? They have lots of extremely tall, evenly spaced trees that have no branches. This movie is a total mess.