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Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Directed By: James Whale
Screenplay: William Hurlbut, William Hurlbut, John L. Balderston (adaptation); Mary Shelley (novel)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Elsa Lanchester

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t first glance TIME called it "fully the equal of the original." It was wrong; this is one of those rare sequels that is infinitely superior to its source. Boris Karloff is a perfect klutz as the monstrously eager lover of Elsa Lanchester, whose creator, the divinely hysterical Colin Clive, endowed her with virginity and attitude. It is a perfect little masterpiece of high camp, not untouched by pity, terror and the desire to satirize boy-girl romances.—R.S.

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Screenwriters Hurlbut & Balderston and Director James Whale have given it the macabre intensity proper to all good horror pieces, but have substituted a queer kind of mechanistic pathos for the sheer evil that was Frankenstein
TIME Magazine, Apr. 29, 1935 >>

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