Welcome everyone. This blog mainly exists as a way of tracking all the movies I've been watching and some of the initial thoughts and general feelings I've had about them.
Rating System
5/5 - Fantastic movies; movies which need to be seen and enjoyed by everyone.
4/5 - Movies which are very good but don’t have that spark which compels you to make others watch them as well.
3/5 - Average movies; watchable and enjoyable, but nothing which elevates them higher. The baseline all movies are given before watching.
2/5 - Can be watched but really bland and forgettable.
1/5 - Minimal to no reason to watch these films. It may have some redeeming factors e.g. it’s so bad it’s good or there’s one character that’s awesome enough to make it not a total waste of time.
0/5- Total waste of time. Nothing redeemable about these films.
As with every review blog/site, this is all my own personal opinion so feel free to take everything with a grain of salt.
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#111 Bride of Frankenstein
Starting directly after the events of Frankenstein, the monster (Boris Karloff) survives by falling into a water pit beneath the windmill. Frankenstein (Colin Clive), miraculously surviving his attack by the monster, wants nothing to do with it and decides to flee with his new bride Elizabeth (Valerie Hobson). He is stopped however, by his old teacher Dr Pretorious (Ernest Thesiger) who has also discovered how to grow life (rather than reanimate it) and now wants Frankenstein’s help to make a women. Initially against it, but finally forced by his creation, they succeed in creating a bride for the monster (Elsa Lanchester).
Apparently more in keeping with the book, this time the monster is shown to be more sympathetic, rather than just a mindless killer. We see his plight and persecution as he befriends an old blind man in the woods and his longs for someone like him to be with. When his bride eventually also rejects him it’s all the more saddening.
Karloff and Clive both return to their original roles and are both excellent in them once more. Clive’s doctor has seen the folly of his action and truly just wants to escape from what he has done. The new character of Dr Pretorious might be one of the greatest mad doctors of all time. Thesiger just owns it and it’s a joy to watch.
Elements of the film seem rather silly now, like the small people in the glass jars, but you can see why some of the scenes are still talked about even today. 3/5
