Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein is a horror film released on April 22, 1935, a sequel to the 1931 film Frankenstein. Bride of Frankenstein - Title and plot. The movie tells the story of Doctor Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), who is forced by his monster (played by Boris Karloff) to build him a mate (Elsa Lanchester double-cast in the role of Mary Shelley). The plot uses the parallel story of Doctor Frankenstein's marriage to the beautiful Elizabeth (Valerie Hobson). It is to this bride t ...

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The financial success of the original Frankenstein movie enabled the producers to put much more money into the production than its low-budget predecessor. The laboratory is now not just barely equipped, it is overflowing with sparks, dials, and coils. The scene in which the mate is brought to life with a bolt of lightning is greatly improved over the original. Most critics consider "Bride" to be a ge ...

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Bride of Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein - Title and plot, Bride of Frankenstein - Filmmakers, Bride of Frankenstein - Sets and special effects, Bride of Frankenstein - Credits, Bride of Frankenstein - Afterlife

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The concept of a homunculus (Latin for "little man", sometimes spelled "homonculus") is often used to illustrate the functioning of a system. In the scientific sense of an unknowable prime actor, it can be viewed as an entity or agent. The term appears to have been first used by the alchemist Paracelsus. He once claimed that he had created a false human being that he referred to as the homunculus. The creature was to have stood no more than 12 inches tall, and did the work usually associated with a golem. However, after a short ...

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Whale was best known for his work in the horror genre, making such momentous and iconic pictures as Frankenstein, where he was the first director ever to move the camera through the shot, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man. Universal Pictures owed its stellar success in the 30s much in part to the huge box-office receipts of these three blockbusters. Further, these pictures established the screen careers of Gloria Stuart, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester, Boris Karloff, Una Merkel, and Claude Rains, to name just a ...

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James Whale, James Whale - Early life, James Whale - Beginnings in the theatre, James Whale - Hollywood career, James Whale - Filmography

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The term "steampunk" was originally a tongue in cheek variant of "cyberpunk". The prototypical "steampunk" stories were essentially cyberpunk tales that were set in the past, using steam-era technology rather than the ubiquitous cybernetics of cyberpunk but maintaining those stories' "punkish" attitudes towards authority figures and human nature. Originally, like cyberpunk, steampunk was typically dystopian, often with noir and pulp fiction themes, as it was a variant of cyberpunk. As the genre developed, it came to adopt more of the broadly appealing utopian sensibiliti ...

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Steampunk, Steampunk - Origin, Steampunk - Early steampunk, Steampunk - Types of steampunk, Steampunk - Historical steampunk, Steampunk - Fantasy steampunk, Steampunk - Other forms, Steampunk - Steampunk as a subculture, Steampunk - Bibliography, Steampunk - Modern steampunk, Steampunk - Quasi-Victorian science fiction, Steampunk - Classic SF novels inspirations for steampunk, Steampunk - Comics / graphic novels, Steampunk - Steampunk role-playing game material, Steampunk - In Media, Steampunk - Movies, Steampunk - Notable film precursors, Steampunk - List of steampunk films, Steampunk - Television related to steampunk, Steampunk - Steampunk related games, Steampunk - Music Video references to steampunk

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Homunculus - Representations of the homunculus. In the classic horror film Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein's old teacher, Dr. Praetorius, shows him his own creations, a series of miniature humanoids kept in specimen jars, including a bishop, a king, a queen, a ballerina, a mermaid, and a devil. These are clearly intended to be forms of homunculi. In his source study of Mary Shelley's original novel upon which the film was based, Prof. Radu Florescu notes that her father, William Godwin was quite fa ...

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Homunculus, Homunculus - The sensory and motor homunculi, Homunculus - The homunculus argument in philosophy of mind, Homunculus - Pop culture, Homunculus - Representations of the homunculus, Homunculus - Other uses of the name homunculus

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In the opening credits, Karloff is unbilled, a question mark being used in place of his name. He is, however, listed in the closing credits, which otherwise duplicate the credits from the opening under the principle that "A Good Cast Is Worth Repeating". As was the custom at the time, only the main cast and crew were listed in the credits. Additionally, however, a number of other actors who worked on the project were or became familiar to fans of the Universal horror films. These included Frederick Kerr as the old Baron Frankentein, H ...

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Frankenstein 1931 film, Frankenstein 1931 film - Differences between the film and its source, Frankenstein 1931 film - Sequels and parodies, Frankenstein 1931 film - Additional credits and trivia, Frankenstein 1931 film - Selected for preservation

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1896 The Devil's Castle aka Le Manoir Du Diable 1910 Edison Frankenstein 1913 Student of Prague aka Der Student von Prag 1914 The Monster of Fate aka Der Golem 1915 Life Without a Soul 1916 Homunculus Night of Terror aka Nachte des Grauens 1917 The Darling of Paris The Golem and the D ...

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List of horror films, List of horror films - Silent, List of horror films - 1930s talking, List of horror films - 1940s, List of horror films - 1950s, List of horror films - 1960s, List of horror films - 1970s, List of horror films - 1980s, List of horror films - 1990s, List of horror films - 2000s, List of horror films - External link

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The term "steampunk" was originally a tongue in cheek variant of "cyberpunk". The prototypical "steampunk" stories were essentially cyberpunk tales that were set in the past, using steam-era technology rather than the ubiquitous cybernetics of cyberpunk but maintaining those stories' "punkish" attitudes towards authority figures and human nature. Originally, like cyberpunk, steampunk was typically dystopian, often with noir and pulp fiction themes, as it was a variant of cyberpunk. As the genre developed, it came to adopt more of the broadly appealing utopian sensibiliti ...

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Steampunk, Steampunk - Origin, Steampunk - Early steampunk, Steampunk - Types of steampunk, Steampunk - Historical steampunk, Steampunk - Fantasy steampunk, Steampunk - Other forms, Steampunk - Steampunk as a subculture, Steampunk - Bibliography, Steampunk - Modern steampunk, Steampunk - Quasi-Victorian science fiction, Steampunk - Classic SF novels inspirations for steampunk, Steampunk - Comics / graphic novels, Steampunk - Steampunk role-playing game material, Steampunk - In media, Steampunk - In films, Steampunk - In television, Steampunk - In video games, Steampunk - In music

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Thesiger attended Marlborough College with aspirations of becoming a painter, but quickly switched to drama, making his professional debut in a production of Colonel Smith in 1909. He enlisted in the military at the outbreak of the First World War, but was wounded on the field and sent home. Thesiger's film debut was in 1916 in The Real Thing at Last, a spoof presenting Macbeth as it might be done by an American company, in which he did a drag turn as one of the Witches. He did a few more small movies during ...

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Ernest Thesiger, Ernest Thesiger - Early career, Ernest Thesiger - Working with James Whale, Ernest Thesiger - After Frankenstein, Ernest Thesiger - Filmography

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Mary Shelley was born in London, England, the second daughter of famed feminist, educator and writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the equally famous liberal philosopher, anarchic journalist and atheist dissenter, William Godwin. Her mother died eleven days after her birth and her father, left to care for Mary and her older half-sister Fanny Imlay, quickly married again. Under his tutelage, Mary received an excellent education unusual for girls at the time. She met Percy Bysshe Shelley, a political radical and free-thinker like her father, when Pe ...

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Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley - Biography, Mary Shelley - Mary Shelley on film

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Frankenstein - Trivia. Depictions of The Monster have varied widely, from mindless killing machines (as in many of the Hammer films) to the depiction of The Monster as a kind of tragic hero (closest to the Shelley version in behavior) in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Van Helsing. Three films have depicted the genesis of the Frankenstein story in 1816: Gothic directed by Ken Russell (1986), Haunted Summer directed by Ivan Passer (1988) and Remando a ...

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Frankenstein, Frankenstein - Plot synopsis, Frankenstein - Genesis, Frankenstein - Publication, Frankenstein - The name of the creature, Frankenstein - Name origins, Frankenstein - Frankenstein, Frankenstein - Victor, Frankenstein - Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein - Analysis, Frankenstein - Film adaptations, Frankenstein - Trivia, Frankenstein - Parodies and satires, Frankenstein - Television adaptations, Frankenstein - Other adaptations, Frankenstein - Radio, Frankenstein - Books and comic books, Frankenstein - Videogames, Frankenstein - Influence

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After being expelled from a university in Zürich, Switzerland, Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) arrives at Miskatonic University in New England. He rents a room from a promising (but somewhat impractically minded) student, Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott). Cain is secretly dating Megan (Barbara Crampton), daughter of the medical school dean, Alan Halsey (Robert Sampson). There is instant animosity between West and faculty member, Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale). In Zürich, West had been a student of a scientist who claimed to have invented a glowing ...

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Re-Animator, Re-Animator - Plot, Re-Animator - Sequels, Re-Animator - Compared to Lovecraft's original, Re-Animator - Cast

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In the original novel, the monster's creator is named Victor Frankenstein and his best friend's name is Henry Clerval. A woman named Justine Moritz works for the Frankenstein family. In the film, the monster's creator is named Henry Frankenstein, and his friend is Victor Moritz. Whereas in Mary Shelley's novel, the creature's savage behavior is seen as the result of maltreatment and neglect, the film adaptation explains it is a consequence of Henry's installing a defective brain in the carcass. This of course evacuates from the ...

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Frankenstein 1931 film, Frankenstein 1931 film - Differences between the film and its source, Frankenstein 1931 film - Sequels and parodies, Frankenstein 1931 film - Additional credits and trivia, Frankenstein 1931 film - Selected for preservation

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After Whale had moved to Hollywood and found success with Journey's End and Frankenstein, he was commissioned to direct the screen adaptation of J.B. Priestly's The Benighted, entitled The Old Dark House, starring Charles Laughton in his first American film together with Boris Karloff and Raymond Massey. Whale immediately cast Thesiger in the film as Horace Femme, launching his Hollywood career. The following year Thesiger appeared with Karloff in The Ghoul, a film about a man who seeks to achieve im ...

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Ernest Thesiger, Ernest Thesiger - Early career, Ernest Thesiger - Working with James Whale, Ernest Thesiger - After Frankenstein, Ernest Thesiger - Filmography

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Originally cast to play the luddite Theotocopolous in Things to Come (1936), Thesiger was replaced by the "more marketable" Cedric Hardwicke, but went on to appear that same year in another film adaptation of an H.G. Wells work, The Man Who Could Work Miracles. Around this same time Thesiger published a book, Adventures in Embroidery, about one of his favorite hobbies, needlework. The remainder of Thesiger's career was centered around the theater and supporting roles in films produced in Britain. His last film app ...

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Ernest Thesiger, Ernest Thesiger - Early career, Ernest Thesiger - Working with James Whale, Ernest Thesiger - After Frankenstein, Ernest Thesiger - Filmography

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Frankenstein - Frankenstein. Mary Shelley always maintained that she derived the name "Frankenstein" from a dream-vision, but the origin of the name and what it means has been a source of speculation and critical analysis. Literally, in German, the name Frankenstein means stone of the Franks. Frankenstein is also the former name of Ząbkowice Śląskie, a city in Silesia and th ...

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Frankenstein, Frankenstein - Plot synopsis, Frankenstein - Genesis, Frankenstein - Publication, Frankenstein - The name of the creature, Frankenstein - Name origins, Frankenstein - Frankenstein, Frankenstein - Victor, Frankenstein - Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein - Analysis, Frankenstein - Film adaptations, Frankenstein - Trivia, Frankenstein - Parodies and satires, Frankenstein - Television adaptations, Frankenstein - Other adaptations, Frankenstein - Radio, Frankenstein - Books and comic books, Frankenstein - Videogames, Frankenstein - Influence

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Inspired by the Scientific Romances, Voyages Extraordinaires and Edisonades of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Steampunk as a genre developed in the 1980s as an offshoot of, or reaction to, Cyberpunk. K.W. Jeter's 1979 novel Morlock Night is sometimes cited as crystallizing the genre: It incorporates elements of Wells' The Time Machine, which Jeter expands with his own ideas. Other early examples include Robert A. Heinlein's 1980 novel The Number of the Beast, whose characters travel between alternate universes ...

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Steampunk, Steampunk - Origin, Steampunk - Early steampunk, Steampunk - Types of steampunk, Steampunk - Historical steampunk, Steampunk - Fantasy steampunk, Steampunk - Other forms, Steampunk - Steampunk as a subculture, Steampunk - Bibliography, Steampunk - Modern steampunk, Steampunk - Quasi-Victorian science fiction, Steampunk - Classic SF novels inspirations for steampunk, Steampunk - Comics / graphic novels, Steampunk - Steampunk role-playing game material, Steampunk - In media, Steampunk - In films, Steampunk - In television, Steampunk - In video games, Steampunk - In music

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There are two main sub-genres of steampunk: historical steampunk and fantasy steampunk. Historical steampunk tends to be more "science fictional": presenting an alternate history, presenting real locales and persons from history with different technology. Fantasy steampunk, on the other hand, tends to present steampunk in a completely imaginary fantasy realm, often populated by legendary creatures coexisting with steam-era or anachronistic technologies. Although originally conceived as being Victorian-era science fiction only, the term has become common use for many related forms of speculative fiction set ...

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Steampunk, Steampunk - Origin, Steampunk - Early steampunk, Steampunk - Types of steampunk, Steampunk - Historical steampunk, Steampunk - Fantasy steampunk, Steampunk - Other forms, Steampunk - Steampunk as a subculture, Steampunk - Bibliography, Steampunk - Modern steampunk, Steampunk - Quasi-Victorian science fiction, Steampunk - Classic SF novels inspirations for steampunk, Steampunk - Comics / graphic novels, Steampunk - Steampunk role-playing game material, Steampunk - In media, Steampunk - In films, Steampunk - In television, Steampunk - In video games, Steampunk - In music

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Because of the popularity of steampunk with people in the Goth, Punk and Industrial subcultures, there is a growing movement towards establishing Steampunk as a culture and lifestyle. The most immediate form of steampunk subculture is the community of fans surrounding the genre. Others move beyond this, attempting to adopt a "Steampunk" aesthetic through fashion, home decor and even music. This movement may also be (more accurately) described as "Neo-Victorianism", which is the amalgamation of Victorian aesthetic ...

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Steampunk, Steampunk - Origin, Steampunk - Early steampunk, Steampunk - Types of steampunk, Steampunk - Historical steampunk, Steampunk - Fantasy steampunk, Steampunk - Other forms, Steampunk - Steampunk as a subculture, Steampunk - Bibliography, Steampunk - Modern steampunk, Steampunk - Quasi-Victorian science fiction, Steampunk - Classic SF novels inspirations for steampunk, Steampunk - Comics / graphic novels, Steampunk - Steampunk role-playing game material, Steampunk - In media, Steampunk - In films, Steampunk - In television, Steampunk - In video games, Steampunk - In music

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