Film Reviews

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) • Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the birth of Universal’s classic horror characters, YouTube channel Fear: The Home of Horror are making seven of their vintage movies free for a week from 15 January 2021:

• Dracula (1931)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• The Mummy (1932)
• The Invisible Man (1933)
• The Wolf Man (1941)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).

Below are our reviews of two of these offerings…

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Dr Frankenstein, goaded by an even crazier scientist, builds his monster a female mate.

We live in a post-‘Dark Universe’ era. Watching Universal fumble reviving their classic monsters has been more fun than the resulting films themselves. Then Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man (2020) had the revolutionary idea of being foremost a standalone horror, unencumbered by setting…