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Format: VHS
Not Rated
Recording Mode: (unknown)
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Condition: Like New
Seller's Comments: The monster that mocked the sanctity of God's creation and brought ruin to his mad-scientist master firmly established a fertile movie genre and saved a studio in the bargain. Though the definitive monster movie, it succeeds purely because of the glimmer of humanity that Boris Karloff allows us to see through the stitching and bolts, and the pathos of a barely human consciousness trapped in a hideous body. The versions available since the late '80s have restored the famously brutal sequence of the monster's encounter with a little girl at a lakeshore. Those interested in the career of the movie's director, James Whale, will want to search for Gods and Monsters (1998), an impeccably played portrait of Whale. Followed by Bride of Frankenstein (1935), possibly an even better movie if not the equal in historical importance. Interestingly, Karloff, playing "the Monster", was simply billed as "?" in the film's original opening credits!
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