Rampaging small german villages, ruining weddings, stalking the Frankenstein family.

Edison's Frankenstein - 1910
Frankenstein - 1931
Bride of Frankenstein - 1935
Son of Frankenstein - 1939
The Ghost of Frankenstein - 1942
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man - 1943
House of Frankenstein - 1944
House of Dracula - 1945
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein - 1948
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein - 1957

Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
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Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel by Mary Shelley. First published in London in 1818 (but more often read in the revised third edition of 1831), it is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution. (The novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus, alludes to the over-reaching and punishment of the character from Greek mythology.) The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. Many distinguished authors, such as Brian Aldiss, claim that it is the very first science fiction novel.

Electricity, scars, staples, & stitches, brides, pretty things, playing by the lakeside

Fire, mobs, people screaming, being chained up, hunchbacks

"The brain you stole, Fritz. Think of it. The brain of a dead man waiting to live again in a body I made with my own hands!"



Nov. 4, 1931 - Our story begins with Henry Frankenstein and his hunchback assistant Fritz stealing a body from a grave and another from the gallows. Later Fritz is sent to a medical university where he is to steal a brain for Frankenstein's creature. He accidentally drops the glass jar with the brain and instead takes another, oblivious to the jar's label "abnormal brain". Meanwhile Frankenstein's fiancée Elizabeth and his friend Victor plan to visit Frankenstein in his laboratory. After receiving a strange letter from Henry, Elizabeth becomes worried about Victor. Dr. Waldman's revelation, that her husband-to-be has left university and was involved in strange experiments only makes her more anxious. The trio arrive just in time to attend Frankenstein's final experiment, the creation of an artificial human being, which Frankenstein animates by exhibiting it to electricity created by a thunderstorm. Unfortunately, the creature turns out to be an ugly and dumb brute unable to utter a single word. When the enraged creature becomes troublesome Frankenstein locks it away in the cellar. But the Monster, repeatedly abused by Fritz with a whip and a torch, breaks free, kills Fritz and Dr. Waldmann and escapes. Meanwhile Frankenstein, believing his creature to be destroyed by Waldmann, prepares for his wedding with Elizabeth. The joyful event is suddenly wasted when a peasant father arrives in the village carrying his murdered daughter Maria. Soon a lynch mob lead by burgomaster Vogel and Frankenstein leaves to kill the Monster. In the mountains Frankenstein and his creature finally meet. The Monster drags his creator into an old windmill and throws him down the walls. Frankenstein's fall is weakened by a blade of the mill and he survives. The enraged citizens set the building on fire where the Monster is supposedly burnt to death.

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