"92% approval rating on movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on eight reviews. The Revenge of Frankenstein The Revenge of Frankenstein is a 1958 British horror film made by Hammer Film Productions. Directed by Terence Fisher, the film stars Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn and Eunice Gayson. In the US, it was released in June, 1958 on a double bill with ""Curse of the Demon"". ""The Revenge of Frankenstein"" was a sequel to ""The Curse of Frankenstein"", the studio's 1957 adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel ""Frankenstein"". In 1860, Baron Victor Frankenstein, sentenced to death, escapes execution by the"
"Frankenstein monster created by Mary Shelley in her 1818 novel ""Frankenstein"". Considered by comics historians to be ""America's first ongoing comic book series to fall squarely within the horror genre"", the feature, set in New York City circa 1930, starred a guttural, rampaging creature actually dubbed ""Frankenstein"" (unlike Shelley's nameless original monster). Briefer's better-known version of the Frankenstein monster, however, developed upon the monster's return from the war, in ""Frankenstein"" #1 (undated, 1945), Frankenstein settled into small-town life, becoming a genial neighbor who ""began having delightful adventures with Dracula, the Wolfman and other horrific creatures. Briefer, with his trademark ""loose"
"Frankenstein's monster Frankenstein's monster, often referred to as ""Frankenstein"", is a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"". Shelley's title thus compares the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein, to the mythological character Prometheus, who fashioned humans out of clay and gave them fire. In Shelley's Gothic story, Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguous method consisting of chemistry and alchemy. Shelley describes the monster as , hideously ugly, but sensitive and emotional. The monster attempts to fit into human society but is shunned, which leads him to seek revenge"
"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a 1994 horror drama film directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Ian Holm, John Cleese, and Aidan Quinn. The film was produced on a budget of $45 million and is considered the most faithful film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel ""Frankenstein"", despite several differences and additions in plot from the novel. In 1794, Captain Walton leads a troubled expedition to reach the North Pole. While their ship is trapped in the ice of the Arctic Sea, the crew discovers a man, Victor"
"dangerous or questionable, which can make them accidental villains. The prototypical fictional mad scientist was Victor Frankenstein, creator of his eponymous monster, who made his first appearance in 1818, in the novel ""Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus"" by Mary Shelley. Though the novel's title character, Victor Frankenstein, is a sympathetic character, the critical element of conducting experiments that cross ""boundaries that ought not to be crossed"", heedless of the consequences, is present in Shelley's novel. Frankenstein was trained as both an alchemist and a modern scientist, which makes him the bridge between two eras of an evolving archetype. The book"
"Victor Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein is the main character in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"". He is an Italian-Swiss scientist who, after studying chemical processes and the decay of living beings, gains an insight into the creation of life and gives life to his own creature, often referred to as Frankenstein's monster, or often colloquially referred to as simply ""Frankenstein"". Victor later regrets meddling with nature through his creation, as he inadvertently endangers his own life, as well as the lives of his family and friends, when the creature seeks revenge against him. Some aspects of the"
"of Shelley's works such as ""Prometheus Unbound"", ""The Masque of Anarchy"", ""The Witch of Atlas"", ""Peter Bell the Third"", ""The Sensitive Plant"", and the play ""The Cenci"" were written in Mary's handwriting but composed by Shelley. Such critics claim, therefore, that handwriting in itself is irrelevant in determining authorship. Frankenstein authorship question The ""Frankenstein"" authorship question is a debate over the role and the extent of Percy Bysshe Shelley's contributions in the writing of the novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"", published anonymously in London in 1818. Handwriting analyses have shown that some portions of the original manuscript were written"
"there were insect eggs embedded in his samples. Later commentators agreed that the insects were probably cheese mites or dust mites that had contaminated Crosse's instruments. It has been suggested that this episode was a source of inspiration for Mary Shelley's novel ""Frankenstein"", but this cannot have been the case, since Crosse's experiments took place almost 20 years after the novel was first published. The idea appears to have originated in the book ""The Man Who Was Frankenstein"" (1979) by Peter Haining. Mary Shelley did, however, know Crosse through a mutual friend, the poet Robert Southey. Percy Bysshe Shelley and"
"The first issue featured the non-superpowered, costumed crime fighter K the Unknown, whose name was changed to the Black Owl in issue #2, April, 1940). In ""Prize Comics"" #7 (Dec. 1940), writer-artist Dick Briefer introduced the eight-page feature ""New Adventures of Frankenstein"", an updated version of 19th-century novelist Mary Shelley's much-adapted Frankenstein monster. Considered by comics historians including Don Markstein as ""America's first ongoing comic book series to fall squarely within the horror genre"", the feature, set in New York City circa 1930, starred a guttural, rampaging creature actually dubbed ""Frankenstein"" (unlike Shelley's nameless original monster). Launched with a cover"
"Egypt; the 1821 public unwrappings of Egyptian mummies in a theatre near Piccadilly, which she may have attended as a girl; and, very likely, the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus."" As Shelley had written of Frankenstein's creation, ""A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch,"" which may have triggered young Miss Webb's later concept. In any case, at many points she deals in greater clarity with elements from the earlier book: the loathing for the much-desired object, the immediate arrest for crime and attempt to lie one's way out"
"2001 Curtis Jobling book, ""Frankenstein's Cat"", it features Frankenstein, sometime before creating his monster, creating a cat called Nine (named because he was made out of nine cats). This book was later adapted into a television series in 2007. Victor Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein is the main character in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"". He is an Italian-Swiss scientist who, after studying chemical processes and the decay of living beings, gains an insight into the creation of life and gives life to his own creature, often referred to as Frankenstein's monster, or often colloquially referred to as"
"and he will become wicked."" Shelley referred to the monster as the ""Being"" five times in his review. He also referred to the anonymous author using a masculine pronoun, ""he"". The British Library analysis noted the direct connection to Shelley's poem ""Mont Blanc"" which was published in 1817 in ""History of a Six Weeks' Tour"". ""Frankenstein"" develops the theme of ""necessity"" which Shelley wrote about in that poem. It is a philosophical idea of the novel. The review related ""Frankenstein"" to Percy Bysshe Shelley's own works: ""The environment is an aspect Shelley also emphasises in his preface to the 1818"
"evening, the discussions turned to the nature of the principle of life. ""Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated"", Mary noted, ""galvanism had given token of such things"". It was after midnight before they retired, and unable to sleep, she became possessed by her imagination as she beheld the ""grim terrors"" of her ""waking dream"", her ghost story: She began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into her first novel, ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"", published in 1818. She later described that summer in Switzerland as the moment ""when I"
"threatens: She repeats this same threat in a slightly modified form in the ""Epic of Gilgamesh"". ""Frankenstein"" by Mary Shelley, while not a zombie novel in particular, prefigures many 20th-century ideas about zombies in that the resurrection of the dead is portrayed as a scientific process rather than a mystical one, and that the resurrected dead are degraded and more violent than their living selves. ""Frankenstein"", published in 1818, has its roots in European folklore, whose tales of vengeful dead also informed the evolution of the modern conception of the vampire. Later notable 19th-century stories about the avenging undead included"
"of the novel. It has become common to refer to the creature by the name ""Frankenstein"" or ""The Monster"" but neither of these names are as apparent in the book. As in Shelley's story, the creature's namelessness became a central part of the stage adaptations in London and Paris during the decades after the novel's first appearance. In 1823, Shelley herself attended a performance of Richard Brinsley Peake's ""Presumption"", the first successful stage adaptation of her novel. ""The play bill amused me extremely, for in the list of dramatis personae came _________, by Mr T. Cooke,"" she wrote to her"
"the novel Frankenstein creates a mate, but destroys it without bringing it to life. Balderston also created the Mary Shelley prologue. After several months Whale was still not satisfied with Balderston's work and handed the project to playwright William J. Hurlbut and Edmund Pearson. The final script, combining elements of a number of these versions, was submitted for Hays office review in November 1934. Kim Newman reports that Whale planned to make Elizabeth the heart donor for the bride, but film historian Scott MacQueen states that Whale never had such an intention. Sources report that Bela Lugosi and Claude Rains"
"claimed that Shelley was intricately and minutely involved in the composition of the novel from the outset. In 1993 in ""Monstrous Imagination"", Marie-Hélène Huet argued that Percy Bysshe Shelley was the novel's co-author by documenting his undisputed contributions (e.g., the preface, the use of words and ideas associated with him, and poetry inserts). In 2007, John Lauritsen's ""The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein"" was published in which he argued that Percy Bysshe Shelley was the author of the novel. He further maintained that the novel ""has consistently been underrated and misinterpreted"" and that its dominant theme is ""male love"". English professor"
"of other sources have been suggested as Shelley's actual inspiration. The German name ""Frankenstein"" means ""stone of the Franks"", and it is associated with various places in Germany, including Frankenstein Castle (""Burg Frankenstein"") in Darmstadt, Hesse, and Frankenstein Castle in Frankenstein, a town in the Palatinate. There is also a castle called Frankenstein in Bad Salzungen, Thuringia, and a municipality called Frankenstein in Saxony. Until 1945, Ząbkowice Śląskie, now a city in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, was mainly populated by Germans and named ""Frankenstein"" in German, and was the site of a in 1606, which has been suggested as an"
"to be substantially discounted in preference to his own concerns for promoting his own version of an idealized consciousness of a society guided by the precepts of High British Romanticism and High British Idealism. ""Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus"", written by Mary Shelley when she was 18, was published in 1818, two years before Percy Shelley's above mentioned play. It has endured as one of the most frequently revisited literary themes in twentieth century film and popular reception with few rivals for its sheer popularity among even established literary works of art. The primary theme is a parallel to the"
"Frankenstein (1973 film) Frankenstein is a 1973 American television movie adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel ""Frankenstein"" adapted by Sam Hall and ""Dark Shadows"" creator Dan Curtis, with Robert Foxworth in the title role and Bo Svenson as the Monster. The Robert Cobert score was not original to this film. Cobert used musical cues from ""Dark Shadows"" and Dan Curtis' adaptation of ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."" The film was shown over two nights on ""ABC's Wide World of Mystery"". Part 1 of the film was shown on the same night, and on the same network, as"
"your labours"". Mary Shelley wrote the novel to highlight the problems progress, science, and industry create for humanity. Throughout the action, the monster constantly asks what he is and why he was created. Likewise, Adam escapes from 314 and makes his way out into the world, and much like Frankenstein's monster, he finds a little boy and asks the boy who and what he (Adam) is, then murders and dissects him. Adam is a curious character, seeking the truth and pontificating on what he has learned, even if he gained the knowledge through heartless violence. Whedon wanted Adam to be"
"being mere coincidences. Leslie S. Klinger, in ""The New Annotated Frankenstein"" (2017), argued it is spurious to maintain ""that the biographical coincidences of Victor Frankenstein and Percy Shelley are evidence of Percy's authorship"". Instead, critics rely on the handwriting evidence and Mary's statements in the 1831 Introduction to the novel. In the 1831 Introduction, Mary Shelley admitted that she was incapable of writing ""any thing worthy of notice"" at that time. She stated that her husband was responsible for the final form the novel took. Her husband, she claimed, wanted to make her famous and to launch her on a"
"& executed. I was much amused, & it appeared to excite a breatheless eagerness in the audience."" Set in Geneva 'and its vicinity', Peake's adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel portrays the story of Frankenstein as he creates a mute blue-skinned Creature, known as the Hobgoblin. Often shown through the concerned eyes of his bumbling servant, Fritz, and his esteemed friend, Clerval, Frankenstein's work is brought to light. This play brings Mary Shelley's famous characters to life in a series of three acts, each of which highlight the important themes of community and romance. In the opening scene, Clerval shows concern"
"Frankenstein in popular culture Mary Shelley's 1818 novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"", and the famous character of Frankenstein's monster, have influenced popular culture for at least a century. The work has inspired numerous films, television programs, video games and derivative works. The character of the monster remains one of the most recognized icons in horror fiction. The first film adaptation of the tale, ""Frankenstein"", was made by Edison Studios in 1910, written and directed by J. Searle Dawley, with Augustus Phillips as Frankenstein, Mary Fuerte as Elizabeth, and Charles Ogle as the Monster. The brief (16 min.) story has"
"Byron suggested they each write a ghost story. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote ""A Fragment of a Ghost Story"" and wrote down five ghost stories recounted by Matthew Gregory ""Monk"" Lewis, published posthumously as the ""Journal at Geneva (including ghost stories)"" and on return to England, 1816, the journal entries beginning on 18 August 1816. Mary Shelley worked on a tale with her husband that would later evolve into ""Frankenstein"". Byron wrote (and quickly abandoned) a fragment of a story, ""A Fragment"", featuring the main character Augustus Darvell, which Polidori used later as the basis for his own tale, ""The Vampyre"","
"Having no other option, the gang ride in the express. Velma reveals the truth that her real last name is Von Dinkenstein, which her great grandparents shortened to Dinkley when they moved in from the old country. Her ancestor is Baron Von Dinkenstein, who was said to have created a monster called Frankencreep (which inspired famous novelist Mary Shelley to write her novel ""Frankenstein""). Velma explains that this was the reason that she started solving mysteries. All of a sudden, the train starts to pick up speed. After getting everyone to the last car, Shaggy goes to the front of"
"against Frankenstein. According to the scholar Joseph Carroll, the monster occupies ""a border territory between the characteristics that typically define protagonists and antagonists"". Mary Shelley's original novel never ascribes an actual name to the monster; although when speaking to his creator, Victor Frankenstein, the monster does say ""I ought to be thy Adam"" (in reference to the first man created in the Bible). Victor refers to his creation as ""creature"", ""fiend"", ""spectre"", ""the demon"", ""wretch"", ""devil"", ""thing"", ""being"", and ""ogre"". Frankenstein's creation did at least once refer to himself as a ""monster"" as well as other villagers towards the end"
"watched by their captors wondering whether it will love or hate Victoria for creating it. Serena Davies of ""The Daily Telegraph"" called the film ""chilling and surprisingly poignant."" Frankenstein (2007 film) Frankenstein is a 2007 British television film produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. It was written and directed by Jed Mercurio, adapted from Mary Shelley's original novel to a present-day setting. Dr. Victoria Frankenstein, a female geneticist, accidentally creates a monster while growing her son's clone from stem cells as an organ donor in an effort to prevent his imminent death. The film was broadcast on 24 October 2007,"
"her hard life also influenced the themes within ""Frankenstein."" The themes of loss , guilt, and the consequences of defying nature present in the novel all developed from Mary Shelley's own life. The loss of her mother, the relationship with her father, and the death of her first child created the monster and his separation from parental guidance. Guilt stemmed from her not feeling good enough for Percy because of the loss of their child. During the rainy summer of 1816, the ""Year Without a Summer"", the world was locked in a long cold volcanic winter caused by the eruption"
"Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein is the fact that Franken Stein has the classic personality of a psychopath or serial killer. In 2005, Dead Dog Comics produced a sequel to the Frankenstein mythos with ""Frankenstein: Monster Mayhem"", written by R. D. Hall with art by Jerry Beck. In Dead Dog's version, the monster sets out to create his own Necropolis. Also in 2005, Speakeasy Comics put out their sequel, ""The Living and the Dead"", written by Todd Livingston and Robert Tinnell, with art by Micah Farritor. In it, Victor, now calling himself Hans, must create a new body for his first"
"named himself after the English poet John Clare. As told by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in the attic of his boarding house through an ambiguously described scientific method consisting of chemistry (from his time as a student at University of Ingolstadt) and alchemy (largely based on the writings of Paracelsus, Albertus Magnus, and Cornelius Agrippa). Frankenstein is disgusted by his creation, however, and flees from it in horror. Frightened, and unaware of his own identity, the monster wanders through the wilderness. He finds brief solace beside a remote cottage inhabited by a family of peasants. Eavesdropping, the"
"a ""ghost writing"" contest was proposed. This contest was also what led to the creation of ""Frankenstein"" according to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 Preface to the novel. The story is important in the development and evolution of the vampire story in English literature as one of the first to feature the modern vampire as able to function in society in disguise. The short story first appeared under the title ""A Fragment"" in the 1819 collection ""Mazeppa: A Poem"", published by John Murray in London. The story is written in an epistolary form with the narrator recounting the events that had"
"part including the final seventh and eighth issues. The second part was later delayed to 2016, but as of October 2018 it remains unreleased. Skroce promised they will stick to the schedule if they decide to do a second series of the comic. The comic tells the story of Frankenstein's monster, who survived the events of Mary Shelley's novel and adopted his creator's name as his own (and earned doctoral degrees). Doc Frankenstein has since been involved in world history (flashbacks show him as a gunslinger in the Wild West, a soldier in World War II, a supporter of the"