The Bride of Frankenstein

Starring:Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Gavin Gordon, Douglas Walton, Una O'Connor, E.E. Clive, Lucien Prival, O.P. Heggie, Dwight Frye, Reginald Barlow, Mary Gordon, Anne Darling, Ted Billings, Walter Brennan, D'Arcy Corrigan, Brenda Fowler, Rollo Lloyd
Director: James Whale
Studio: Universal Studios
Product Type: DVD

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Feature titles include: The Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein, The Ghost of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein

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Frankenstein - The LEgacy Collection.......2007-07-05

The DVD was great to view; almost like it was produced recently instead of many years ago. Very enjoyable movies.

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ONE THUMB UP ONE THUMB DOWN!
A 1980's version of the Bride of Frankenstein
Kitch at it's best, but boring in parts
pleasing to look at..
very enjoyable

The Bride
Starring: Sting , Jennifer Beals , Anthony Higgins , Clancy Brown , and David Rappaport
Director: Franc Roddam
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ASIN: B00005MP52
Release Date: 2001-09-11

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ONE THUMB UP ONE THUMB DOWN!.......2007-04-16

This is a strange movie that is really two movies going on at the same time. The scenes with the Monster and his little new found friend are engaging,but the scenes with Sting and his ready made bride will bore you to tears! It's a shame as this could have been much better.

A 1980's version of the Bride of Frankenstein.......2007-04-02

Sting is Frankenstein who decides to create a mate for his first monster. There are 2 stories going on at the same time. One is about the woman Frankenstein creates and the other is the fate of his first monster who finds a friend and joins the circus. Frankenstein names his female creation Eva and decides to teach her to be an equal to men. He educates her and spends a lot of time with her as he finds himself in love with her. The movie cuts back and forth from one story to the other. In my opinion the "run away and join the circus" story takes away the intensity of the horror that Frankenstein is all about. The monster, Victor never forgets Eva and dreams of finding her again but is afraid she will reject him as she is so beautiful and he knows he is ugly. As Eva gains confidence and knowledge she begins to hate Frankenstein. She is horrified when she realizes the truth about her origins. They have fight at the end; "You did not create me." She screams and Frankenstein answers, "As a matter of fact, I did." Eva meets Victor at the end.

Kitch at it's best, but boring in parts.......2006-12-12

I have always ADORED Sting, so I saw this when I was a little girl and Police fan and LOVED it. However, I recently saw it again and noticed that it didn't hold up too well. A little slow in parts. I still adore Sting, so it is worth watching just to see him have a great time swishing around in an 80's goth redux of "The Bride of Frankenstein." If you liked him pissed of and yelly in the Hi-tech diaper in "DUNE," you'll like him here too.

pleasing to look at.........2006-10-26

I mean - Sting and Jennifer Beals together on the same screen? Forget about it. Not the greatest movie ever, but nice to look at. I actually saw this in the theater. The SECOND movie that Sting gets killed in!

very enjoyable.......2006-09-13

I don't expect anything more of a movie than to enjoy it and be entertained. I don't seek to psychoanalyze or offer up in-depth critique, it's only a movie. I either enjoy it or I don't. I like this movie, it's a great rainy day or late night flick. The scenery is beautiful and the horses are magnificent!

Universal's Classic Monster Collection (Dracula/Frankenstein/The Mummy/The Invisible Man/The Bride of Frankenstein/The Wolf Man/The Phantom of the Opera/The Creature from the Black Lagoon)

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Great Collection
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SUPERB CLASSIC MONSTER MIX
What a great collection!
If you're into the classics....you'll love these!!

Universal's Classic Monster Collection (Dracula/Frankenstein/The Mummy/The Invisible Man/The Bride of Frankenstein/The Wolf Man/The Phantom of the Opera/The Creature from the Black Lagoon)
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Frankenstein - The Legacy Collection (Frankenstein / Bride of / Son of / Ghost of / House of)
The Phantom of the Opera - The Ultimate Edition (1925 Original Version and 1929 Restored Version)
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The Mummy - The Legacy Collection (The Mummy/Mummy's Hand/Mummy's Tomb/Mummy's Ghost/Mummy's Curse)
The Val Lewton Horror Collection (Cat People / The Curse of the Cat People / I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher / Isle of the Dead / Bedlam / The Leopard Man / The Ghost Ship / The Seventh Victim / Shadows in the Dark)

ASIN: 0783242379
Release Date: 2000-08-29

Customer Reviews:

Great Collection .......2005-05-04

I bought All these Separate But there is one thing wrong "the invisible man" in this does not have a Trailer But other than that Get this if you are just starting out "Phantom of the opera" in this is the best Version out there i am not too keen on silent movies

Go For the Legacy Collections.......2004-12-24

I'm surprised to see some fairly recent reviews (2004)praising this set. Folks, this is a high price to pay for eight movies, when you can get Universal's recently released "Legacy" series for about $20 a pop. Because the "Legacy" series crams an average of five movies onto each two-disk set, the picture quality isn't as rich as it could be. (Keep in mind, though that the Universal Monster Collection was released relatively early in DVD history, and I don't think the images were cleaned up all that much. I certainly found my old VHS copy of "The Mummy" far superior to the single-disk version I bought early on. The "Legacy" series improves the picture and sound, even though neither is perfect. Universal has released "Legacy" series for Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Mummy. Each set features the original Universal movie, plus three or four sequels. The Frankenstein Legacy Collection, for instance, features all three Karloff outings, plus House of Frankenstein and Ghost of Frankenstein. The Mummy Legacy Collection features the Karloff original, plus Mummy's Hand, Ghost, Tomb and Curse. All for a great price. Check it out and save your money!

SUPERB CLASSIC MONSTER MIX.......2004-10-26

I waffled back and forth on whether to get this. By the time I was ready to go for it, it was TOO LATE. It was no longer available for sale here. But then, wouldn't you know it, dumb luck paid off when I checked back and it was available AGAIN - and for only $120!!!! What's great about this set is the original poster artwork featured on the cover of each dvd case. Plus, the individual sepia-tone processed photographs of each monster featured on the cardboard slipcase is cool. Lots of nice special features (commentaries, et al.) It is a great collection. Unfortunately Universal saw the marketing possiblities years down the road after having green-lit "Van Helsing" (which I've yet to see, hearing how ATROCIOUS it is), so the only way you can have these films is individually in their current incarnation, which I suppose will suffice as long as all original 8 in this collection are released. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

What a great collection!.......2004-08-08

It's rare to have such a collection of real, honest-to-God classics, in this case from the Universal horror vaults of the 1930s. (Most "collections", as you doubtless know, are usually Grade B to Z flicks thrown together by genre or stars' names). But this really IS a classic collection.

Sure, the Claude Rains 1943 version of "Phantom of the Opera" is relative crap, as most horror fans agree: too much opera, too little phantom (and can't compare to the Lon Chaney 1925 silent version, or even the maligned 1962 version with Herbert Lom that nobody even remembers!) But the '43 version, included in this collection, is the only inadequate entry.

Dont be put-off by the price: this is a STEAL given the contents, even if they're out-of-stock and you have to go to one of the off-vendors.

If you're into the classics....you'll love these!!.......2003-05-06

These movies are what I grew up on! If you enjoy movies with more acting from the actors and less special effects, these will not disappoint!! Great for a Saturday night home alone with a full moon on the rise.... :-)

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The Bride of Frankenstein
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN: Which Is The Best DVD Version?
Bride of Frankenstein
"There have been... developments since he came to me"
"She hate me!"

The Bride of Frankenstein
Starring: Boris Karloff , Colin Clive , Valerie Hobson , Ernest Thesiger , and Elsa Lanchester
Director: James Whale
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It appeared, at the end of the epochal 1931 horror movie Frankenstein, that the monster had perished in a burning windmill. But that was before the runaway success of the movie dictated a sequel. In Bride of Frankenstein, we see that the monster (once again played by Boris Karloff) survived the conflagration, as did his half-mad creator (Colin Clive). This remarkable sequel, universally considered superior to the original, reunites other key players from the first film: director James Whale (whose life would later be chronicled in Gods and Monsters) and, of course, the inimitable Dwight Frye, as Frankenstein's bent-over assistant. Whale brought campy humor to the project, yet Bride is also somehow haunting, due in part to Karloff's nuanced performance. The monster, on the loose in the European countryside, learns to talk, and his encounter with a blind hermit is both comic and touching. (The episode was later spoofed in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein.) A prologue depicts the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, being urged to produce a sequel by her husband Percy and Lord Byron. She's played by Elsa Lanchester, who reappears in the climactic scene as the man-made bride of the monster. Her lightning-bolt hair and reptilian movements put her into the horror-movie pantheon, despite being onscreen for only a few moments. But in many ways the film is stolen by Ernest Thesiger, as the fey Dr. Pretorious, who toasts the darker possibilities of science: "To a new world of gods and monsters!" Absolutely. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews:

The Bride of Frankenstein.......2007-06-21

Whale's brilliant, wonderfully cheeky sequel to "Frankenstein" managed to equal its predecessor in terms of tone and originality, while adding sly barbs of humor. Apart from Whale's clever, offbeat direction, the film's success is due to the marvelous cast of eccentrics: Thesiger's weird, malevolent turn as Dr. Pretorius, Dwight Frye's nutty hunchback, and the mesmerizing Elsa Lanchester, playing Mary Shelley in the film's prologue, and then appearing briefly as the shrieking Bride in a now-iconic lighting-streak fright wig, couldn't be better. Then, of course, there's Karloff, whose sad, tragic attempts to speak and connect with others simply underscore his tortured pathos. Wed yourself to the morbidly endearing "Bride."

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN: Which Is The Best DVD Version?.......2006-09-24

_Frankenstein -- The Legacy Collection_ currently has the best DVD version of _Bride of Frankenstein_. The original _Bride of Frankenstein_ is out of print, but it has been replaced with a much better version.

Using two DVD players, I loaded up both the original _Bride of Frankenstein_ and the new version from the Legacy Collection and then switched between them. Unlike the original version, the Legacy _Bride of Frankenstein_ image is centered, and in most scenes, contains approximately 20% more picture information than the original, because the edges of the picture are no longer cut off. The original version is missing a lot picture information due to its being off center and magnified.

The original _Bride of Frankenstein_ picture is virtually unacceptable due to its poor video quality. Although the picture quality of the original version is sharper than the new one, this sharpness is accompanied by excess video noise, snow and other distracting artifacts. Now, after being run through a video sanitizer, the Legacy version of _Bride of Frankenstein_ has a highly-polished, "Citizen Kane" look. The new image is now virtually free of distracting artifacts, but at the expense of some picture sharpness. Black level, on the other hand, is excellent.

The audio level of the Legacy _Bride of Frankenstein_ is much lower than that of the original version. This doesn't seem to present a problem, but it will be necessary to turn up the volume quite a bit more on the new DVD. The sound quality of the two versions seems to be about the same, once the volume is equalized.

The main attraction of the Legacy _Bride of Frankenstein_ is its grab bag price. While the original _Bride of Frankenstein_ listed for $29.98, The Legacy Collection contains Frankenstein / Bride of / Son of / Ghost of / House of -- plus all of the original supplementary material. This 5-movie collection is a real bargain at only $26.98.

Bottom line: The Legacy _Bride of Frankenstein_ -- while not as good as it could be -- is vastly superior to the original version. If the video sanitation had been turned down a notch and the volume had been turned up a notch, the Legacy version would have been nearly perfect. Maybe Universal will get it right when the 75th anniversary edition comes out in 2010.

Bride of Frankenstein.......2006-09-01

One of the most renouned sequels to the origanal Frankenstein, The Bride will really terrify viewers of all ages.
Starting where the original left off, the villagers watch as the remains of the windmill start to burn out. But, little do the villagers know that the monster still lives in a watery cave underneath the mill. He escapes and reaks havoc on the countryside. Dr. Frankenstein is approached by Dr. Pretorious who wants to construct a bride for the monster. But, things go wrong when the mate rejects the thing who is her "husband."
Equipped with a four star cast with Colin Clive reprising his role as the infamous Baron Frankenstein and Dwight Frye as a shifty henchman named Karl, The Bride of Frankenstein is the horror film of the age.

"There have been... developments since he came to me".......2006-03-15

Much like CASABLANCA or CITIZEN KANE, it is almost impossible to see THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN completely fresh because so much of our popular culture today always refers back to it already. Like those other two films even the first time you see James Whale's most celebrated film you know the lines and the situations almost before they happen because the film has had such a resonance for our culture. As the documentary that accompanies this DVD, "She's Alive!," points out, almost everything about the film was serendipitous, from the superb cast, the great make-up and art direction, the extremely witty script, and the oddly perverse spirit in which the director approached this sequel to 1931's FRANKENSTEIN. Boris Karloff greatly deepens his most celebrated role by emphasizing the creature's alienation and loneliness, but the film belongs in the end to Ernest Thesiger, unforgettable as the camp and decadent Dr. Pretorius, and of course most of all to Elsa Lanchester doing double duty as Mary Shelley and as the title role. She appears for less than five minutes in the entirety of the film, but yet she walks away with the film entirely: who can forget her uncannily pixillated movements as the Bride, suggesting she should never have been brought to life, or her great shriek of horror when she meets her groom? This is in the end more of a comedy than a horror film, but it more than meets the promise of its predecessor (and enlarges and deepens the first film's meanings).

"She hate me!".......2006-01-30

Director James Whales's sequel to the classic "Frankenstein" is even better than the original. The Monster (Boris Karloff) is cast as a more sympathetic creature, longing for peace and friendship in a world that is repulsed by it. Little wonder that so many have seen in it subtextual parallels to Whales's own life as a gay man. Such undercurrents add interest to a film that also works as pure entertainment. Karloff delivers a great performance, his last as the Monster, despite the burdensome makeup. The sets, direction, and photography create a stylistically extreme work of fantasy that is a masterpiece of pure imagination.

[DVD] Corpse Vanishes (1942) from Movie Classics

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"15 Frightful Horror Films ... Bela Lugosi ... Passport Video"

[DVD] Corpse Vanishes (1942) from Movie Classics

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Corpse Vanishes Movie Classics Starring Bela Lugosi B& W, 1942 64 Minutes Digitally Remastered/ Sound Enhanced A scientist aided by an old hag, a malicious dwarf and a brutish moron, mills virgin brides, steals their bodies and extracts gland fluid to keep his ancient wife alive and young. Horror o make your hair stand on end!

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"15 Frightful Horror Films ... Bela Lugosi ... Passport Video".......2006-10-15

Passport Video presents "The Bela Lugosi Box - 15 Frightful Films" (1942) --- (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Béla Lugosi was the stage name of actor Béla Ferenc Dezs Blaskó (October 20, 1882 - August 16, 1956) --- Lugosi was born in Lugos, Hungary, at the time part of Austria-Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania), the youngest of four children of a baker --- best known for his portrayal of "Dracula" in the American Broadway stage production, and subsequent film, of Bram Stoker's classic vampire story.

Late in his life, he again received star billing in movies when filmmaker Edward D. Wood, Jr., a fan of Lugosi, found him living in obscurity and near-poverty and offered him roles in his films, such as "GLEN OR GLENDA?" (1953) (in which his role made no more sense than the rest of the movie) and as a Dr. Frankenstein-like mad scientist in "BRIDE OF THE MONSTER" (1955), during post-production of the latter, Lugosi entered treatment for his addiction, and the premier of the film was ostensibly intended to help pay for his treatment expenses. The extras on an early DVD release of "PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE" (1959) include an impromptu interview with Lugosi upon his exit from the treatment center, which provide some rare personal insights into the man --- this was one of Lugosi's most infamous roles was released after he was dead. Ed Wood (Director) features footage of Lugosi interspersed with a double --- Wood had taken a few minutes of silent footage of Lugosi, in his Dracula cape, for a planned vampire picture but was unable to find financing for the project --- Wood later conceived of Plan 9, Wood wrote the script to incorporate the Lugosi footage and hired his wife's chiropractor to double for Lugosi in additional shots --- notice however the "double" is thinner than Lugosi, and covers the lower half of his face with his cape in every shot --- Leonard Maltin (Famous Film Critic) was quoted - "Lugosi died during production, and it shows."

Lugosi died of a heart attack on August 16, 1956 while lying in bed in his Los Angeles home. He was 73 --- Bela Lugosi was buried wearing one of the many capes from the Dracula stageplay, as per the request of his son and fifth wife, in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California --- Contrary to popular belief, Lugosi never requested to be buried in his famous cloak; Bela Lugosi, Jr. has confirmed on numerous occasions that he and his mother, Lillian, arrived at their decision independently.

BIOS:
1. Bela Lugosi (aka: Béla Ferenc Dezsõ Blaskó)
Date of birth: 20 October 1882 - Lugos, Austria-Hungary. [now Lugoj, Romania]
Date of death: 16 August 1956 - Los Angeles, California
2. Edward D. Wood Jr. (Director, Writer and Producer)
Date of birth: 10 October 1924 - Poughkeepsie, New York
Date of death: 10 December 1978 - North Hollywood, California

This collection of "The Bela Lugosi Box - 15 Frightful Films" (1942) --- still has the magic that we remember from those bygone years --- but as long as we have the labels and networks who play and show these wonderful films of yesteryear, they will never be forgotten ... Plus the half-hour tribute "100 Years of Horror: Bela Lugosi", hosted by Christopher Lee --- and a great job by Passport Video for this release --- looking forward to more of the same from the '20s and '50s vintage...order your copy now from Amazon or Passport Video, stay tuned once again for more remarkable films from the vaults of classic television and Hollywood during the Golden Era of Entertaiment.

Total Time: 1034 mins on DVD ~ Passport Video #5260 ~ (9/05/2006)

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The Bride of Frankenstein
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN: Which Is The Best DVD Version?
Bride of Frankenstein
"There have been... developments since he came to me"
"She hate me!"

Bride of Frankenstein [Region 2]
Starring: Boris Karloff , Colin Clive , Valerie Hobson , Ernest Thesiger , and Elsa Lanchester
Director: James Whale
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The Bride of Frankenstein.......2007-06-21

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN: Which Is The Best DVD Version?.......2006-09-24

Bride of Frankenstein.......2006-09-01

"There have been... developments since he came to me".......2006-03-15

"She hate me!".......2006-01-30

"Deluxe Collector's Edition 4 DVD Set" Blood of Ghastly Horror / House on Haunted Hill / the Bat / the Last Man on Earth

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"Deluxe Collector's Edition 4 DVD Set" Blood of Ghastly Horror / House on Haunted Hill / the Bat / the Last Man on Earth

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