Was watching the movie last night and a bunch of things struck me.
1 - How much older poor Dwight Frye looks in his scenes. Much older than in Dead Men Walk, filmed the year after this.
2 - How exactly does Elsa know who Ygor is after he and the Monster appear at the window? Since the whole point is Ludvig keeping his family's past from everyone and she only read HENRY'S diary, and in her last scene doesn't recognize the character....errr....????
3 - I realize it's Cloestine is a dummy for the shot where the Monster knocks the villager off the roof but it's still pretty funny that in the next shot she is still as chipper and cute as ever. Makes you wonder about the girl.
4 - In the scene where the mob assembles to prepare to storm Frankenstein's estate, Cloestein's father mentions it's been two weeks since his daughter was stolen. Yet it's pretty obvious that the monster returning with the girl and having his brain operation and recovering from it all occur on the same night. Which means Cloestein and the Monster spent two weeks....at Disney World?
5 - One thing I never noticed before is that Chaney is totally silent in this film. Not a grunt nor a roar. Watching Ted's 100 years of horror Frankenstein doc, the director of the tv version with Lon mentions he wanted a silent monster and Lon used the live TV element to thwart that (which doesn't ring with the "drunk Lon thought this was a rehearsal" story). I wonder if he remembered being mute in Ghost and thought it less effective.
6 - The Monster turns on Ygor in this film for no real reason I can see. He's tossing him away at every opportunity and crushes him in the door. The script missed a good chance of showing the Monster seeing Ygor's evil and rejecting it in favor of the child's innocence, which would have made the final brain transformation all the more heartbreaking.
7 - In the shots of the cart escaping the courthouse the Monster isn't in the back. Oops!
8 - Despite all this I still like this film and think it's one of the most FUN horror movies of all time.
1 - How much older poor Dwight Frye looks in his scenes. Much older than in Dead Men Walk, filmed the year after this.
2 - How exactly does Elsa know who Ygor is after he and the Monster appear at the window? Since the whole point is Ludvig keeping his family's past from everyone and she only read HENRY'S diary, and in her last scene doesn't recognize the character....errr....????
3 - I realize it's Cloestine is a dummy for the shot where the Monster knocks the villager off the roof but it's still pretty funny that in the next shot she is still as chipper and cute as ever. Makes you wonder about the girl.
4 - In the scene where the mob assembles to prepare to storm Frankenstein's estate, Cloestein's father mentions it's been two weeks since his daughter was stolen. Yet it's pretty obvious that the monster returning with the girl and having his brain operation and recovering from it all occur on the same night. Which means Cloestein and the Monster spent two weeks....at Disney World?
5 - One thing I never noticed before is that Chaney is totally silent in this film. Not a grunt nor a roar. Watching Ted's 100 years of horror Frankenstein doc, the director of the tv version with Lon mentions he wanted a silent monster and Lon used the live TV element to thwart that (which doesn't ring with the "drunk Lon thought this was a rehearsal" story). I wonder if he remembered being mute in Ghost and thought it less effective.
6 - The Monster turns on Ygor in this film for no real reason I can see. He's tossing him away at every opportunity and crushes him in the door. The script missed a good chance of showing the Monster seeing Ygor's evil and rejecting it in favor of the child's innocence, which would have made the final brain transformation all the more heartbreaking.
7 - In the shots of the cart escaping the courthouse the Monster isn't in the back. Oops!
8 - Despite all this I still like this film and think it's one of the most FUN horror movies of all time.
