Bride of Frankenstein

Perhaps the first true camp movie, it offers everything: love, laughs, pathos, puns, and the most beautiful reanimated corpse ever captured in black and white.  Director James Whale even has the audacity to begin his movie with Byron strutting before the Shelleys as Mary Wollstonecraft prepares to return to her Frankenstein story. 

The soundtrack is an exemplary achievement of early post-silent film music, evocative and well-positioned.  with a sense of yearning expressed so eloquently that it, ironically, gives the same effect as Frankensteins immortally awkward  mutterings ("Love dead. Hate living"): and the look in Karloff-s eyes:  that his monster has soul. 

Everything about this movie is perfect:   The Bride's mummified entrance and our first breathtaking look at the finished product.  And that shriek!  Dr. Praetorious, the blind man,

dr. frankenstein has a lesser role in this movie with more of the same.  the interesting role is that of dr. prateorious, who seems to be the devil himself at times, with a sinister amiton that's only hinted at. 

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