Click here to copy URL

Frankenstein

1931

James Whale

Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles ...

7.5

18,986

Horror. Sci-Fi Midnight funeral services are visited by Frankenstein on the lookout for human corpses. But the monster he creates is unwelcome by the real world. Based on the Mary Shelley novel.

	Author	Review
United States	Don Druker Chicago Reader	"One of the most deservedly famous and chilling horror films of all time."	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Beautiful photography, a heartbreaking story, and iconic moments from beginning to end. Absolutely unmissable. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Elliott Stein Village Voice	"The most influential horror film ever made, this stark and stylish work has a weird fairytale beauty."	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"'Frankenstein' works as a fast-moving thriller and, even now, a stylish, frighteningly atmospheric horror film, but also as a sad outcast parable."	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"Probably the most famous of all horror films, and one of the best."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"As much as the later movies diluted the character of the Frankenstein creature, nothing could blunt the impact made by Karloff in the role of the most memorable movie monster of all time. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"A stark, solid, impressively stylish film."	POS
United States	John Petrakis Chicago Tribune	"For its influence alone, this is a movie that more than deserves its classic status."	POS

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.