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divineandmajesticinone · 1 year

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Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley / the Monster’s Bride BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) dir. James Whale

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lady-of-the-spirit · 10 months

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Universal Monsters + Fuckability

Qualifications (choosing movies)

I have seen the movie.

Characters listed as part of the Universal Monsters lineup (Phantom of the Opera from 1925 for example is not included.)

Personality and events of film considered just as much as physical attractiveness.

[ID: Picture of Bela Lugosi as Dracula, dressed in black clothes and a cape, staring at the camera with an annoyed expression. His face is slightly in the shadows. End id]

Dracula (1931)

Bela Lugosi kinda handsome

Vampires hot

Rich.

Has three wives (dick is good) (plus you can hang out with wives)

Hypnosis

Loses points because the movie was boring and he kills Lucy Westron, poly icon (antifeminist)

7/10

[ID: image of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein, holding his hands to his face, looking offscreen and with a disturbed expression. The lighting only lights up his face. End ID]

Frankenstein (1931)

Literally just born (minor) and doesn’t understand sex

Movie diverged too much from the book for me to like it

Too awkward and big

Unclear if he has any genitalia at all

1/10 because this image is cool and a little sexy

[ID: Boris Karloff as Imhotep the mummy. His skin is dried and sunken in. He's glaring at something offscreen. He's dressed in a high collar brown shirt and a cap that covers the top of his head. End ID]

The Mummy (1932)

One of my faves

Backstory is centered around LOVE - will literally curse the gods and forsake everyone for his lover. Hot.

The opening scene where he came awake for the first time was sexy.

Anti colonialist

Hypnosis

Nice voice

Loses points for unfortunately not being very attractive - dry skin

9/10

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The Invisible Man (1933)

Wanted to take over the world and went to his best friend and not his FIANCE??? Gay, and clearly doesn’t care about lover’s needs (even with said best friend).

Not a monster, just an asshole

Pushed over a baby carriage! Disgusting

We don’t know what he looks like. Sexiness only comes from whether or not you think having sex with someone you can’t see would be hot or not.

Gets points for being a silly little guy, ambition being hot, and the “villain goes soft only for his loved one” trope

Still. -5/10

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Like Frankenstein, Literally just born (minor) and doesn’t understand sex

Also had strong reaction AGAINST being an object of desire and so ranking her is missing the point

However because she’s the ONLY woman on this list she gets special privileges.

will be ranking her as if she was not literally ten minutes old and if she understood sex

[ID: Elsa Lanchester as the bride of Frankenstein. The lighting of the image is very bright, so you can see her whole upper body with very few shadows. She's staring at something offscreen with a curious but frightened expression. She wears white robes, and her hair is black with a white streak up the sides, in a beehive style. End ID]

Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (cont.)

Horror movie scream A+

Gorgeous and Iconic

Understands No Means No. (Unlike other creatures on this list)

Baby Girl you are SO unnerving 💖💖💖

Tall Woman. Probably strong.

10/10.

[ID: Two images of the wolf man. One is the wolf man as the wolf man, standing in thr woods, his face covered in fur, his hands furry and clawed, looking panicked. The second is Lon Cheney Jr. as Larry Talbot, a white man with short dark hair slicked back, dressed in a suit with a plaid tie, with a stressed out look on his face. End ID]

The Wolf Man (1941)

This movie just makes me sad. Larry Talbot is a tragic figure.

But he’s also kind of a stalker (spies on woman)

Only a monster half of the time

Wolf form isn’t attractive. (human form okay.)

No sense of control.

Not even a little okay with his murders. Too pathetic and sad.

2/10

[ID: Image of the creature from the black lagoon, a creature the size of a man covered in scaley and amphibian-like skin with a fish-like face. He's mostly submerged in water, only his head and finned hands with sharp claws poking out of the water. End ID]

The Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)

Definitely my favourite

Environmentalist! Anti colonialist!

Swimming scene half creepy half romantic, also gets points for inspiring The Shape of Water (2017).

Phenomenal creature design, A+.

Just wants someone to love

Will kill everyone else but NOT lover.

Underwater sex. Rough sex.

Sex will probably be awkward because of this.

8/10

[ID: profile of the Bride of Frankenstein. Her head is tiled up and her eyes are mostly closed.]

Congratulations to our winner! Runner ups, The Mummy and the Creature From the Black Lagoon.

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neojojobot · 1 year

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GOTHIC WOMEN IN HORROR

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megmoon1111 · 7 months

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Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

#now watching #bride of frankenstein 1935 #boris karloff #elsa lanchester #shes an icon #james whale

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schlock-luster-video · 11 months

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On June 13, 1940 Bride of Frankenstein debuted in Italy.

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frankendavis · 2 years

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#horror #animated gif #frankenstein 1910 #der golem 1920 #the cabinet of dr. caligari #frankenstein 1931 #bride of frankenstein 1935 #son of frankenstein #the ghost of frankenstein

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th3d0nutl0rd · 2 months

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Watching black and white movies before you fall asleep is literally just a conduit for weird dreams huh

#bride of frankenstein #black and white film #bride of frankenstein 1935 #old movies

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subbyenbywitch · 2 years

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[movie review] halloween horror nights 30-related movies (texas chain saw massacre, bride of frankenstein, beetlejuice)

before i fly to florida to go to halloween horror nights 31 with my partner, i thought i'd recap my experiences at the past two halloween horror nights! so that'll be the next post, but in this one i'm gonna review the three movies that tied into some of the haunted houses we experienced.

the texas chain saw massacre (1974)

yeah so i’m not rewatching this sorry. i’ve seen it twice i think and i just really kind of don’t like it? which makes me a little sad because a good friend of mine wrote an incredible review on letterboxd about what makes this such an amazing movie and frankly you should probably just read that instead because it’s easily one of the best movie reviews on letterboxd like it made me genuinely regret not liking this movie.

but yeah no it’s just kinda gross and it has great bondage in it but there’s just so much grizzly stuff around it it’s almost a house of 1000 corpses sort of situation but even as someone who really doesn’t like this movie i can admit that it’s way better than house of 1000 corpses don’t get me wrong.

i don’t know guys, i just really don’t like gross-out horror? it’s just super not my jam. if you do like gross-out horror i have to imagine this movie is super up your alley, i’m not trying to knock it, it just really isn’t the kind of thing that appeals to me. c-rank

the bride of frankenstein (1935)

i fully intended to rewatch this one because i love it, but i just ran out of time before my trip! i still fully agree with this earlier review i wrote, though.

frankenstein’s monster crying, “friend!” as he’s forced to flee the monk’s burning home is one of the most heart-wrenching moments you’ll ever see in a film. and it does a better job of accomplishing everything the film’s ending is supposed to accomplish but without distracting amounts of sexism.

though it’s arguably subverted by her reaction, the entire idea of creating a woman to be a companion for the monsters parallels the story of eve being created from adam’s rib because that fucker was lonely, and it bothers me kind of a lot. and even taking the ending into account, it feels like what the audience is “supposed” to get out of it is a sense of tragedy that this woman that was created “for” the monster rejects him, all of the pathos is all centered on him. (also, like, she literally gets blown to smithereens when the monster gets mad that she doesn’t want to go to prom with him and decides to blow up everyone but daddy frankenstein and his wife. side note: why was there even a switch for that???)

this is still one of my favorite universal monsters movies because it’s very distinct and a little goofy and definitely has a very strong identity compared to the repetitive slogs many of the later sequels turn into. it still comes complete with a fairly abrupt (some would say anticlimactic) ending, though i’m actually reminded less of later universal monsters outings and more of beneath the planet of the apes.

the titular bride (really wish we had something better to call her) is important to the narrative only insofar as her rejection of the monster, and it’s really a shame because she has an iconic look and elsa lanchester knocks her brief performance out of the ballpark. (definitely better than her rather uneven performance in the framing narrative.) if i had to headcanon a continuing story for her, let’s say she goes off and finds fellow confirmed lesbian countess zaleska from dracula’s daughter and they live happily ever after conquering the world and all of us fear and love them as they reign over us in gothic splendor. a-rank

beetlejuice (1988)

i think everyone but me was the most excited for the beetlejuice (oh crap that’s three! aaaaaa) house that year, and it was also kind of pretty clearly the biggest headliner aside from that netflix show i’m not watching, so that was neat i guess?

but yeah i realized part of why i wasn’t super excited for it was i hadn’t seen the movie in FOREVER, so as a sort of combination of celebrating our trip to horror nights and “hey i wanna refresh my memory of this one” we ended up watching it, and yeah! it totally holds up. not something i’m gonna be clamoring to rewatch on the regular, but still just as solid as i remember.

michael keaton’s performance in this RULES, and i’m also a big geena davis fan both in general and here specifically. and the entire conceit of the afterlife having an inefficient bureaucracy to deal with, while certainly not how i think things work, is still an inspired choice to form a movie around.

lastly on a personal note i cannot believe my childhood gifted me both lydia deetz and wednesday addams and i was too much of a fucking coward to follow their example and be the goth i was meant to be I’M SORRY i’m trying to make up for it now! b-rank

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zegalba · 11 months

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Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Dir. James Whale

#bride of frankenstein #james whale #elsa lanchester #hair #black and white #1935

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mrbopst · 6 months

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Colin Clive lights up Boris Karloff on the set of “Bride of Frankenstein” (1935).

#Colin Clive #boris karloff #bride of frankenstein #1935 #30s #movies

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gameraboy2 · 2 years

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Elsa Lanchester as the Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

#elsa lanchester #bride of frankenstein #the bride of frankenstein #1935 #1930s #vintage #film #movie #cheesecake

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classichorrorblog · 11 months

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The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)

#Horror #Filmedit #Horroredit #The Bride of Frankenstein #Mary Shelley #James Whale #Elsa Lanchester #Boris Karloff #Colin Clive #Ernest Thesiger #Gavin Gordon #Douglas Walton #CHB #Universal Monsters #1935 #30s #Black And White #BW

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mostlygibberish · 2 years

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I liked the part with the cosmic diffuser.

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this one. Very strange stuff.

On one hand, I enjoyed the parts with the monster struggling to find his place in the world, and the mad-science laboratory scenes were well made. On the other hand, it meandered a lot, did basically nothing the original didn't already do, and ultimately felt kind of pointless.

The movie started with Mary Shelley and Lord Byron discussing the Frankenstein novel; A bizarre framing device that seemed to serve no purpose beyond re-capping the events of the first movie, partially re-writing them in the process.

It's revealed that there's another mad scientist named Dr. Pretorius, Frankenstein's even more deranged ex-mentor. He shows Frankenstein that he's been making miniature people he grew "from seed" and storing them in jars. Yep. I can't stress enough how batshit insane it was, and it had no bearing on anything that followed anyway.

Despite only one person witnessing the survival of the monster, and nobody believing them, Pretorius is somehow convinced that he's both alive, and needs a wife. There was a brief interlude in which the monster befriended a lonely old man and learned some essential life skills, like speaking a few rudimentary words, drinking liquor, and smoking cigars.

Things came to a head when the Bride the entire movie was named for appeared in the final five minutes, and did absolutely nothing. Mrs. Frankenstein, who had been kidnapped earlier but I guess freed herself off-screen somehow, showed up seconds before the stone tower's self-destruct sequence blew everything up and the movie abruptly ended.

This felt more like a goofy parody of the original than a sincere sequel. The writing and pacing were all over the place, the tone varied wildly, and the ending was remarkably rushed. Everything just felt surprisingly messy.

Something about Bride of Frankenstein just didn't click with me; Good, but not great.

#bride of frankenstein #bride of frankenstein 1935 #movie review

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weirdlookindog · 1 month

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