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Sunday, 9 October 2011

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

“Alone…bad. Friend…good!”
Forget The Empire Strikes Back or The Godfather Part II…this is still the greatest sequel ever made. Picks up right at the end of the original, where both creator and creation are given a new lease on life. The Monster is much more developed this time around; he's refined and articulate and actually given a conscience and his first words. I love how at the end, even the bride rejects him. Poor fucking monster.
“I love dead…hate living.”

5 bad hair days out of 5

Frankenstein (1931)

The tragic love story of the mad scientist and his creation; the misunderstood monster with the abnormal brain of a criminal and made up of the body parts of corpses, who was brought into the world without a will of its own and subjected to laws of which he doesn't understand...and all of its many moral implications. There’s no denying this one's a classic.

5 angry mobs out of 5