just watch it!

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Everything went right; from the opening,where Lanchester plays Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley with a gleam in her eye, and overly sweet sarcasm, to the beginning of the sequel, where Karloff is thought dead, to Lanchesters Nefertiti hair near the end , her priceless reactions.Karloff is excellent as a monster wanting a mate. Una O'Connor is a scream as Minnie, the old biddy who is screeching to see the Monster killed, then shrieks when she spots the Monster. She is told to shut up at least five times in the film. Ernest Thesiger as Dr. Pretorius is a great mix of horror and humor; he robs graves, and also swigs gin out of laboratory beakers, has supper on top of a coffin, gets the Monster to have cigars with him. Franz Waxmans' playful score, the cinematography and set design that are both reminiscent of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919), Everything works. The perfect mix of horror and humor.

Bride Of FrankensteinIt does seem redundant to re-open a tale that was both justified and satisfied and it is always a risk to mess with the originality of it which is why for the most of the time the sequels doesn't work as the expectations are way too high but somehow they have managed to cleat out all of these problems and it is equally just as good as the first one was. James Whale keeps it smart and uses his fame and the legacy of it perfectly and squeezes out the best from all of it. Boris is as always amazing in it and this time it seemed like more of his show and he gets enough range and stage to perform what he did on The Frankenstein in a small time; if you remember that girl that he kills while playing with her, similarly he has another encounter in here with a blind man which is the highlight of the movie. Bride Of Frankenstein is fast pacing, to-the-point and exhilarating with a gripping screenplay and has a stellar performance to mesmerize the audience.

Frankenstein was a well developed movie that really showed the animations of the monster and how the monster originated. In the first movie people viewed it how even though you feel empathetic to the monster, the way he was created was so barbaric that he had to be destroyed. Viewers didn't get to really know the monster, they just knew that he was a dangerous killer that barely knew anything about the world. He was just filled with rampage and anger. In the sequel it shows how he connects with another person (the blind man) which in the first movie it showed he was completely incapable of that. The sequel humanized the monster, made him able to speak, to want and search for another soul that understood him, and/or possibly love him. This made you almost feel sorry for him, but unfortunately for this character life is only pain.

Before "The Empire Strikes Back", before "The Godfather Part II", before "Spider-Man 2" there was "Bride of Frankenstein." James Whale had already unleashed a groundbreaking classic upon the horror genre with 1931's "Frankenstein", but it was "Bride" that was his magnum opus. Everything that made the original film such a hit is multiplied x10 in this home run of a sequel. The powerful performances, the deep characters, the emotional weight, the creepy and gorgeous atmosphere and effects. "Bride of Frankenstein" is classic horror tragedy at its absolute finest, a shining treasure from a long gone Golden Age of Horror. "Bride"'s runtime is 1 hour and 15 minutes, and I never wanted it to end. The film focuses on two protagonists; Dr. Henry Frankenstein and his infamous Monster. The film balances the arcs of both these characters perfectly, keeping me invested from beginning to end. Dr. Henry Frankenstein is much more likable in this installment than the first film, a character who most certainly has learned his lesson from the grim, violent events of the first film. He creates a "mate" for his Creature not out of personal ambition or curiosity, but out of fear for the safety of his wife. However, there is still a fragment of the impulsive, crazed scientist from the first movie laying dormant in Henry's psyche, slowly and subtly revealed once Henry is threatened to create The Monster's "Bride" by Dr. Praetorious under punishment of death. Henry is forced into a battle for his very soul in "Bride of Frankenstein", a battle I was desperately rooting for him to win. The Monster's arc is just as emotionally investing and gripping; rather than fighting for his soul, he is merely fighting for hope and companionship. The Monster here is portrayed as a childlike, self loathing figure, searching desperately for a reason and justification to exist. Even after saving a small child from drowning, he is rewarded with hatred, torture and imprisonment. Watching The Monster slowly lose more and more hope in life and love over the course of the movie is heart wrenching, I just wanted to reach through the screen and give him a well deserved hug.To say the special effects have charm would be a gross understatement. The makeup effects for The Monster are much more realistic and detailed than in the first movie. (Not a small achievement, given the effects in the original "Frankenstein" were quite impressive) Dr. Praetorious's homunculi still hold up today as looking shockingly realistic and lifelike, surely they must have been truly groundbreaking back in 1935. The sets are as gorgeous as they are diverse, suitably grand and detailed. They help the world of "Bride" feel massive in scale.Boris Karloff oozes likability and sympathy in a role almost completely mute. His facial expressions carry more weight and emotion than most actors could deliver in hours of dialogue. In the few times he does speak, he brings a deep sadness and humanity to the role of The Monster. The suffering in his voice is almost contagious. Colin Clive gives a lot of depth to a role already full of it as Dr. Henry Frankenstein, balancing the line between repentant. noble soul and repressed madman. He brings a great amount of nuance and emotional range to Frankenstein.Ernest Thesiger is downright chilling in his role as the evil Dr. Praetorious. Praetorious represents the darkest, most repressed qualities of Henry Frankenstein without any of his remorse or humanity, and Thesiger plays him with a truly sinister and downright frightening screen presence.Valerie Hobson gives an underrated performance as Henry's wife Elizabeth, now a paranoid, emotional wreck from the events of the first movie. She absolutely sells Elizabeth's psychological trauma and torment. She is a living reminder of all the pain and suffering Henry inadvertently unleashed upon the world, as well as what is at stake for the future of everything he cares for if he fails to retain his humanity.Of course, it is impossible to talk about "Bride of Frankenstein" without mentioning the Hermit scenes. The scenes involving The Blind Hermit's interactions with The Monster are some of the best, most beautiful and most bittersweet scenes in film history. Seeing The Monster receive such kindness and compassion from The Hermit, acted with almost infectious warmth and charisma by O.P Huggie, after all the cruelty and injustice he's suffered is immensely satisfying. You can tell that things will end in catastrophe, but the these seemingly small moments of unconditional love and generosity between The Hermit and The Monster have more heart in them than the entirety of most feature length films today. O.P Huggie and Boris Karloff have an electric chemistry on screen, I could watch them interact for hours.The ending of the film is similarly emotional, as The Monster decides to give the ultimate sacrifice to save his creator and his wife, the very people who once feared and scorned his very existence. His time with The Hermit has taught him the value of unconditional love and empathy, of taking a "leap of faith" for the sake of helping others. It's a beautiful, searingly emotional ending complimented by a phenomenal facial acting from Karloff.I could go on and on about how masterful this film is, but everyone else already has. "Bride of Frankenstein" is well regarded as a classic, and that's a status that it most definitely deserves. Without question, a horror masterpiece.