One of my all time favorites.

Captivating movie !

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

It reminds me of Roger Corman's Poe movies where old sets were used over for a short period of time to make a new spinoff like The Terror. All of the characters are leftover from when Frankenstein terrorized the land in the first movie directed by James Whale. A bad time filler was where the villagers and their leaders give the Son of Frankenstein his official unwelcoming ceremony to present his inherited papers. Why not just show an unwelcome atmosphere in the town? We also see the large sets from the first movie, while the maids greet the Frankenstein family with bedrooms that have two beds matched head to head, to guarantee dread. It all comes across as Mel Brooks parody satire instead of a serious film.

The Frankenstein saga continues on third movie where the Universal Studio make your main trademake,monsters and relatives stuffs,in this movie follow the same success's formula starting where the previous one left off,creating the same spooky atmosphere,large sets stage to making the whole concept still alive in the fabulous black and white scary monocromatic color,instead to see Boris Karloff shines here we have Bela Lugosi stealing the entire show in certainly one best acting or nearly,without forget the remain cast in particular way Lionel Atwill as the funny inspector Krogh whom the movie's success deserve too much your great and remarkable performance noticed for many!!!Resume:First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.25

While this is probably the best of the first three Frankenstein movies, there is virtually no continuity. They completely ignore what happened in the first two movies and just make up a new story about the past. So in the fours years since Bride Of Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein has moved to America, had a son, died and his son is a married adult with a child of his own. He decides to go back to the old family mansion, thinking he can make the locals love him and restore the name of Frankenstein. When he gets there his servants from America are already there and have prepared the house. Finding out his butler's name is Benson was hilarious to me and I couldn't stop thinking about it. He decides to repair his dad's laboratory which has a hole in the roof from when he killed the monster. Even though he never had a laboratory(he worked in an old windmill that was destroyed) and the monster destroyed himself and Dr. Pretorius' lab at the same time. Although they completely changed the back story, it's still better than the first two. Did I mention that Wolf Frankenstein's son is possibly the worst child actor to have ever been caught on film? Plus he has a ridiculous perm and an accent that makes him almost impossible to understand. Sometimes it sounds Cajun but I'm not really sure. This is the first time ever I would recommend not seeing the earlier movies first. If you haven't seen them already, start here.

Returning to his family's ancestral castle, the Baron's youngest son finds that his father's hunchback assistant has been keeping his father's creation alive and attempts to resurrect it only to learn the creature is seeking out revenge on the town and tries to stop it.This one here was quite the fun if overlong effort. What really short-changes this one is the extremely long running time that slows this one considerably as the build-up to getting the creature to live again really feels way too drawn-out. Though settling the issue of what's going on and getting many of the story lines set up, the fact that it goes into overdrive with the detail of the villagers' distrust of him and their coldness towards the family as well as settling into the castle and preparing to reanimate the creature as there's quite a long time here before anything happens and altogether drags this one out far longer than it really should've been. Even more overlong scenes here come from the rather overblown manner of this one going for the endless scenes of the Baron being questioned and threatened at the end while he's stuck at the house, as the repetitious nature of these scenes quickly wears on the viewer. These here are the film' few flaws, as even though it might not be a classic like the original entries, this one is a lot of fun. Most of that comes from when the discovery of the creature is made, this one really kicks up a little bit with some rather solid action scenes. The initial resurrection is quite spectacular, as it's a little unknown if the experiment will bring it back to life as the various methods used, from the scientific explanations about the creature to the medical work done to fix damage done and the final blow comes in the moment where the electricity comes into play, makes this scene is all the more watchable. When it gets to the monster's first moving appearance as it emerges as a silhouette behind an unsuspecting character and slowly lumbers over to them, it makes for a great visual to open with. That the creature also manages a slight rampage at the end of the film, including the one highlight where it stalks the victim through a mountain pass and the really spectacular part where it goes berserk in the laboratory makes for some exciting scenes. The final fate of the creature is quite exhilarating, making it a little on the sad end of the spectrum, does have a sense of lifting the film out of it's action doldrums and putting some life into the proceedings. As well, the rebuilding of the creature looks quite good and just as great as ever. The last plus here is that the house itself does have some great designs to it that give it a distinct look, featuring a rather impressive Gothic atmosphere with the overall layout and design of the house that's especially true with the huge open spaces in the kitchen and the laboratory as well as the distinct appearance of the stairway in the main room, and then there's the traditional fog- lined set-up that gives this a chilling overall feel. Overall, this was a really fun entry in the series.Today's Rating/PG: Violence.