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Son of Frankenstein
(1939)
ALL NEW! NEW thrills!
NEW chills! When grim shadows of the past stirred his dread
heritage!
Director: Rowland V. Lee, rated Approved
  Starring:
Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson,
Donnie Dunagan, Emma Dunn, Edgar Norton, Perry Ivins, Dwight Frye, Lawrence
Grant, Lionel Belmore, Michael Mark
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
- good
"By heaven, I think
you're a worse fiend than your father. Where is this monster?
Where is he? I'll stay by your side until you confess. And if
you don't, I'll feed you to the villagers, like the Romans fed
Christians to the lions." -
Inspector Krogh
Why watch this?
This third
Frankenstein
effort still retains the energy of the
original two films.
Plot Summary:
Years after his father's infamy, Wolf von Frankenstein returns
to his ancestral home to restore honor to his family's name.
After he arrives, a disgruntled, deformed grave robber named
Ygor reveals that the Frankenstein monster is still alive and in
a comatose state. Despite local hostility and a series of
mysterious murders, Wolf decides to resurrect the creature to
study it scientifically.
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Dad's Preview:
This horror sequel is the last time Karloff would don the
monster's incredible make-up and costume. Others horror actors
(Chaney Jr., Lugosi, etc.) would portray
the monster in films of increasingly lesser quality. Here, it is Bela Lugosi, who gives perhaps the performance of his
macabre career. As Ygor, a maimed humpback, he breathes true
evil into the film's vengeful villain - one determined to
restore the creature to unnatural life! He does, after all,
require a proxy
to carry out the murders of those responsible for his broken
neck. I
also loved the mounting tension regarding the monster and Wolf's
young son, Peter. The young boy and the monster are both "sons" of Frankenstein.
Will
either son survive the sins of arrogant men who decided
to play God? It is pure gothic horror fun. Turn out the lights
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Rowland V. Lee;
Universal Pictures Co.
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