
Birthday:
08-30-1797
Deathday:
02-01-1851 (53 years)
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
Biography
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/; née Godwin; August 30, 1797– February 1, 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Frankenstein
Novel
event1910 star_border 6
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Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Novel
event1994 star_border 6.4
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Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
Frankenstein
Novel
event1993 star_border 6.5
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In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect man – powerful, intelligent and immune to disease. But something goes wrong in the laboratory and the doctor’s hideous creation disappears into the night. At first, Frankenstein hoped that the horrible monster would perish in the wilderness, but now he senses that it’s alive and sets out for him. Dr. Frankenstein tracks the creature to the Arctic, where the two must battle to decide who will become the master of the other’s life…or death.
Frankenstein
Novel
event1931 star_border 7.5
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Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his creation's violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.
Monster of Frankenstein
Novel
event1981 star_border 6.4
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The film centers around the life of Victor Frankenstein. After creating the monster together with his partner Zuckel, the monster attacks the assistant and falls from a cliff. Assuming the monster is dead, Victor returns to his wife Elizabeth and daughter Emily. A police inspector named Bellbeau investigates some mysterious mutilations killings, and Victor is blackmailed by his former assistant, who lost an eye in his fight with the monster.
Frankenstein
Novel
event2004 star_border 5.1
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An investigation into a serial killer leads two detectives to discover that Dr. Frankenstein and his creature are still alive after two centuries of genetic experiments.
Frankenstein
Novel
event1984 star_border 5.8
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A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
Characters
event1948 star_border 7.1
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Baggage handlers Bud and Lou accidentally stumble upon Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man.
Frankenstein
Novel
event1973 star_border 6.7
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A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation." Released as a feature on video, this was originally shown in two installments on TV as part of the Wide World of Entertainment series.
Son of Frankenstein
Novel
event1939 star_border 6.7
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One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
The Curse of Frankenstein
Novel
event1957 star_border 6.8
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Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
Frankenstein
Novel
event1987 star_border 4
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An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
Frankenstein: The True Story
Novel
event1974 star_border 7.6
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Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.
Frankenstein 90
Novel
event1984 star_border 5.9
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French cybernetics genius Victor Frankenstein carries on the work of his notorious ancestor and creates a monster, albeit one with a penchant for philosophy, etiquette and occasional bouts of murderous rage. But when the creature develops a hunger for l'amour, Frankenstein and his understanding fiancé use a cache of freshly murdered strippers to build the creature a beautiful yet dutiful bride. Can the undead find true love in a cold world, or will the French ways of passion unleash some monstrous surprises upon them all?
Lady Frankenstein
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event1971 star_border 5.5
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When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant continue his experiments.
The Horror of Frankenstein
Characters
event1970 star_border 5.9
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Young Victor Frankenstein returns from medical school with a depraved taste for beautiful women and fiendish experiments.
Frankenstein General Hospital
Novel
event1988 star_border 4.6
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A mad doctor puts together a new body by using body parts he steals from a mortuary at the hospital where he works.
Frankenstein 1970
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event1958 star_border 5.4
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The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.
Terror of Frankenstein
Novel
event1977 star_border 7.4
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Victor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family.
Monster Mash: The Movie
Characters
event1995 star_border 4.8
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Teenagers Scott and Mary are on their way to a Halloween party when their car breaks down, and they encounter a creepy castle where the depraved Dr. Frankenstein seeks to put Scott's brain in his monstrous creation. As for Mary, Count Dracula wants her for... well, you know.
La Sangre de Frankenstein
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event2002 star_border 10
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Dr. Frankenstein is pursued by the ex-policeman Avio, who knows that he murders people for his experiments. Avio is assisted by Marilyn Manson, who works for him, but they know that the police, the government, and the elite are supporting Dr. Frankenstein. That's why they must be careful when facing this psychopath and his henchmen. In the end, everything will be resolved in an extensive mystical battle, which includes kung fu, lightning, and dismemberment.
Edison's Frankenstein
Novel
event1990
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Thoroughly researched remake of the first screen version of Mary Shelley's story. Blending visual nightmare & Gothic romance, it tells this much trampled tale more as Jekyll and Hyde ghost story. A look at one man's struggle with the inadequacies of solitary creation.
Frankenstein: A Love Story
Novel
event1974 star_border 7.6
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Fascinated by the idea of being able to create life through science, a count produces a monster from corpses. Does the creature have a soul?
Il Mostro di Frankenstein
Novel
event1920 star_border 8
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The last silent Frankenstein film. While there is plenty of promotional material proving this film was shown internationally, there is currently no known film print and it is believed lost. A scientist manages to create a man with a chemical formula of his own invention, but the creature rebels against his creator and commits all sorts of disasters until he is reduced to impotence by the baron.
Frankenstein
Novel
event2007 star_border 5.2
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Frankenstein is a 2007 British television film produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. It was written and directed by Jed Mercurio, adapted from Mary Shelley's original novel to a present-day setting. Dr. Victoria Frankenstein, a female geneticist, accidentally creates a monster while growing her son's clone from stem cells as an organ donor in an effort to prevent his imminent death.
I, Frankenstein
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event2014 star_border 5.4
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200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.
Flesh for Frankenstein
Novel
event1973 star_border 5.7
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Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness dallies with the randy new manservant and soon the decadent, permissive household is consumed by an outrageous, bizarre and hilarious combination of death and dismemberment.
Frankenstein’s Army
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event2013 star_border 6.1
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Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades -- a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
Original Story
event2011 star_border 8
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Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing tale.
Bikini Frankenstein
Original Story
event2010 star_border 6.2
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Convinced that the average male couldn't tell the difference between a living woman and a corpse, the nefarious Dr. Frankenstein creates an undead sex-kitten named Eve.
Victor Frankenstein
Novel
event2015 star_border 6
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Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Frankenstein Rising
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event2010 star_border 9.5
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A modern day descendent of Frankenstein becomes obsessed with his ancestor's work and seeks to replicate them and create a living man from lifeless tissue.
Doctor Franken
Novel
event1980 star_border 2
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This variation of the Frankenstein legend, set in a brownstone in present-day Manhattan, has Robert Vaughn as a determined New York surgeon bringing "parts" home from work -- the hospital where he does experimental research -- to painstakingly rebuild the shattered body of an anonymous patient with organs from various donors.
Have You Got Any Castles?
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event1938 star_border 6.4
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Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably the various pages of Green Pastures all joining in on a song, The Thin Man entering The White House Cookbook and exiting much fatter, and The House of Seven (Clark) Gables singing backup to Old King Cole. The Three Musketeers break loose, become Three Men on a Horse, grab the Seven Keys to Baldpate, and set the Prisoner of Zenda free. They are soon chased by horsemen from The Charge of the Light Brigade and Under Two Flags and beset by the cannons of All Quiet on the Western Front. All this disturbs the sleep of Rip Van Winkle, who opens Hurricane so that everyone is (all together now) Gone with the Wind.
Frankenstein
Novel
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Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project
Novel
event2010 star_border 6.3
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A boy returns home from the institution where he grew up, but finds he is not welcome there. He fights to win the love of his family but ends up murdering them.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
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event1999 star_border 7.3
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An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster
Novel
event2022
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Follows six talented performers who interpret Mary Shelley’s classic novel from their own perspective; as young people growing up in 21st-century Britain. Using only their own mouths to make every sound in the film, with beatboxing and a capella, they explore how today’s society creates its own monsters.
Frankenstein
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event2022 star_border 10
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Dr Frankenstein obsesses over his creation in Blackeyed Theatre’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, in which The Creature is brought to life through puppetry. Captured live at Wilde Theatre, Bracknell, in 2022, this production features ensemble storytelling, multi-roling and live music and explores themes of revenge, prejudice and ambition.
The Bride!
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In the 1930s, a lonely Frankenstein travels to Chicago to seek the aid of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention of the police and a wild and radical social movement.
Bride of Frankenstein
Original Story
event1935 star_border 7.5
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Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
Sherlock Holmes vs. Frankenstein
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In 1898, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson travel to Germany to investigate a strange case in the village of Darmstadt near castle Frankenstein.
Frankenstein Conquers the World
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event1965 star_border 6.6
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During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.
The Invisible Girl
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event2023
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A queer spin inspired by Mary Shelley's The Invisible Girl, told through the eyes of Henrietta and her lost love, Rosina.
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein
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event1999 star_border 6.8
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The Chipmunks work in an amusement park attraction. After Alvin drives a crazy tour group, they miss their next performance and are locked in the park after closing time. Little do they know that the real Dr. Frankenstein has been hired in a new attraction called, "Frankenstein's Castle"; figuring that the castle isn't scary enough, the mad scientist recreates the real Monster.
Torticola versus Frankensberg
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event1952 star_border 4
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A comedic take on the Frankenstein story.
Frankenstein
Writer
event1968 star_border 9.5
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A version of the famous story in which Ian Holm plays both Dr. Frankenstein and the Creature he puts together from parts of dead bodies and brings to life in his laboratory.
Frankenstein
Original Story
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What do a young man in love in the mountains and a caged thrush have in common? A couple of men on a farm looking for a child and a dog obsessed with burrows? A man looking for a friend with whom to share the town's popular festivals and a gang of bikers who don't want to return home? A bath in the north that reflects all the stars at night and a father who remembers the Balkan war? A fox and a desert in Catamarca and the exploitation of lands in Patagonia? The Mapuche resistance, the lost languages and the fishing boats of the Argentine sea? Frankenstein.
Naan Vanangum Deivam
Story
event1963
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A Tamil version of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
Or, The Modern Prometheus (In Three Volumes)
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The tragic and heartfelt story of the creature created by Victor Frankenstein, narrated from the eyes of the "Monster"
Frankenstein
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event2023 star_border 10
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FRANKENSTEIN (music, book & lyrics by Eric B. Sirota) is a sweeping romantic musical about the human need for love and companionship, based on Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was first published in 1818, and this work honors that source material as a contemporary work of musical theatre. Having lost his mother at a young age, Victor Frankenstein seeks to end human mortality and arrogantly enters territory beyond his control. While he enjoys unconditional love from Elizabeth, he grants none to his creation. The Off-Broadway production of Sirota’s FRANKENSTEIN opened in 2017 and ran for nearly 3 years in the NYC theatre district at St. Luke’s Theatre, where it achieved acclaim. That production was re-staged especially for film in what is an exciting new hybrid between a recorded version of a stage performance and a movie musical.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
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event1943 star_border 6.2
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Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died; however, his monster is found.
The Ghost of Frankenstein
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event1942 star_border 5.8
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Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
Frankenstein Unbound
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event1990 star_border 5.7
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The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and others.
Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein
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event1960 star_border 6.2
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A mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city.
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
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event1969 star_border 6.5
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Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
Frankenstein Created Woman
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event1967 star_border 6.5
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A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
The Bride
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event1985 star_border 5.3
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Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed with Eva, and tries to make her a perfect victorian woman.
House of Frankenstein
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event1944 star_border 6
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Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
The Evil of Frankenstein
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event1964 star_border 6.2
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Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
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event1974 star_border 6.2
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Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
The Monster Squad
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event1987 star_border 6.7
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Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes - the Monster Squad are the only ones daring to stand in their way.
House of Dracula
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event1945 star_border 5.5
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A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.
The Revenge of Frankenstein
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event1958 star_border 6.6
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Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, the Baron relocates to Carlsbruck, where he continues his gruesome experiments.
Army of Frankensteins
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event2013 star_border 3.8
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A young man travels back in time, finding himself entrenched in the Civil War with an army of Frankensteins.
Van Helsing
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event2004 star_border 6.4
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Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
Frankenstein
Novel
event2015 star_border 5.4
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After he is artificially created, then left for dead by a husband-and-wife team of eccentric scientists, Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him. This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come to grips with the horrific nature of humanity.
Young Frankenstein
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event1974 star_border 7.9
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A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Depraved
Novel
event2019 star_border 5.5
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A field surgeon suffering from PTSD after combat in the Middle East creates a living human out of body parts in his Brooklyn lab.
Life Without Soul
Novel
event1915
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A young man gives life to a statue with disastrous results. Early adaptation of Frankenstein with the names changed.
Frankenstein
Story
event2016 star_border 10
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Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein is the world premiere of Liam Scarlett’s new full-length ballet. A story of betrayal, curiosity, life, death and, above all, love, exploring the very depths of human nature. Federico Bonelli dances the role of Victor Frankenstein, Laura Morera is his Elizabeth, and Steven McRae is the creature. Koen Kessels conducts Lowell Liebermann’s newly commissioned score in this co-production between The Royal Ballet and San Francisco Ballet.
Frankenstein's Master
Original Story
event2013 star_border 10
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Driven to the wilderness to bury the key to a horrible secret, a harried scientist is confronted by his own gruesome creation. Based on excerpts from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, this atmospheric and moody short film is a haunting look at what rules us.
The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray
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event1914
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Loose adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s “Frankenstein”.
Mad Monster Party?
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event1967 star_border 6.5
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When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein's title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands!
Frankenstein
Original Story
event2011 star_border 5
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Staying as close to the novel as much as possible. Victor Frankenstein creates a chemical that could bring the dead back to life.
Monster
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An adaptation of Mary Shelly’s ‘’Frankenstein’
The War of the Gargantuas
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event1966 star_border 6.4
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Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks the shores of Tokyo. While the Japanese military prepares to take action, Gaira's Gargantua brother, Sanda, descends from the mountains to defend his kin. A battle between good and evil ensues, leaving brothers divided and a city in ruins.
The Monster
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A unique take on the classic Frankenstein story.
Frankenstein
Novel (2 ep.)
event2004 star_border 5.8
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Adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel about a scientist who brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.
Frankenstein: The True Story
Novel (2 ep.)
event1973 star_border 8.5
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Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.
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