Review #227: Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #81: Bride of Frankenstein (1935) It's no secret that sometimes when a movie gets popular, the sequel gets greenlit long before there's even a script. Looking at the IMDB trivia that absolutely seems to be the case for Bride of Frankenstein, as it was announced over a year before any production began. There's usually something to be said about the quality of a movie when it's created purely because people wanted more and not because there was a story that needed to be told, so I guess keep that in mind if you watch this one. Bride of Frankenstein picks up about five minutes before the end of Frankenstein (1931), right when Henry Frankenstein falls from the windmill after it's set on fire. But where the first film shows Henry being taken home where his father laughs and jokes about how many grandchildren will be coming his way, this movie retcons his father out entirely...