whitsbrain:

How can I praise or pick apart something that has become so much a part of our culture? Karloffs portrayal of the Monster is timeless and Colin Clive is bug nuts as the Doctor. Hes quite insane and I still have not been able to buy the fact that he could have or would have wanted a bride for his own. He supposedly snaps out of the work funk he was in when he created the Monster but his character is too crazy for me to believe he could have or would even want a normal marriage. The guy is a grave-robbing, mad scientist! Back to Karloff, theres nothing really frightening about the Monster. I was much more sympathetic to it than I was toward any of the characters of the film. I dont think that was the original intent of the director, though. When this film was released, audiences were probably appalled by it. Maybe its the Herman Munster effect that endears Karloffs Monster to us. One thing that made me laugh was when Dr. Frankenstein gets thrown off the top of the windmill, lands on one of the vanes and then drops to the ground. The Doctor is injured but he survives. Tough guy to survive that fall. The fact that this was scary to audiences of the day is hard to believe because its really quite tame to view today. The original Dracula is the creepier of the two, but I do prefer the look of Frankenstein more than Dracula.