The color palette throughout the movie is basically black and white, giving respect to an old film. The first scene starts off with a white laboratory where everyone is in white coats. Dr. Fredrick insists on pronouncing his last name "Frokensteen" because his infamous grandfather was responsible for the reanimation of the dead, thus Fredrick felt in denial.
Fredrick arrived at an estate that turns out to be a castle. Inside is an entrance where Frau Blucher, Fredrick, Inga, and Eyegor are standing with a few relics from Medieval times. Baron's full name carved in stone is written on the fireplace.
Fredrick and Eyegor dug up a coffin at the creepy cemetery after being recently buried. The two gentlemen came out of the hole with a lantern right next to them and started to rain as Eyegor said" could've been worse", "it could've rain".
He and his assistants are in the laboratory with a monster locked on the table. Everything around them are glass bottles and tubes, levers, and machinery. Fredrick commands them to hoist up as he is about to bring the monster to life.
Blucher plays the violin, the same tune been played since the very beginning, that soothes the monster after she set it free. She was the one who lure Fredrick into the laboratory to make him recreate his grandfather's work.
Fredrick excepted his fate as a Frankenstein by demonstrating it to other scientists at the theater. He and the monster perform "Puttin on the Ritz" in their tuxedos and top hats on stage with a glittering black curtain as a background.
The townspeople with their lit-up torches walk into a dark forest. The mist creates this scene a spooky feeling as they search for the monster but with caution.
Fredrick and the monster are locked up on the table with metal helmets and plastic wires connected to each other's heads. Eyegor pulls the levers down when the transfusion is complete.
The movie ends with Elizabeth changing her hairstyle that portrays Bride of Frankenstein in a luxury bedroom in her white floral nightgown.
An American scientist Dr. Fredrick Frankenstein finds himself frustrated when anyone brings up his grandfather, the infamous Victor Frankenstein, and insisted pronounce his last name “Frokensteen”. He was later informed that he inherits a family’s estate after the death of his great-grandfather and traveled to Transylvania. At the train station, he meets a hunchback, bug-eyed Igor or “Eyegor” and beautiful assistant Inga.
When finally arrive at the estate, Fredrick discovered his grandfather’s secret laboratory along with his companions and read private journals. He resumes his work by stealing the corpse of a man who was recently hanged. He then sends Igor to steal Delbruck’s brain but scared by his own reflection, Igor destroyed it and brings a second “Abnormal” brain. Fredrick transplants into the corpse and brings it to life with electrical currency during the storm. The monster takes its first step until Igor lights up a match in front of him. Meanwhile, the townspeople gather around to discuss the uncertainty of Frankenstein, a police officer suggests convincing him to never create another monster.
Back in the lab, Blucher the housekeeper releases the monster and later explains the monster’s love of violin as well as her admiration for Fredricks’s grandfather. The monster escapes the castle and roams in the countryside, there he encounters a girl and blind hermit. Fredrick brings the monster back and slowly embraces his heritage, demonstrating a simple command to the monster at a theater filled with an audience. The stage lights suddenly explode which makes the monster enraged until chained by the policemen.
The monster breaks free once more and kidnap Fredrick’s fiancée, Elizabeth who unexpectedly came to Transylvania. She suddenly falls in love due to his enormous physique. The monster follows the violin music Fredrick plays while the mobs are searching. Transferring some of his intellectuals, the monster reasoned and befriended the mobs that broke into the laboratory. Elizabeth with her hairstyle coming from The Bride of Frankenstein marries the civilized monster while Fredrick is happily with Inga back in Transylvania. He suddenly becomes the monster when Inga starts singing the same tune at the beginning of the film. As the two are in bed, he slowly embraces Inga and she sings the refrain “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life”.
5 Words: Humorous, Mad Science, Gothic, Transition, and 20th Century
Based on the novel and Classical Horror movie, Frankenstein, Dr. Fredrick is trying to prove to everyone that his grandfather Victor Frankenstein is not insane by reanimating a dead body. The story includes some comedy twists and musical adaptation yet keeps classical in place.
