10/18-Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

In honor of Daryl and Kelsey's wedding, I chose to watch the best wedding (bride) themed horror movie out there.  Note, I'm not comparing Daryl and Frankenstein, just the wedding aspect.

There's a lot of interesting things about watching this movie that have nothing to do with the movie itself and are simply based on Bride of Frankenstein being so old.  Number one, the credits are at the beginning, like a lot of old-timey movies.  What I particularly like is it calls the cast, "The Players."  They also repeat the credits at the end, with this lovely caption:

Also, Karloff going as one-name, how badass is that?

In addition, the movie opens with "Suggested by the original story written in 1816 by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly," which basically means this is glorified fan-fiction.  You know what, I'll do it one better, it's like the Star Wars extended universe.  And to prove that, within the first five minutes of this movie, it completely retconned the ending of Frankenstein, by having neither Frankenstein nor the Monster be dead.

But that's not really the point.  The movie explores a lot of the thought behind what it means to be human.  And apparently to the Monster, that means friends, smoking, drinking, and listening to music.  So basically college.

Smoke. Good. (this is an actual line)

But we're also reminded that most of humanity is a shallow turd, screaming and running away from the Monster (it doesn't help to lessen his scariness that there isn't a better name for him).  The only people who treat him well are a blind hermit and a creepy, disgraced professor.  Basically, the only people who will accept you unconditionally are the impaired and weirdos.

In all seriousness, this was a really fun watch.  I haven't seen a whole ton of movies from this era, so it was good to see a truly classic.  That said, there were not many scares to be had, at least by today's standards.

Rating on the Spook-o-meter: 1 out of 10 boos