

Frankenstein
The man who made a monster.
Obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein attempts to create life by assembling a creature from deceased body parts. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but it flees into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc.
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7.5/10
1,875 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $262K
- Box office
- $12M
- Language
- English
- fire
- monster
- experiment
- based on novel or book
- halloween
- reanimation
- laboratory
- mad doctor
- black and white
- pre-code
- body part
- angry mob
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereDetroit, Michigan19 Nov 1931
- Theatrical21 Nov 1931
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG24 Dec 1931
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical1 Jul 1932
- PhysicalMDVD16 Sept 2009
CzechiaCZ
- PhysicalDVD24 May 2004
- PhysicalDVD27 May 2004
FranceFR
- Theatrical24 Jun 1932
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1617 May 1932
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1630 Apr 1936
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG25 Mar 1932
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT2 Dec 1935
JapanJP
- TheatricalG15 Apr 1932
NetherlandsNL
- Physical16DVD3 Jun 2004
- TV16Net 524 Jul 2004
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/1210 Jan 1933
Frequently asked questions
Frankenstein was released on 21 November 1931.
Audience reviews
6- D8/10
Dsnake1
10/4/2018
Frankenstein, a movie primarily about how Doctor Henry Frankenstein deals with the fallout of his monster actually coming to life, holds up very well almost ninety years from its release. Starting with the monster itself, we find a fantastic character. Without any lines of dialogue, the filmmakers and Boris Karloff had to use actions and emotions to display the motivations of the monster, and they did a fantastic …
- J9/10
John Chard
10/26/2019
Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God! We will always see debates about which of the original wave of Universal Monster movies is the most important. With Dracula being released just under a year before Frankenstein, that tends to give the vampire crowd a sense of justifiable cause for a trumpet fanfare. Perhaps the more pertinent question is which is the better movie? Surely the most ha…
- G5/10
Gimly
12/22/2019
Not a totally faithful adaptation of the Mary Shelley book, still extremely important for not just horror movies, but movies as a whole. I thought about coming at this review from the perspective of what 1931's _Frankenstein_ meant for the future of cinema, and how it was still essentially in its infancy and doing anything even close to what _Frankenstein_ did, changing the culture forever and remaining in the zeitge…
- J8/10
JPV852
10/10/2021
Very well made monster movie featuring fine performances all around, even Boris Karloff as the Monster even though he only grunts throughout. Some good set pieces and just an all around entertaining flick. **4.25/5**
- W7/10
Wuchak
9/30/2023
**_Iconic Gothic horror tragedy_** This Universal classic from 1931 was based on the 1927 play by Peggy Webling rather than Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel. For those interested in versions fairly faithful to the book, I suggest Kenneth Branagh's 1994 version with De Niro as the creature or the 2004 version with Luke Goss as the monster, the latter of which runs almost 3 hours. Of course, the gist of Shelley’s stor…
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