Karloff is very good in this film, displaying a calculated criminal coldness that allows him to be nice to a crippled young girl at one time and shortly afterwards allows him to be a cold blooded murderer. Director Robert Wise manages to create a chilly England complete with fog covered cobble stone streets, blind flower girls with beautiful voices, and a real sense of history to this production. Karloff is chilling as the complicated cabman that is robbing graves one minute and petting his pet cat the next. Val Lewton was the producer of this RKO film. Henry Frankenstein's intonation, "It's alive!" was edited into the theme song from the 1985 comedy Weird Science. I kid you not, there is a real Frankenstein Castle in Germany and it really was home to a supposed professional alchemist! Escaped convict Edmond Bateman (Karloff) is manipulated into cooperating with Vollin; an operation to change his appearance goes horribly wrong and Bateman is now more hideous than ever. Vollin promises that he will correct the surgery if Bateman helps him carry out his twisted plans and Bateman has no choice but to agree. Vollin hosts a dinner part for Jean, Jerry and her father, but in reality it is merely a trap to allow him to torment his guests in his torture devices.

Victor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein was a fictional student at the University of Ingolstadt. In the 1931 film adaptation, the school is called Goldstadt Medical College. Goldstadt University is also featured in the novelization of Van Helsing (but there it is in Romania). Notable faculty members Second, I am not surprised that Dr. Waldman was instrumental in Pretorious's separation from University service.This article is supported by WikiProject Film - American cinema task force (assessed as Top-importance). Henry Frankenstein and his wife Elizabeth survived these horrors and remained at the castle for some time where they raised a family. When Henry Frankenstein died, his records of his experiments were lost and his body was buried in a secret crypt beneath the ruins of his old laboratory. A Mad Scientist who creates The Monster and is engaged to Elizabeth. Those originally considered for the cast included Leslie Howard as Henry Frankenstein and Bette Davis as Elizabeth. Director James Whale insisted on Colin Clive for the role of Henry. The leading character of Mary Shelley's book, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, was renamed Henry because it was decided Victor would sound too "severe" and "unfriendly" to American audiences at the time. The film is based on a Robert Louis Stevenson short story, and the true life crimes of Burke and Hare, an infamous pair of murderers that sold corpses to the Edinburgh medical school. Ace student Donald Fettes (Russell Wade) is hired to be a teaching assistant to Dr. MacFarlane, and he soon uncovers the diabolical truth behind the steady supply of bodies supplied by the ruthless cabman, Gray. Gray holds a deadly secret over the good doctor and it is that covert fact that holds him powerless in the sway of the evil Gray. Director James Whale and Karloff would once again team up in Universal’s production of The Old Dark House. Based on the novel, Benighted (1927) by J. B. Priestley, this early pre-code production features a group of five stranded travelers in Wales as they are forced to stay the night at the house of their hosts, the extremely odd Femm family.

With the Universal series covered, I moved on in this paragraph to Mel Brooks’ parody/tribute Young Frankenstein! This film almost certainly deserves the connection. Frankenstein (book and film series): “Mad” science has long been known and accepted as a fringe part of life. It is defined as both the act of “playing God” and using scientific measures to achieve what is typically thought to be supernatural or even divine, or the application of science to weaponry capable of mass destruction. For example, due to their work on the invention of the atomic bomb, scientists J. Robert Oppenheimer, Howard Stark [1], and Felix Hoenikker [2], as well as all other science personnel involved in the Manhattan Project, can be considered mad scientists. This has been contested due to the negative connotation typically associated with the term “mad scientist,” but what is not contested is the identity of the original mad scientist: Victor Frankenstein*. Flash Gordon (comic series and film series). Alexis is his first name in the 1930s film serials, and Hans is his name in subsequent works. I like to think it’s because after migrating to the United States, he learned that Alexis was typically a girl’s name in that country, and since people stereotyped him by calling him Hans anyway due to his German heritage, he might as well. In its first several decades, the university grew rapidly, opening colleges not only for philosophers from the realist and nominalist schools, but also for poor students wishing to study the liberal arts. Among its most famous instructors in the late 15th century were the poet Conrad Celtes, the Hebrew scholar Johannes Reuchlin, and the Bavarian historian Johannes Thurmair (also known as "Johannes Aventinus").

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The nature of Fritz' injury is undetermined. He is seen walking with a limp, but in the graveyard scene in the beginning of the film, he's holding his cane in his left hand. Later at the Watchtower, he is holding his cane in his right hand. Cat’s Cradle (book). Hoenikker is indeed a mad scientist, being the inventor of the catastrophic ice-nine. The character of Professor Bernstein in the 1957 Hammer film The Curse of Frankenstein is meant to be a replacement for Doctor Waldman. [3] Hey, everyone! This is an idea that's been brewing in my mind for quite sometime. I've connected the classic Frankenstein novel to its famous film versions and to other early works featuring mad scientists. This was not at all intended to be such a long entry, but I figured that I needed to explain the various adventures of Victor's descendants in some detail or it'd be confusing for those who don't know their classic horror movies. I hope you like it! Let me know if there's any way you feel this can be improved, whether it's adding, deleting, or just changing something. Let's discuss!

Heavy on gothic symbolism, Director Freund – he was the cinematographer on Dracula– creates a wonderful world of Egyptian motifs and mystery, but it is Karloff that brings the character to life, with his yearning for a love that was whisked away from him. Karloff’s make-up once again required him to sit in Pierce’s chair for lengthy amounts of time as he was wrapped with an acid stained and oven baked set of bandages, but the results are splendid. The Mummy would of course, return to frighten movie goers again and again. The Illuminati movement was founded on May 1, 1776, in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt (d. 1830), who was the first lay professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt. The movement was made up of freethinkers, as an offshoot of the Enlightenment. Writers at the time, such as Seth Payson, believed the movement represented a conspiracy to infiltrate and overthrow the governments of European states. [2] Some writers, such as Augustin Barruel and John Robison, even claimed that the Illuminati were behind the French Revolution, a claim that Jean-Joseph Mounier dismissed in his 1801 book On the Influence Attributed to Philosophers, Free-Masons, and to the Illuminati on the Revolution of France. [3]The monster survived however, and only a short time later, wandered deep into the forests of the village where he befriended an old, blind man. During this time, the monster learned to speak and began to develop a sense of humanity, but this brief happiness ended when the monster decided to end his own life, as well as that of his monstrous "bride", by destroying the Frankenstein watchtower. [4] Frankenstein Village is the location of Frankenstein Castle, the ancestral home of the family, the earliest known ancestor of which was Baron Frankenstein, who lived at the manor with his son, Heinrich von (Henry) Frankenstein. Near the castle was an old watchtower where Henry Frankenstein conducted a series of bizarre experiments in the late 19th century that ruined the family legacy, making the name Frankenstein synonymous with monsters and horror. The product of Frankenstein's work was a shambling, monster who many claim were responsible for several deaths in the nearby village. The first confirmed sighting of the monster took place following the accidental death of a village boy. The villagers banded together as a mob and hunted the monster down, allegedly killing him at an old mill near the family estate. [3] When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs. In its first several decades, the university grew rapidly, opening colleges not only for philosophers from the realist and nominalist schools, but also for poor students wishing to study the liberal arts. Among its most famous instructors in the late 15th century were the poet Conrad Celtes, the Hebrew scholar Johannes Reuchlin, and the Bavarian historian Johannes Thurmair (also known as “Johannes Aventinus”). The exact location of Frankenstein Village is never revealed in any of the films, but the August 12th, 1930 shooting script for Frankenstein indicates that it is located in Switzerland. This is also in keeping with the original Mary Shelley novel which used Switzerland as its primary setting. A popular misperception is that Frankenstein Village is located in Germany. This is likely derived from the fact that in the novel, Victor Frankenstein attended school at Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany.

The villagers are gathered around the smoldering ruins of the mill and are happy that the creature has been destroyed, but Hans (Reginald Barlow), the father of the little girl drowned in the first film, is not yet satisfied and he wants to see the burned remains. Hans falls into a flooded pit where the creature is safely hiding and is promptly strangled. Rising from the pit, the monster throws Hans wife to her doom; he next encounters Frankenstein’s maid, Minnie (Una O’Connor) who flees in terror. Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.203.158.81 ( talk) 18:37, 26 August 2022 (UTC) Reply [ reply ] Loosely based on the actions of mass murderer Charles Whitman at the Texas tower at the University of Texas, Targets was Boris Karloff’s last major US production. Karloff’s Byron Orlok has just about had it with his film career, and he is ready to call it quits, but before he walks away from the bright lights, he needs to make a final appearance at a drive in theatre that is showing one of his films.In the 1931 film version of Frankenstein, Dr. Waldman was a professor of anatomical studies at Goldstadt Medical College. Waldman had been Henry Frankenstein's favorite teacher during the aspiring young scientist's time as a student there. Although Waldman had much respect for Henry's brilliance, he became increasingly disturbed when Henry began demanding fresh bodies for his experiments in chemical galvanism and electro- biology: bodies that were not those of cats and dogs, but human beings. Eventually, the increasingly ambitious Henry left the college to pursue his researches in private. John Huston, who was a staff writer for Universal Pictures at the time, wrote Edward Van Sloan's opening narration in this film.