Best scenes in horror history: Frankenstein - drowning girl

[GoodbyePanama]

Actually the EdisonStudios filmed a version of Frankenstein in 1910.

[MichaelMyersLOVER100]

@TalaJenta remember somthing 2 he also probably has the mind of a 2 year old kid so he really doesnt know the meaning of life or death, living or non-living so he may as well think that everything is like a toy or is somthing that he play with so that still wouldnt b his fault because he is pretty much an innocent kid in his mind when people think & see him as just a monster :3

[Blueslyfox]

@TalaJenta he still is a dumb ass

[blackman2462]

@Blueslyfox

his brain is from a rotted courpse, whatd you expect?

[Blueslyfox]

what a dumb ass

[Frogginator7]

so funny

[rungirlmgg]

Remember that the Monster was made with a criminal brain by accident. He doens't know what he's doing. He kind of has a pre-destined life: one evil deed after another and he can't help that. His creator is the one who ruined it for him. The Monster is the biggest victim of this whole story.

[wafflewaffle90]

I feel terribly for that sweet little girl, but I also feel bad for Frankenstein. He didn't know what he was doing... :(

[toolazy4skewl]

I guess there was no such thing as "stranger danger" in those days.

[XeroChicken91]

That little girl is pretty brave. If I saw something like that coming towards me, I would run away.

[alexlancer11]

@TalaJenta Yes that is correct. He thinks she is pretty like the flowers and is just trying to do something nice. I guess having brain damage does not help. I think his name before was Abby something. Oh yeah Abby Normal LOL

[PSspecialist]

Oh my god why are people so conservative! Firstly he didn't mean to do it. read the top comment. Secondly the girl didn't die anyway! No one dies in movies. Grow some balls and show respect to this scene. The people who cut it down in the original release (and other scenes as well) were assholes. Yes I know I know it was too much for back then. But why? This is what I truly don't get. It's just a movie. I hope in the future we humans get over this bullshit completely.

[TheTetrap]

@jagdbird well oviosly youve never seen a good horror movie

[FreeButtSex]

Lol how he ran away.

[jagdbird]

This is fucked up. I've never seen a child dying in a movie.

[t1mpani]

Actually, O'Reilly would be awesome here as Frankenstein, with Glenn Beck as Igor and (sadly impossible now) Michael Jackson as the Creature. Imagine audiences' horror as the Creature finds the little kid alone....

[t1mpani]

@viniciusb I'm complaining about a scene not being scary because of an unrealistic way of dying, and you think that the Final Destination movies would be my cup of tea? I see that YOU aren't more observant. ;) No, really, I thought the idea of the scene was brilliant, that's why I'm so disappointed by the crappy execution. You don't have to have great effects to throw the girl out a little more than two feet. When she can reach out and touch shore, I must laugh at her "drowning".

[guilemaster147]

@t1mpani You'd be a pretty awful parent, I'm sorry to say. Children can drown in any water that is even mere inches over there head. Open water like this tends to be very murky, and visibility is less than a few inches in front of your nose. A small child like this could easily drown by being thrown out like this. You need a reality check.

[t1mpani]

@guilemaster147 LOL!!! Okay, goofball. For a start, I AM a parent, and all of my kids survived, because--among other things---I taught them how to SWIM! You know what kills far, far more children than drowning in shallow water? Plastic bags. So when they remake Frankenstein, we can have a scene where the monster is overcome by the beauty of clouds, sees a Walmart bag floating on the breeze, thinks it's a cloud and puts it over the kid's head, suffocating her. :)

[t1mpani]

@t1mpani Actually, while I do like the concept of this scene, I think that the book's scene is far more tragic, as the monster actually is saving a little girl who is drowning, but the father who's running up thinks he's attacking her and shoots the monster in the arm---rewarding his compassion, bravery and selflessness with pain and hatred. What the movie was going for ain't bad but it's not quite up to the original for pure audience sympathy.

[guilemaster147]

@t1mpani That doesn't change the fact that a child can still die from something that was depicted in the movie, which was my point (which I noticed you avoided altogether...).

[t1mpani]

@guilemaster147 I didn't avoid it, I mocked it, by illustrating that kids can die of all sorts of things that don't make effective scenes. ;) Hey, if this is the greatest scene in movie history as far as you're concerned, that's fine! Chin up! You don't need my approval. It's okay!

[guilemaster147]

@t1mpani That would be avoiding the point I was making. You claimed that something such as this couldn't kill a child. I proved that it could. That's all there was too it, I never said it was the greatest scene ever, now you're just shoving your own words into my mouth, just like that O'Reilly guy on Fox does.

[t1mpani]

@guilemaster147 Ah, I see. You're right---I was so intimidated by obvious enormity of your intellect that I didn't want to take you head on. ;) I wasn't intending to shove anything in your mouth, I just assumed--given your vehement defense of this particular scene--that you were taking it a bit personally. Very well---it's entirely possible that, right under the surface of the water, is a rock that hit her head. It's also possible it's a so-so scene in a great movie. ;)

[justhammond3]

lol i love the end he sounds like peewee hurman haha

[BathorysGraveland]

LOL! Hahaha.

[TheMrAllenBlue]

no, this is the first feature length Frankenstein. Edison made a version released in 1910, of course 16 minutes back then was very much a feature

[ShockDoc]

This was shot at malibou Lake near what is now a private pier. Ive been there and matched up the backgrounds.

[PeeingMyOwnBlood]

If flowers float... So do children!

Ye olde troll logic...

[BuckFastZombie]

@t1mpani Is the conscensus that she is supposed to have drowned? I thought that even then this was supposed to be a bit funny? I was pissing myself laughing! Just watched this tonight. Fantastic film though.

t1mpani ... I agree with what you are saying. I have tried watching Dracula with lugosi, and I cjust cant bring myself to enjoy, or appreciate it. Possibly the media from films, to video games, that I have grew up with has taken that away from me. I can see why it is great. But not enjoyed.

[t1mpani]

@BuckFastZombie I think the problem is I was too old when I saw them to actually be scared by them. The original novels are certainly scarier, and far better written, though the writing is certainly at a relaxed pace. I can appreciate the old Universal horror films on some levels, but have to smile that this movie was banned in many states because of it being so shocking. Especially when the truly excellent Nos Feratu preceded it by nine years, and THAT is a creepy movie.

[usbilly]

thats me

[AandGbffs]

Omg I saw this before it's like the only scene I payed attention to it's so sad!

[Na11441]

"oh no we're out of stuff to throw. what do we throw next?"

(monster looks at camera)

[Jakkoni]

There are plenty of lakes in the world that are very deep right from the shore. I am from a country that has almost around 200000 lakes and I have swum in lakes where it is so deep that an adult could drown, let a alone a small child. And if she couldn't swim, she would probably go into panic when thrown into the lake and wouldn't be able to reach for the shore.

[Mahmuang]

LOL

[MaroonStorm]

lmao

[boffinme80]

People are saying they don't get this scene. He obviously thought that because flowers would float, he thought the girl would float aswell, to be showered with the flowers. He thought he was being nice but to everyone else, he's a murderer because he killed her, but it was an accident.He had just been created so it's like teaching a newborn everything about the world and he's confused. He's so misunderstood :( Him and Erik - Phantom of the Opera are two of the most misunderstood individuals.

[NeonEccentric]

Hhuij

[Ohwow12341]

yeah i dont think frankenstein is trying to kill people and yeah exactly he threw her in the water because she threw the flowers in the water so he's just trying to be nice but h does it on accident

[101796bg]

what? she drowned in like 2 seconds i dont get it

[YoIaMoNfire]

@anticompfolkilation Actually, this scene wasn't trying to show how "the monster destroying innocence". Rather, according to the actor of the monster itself, Boris Karloff explained that in this particular scene, the monster sees Maria as a "flower", and therefore throws her into the water, just like Maria did with the flowers.

[YoIaMoNfire]

I'm sorry but the description although good, is flawed. James Whale was not the first person to make a film of Mary Shelley's novel, in fact, it was Thomas Edison. Just search up Frankenstein 1910 Thomas Edison on Youtube and you will see it.

[Supramna92557]

Yet these videos don't get taken down for copyright laws.

FUCK YOU YOUTUBE

[niggly54]

Classic. She takes a pretty nasty bellyflop. And I love his reaction after she sinks. He's like "Uh, nothing?"

[DII117]

He accidentaly MARIA!!!!!!!

[CaptainScarlet2006]

i really remember this part and i hate it.

[Berrylaff]

I love how the monster looks when he walks away after throwing her in.

He's like "Ow shit!!!!"

[rolex452]

A masterpiece of a scene from a masterpiece of a movie.

[Belsebubb93]

he does shure played with her

[Jay4P]

i haven't seen the movie..does she die?

[uncannypk]

@Jay4P oooooh yes, she dies. the monster had a "murder's brain." If you weren't backed by an angry mob with torches, you never stood a chance.

[ellbo2]

Such a powerful scene, the cencors were lived with this back in the day.

[MackyzBack]

@bulbasaurousrex o me too! And it's proven that movie scenes that stick with you will have an impact on your life

[vaccarovj]

Thumbs up if you're here because of James Rolfe

[fuckballs109]

@vaccarovj He's the Angry Video Game Nerd!

[superfreakinawesome6]

wtf? Why is the water so deep when its right by the shore and stuff. This scene has its flaws but it's still sad

[bulbasaurasrex]

This movie is so sad. I remember this scene so well from when I was little. It's strange how some movie scenes stick with you so many years later.

[2degucitas]

@bulbasaurasrex I remember them showing this movie on tv around 1970. It was advertised heavily and was a big deal to get to see it. I was horrified that she died. I could feel the potential trouble brewing when he showed up in her yard. Disaster was inevitable.

[MichaelMyers87]

But yea what I mean is like id be afraid to throw my little sis in a pond like that where she could get hurt by hitting a sharp rock or something.

[MichaelMyers87]

In modern times this would be a comedic scene if it was exactly like this, but back then they didnt have computer graphics and so they had to have a grown man throw a little girl into a lake, obviously they woudnt risk hurting her in real life. You gotta understand the limitations with filmaking back then. Plus no one had ever seen anything like that back then anyways.

But yea despite all that, its one of the only scenes of a movie that kinda haunts me after iv already seen it a couple times

[MichaelMyers87]

And I dont think anyone saying the scenes funny is sick minded or anything, they dont really quite grasp that its a scene of a little girl drowning.

Again as for the waters depth, perhaps she also had trouble swimming out due to having the shit scared out of her when he picked her up.

[xKanden15x]

I think I'm the only one who lol'd really hard. AM I A MONSTER? lolpun

[1354gaston]

what a masterpiece

[Toby89195]

Frankenstein is the best Horror movie of all time? Fuck no. It's okay, but the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the best!

[smatal]

this is the real reason why they invented rape whistels...just incase a Frankenstein tries to throw u in a lake :D

[TheThebffshow]

ahhh the poor little girl well frank didnt know that she didnt know how to swim it okay its just a movie :,(

[tatiethezombie]

this scene is so sad ): he didnt mean to kill her. he just didnt know any better :(

[thutton67]

This is fucking cool.

[TheCineMatt]

I fiund this kinda disturbing

[zamorcordak]

Whoops....oh who the hell am i kidding, ROTFLOL!

[Over9000Gingers]

lol

[dakgumpa]

This is funny XD

[simonyaqoob]

HAHAHAHA@!!!!! Thats not a Horror scene thats a funny scene

[AliminiumHydroxide]

They should have done a POV of the monster, where he mistakes the girl as a flower. That would have been funny.

[bibip12345]

IDIOTS!!

[MrHmongRooster]

He didn't screw up with Alvin and the chipmunks.

he likes to be a friend with theodore, i don't think he can drown theodore.

[OEKCVB]

@viniciusb well remember he was a child killer right? frankinstein wasnt, con-air was a great movie though

[OEKCVB]

Boris Karlof had said in one of his later interviews he was not comfortable with this scene, he had a daughter about the age of this little girl and he felt very uneasy doing this scene, he wanted a clergy minister there on the set to forgive him for doing that and he bought the little girl actress her favorite food and gave her gifts that how he dealt with the scene

[MichaelMyers87]

@OEKCVB "Boris Karlof had said in one of his later interviews he was not comfortable with this scene, he had a daughter about the age of this little girl and he felt very uneasy doing this scene, he wanted a clergy minister there on the set to forgive him for doing that and he bought the little girl actress her favorite food and gave her gifts that how he dealt with the scene"

Yea I'd know how hed feel, it dont seem that bad but anyone with a soul wouldnt be too comfortable doing that.

[OEKCVB]

@MichaelMyers87 I agree in such as times as Karloff the 30's it was down played big time the drowning because the people seein the movie would actually hate Karloff as though he did the act, so they down played it even some say there is a copy that shows Frankinstien trying to pull her outta the water! but they say its a lost tape, can imagine todays horror no problem, kinda scary lol have you heard of a Halloween Movie coming in 3D with Michael Myers??? i heard abt it but see zero abt it?

[Lavourrin]

I don't know why, but it reminded me mr. Bean. He screws something up and runs away ;P

[nashie17]

hahaha

[GelatinGhost]

@Lavourrin Haha, I thought the exact same thing! He doesn't talk, and the way he runs away looks exactly the same as Mr. Bean. The only difference is instead of something trivial, it's drowning a little girl XD

[Mattoath]

Owned.

[TudorRose85]

Poor Maria!

[RandomUsername010]

Stupid Frankenstein. U throw flowers in the water not the little girl. 0_o

[iluvflltby]

Aw :( he just wanted to make her float like the flowers :(

[Koko0771]

LOL// makes me laugh every time =P

[j2daworld]

why does it sound like geoff and jack?

[BreakerSizzle]

Owned.

[HirachieOfSociety]

we watched this in film studie and a girl in our class said that it was cute

and what do you know :D lol

[randomjomari]

The monster think that the lake is not deep so it throws the child in the lake so that it can have an advantage

[kaijutube]

its a goof, if u look closely, shes sitting down with the flowers and kitty then when she stands up, shes just holding the flowers so its just a mistake and also where was the father, wasnt he close when that happend

[DrakeMagnum]

the monster is rather sweet in this scene, despite his clumsy decision at he end

[t1mpani]

Yes, unless an absolute abyss just happens to drop off right next to this little lake shore, I've always had trouble with her drowning in what couldn't have been more than two feet of water, with dry land in arm's reach. I love old horror films, but there are times when modern movie audiences can't enjoy them because of impatience, and other times when they can't enjoy them because some parts aren't made very well.

In addition to impatient, the other thing modern viewers are is more observant.

[Mrster]

@t1mpani

Nothing like that. I think a lot of us can appreciate what this scene was back in the day, and how it had impact, but you can't deny that it's dated, the way it's executed.

[thutton67]

@t1mpani Oh, hush up.

[t1mpani]

@thutton67

Don't tick me off, son, or I'll throw you into two feet of water, and we all know what happens then...

;)

[MichaelMyers87]

@t1mpani "Yes, unless an absolute abyss just happens to drop off right next to this little lake shore, I've always had trouble with her drowning in what couldn't have been more than two feet of water, with dry land in arm's reach."

Well I know what you mean, I was more creeped out by the original scene that cut off before hegrabbed her, but you could tell he was gonna throw her in. But still, some ponds/lakes do just drop off, plus people have drowned in shallow water from panicking before.

[t1mpani]

@MichaelMyers87 I understand that, but you have to be panicking pretty hard to not stand up in water that's below the height of your waist. Most people who drown in shallow water do so because of some other injury and/or being knocked unconscious, so fine-----he threw her into the water, and right below the waterline was a rock which struck her temple, rendering her unconscious. The extreme unlikelihood of all of this just proves that the Monster actually WAS evil because God hated him. :)

[MichaelMyers87]

@t1mpani Yea good thinking, in the context of the movie she probably got knocked out by hitting a rock. But the Monster was afraid of the water so he was powerlus to save her.

[royalcourtier]

@t1mpani Modern viewers aren't more observant - stupid thing to suggest - we have computers and can freeze and replay films!

[t1mpani]

@royalcourtier I watched Frankenstein once, on AMC, more than a decade ago. We ARE more observant---that doesn't mean we're smarter, just more tuned to this particular medium of entertainment, because we're more experienced in it. The average movie fan today sees many, many times more films than the moviegoer of the 1930s, and it's a part of everyday life versus an occasional treat. You may be...ummm...*special*, but most other people gain proficiency with experience. ;)

[rontiss1]

POOR MARIA...

GILBERT

[grgemclr1992]

haha what a goofball that frankenstein, the laughing stock of all the other monsters

[TheSecretRiddle19]

Silly frankenstein little girls don't float.

[DrakeMagnum]

the tasty fat ones do...

[TheSecretRiddle19]

Your right I didn't think of that.

[YellowStudios]

There has been one Frankenstein movie before this, in 1910, it is without sound.

[271tixe]

Looks like a bunch of simple-minded idiots have posted before me on this video's page.

This is an immensely tragic and powerful scene from movie history. It figures most of you morons can't feel its impact.

[jegspillerpiano]

Correct. It must have been very shocking in its day. Even modern movies shy away from having a little girl die, for example take a look at that cartloiad of predictable suspenseless shit 'Jurassic Park''.

[lewisner]

In the original story it was Frankenstein's nephew and the kid freaked out and said "My uncle Victor Frankenstein will get you".The monster kills the kid to get back at Frankenstein.

[AliG4life]

@jegspillerpiano Modern mainstream movies, yes.

[wesker789]

so you're some kind of douchebag i assume?

[Over9000Gingers]

@271tixe It's funny now, but fucked up back then XP

[AliG4life]

@271tixe Those ''morons'' can't feel its impact because it's a really dated scene. Tragic for its time, but not so much when compared to movies like Irreversible, Martyrs and Requiem for a Dream.

[jegspillerpiano]

@AliG4life You're exactly right of course. It's dated and that is too challenging for most people. This is precisely why 271tixe is justified in calling them 'morons'. It's exactly the same syndrome that people can't and don't want to understand classical music. It's 'dated' - augghhh, too much for our little brains. Incredible how a piano recital by a world class performer draws an audience of 20 people, while millions tune in to vacuous trash on TV. Utterly upside down world we live in.

[AliG4life]

@jegspillerpiano Yeah, kinda. The majority of people just like simple movies, generic music and spoonfed stories. It's always been like that, though.

And this scene IS pretty funny, isn't it? :P

[KobraKrimson]

@jegspillerpiano You....YOU!!! just became my best friend!

[271tixe]

@AliG4life

That doesn't really make sense. Tragedy isn't dated.

[FIDDO881]

lol watched this for English. funniest movie evr

[g1wrg1s]

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

i like it when little girls die!

MUHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[tmighty1990]

thatis so scary aaagghhhh

[krisa1989]

what a good effects and music?! :O hahaha!

[serbpunker]

what happened to the kitty?

[tazbahn]

Poetic but so sad...

[SmokeyMcPot420yee]

ah shucks i done and killed a yank. theys bound ta gimmie a lynchin anytime now

[mewashere]

I agree with the post below. I loved the movie, but I couldn't help but laugh during this scene. Great film.

[CHmoozic]

wow i was expecting something horrible and gruesome......but i guess this is the "movie magic" of the time haha

[patrick1010101010]

poor kitty

[atfk13]

awesome!!!