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  • I miss movies like these.

  • We're reading this in English. ...Still trying to figure out where the "IT'S ALIVE. IT'S ALIIVVEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!" crap came from -_-

  • @Ghostgirl777 The car chase, the angst-ridden teenagers, and the 'it's alive' were all added by the screenwriter. Hollywood, what can you say? It sells.

  • I just finished the book. It was great. This however, looks like crap. Has nothing to do with the real story.

  • @ilselpz What a bunch of luddites you nasty little children are. Go back to class.

  • A true pity the film is such a poor adaptation of the book, a true work of genius.

    1-Victor Frankenstein is not mad, he was obsessed with the idea of creating life from death, and he fled in horror after seeing what he had created, he didn't scream in a maddened joy! And he was alone at that time!

  • @ProyectMooneJazzers School seems to start earlier every year - or are kids putting off winter recess reading longer and longer?

    Why are you harping on the movie? If James Whale wanted to make a turgid, repressed, Victorian movie out of a turgid, repressed, Victorian book he would have worked in TV. It's a monster movie, ferchrissakes. Grow up.

  • @sciencemonster I see you have an obsession with kids, by looking at your comment, I can see your a 40 year old virgin without a wife.

    It is true that the book is way much different to the movie, I have seen the movie, and I have read the book. If you cannot communicate like a human, and answer propoerly to people who have questions about this movie then I suggest you fuck off from youtube and go live on in your basement. Foreveralone, bloody idiot.

  • @cherdilboy Ah, yes, I have an obsession with kids. That is why when school starts and I get my reading assignment, I hunt YouTube for my frankenstein trailer and make inane comments.

    I brought up _my_ children to appreciate all kinds of culture, but especially fine old classic monster movies, and not to disparage other people's culture. Why, I even sent one of my boys to the Netherlands for the summer when he was 14. He brought back soap in the shape of a penis. How lovely Amsterdam must be!

  • A thrilling motion picture with a creative and unforgettable story that has been with us for decades, with a good choice of acting with great special effects

  • Frakestain beaten Kliczka

  • ahahahahahahaahah

  • @g3hrkm No, no, no. That scene was from The Mummy.

    Search on youtube for 'The Mummy (1932) Cursed Magic Spell'

  • Watch this movie and you'll know why there can NEVER Be another FRANKENSTEIN Like this one .

  • This trailer was made a few years after the film's release. Horror cinema had dried up (partially thanks to us Brits banning them!) and things were not looking good for the Universal lot. Then some fleapit began running a triple bill of 'Frankenstein', 'Dracula' and 'Son of Kong' which became the talk of tinseltown due to it's popularity and so Universal quickly rushed out their own double bill and made this ad to promote it.

  • @krismucus Hollywood, also, had a defacto ban on horror movies. The early 30s had many 'precode' horror movies and regular movies with nude scenes - Tarzan and His Mate is my favorite...Hollywood self censorship cracked down on that in '35 or 36, and no monster movies (practically) were made until things loosened up in 1939.

  • @sciencemonster I did say 'partially'!! Anyway, that said, censorship wasn't completely to blame in the case of 30's horror. The studios were far more 'make-or-break' back then. Due to the UK ban ( a lucrative market apparently), Hollywood began to shy away from such movies.

  • @sciencemonster ...oh, and what I meant to say in my earlier post (memory like a....whatsitcalled thing with holes in?!), was that I just wanted to note that this was the later trailer. Whether or not there is an earlier trailer out there, I dunno. Haven't looked TBH. Still, one of my personal favourites....:)

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  • downloading it :F

  • This is so crap, this film has nothing to do with Mary Shelly's novel, why is Frankenstein called Clerval? Why is the creature called Frankenstein? Why did the creature throw a girl into a lake? This film is completely wrong- iconic and funny still

  • @narutofan9tf I don't understand - are you trying to be ironic, or do you just wnat to convince people you are a moron? You're in high school, right? Why do you want to put all this on the table for all to see? Do you realize that on the internet, everyone can read this, even later, when. like, you aren't a freshman anymore?

  • @narutofan9tf They don't call it frankenstein in the movie.He threw her in because he thought she wolud float.

  • greatest horror the screen has ever known

    1931 Frankenstein

    1999 teletubbies

    2004 george w. bush

    don't know the air date jersey shore anyway snookie

    i am not looking forward to see what tops snookie

  • greatest horror the screen has ever known

    1931 Frankenstein

    1999 teletubbies

    2004 george w. bush

    don't know the air date jersey shore anyway snookie

    i am not looking forward to see what tops snookie

  • Is there only one living narrator before? They all sound similar...

  • @crankhead28

    Close. Search '5 guys in a limo' on this site. (I cna't post a link...sorry)

  • OMG! First week of school and reading assignments are already out! LOL! 

  • I have to read this for freshman year... I hate it D: I'm about halfway through and it got a little better but... that doesnt say much from where it started, ._.

  • @jordan171998 Really, I've read Frankenstein several times and loved every reading

  • download here megaupload ->  /?d=10M6ACLF

  • @sciencemonster . Actually it wasn't O'Sullivan doing that nude swim it was a body double. In fact Maureen O'sullivan couldn't swim a stroke at the time and in the scenes where she is on the surface she is being supported in the water by Weissmuller. Still its the best Tarzan movie ever made.

  • Frankenstein is a classic. It's cinema history. Don't hate.

  • Frankenstein....

  • Still the best version of FRANKENSTEIN ever made, and I've seen all the ones worth seeing. None of them beat the creepy atmosphere James Whale captured in 1931. Boris Karloff's amazing performance and iconic make-up set the standard. No slick CGI effects can compare with the raw, hands on craftsmanship this movie puts over. Everything about it has an organic quality that just can't be duplicated digitally.

  • one of the best classic horror movies ever. movies from back in those times are not scary by todays movie standards and you could clearly tell the actors were speaking lines, but today it takes just 2 things to make a horror movie. the word fuck, and some guts. the old ones had more class.

  • "To shock women into uncontolled hysteria"

    lol. pervert

  • why does this even exist?

  • @cyrillanddovydas

    Same reason you exist - take up some time with mindless entertainment. Same misshapen monster without a clue, same sad burnout ending...somehow, though, the movie is poignant and you just come out pathetic. I guess that's the difference between art and life.

  • @sciencemonster Was surely good back in the days but seriously, I get headache by watching this black and white quality. I know there have been remakes of this, have you seen them?

    Sorry for my bad english.

  • @sciencemonster It's old, but that was one of the best come backs I've ever read on the internet. Well done, very well done. You get +2 Internets for that.

  • long live to Boris Karloff

  • Horror novel  see video book trailer

  • ijust saw this movie it was great fuck the remake of frankensten the orginal is the best all the classic frankenstens are good srry for my spelling

  • does anyone else think the uploader of this video looks like an arsehole from his comments to other people

    and it's a shame how different the movie looks to the book

  • @adamthadrummer Oh, yes, he looks like a complete arse. And all these mean comments to these insightful, thought-provoking posts! Makes me wnat to cry!

  • oh my, im so scared, NOT

  • @Alex2149 Oh jeez...are they assigning this in middle school now?!?!

  • @Alex2149  hahaha this cracked me up so much

  • the film edition has nothing to do with selley's nove.it's completely altered

  • @tziligeo Oh...does that mean I still have to read the book before I do my homework? Bummer.

  • "classic" 

  • now we got final destination

  • @az13oz Is today a short day? 4th grade must be out early.

  • its comedy noy horror haha loooooool 

  • Let's travel back in time, and show them "The Grudge" :D

  • There can never be another Frankenstein... bride of Frankenstein, house of Frankenstein, Frankenstein meets the wolf man, ghost of Frankenstein, the hammer Frankenstein movies, Roger Corman's Frankenstein, and Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein don't count

  • There can never be another Frankenstein... bride of Frankenstein, house of Frankenstein, Frankenstein meets the wolf man, ghost of Frankenstein, the hammer Frankenstein movies, and Roger Corman's Frankenstein don't count

  • I want to go back in time and show these guys some of the modern horror films, just to see how scared they would get.

  • @ShaxAMV - I believe they wouldn't be scared at all. They would be dumbfounded and confused - it would all go by too fast and disjointed. They wouldn't get it.

    You youngsters took a lot of conditioning and training by TV to get where you are today. You were carefully manipulated to where a movie can pull this string to make you jump that way.

  • @sciencemonster Well I think I speak for most people when I say this movie wouldn't freighten the generation of today. I don't think we have to be brainfarmed from telivision to make us act of feel a certain way, it's just basic human instinct to react to something in a certain way. I don't believe these classics are 'scary', maybe they're more intricate then SOME of the films of these days but can't be more scarier. Eh just my opinion.

  • @ShaxAMV I didn't express myself very well - I'm speaking to technique, not quality or scariness. Each time has it's way of communicating and that changes over time.Who knows what Shakespeare is talking about these days without an encyclopedia or an English teacher?

    It's backwards compatible-we get Frankenstein, and to some extent Shakespeare. But take a modern horror movie back in time, and they wouldn't get it. Too confusing. Too jumpy. They won't get the techniques used to communicate.

  • @ShaxAMV This movie isn't just about being "frightened" by the obvious actor with a flat head, neck bolts and big boots. The real "monster" in this film is Henry Frankenstein. He disregards the rights of others---he digs up a grave not a few minutes after mourners leave---then he creates this Thing and allows his assistant to put a torch in its face. He doesn't protect his own "Child" and the Child kills those who would destroy him---Fritz and Dr. Waldman. The Monster isn't "The Monster."

  • @ShaxAMV I agree with you. If if past audiences didn't understand our way of filming movies, it would no doubt be more frightening. Not sure how anyone can argue with that. Not jsut horrow films, but thrillers like silince of the lambs as well. People of the past aren't retarded, they would understand a film for what it is even if it was unconventional to them. Even if they couldn't, the images would certainly have an affect.

  • @ShaxAMV They would be scared but mostly gross out

  • This movie always made me cry. Frankenstein was a victim. He was different. This is a story of lonliness, and bigotry. About how hard it is to be different. Judging by appearences.

  • awesome :D

  • Why do all the newer Frankenstein movies make Frankenstein look so bad looking compared to the Universal version? Why can't Universal even remake the Frankenstein movies and other creatures? It's probably because horror movies don't make a lot of money, but if it were Frankenstein, I think people would see it during Halloween instead of sometime like in January. I hate when they have well known horror movies come out in February.

  • Boris Karloff = GENIUS.

  • Bogus!

  • @Leatherbubba

    Jeeeeeeezzzz....skools back in session, I see.

  • I love this movie!!!

  • Classic horror, love it

  • Im 16 and love the universal monsters. I was wondering if there were anyother teenagers that like the old horror/universal monster films.

  • @slayergriffith1 I am lol I love the classics im 14 so yeah their are other teens with good taste in movies.

  • @Twister6900 That is good to hear, i thought me and my buddy was the only teen who liked this stuff. I got to say, this is the best years of horror! I still like modern horror but NOTHING beats the older stuff.

  • Boris Karloff.. arguably the ugiest man in history.. what a great movie!

  • @mickihotchick Actually, Boris Karloff was one of the most renowned ladies man in Hollywood. He was all about the girls. They couldn't keep their hands off him.

    It's all abou tthe attitude, dude.

  • @mickihotchick ....sorry dude, but Karloff was one of the most riveting figures ever on the screen.....one of the few actors who continued to act even if he was in the background.......just watch him in Bedlam or The Ghoul.......the guy was a Master at his craft!

  • VERY Cool!

    What a classic!

    Check out my FRANKENSTEIN COLLECTION on YOUTUBE

    just search for "FRANKENSTEIN COLLECTION"...Lifesize DIsplays!!

    MrLennerd

  • uber fod head

  • @InactiveInfernoCrew

    Mmmmmmmm....I'm not sure what this means, but just in case it's an insult, yer banned!

  • I want the 1900 frankenstein movie, it is impossible to find

  • @CrossConsoleGamer

    search youtube for 'edison frankenstein'

  • @CrossConsoleGamer no search frankenstein 1931 and part 1 will come up. Why you say. Becoz I put it there.

  • @CrossConsoleGamer

    it doesnt excist... the one from 1931 is the first

  • @CrossConsoleGamer no w8 there is one from 1910- imdb com/title/tt0001223/

  • what the hell is so scary about Frankenstein? I feel sorry for the poor b*astard, how the hell can he help it if irrational females scream uncontrollably!

  • A classic.

    <3

  • didsiad

  • it was so scary than but now its like a action movie or some thank

  • who , out of both of them , was the resal monster?

  • 0:27 franky s cop'n a feel LOL

  • @kingman1245 If you want to see copped feels, see 1936's Dracula's Daughter. The vampiress cops a feel off her first female victim. It's totally obvious, don't know how it made it past the censors.

  • @sciencemonster Yeah, it took the censors a while to get their stuff together back then. I don't know if you've ever seen Tarzan and His Mate (1934), but in that you get to see a very nude (and very hot) Maureen O'Sullivan swimming around.

  • Its alive

  • Boris Karloff wasn´t even half the good Robert DeNiro was.

  • OMG!!! BANNED!

    So many good comments in a row...I thought I was free from ignorant comments...but no...

  • @sciencemonster You banned him for having an opinion? Sure, I don't agree with his opinion, but still, he shouldn't be banned for it

  • You're right....BANNED!

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  • HA! I tricked you!

    I only ban hgh school students doing homework assignments who make foolish comments ....defenders of free speech get one free pass!

  • @Darthrazdrac

    Dude you're kidding right?!!!

    Karloff IS Frankenstein !!!

  • The book was awesome.

    This is awesome.

    So Frankenstein's monster rules!

  • Kind of Retro...

  • In the modern sense, i can picture that beginning scene in the movie Van Hel Sing.

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  • Thank god there hasn't been a Twilight version of Frankenstein.

  • Yeah, they already fucked up both vampires and werewolves

  • @mechatyler yeah that would be pretty fucked up xD

  • @mechatyler if there is im gonna beat up the guy whos dumbass idea was

  • @mechatyler Shhh. Don't give them any ideas

  • Frankenstein really isn't the monster's name

  • @smokenfly514 I do believe that while it was the professor's name and not the monster's, it was actually given the name of Adam. It's somewhere in the book if my memory is correct.

  • It's Alive!

  • When I read the Merry Shelly's book, I imagined it differently... The monster is supposed to be good and sensitive, but after being unjustly scorned, it becomes bad...and it is only because of his ugly appearance. Which movie would you recommend to be close to the book?

  • The second movie, Bride of Frankenstein, actually incorporates a few more themes from the book - as well as the Directors unique sense of black comedy. It is a completely different kind of movie. I highly recommmend you watch both. For something more true to the book, you would have to watch something made recently - I couldn't suggest anything as I don't really watch new movies.

  • ok thank you very much! you help me a lot

  • @namitarelalia No movie really captures the book well. The branagh version with deniro tries but is totally laughable. Bride of Frankenstein might be the closest. I read the original 1818 version and it gets pretty deep, the story is more about social constructs forming our behavoir. The creature was good, and intelligent, but because his appearance was abandoned and scorned, even by his creator/father. Interesting book for sure.

  • this was a good movie actually

  • The poor creature is an awkward man child. He only reacts to the way he is treated by others. He gets abused by Fritz; and that is what set him off. Henry Frankenstein was a neglectful creator.

  • the should make frankenstein vs dracula!!

  • They did, in the 1940s. Dracula, the Wolfman, you name it. Not as good, but still great fun.

    Google Universal Monster Movies.

  • Yes, I am sure you could have put those two minutes to some good use.

    Wanker.

  • Whoops - I deleted your comment by accident:

    wow... you really just called me a wanker... over the internet... and because i said that this movie was off the novel a lot. that's a really cool thing to do. and i could have been playing guitar or writing music anyways

  • Yes, judging a great movie by a great director by a two minute trailer - I think that qualifies you as a wanker. Judging a movie as a 'filmation' of a novel, and judging that filmization by a two minute trailer...well...yes, you are a wanker. I hope you make more considered judgements of your music.

  • ... i was talking about how in the novel there is no "it's alive" scene. victor isn't happy and he creates the monster by himself. and it isn't too good of a movie either. maybe i just don't like old movies because i like better effects or maybe because i have never read a book then watched the movie to the book. and all i was saying at first was that the movie was off from the novel not saying it was bad. but the 94 Frankenstein was the most accurate so just chill out. it's an opinion

  • Yes, some artists decide to take a work of art and riff of it to create something new and different. It's good that you noticed that. It's too bad that you then decided to male a judgement based on that knowledge, instead of maybe expanding your experience to include moving pictures that aren't in color, and aren't made in the same time you are from,

    I know this may be really hard for you to conceptualize, but some old things are cool, too.

  • Dang, you are another internet prick

  • Hey, I'm not the one making idiot comments about a movie I've never seen.

    And I'm not some wanker's wanker who is so useless he has nothing better to do than defend wankers on the internet!

    The day they stop assigning Frankenstein to moronic High School kids is the day this trailer can be shared in peace. Now get back to your homework.

  • isn't that boris karloff?

  • Yes, the monster is.

  • i liked the other Frankenstein movie..

    the one where Robert de Niro was the Monster.

  • ..frankenstein is that dude..I dunno why the people in this film, be raddin on him..

  • No doubt, They wouldn't say it to his face, ya dig? lol

  • i love it, but i think it's not a horror movie..it's comedy for me...i laught so hard all night befor i watched frenkenstein :))

  • You got some mad ass issues guy lol

  • I think the universe would have exploded had one movie featured Karloff, Lugosi, and Chaney as their respected monsters.

  • love this movie, and it even had a great sequel

  • First saw this in 1964 when I was 10 years old. Karloff stole the show and scared the "shite" out of me (I literally shook in bed most of the night). And he STILL give me the creeps. My wife (39 years old and from a different generation than I) finds the movie and the monster "amusing". Go figure.

  • I wouldnt' say "Go Figure" dude, I'm 22yeaqrs old, my girlfiend keisha is 19 and we love the universal classic horror filmsL. You just married a lady with no taste in movies hahaha NO Offense dude

  • kdog, you and i are from the same generation. i was born in late '52 and it when i was around 4 in 1956. i was so scared i was crying and couldn't sleep. this was the effect of the movie some 25 years after it was made. it was a combination of knowing the monster was created from dead body parts and resurrected by a mad scientist for an insane experiment. even a child can understand that the monster had a ''criminal'' brain instead of a normal one. this made for a scary movie, old style.

  • purely classical

  • God bless the classics, modern day horror 1990 onwards, has nothing to give, except shite.

  • I laughed when I found out he drowned that little girl, I'm so sick.

  • yes you are. i wouldn't leave you alone with my little girl you perv.

  • Um, a perv is a sexual predator. I would say a bit disturbed, thanks.

  • i think you misunderstood me. i'm just a scary and classic horror movie buff.

    ''frankenstein'' was a masterpiece and cutting edge for it's time. while it may have varied a lot from the original plot by mary shelley, the hollywood version as great for what it did to audiences at the time....scare the bojabbers out of them. in fact, it was so 'cutting edge' some scenes may have been partially deleted for general release. it made an obscure english actor by the name of karloff an instant star.

  • I understand what you mean. However I think you misunderstood what I meant as well. I mean I laughed at the sick dimension of the act not because it was 'cheesy-looking'. I have a morbid sense of humor, sometimes it sickens even myself.

  • you have to see the film..not on this trailer

  • Hey I think when he says...Its Alive...Its Alive. HE looks up and says.."now I know what its like to be god" or something like that and I think they took that part out cus they thought it was a Blasphemy type thing...watch his lips if You see the movie after he says its alive...his lips keep moving

  • You're right I saw that version on Svengouli, a character here in the Chicago area who shows monster movies every saturday night, he explained that Universal thought that line would of offended people of the day when the movie first came out, the version he showed had that line in it.

  • I love this film. They don't make them like they use too. Twilight? come on are you kidding me? I guess some ppl don't know a awesome classic horror film, even if it came and pimp slap them on there face Ha!!

  • really good classic movie.

    not scary now, but really scary movie when it did go on cinema first time

  • it's alive! it's alive!

  • No Shit This Is 2009

    This Movie Is A Classic

  • This is what I expected from somebody who has "Twilight" in their name.

  • Horror isn't all about "scariness", stupid girl. You have no idea what you are talking about.

    Then again, considering what your name is based off of, I don't think I would expect anything other than a comment like this.

  • Spoilers?

  • ...and only one of them can spell.

  • geo1671 every site has at least one ass**** and i bet every site you visit it is allways you.

  • Hmmmm...seems this site has two...

  • It's wrong how the narriator says Frankenstein, you have to say the a in frankenstein like an a in Darth Vader (like in the Darth) and not like in apple^^

    I'm german and sorry for my bad english^^

  • Do they call you "Froderick"? Or possibly "Eye-gor"?

  • Poor kid doesn't even understand how much he just got owned.

  • I remember Frankenstein going scuba diving or something in this movie...

  • Ah, yes. That was actually snorkeling, and it was the sequel, Bride of Frankenstein.

  • A lot of people don't know this but Frankenstein is the name of the doctor, not the creature. Just want to point that out