The Ghost of Frankenstein

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Ted B @Movieaddicted May 25 3.0 stars; This film is a sequel to "The Son of Frankenstein." The original cast reappears in this sequel, minus Boris Karloff, who was under contract to a stage play. All the familiar Universal horror actors appear: Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, etc. Unfortunately, with all this Universal star power, I felt the film did not live up to its predecessors. Even though this Universal series was extremely successful in the late 1930s, it was starting to run its course by the early 1940s. See more Dallas H May 20 Let's give the monster a different brain. My gosh! How come they didn't think of doing that sooner?! See more CodyZamboni Z May 18 Watchable, very short, direct sequel to Son of Frankenstein, Movie is fast paced, Igor plays a bigger role, especially in a big plot twist, Lon Chaney Jr is okay as monster, This was the last time the monster has quasi menance, After this, all further movie appearances, monster was more campy, See more Elvis D @Elvis-Del-Valle Jan 4 Con la intención de seguir exprimiendo la saga, The Ghost Of Frankenstein ofrece una decente continuación donde se indaga más en cómo los miembros de la familia Frankenstein no pueden escapar de la mala fama que se han ganado por culpa del monstruo. Cuando Ygor y el monstruo deciden huir a Visaria, descubrimos al segundo hijo de Frankenstein que ahora busca tratar de enmendar todo el mal que su padre ha desatado. La película tiene una historia buena y Bela Lugosi pudo interpretar por segunda vez al icónico Ygor. Esta película podría ser tan buena como las anteriores, pero tiene cosas que son difíciles de dejar pasar por alto. La película parece tratar de convencer al público de que Ygor es un ser sobrehumano debido a que ha sido capaz de sobrevivir un par de disparos. En Son Of Frankenstein estaba claro que Ygor pudo sobrevivir a la horca, lo cual podría significar que es un ser sobrehumano, pero no se ha ofrecido una explicación lo suficientemente convincente para que sobreviviera en esta película. La presentación de Ludwig como el segundo hijo de Frankenstein fue algo repentino porque no se esperaba que existieran dos hijos y de haberse mencionado en la película anterior, hubiese tenido más sentido. El monstruo interpretado por Lon Chaney Jr. trato de asemejarse a la versión de Karloff y aunque no lo hace mal, el rostro de Chaney mucho no convence. Karloff tenía intenciones de volver a interpretar al monstruo, pero no pudo por estar participando en otra película. Lon Chaney Jr. fue escogido debido a su gran éxito con The Wolf Man. Lo raro es que el monstruo regresa con la misma vestimenta que tenía en las primeras dos películas cuando en la tercera tenía una vestimenta distinta. Otro error es cuando el monstruo huye con Ygor en una carreta, pero en el resto de la secuencia el monstruo no está en la carreta. Hasta agachado se podría haberlo notado por lo grande que es. Tampoco es muy creíble que Ygor haya logrado convencer a Bohmer de que implante el cerebro de Ygor en el cuerpo del monstruo. De no ser por estos detalles, esta película podría haber sido tan buena como las anteriores. The Ghost Of Frankenstein es desde luego una buena película con una buena historia que también podría haber concluido la saga, pero es inevitable que fue a partir de esta entrega que la saga comenzó a decaer de a poco. Mi calificación final para esta película es un 8/10. See more Jay W 11/21/2024 This is the fourth entry in the original Frankenstein timeline. This is the first entry where Boris Karloff is not playing the famous monster. Behind the makeup this time is the Wolfman, Lon Chaney Jr. He does a good job in the role; it is just really noticeable when watching the movies today that he is not the same guy. More importantly, Bela Lugosi returns as Ygor, and he is just as despicable as ever. This time around another Dr. Frankenstein is convinced by the...ghost of Frankenstein, that he can fix the monster if he just gave him a better brain. A solid idea for a sequel idea. After all, following the continuity here, that is the reason the monster acts the way he does. Problem is that the sinister Ygor wants to be the one to get in the monster's powerful body. This movie is still a lot of fun, it just isn't nearly as good as the previous entries. Most of the stuff they handle here, was already covered in the previous entries. The doctor isn't as sympathetic or interesting as the previous doctors. We now know that these plans are doomed to fail. For what it is, it is a really good film. It is mainly the comparisons to the previous films that hold it back. They stand like large pillars that this film is in the shadow of. I suppose even this film can't escape the ghost of Frankenstein. See more Blu B 10/14/2024 It's so forgettable. The cinematography is good. It has some cool shots that recapture the mood of the first and the special effects are really good. Everything else though is pretty mediocre. Lon Cheney isn't bad as the monster but I don't know, he just doesn't have the same prescene Karloff had. It really makes me appreciate how gifted a performer Karloff was. Everyone else is VERY forgettable including the new brother and everyone else. Igor isn't bad but isn't in much of this despite being the biggest plot driver. This is very much plot driven over character driven and by plot driven I mean recycling all the beats weve seen before. The cracks were starting to show with the third but this really isn't able to hide it. There is no character development at all and it's just an excuse to bring the monster back, have him do stuff, and have another group of angry villagers burn the place down at the end again. It's all stuff we've seen before and it's a bit old this time. You know what's gonna happen and there isn't any suspense in this at all. Let alone any fear. The whole planting Igor's brain in the monster is kind of cool but it just feels pointless and a reason to bring the monster back for another go. It makes it all been here, done that with forgettable characters and nothing done as well as the other 3. towards the end despite being the shortest of all 4 films this actually feels over 90 minutes because it just drags the longer it goes on. Skip This. See more Read all reviews

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