Boris Karloff wrings even more pathos from his plight as the misunderstood monster and Elsa Lanchester’s hissing, birdlike performance as the bride made her an instant icon.
“Are we not men?” Charles Laughton stars in the first screen version of the H.G. Wells novel and (for all the changes from the novel) still the defining one.
Whale followed up his iconic horror classic ‘Frankenstein’ with this strange, sly, and sardonic project, part haunted house terror and part spoof, executed with baroque style.
