5.2.10

the ghost of frankenstein (1942)

"He seems to recognize you Doctor."
Igor (Bela Lugosi) manages to retrieve the monster (Lon Chaney Jr.) from a pit of sulfur that had engulfed him many years earlier, and takes him to the son of Baron Frankenstein (Cedric Hardwicke), who is a renowned brain surgeon. Igor pleads with Frankenstein to help him and the monster. Frankenstein's solution is to replace the monsters murderous brain with a fresh, wholesome model. But this being a horror things soon go wrong.
The law of diminishing returns applies here, whilst not being a bad film, it hardly lives up to the previous efforts. This looks good, but although the actors give it their all, there is just too many plot holes to live up to the classic tale.

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