Pierce who came up with innovations such as the Monster's flat head, the bolts through the neck, the droopy eyelids, and the poorly-fitted suit. For the pivotal role of the Creature, however, the production team was no closer to finding the right actor—until fate took a hand. Noted scholars of this period include the theologian Gregory of Valentia, the astronomer Christopher Scheiner (inventor of the helioscope), Johann Baptist Cysat, and the poet Jacob Balde.

At the laboratory, as a violent electrical storm builds outside, Frankenstein and Fritz prepare to conduct a critical experiment. It launched numerous sequels and versions including Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Son of Frankenstein (1939), and Young Frankenstein (1974). Shelley’s tried to addresses the above controversy and showed how science and modern technology is sometimes wrong. The assistant was messing around in the lab and switched the brain they were using with a deceased criminal’s brain.Even Elizabeth, although she says over and over again that she believes in Frankenstein, is speaking from the heart, not the head. Victor refused to create a girl creature to avoid a lot of problems, but he did not realize the hell the monster would end up causing him. Frankenstein was a story written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley while she was on her vacation in Switzerland with her husband.

In the end, burningly resentful at being asked to play a dialogue-less role, and offended by the production team’s refusal (no doubt, entirely justified) to act upon his suggestions for the conception of the Creature, Lugosi quit: a decision for which, no disrespect intended, all fans of horror cinema – all fans of cinema, full-stop – should fall to their knees in profound and endless gratitude. After a quarrel where the monster kills Fritz, “Henry and Waldman sedate the monster just as the Baron approaches the lab.

I read in an interview that Karloff’s makeup was so gruesome that the actress had trouble acting with him. The written Frankenstein, however, is certainly the more culpable of the two incarnations, since he repudiates his work primarily because, although he chose his “materials” so as to make his Creature beautiful, it turns out to be ugly; and it is his subsequent cowardice that causes the deaths of those closest to him. And given the way that these very themes positively erupted four years later in Bride Of Frankenstein, perhaps this is not an over-reading of the film at all.