How Bride of Frankenstein Brought Horror to Life Before Censorship Killed It | IGN Flashback Review

With Bride of Frankenstein In 1935, director James Whale brought to life more than just a would-be wife for his first monstrous creation. He helped electrify a Hollywood playbook that Marvel, DC and the rest of today’s franchisers are still using. Bride of Frankenstein is a dark and moody sequel, a departure from source material that forges its own path to become the peak of cinema’s Golden Era of movie monsters. But the film’s experiment couldn’t survive the pitchforks of censorship rallying behind the Hays Code in the 30s. IGN’s Scott Collura reviews the 90 year old all-time classic, then talks with Clint Gage about the meta opening scene, the tropes that science fiction still can’t put down and the perfect campiness of little people in glass jars.

IGN’s only been around for 30 years, but movies have been going for much, much longer than that. And the thing is, so many of them have never been reviewed by us. But that’s where IGN’s Flashback Reviews come in, so today we’re jumping almost 90 years back in time to talk about one of the greatest horror movies ever made… if you can even call it a horror movie, that is: Bride of Frankenstein!

How Bride of Frankenstein Brought Horror to Life Before Censorship Killed It | IGN Flashback Review

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