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Films based on the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
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- DirectorJames WhaleStarsColin CliveMae ClarkeBoris KarloffDr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsBoris KarloffElsa LanchesterColin CliveMary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsBoris KarloffBasil RathboneBela LugosiReturning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingHazel CourtRobert UrquhartWhile awaiting execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein tells the story of a creature he built and brought to life - only for it to behave not as he intended.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsPeter CushingPeter WoodthorpeDuncan LamontUpon returning to his home village to continue his experimental research, the destitute Dr. Frankenstein revives his old creature, but a hypnotist wants the monster to control for himself.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingSusan DenbergThorley WaltersAfter being reanimated, Baron Frankenstein transfers the soul of an executed young man into the body of his lover, prompting her to kill the men who wronged them.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingFrancis MatthewsEunice GaysonHaving escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the result proves to be mortally perilous.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingVeronica CarlsonFreddie JonesBaron Frankenstein, with the aid of a young doctor and his fiancée, kidnaps the mentally sick Dr. Brandt in order to perform the first brain transplant operation.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingShane BriantMadeline SmithBaron Frankenstein works with a mental patient to reanimate the dead.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsCedric HardwickeLon Chaney Jr.Ralph BellamyDr. Frankenstein's plans to replace the brain of his monster are hijacked by his scheming and malevolent assistant Ygor.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsLon Chaney Jr.Ilona MasseyPatric KnowlesThe resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman creation.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsBoris KarloffLon Chaney Jr.J. Carrol NaishA deranged scientist escapes from prison and recruits Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man to get revenge on his behalf.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsOnslow StevensJohn CarradineLon Chaney Jr.The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse.
- DirectorJimmy SangsterStarsRalph BatesKate O'MaraVeronica CarlsonBrilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.
- DirectorHoward W. KochStarsBoris KarloffTom DugganJana LundNeeding money, the last member of the Frankenstein family leases his family's castle out to a film company as he tries to continue his ancestor's gruesome experiments to create life.
- DirectorEugenio TestaStarsLinda AlbertiniLuciano AlbertiniUmberto GuarracinoThe Italian adaptation of the famous novel about Dr. Frankenstein and his monstrous creation.
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsMary FullerCharles OgleAugustus PhillipsThe first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsJames MasonLeonard WhitingDavid McCallumWhen the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.
- DirectorMel WellesAureliano LuppiStarsJoseph CottenRosalba NeriPaul MullerBaron Frankenstein's daughter and his assistant/her lover continue his experiments in an attempt to rebuild his legacy after he is killed by his psychotic, murderous first monster.
- DirectorAl AdamsonSamuel M. ShermanStarsJ. Carrol NaishLon Chaney Jr.Zandor VorkovDracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
- DirectorTyler RalstonMarc SlangerStarsDart AnthonyEiner BakerMatthew BealeA cabaret singer travels to the Appalachian mountains to search for her missing sister. She encounters local slackers, a time traveling vampire, and a mad doctor hell-bent on reanimating an unstoppable homicidal monster.
- DirectorBernard RoseStarsXavier SamuelCarrie-Anne MossDanny HustonA married couple of scientists create a modern-day monster.
- DirectorStuart BeattieStarsAaron EckhartBill NighyMiranda OttoFrankenstein's creature finds himself caught in an all-out, centuries-old war between two immortal clans.
- DirectorPaul McGuiganStarsDaniel RadcliffeJames McAvoyJessica Brown FindlayTold from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.
- DirectorKenneth BranaghStarsRobert De NiroKenneth BranaghHelena Bonham CarterWhen the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsGene WilderMadeline KahnMarty FeldmanAn American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
- DirectorJed MercurioStarsHelen McCroryJames PurefoyNeil PearsonA gripping re-telling of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece. Set a few years into the future, Dr Victoria Frankenstein works on an advanced stem cell research project.
- DirectorMarcus NispelStarsParker PoseyVincent PerezThomas KretschmannWhen a detective begins investigating a series of horrific murders, she is lead to a mad doctor who has sustained his creature and himself for over 200 years through genetic experimentation.
- DirectorJerry WarrenStarsRobert ClarkeSteve BrodieCameron MitchellWhen a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein's ancestor carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons.
- DirectorPaul DudbridgeStarsJuliet AubreyMichelle RyanPhilip Martin BrownEngland, 1875. A century after Victor Frankenstein's doomed experiment, his journals have traded hands for decades.
- DirectorDamien LeoneStarsMax RhyserAshton LeighConstantin TripesThe mummy of a cursed pharaoh and a reanimated corpse terrorize a medical university. Only an Egyptologist and a college professor, the deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may be able to stop the creatures before it's too late.
- DirectorJames OrmerodStarsRobert PowellDavid WarnerCarrie FisherA scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
- DirectorCharles BartonWalter LantzStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloLon Chaney Jr.The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
- DirectorHerbert L. StrockStarsWhit BissellPhyllis CoatesRobert BurtonProfessor Frankenstein creates a hulking teenager from the body of an accident victim; his "creation" awakens and goes on a killing spree.
- DirectorRichard E. CunhaStarsJohn AshleySandra KnightDonald MurphyDr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern-day L.A.
- DirectorBenito AlazrakiStarsManuel 'Loco' ValdésMartha Elena CervantesNora VeryánTwo screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.
- DirectorMiguel M. DelgadoStarsSantoGina RomandAnelA mad female scientist needs Santo's blood for a youth serum; and she has Frankenstein's reliable old monster to help her get it.
- DirectorMario ManciniStarsJohn RichardsonGordon MitchellRenato RomanoA mad scientist creates a monster called "Mosaico," who breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women.
- DirectorCalvin FloydStarsLeon VitaliPer OscarssonNicholas ClayVictor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family.
- DirectorDavid WickesStarsPatrick BerginRandy QuaidJohn MillsDr. Victor von Frankenstein (Patrick Bergin) creates his creature (Randy Quaid), who escapes into the countryside to find that humanity has only pain and sorrow for him. But a psychic link between created and creator draws the two ever nearer, until their paths must inevitably cross again.
- DirectorWilliam WincklerStarsG. Larry ButlerWilliam WincklerDezzi Rae MarshallMad scientists have resurrected Frankenstein's monster and also created a half-man, half-fish creature.
- DirectorDeborah RomareStarsMark BlankfieldLeslie JordanJonathan FarwellA mad doctor puts together a new body by using body parts he steals from a mortuary at the hospital where he works.
- DirectorTom ShadyacStarsWilliam RagsdaleChristopher Daniel BarnesLarry MillerWhen professor Lippzigger dies, his favorite student Mark inherits the key to his secret laboratory. There he and his friend Jay find the hundreds of years old body of Frankenstein - and revive it. But where to go with him? They take him with them to their dorms. He's dumb as a brick, but makes it into their football team and becomes popular. If there only wasn't Prof. Loman, who wants to become famous with Lipp's inventions...
- DirectorDonald F. GlutStarsJohn Blyth BarrymoreBuddy Daniels FriedmanJim TavaréBased upon four of writer-director Donald F. Glut's short stories published in his book TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN: "My Creation, My Beloved" (a deformed descendant of Victor Frankenstein creates the perfect man and woman), "Crawler from the Grave" (another Frankenstein descendant's disembodied, plague-infected arm returns from the grave for revenge), "Madhouse of Death" (a private detective winds up in an old dark house filled with loonies...and a gorilla) and "Dr. Karnstein's Creation" (a mad doctor creates a monster in vampire-haunted Transylvania - with gruesomely unexpected results).
- DirectorLeigh ScottStarsRhett GilesThomas DowneyJoel Ezra HebnerIn this horrifying, modern retelling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a neurosurgeon, obsessed with the reanimation of dead flesh, murders his patients and resurrects the corpse.
- DirectorDavid WeaverStarsWilliam BarnetJana SzabelaKeelie SheridanBuried in a dormant life and a dead end relationship, Dr. Jason Frankenstein, the last of his family, finds himself frustratingly approaching the middle of his life with little progress to show towards carrying forward his family's experiment. But after a creature from his past brutally re-enters his life, he is catalyzed to finally complete his work. With the help of a pair of drug dealing paramedics and a nurse with a shady past, he sets down the blood-soaked path to create a living being from the bodies of the dead.
- DirectorAlain JessuaStarsJean RochefortEddy MitchellFiona GélinAn obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
- DirectorJoe D'AmatoStarsDonald O'BrienCinzia MonrealeRobin TazuskyWhen a woman is beaten into a coma and saved from being raped by her handyman (Donald O'Brien), the local security force does a cover-up to save the town's reputation and frames the saviour. After he hangs himself, the woman's strange comatose psi-powers revive him from the dead to exact revenge.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsRalph InesonMia GothOscar IsaacDr. Pretorius, who needs to track down Frankenstein's monster who is believed to have died in a fire forty years before in order to continue the experiments of Dr. Frankenstein.
- StarsJavier BardemPlot unknown. Described as the third film in Universal's "Dark Universe" franchise.
- DirectorMaggie GyllenhaalStarsChristian BaleJessie BuckleyPenélope CruzIn 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as the Bride, sparking romance, police interest, and radical social change.
- DirectorScott Allen NollenStarsTodd JacobsenTroy JacobsenTyler JacobsenThe late Dr. Frankenstein's son returns to the ancestral estate in Germany, where he revives his father's infamous creation. Mayhem ensues.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsDennis PriceHoward VernonPaca GabaldónDracula kills another innocent victim and Dr. Seward decides it's time to wipe him off the face of the earth. Armed with a hammer and a wooden stake, he arrives at Castle Dracula and duly dispatches the vampire Count. Next day, however, Dr. Frankenstein arrives with his assistant, Morpho, and a large crate containing the monster. Using the blood of a pub singer who has been abducted by his creation, the doctor brings Dracula back to life and uses him for his own ends. The Count and a female vampire continue to terrorise the town, so Dr Seward once again sets out for Castle Dracula. Unfortunately, he is attacked by the Frankenstein monster and left for dead. Amira, a gypsy, rescues him and summons up a werewolf to do battle with the forces of evil...
- DirectorBurt BrinckerhoffStarsChris SarandonCarl BeckStephen BoeAn obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
- DirectorSean TrettaStarsTiffany ShepisLouis MandylorScott Anthony LeetA group of researchers conducting illegal stem cell research discover a cell anomaly that has the potential to regenerate dead tissue. Unable to conduct legal human trials, the researchers turn to corpses to test their serum.
- DirectorRicardo IslasStarsMichelle ShieldsTim KruegerAdam StephensonWe know the story; we've seen the movies. You may think that it's impossible to have a new approach to Frankenstein... Think again.
- DirectorArmando CrispinoStarsGianrico TedeschiAldo MaccioneJenny TamburiA mad scientist creates a Frankenstein creature that is better "endowed" than his ancestor, and uses his female assistants to prove that point.
- DirectorCurt SiodmakStarsAnton DiffringHelen WestcottDon MegowanDr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. Enter a terminally ill sculptor and his assertive wife.
- DirectorRichard GriffinStarsSamantha AcamporaAndre BoudreauSean CarufelA group of high-schoolers on a class trip to a wax museum become the latest victims of the evil doctor Charles Frank, who is attempting to create the perfect human being from the reanimated parts of previous unlucky patrons - reanimating an army of undead mistakes and experiments as the teens try to survive the night.
- DirectorJosé Luis MerinoStarsErna SchurerCarlos QuineyAgostina BelliA young female biochemist travels to a castle seeking employment as a researcher by a wealthy baron, only to be sucked into a web of violence and intrigue.
- DirectorJose PrendesStarsMichael MadsenEthan Daniel CorbettEmma ReinagelDracula, the Werewolf, the Mummy and the Invisible Man must work together to stop Dr. Frankenstein from creating an unstoppable monster.
- DirectorDevon DownsKenny GageStarsBill MoseleyKane HodderNew victims of gruesome mutilations are being found in the dark alleys of Victorian London almost every day. Patients from the city's mental asylums are being robbed of their organs and limbs. Other patients are vanishing all together.
- DirectorChano UruetaStarsMiroslavaCarlos NavarroJosé María Linares-RivasThe first major medical sci/fi movie in Mexico, loosely based on the Frankenstein story but injecting gory surgical motifs into it, laying the foundations of the genres that came to dominate Hispanic Science Fictionin the 60's and 70's, as exempified by the work of Jesus Franco from 'Gritos en la Noche' (1962) onwards. Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora (miroslava) who is ordered by her boss (Wagner) to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling (Linares Rivas). Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery. He falls in love with Nora but fearing she will betray him he resuscitates a young man who committed suicide, Ariel (Navarro) by transplanting a new brain into him, and order him to fetch Nora so that he can kill her. However, Nora and Ariel fall in love, and the zombiesque youth rebels against the orders of his master, turning on him and kill him, whereupon Wagner saves Nora from the beautiful young zombie.
- DirectorIsa KaramahStarsAbdel Fatah Al KasriSanaa GameelEstafan RostiArabic-language remake of 'Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein'.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsJohn LuptonNarda OnyxCal BolderMaria Frankenstein puts the brain of a monster into the body of one of Jesse James' sidekicks.
- DirectorNuri AkinciStarsOktay GürselOya PeriGültekin CeylanThe masked criminal Kilink returns to confront the Frankenstein monster in this great, hilarious, over-the-top episode, upping the horror theme in these unique, imaginative B-grade treasures.
- DirectorMiguel M. DelgadoStarsSantoAlejandro MorenoSasha MontenegroEl Santo and Blue Demon team up with a couple of detectives to stop the grandson of Dr Frankenstein from conducting fiendish brain transplant experiments.
- DirectorDick RandallStarsRossano BrazziMichael DunnEdmund PurdomBrazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value.
- DirectorBob ThénaultStarsGérard BernerKarin PetersenFrançoise LugagneFascinated by the idea of being able to create life through science, a count produces a monster from corpses. Does the creature have a soul?
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyJeff LiebermanStarsRobert VaughnRobert PeraultDavid SelbyManhattan surgeon Franken rebuilds the broken body of a John Doe patient with spare parts.
- DirectorFranc RoddamStarsStingJennifer BealsAnthony HigginsAfter years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".
- DirectorRichard ClarkStarsDavid MuirMichael EnsignCathy CahnDr. Hackenstein is a genial but somewhat misguided scientist. He murders the locals for their body parts, but it's not for power or scientific research; he just needs them to put his wife back together.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsJohn HurtRaul JuliaNick BrimbleThe ultimate weapon which was meant to be safe for the mankind produces global side effects including time slides and disappearances.The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817's Switzerland.
- DirectorFrank HenenlotterStarsJames LorinzJoanne RitchiePatty MullenA medical student sets out to recreate his decapitated fiancée by building her a new body made of Manhattan street prostitutes.
- DirectorCharles BandStarsRhonda GriffinJustin LauerBill MoynihanMad scientist brings Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and Frankenstein's Monster to life... but there's a problem and they end up three feet tall.
- DirectorRyan BellgardtStarsJordan FarrisChristian BellgardtJohn FergusonA young man travels back in time, finding himself entrenched in the Civil War with an army of Frankensteins.
- DirectorPhil NicholsStarsYankie GrantShelley BoozerPhil NicholsA modern retelling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
- DirectorEmil NovakStarsMelantha BlackthorneBob BozekJason John BeebeA wager is made, a book of horror fiction is written. It becomes know as, "Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus", by Mary Shelley. Though what happens if fiction was fact? Can a soul be immortal. Is everlasting life worth such misery?
- DirectorSyd LanceStarsDustin SturgillMatt RisoldiTim AshbyA steampunk film adaptation of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. In his obsession over the Prometheus' flame, Victor Frankenstein abandons those he loves to create a living being. Leaving behind his abominable work, Victor hopes to escape judgment and return to a peaceful life. He soon discovers: all secrets have their price. (Drama)
- DirectorLee FrostWes BishopStarsBob CresseLaine CarlinLeticia CooperThe Wolfman, Dracula and Frankenstein spy on a girls' school in the mountains, where most of the girls spend their time sunbathing in the nude, nude exercises and nude art classes. The monsters finally invade the school...
- DirectorTyler MacIntyreStarsTory StolperTracey FairawayMaria BlasucciThree young women go out partying and wake up attached together as a Frankenstein monster. With their individual personalities still intact, the three women set out to figure out what happened to them.
- StarsLuke GossAlec NewmanNicole LewisWhen the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and swears revenge.