History Film / BrideOfFrankenstein

A {{remake}} of ''The Bride of Frankenstein'' set in the Universal Film/DarkUniverse was scheduled for a 2019 release, but is currently in DevelopmentHell due to the poor performance of said movie universe's first film, ''Film/{{The Mummy|2017}}''.

* BlindAndTheBeast: After the Monster escapes from jail, he comes across a hut with violin music coming out of it. Inside it, he meets an old blind hermit, who welcomes him and soothes his own loneliness. The film is possibly the trope maker.

* BeehiveHairdo: The Bride famously sports one of these, which also has two {{Skunk Stripe}}s on its sides.

%%* SkunkStripe: The Bride's hair features these.

* SelfDestructMechanism: Pretorius' tower [[CollapsingLair comes down]] in a [[ChainReactionDestruction series of explosions]] when the Monster pulls a certain lever. Its actual purpose is never told.

* SkunkStripe: The Bride's hair features these.

* HaveAGayOldTime: Minnie describes Dr. Pretorius as "a queer fellow". This ''may'' have been deliberate or GettingCrapPastTheRadar, since the director actually intended for Dr. Pretorius to come across as gay -- see CampGay, above. However, the term was not yet widely used in this connotation at the time this film was made, and if it ''was'' deliberate, then it is an anachronism as the earliest known use of the term in this context was in 1894, some years after the setting of the film.

* AesopAmnesia: Unlike [[Film/TheCurseOfFrankenstein later]] [[Film/TheRevengeOfFrankenstein versions]] [[Film/TheEvilOfFrankenstein of]] [[Film/FrankensteinCreatedWoman the character]] this version averts this. Henry feels guilty over the chaos that happened because of his creation and only agrees to make the bride because he was forced to by [[BigBad Pretorius]].

* FreudianSlip: When Henry bemoans if he can keep the new heart beating for long, Karl lets it slip that it was a "fresh" heart.

* {{Hulkspeak}}: How the Monster talks once the blind hermit [[SuddenlyVoiced teaches him to speak]].[[note]]James Whale and the studio psychiatrist selected 44 simple words for the Monster's vocabulary by looking at test papers of [[CastTheExpert ten-year olds working at the studio]].[[/note]]

* SuddenlyVoiced: The Monster learns to speak, although this is dropped for the next film before being brought back sporadically in later entries.

* HaveAGayOldTime: Minnie describes Dr. Pretorius as "a queer fellow". Which ''may'' have been deliberate -- see CampGay, above. However, the term was not yet widely used in this connotation at the time this film was made, and if it ''was'' deliberate, then it is an anachronism as the earliest known use of the term in this context was in 1894, some years after the setting of the film.

* BlindAndTheBeast: After the Monster escapes from jail, he comes across a hut with violin music coming out of it. Inside it, he meets an old blind hermit, who welcomes him soothe his own loneliness. The film is possibly the trope maker.

''Bride of Frankenstein'' is the 1935 sequel to the 1931 film ''Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}}''. It was directed by James Whale. It is widely considered to be the best of the old Franchise/UniversalHorror movies. Creator/BorisKarloff and Colin Clive reprise their roles as the monster and Dr. Henry Frankenstein, respectively, while Ernest Thesiger joins the proceedings as as Dr. Septimus Pretorius and Elsa Lanchester plays the eponymous Bride.

* ScienceIsBad: Partially subverted. The reformed Dr. Frankenstein is forced by evil MadScientist Dr. Pretorius to return to his old ways. The twist: Early on, Pretorius shows us his collection of tiny humans in glass jars, practically announcing that he's Mephistopheles by having one be a devil and saying "There's a certain resemblance to me, don't you think? Or do I flatter myself?" To this, Frankenstein replies, horrified, "This isn't science!" Here, sane Science Is Good, and has standards, but Black Magic Is Bad.
** Though Pretorious' creations seem harmless enough (if a bit lecherous in the case of the king), and the brain he creates for the Bride is far less aggressive than the one the monster got. It's really the unscrupulous acts he's willing to perform to achieve his goals (including blackmail, kidnapping, and murder) that are evil, not the science itself.

%%* MixAndMatchMan

%%* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Pretorius.

%%* PluckyComicRelief: Minnie.

%%* SmugSnake: Pretorius all the way.

* InfantImmortality: Averted ''again''. Once the Monster escape from the jail, its victims are soon discovered around town, which includes a little girl.

Henry Frankenstein [[NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat just barely survives]] the collapsing windmill, but so does the [[NotQuiteDead monster]]. Shortly thereafter, Frankenstein receives a visit from his old mentor, [[CampGay Dr. Pretorius]], who wants to join forces and continue Frankenstein's experiments to create life. In one of the movie's most memorable scenes, Pretorius shows Frankenstein a series of little people in jars, including a [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaid]], a ballerina and a little [[{{Satan}} devil]]. Pretorius can make people, but he can't get them up to normal size. Frankenstein, meanwhile, has created a giant. And so Pretorius proposes a plan: Frankenstein will provide the body, and Pretorius will provide the brain.

Meanwhile, the monster has several encounters with angry villagers and is eventually taken in by a kindly old blind hermit. The hermit teaches the monster to speak, and is the only friend he's ever had. Naturally, the villagers show up and drive the monster away, and he goes to a graveyard to find solitude among the dead. And whom should he happen to meet but [[ContrivedCoincidence Dr. Pretorius gathering parts for the new creature]]. Enticed by the possibility of having a friend, the monster forms an alliance with Pretorius.

Frankenstein, meanwhile, is getting cold feet about creating another monster. In a sequence reminiscent of the original novel, the creature and Pretorius kidnap [[IAmNotShazam Frankenstein's young bride, Elizabeth]], and threaten to kill her unless he makes the monster a mate. It all leads up to an explosive conclusion in Frankenstein's laboratory, where the new monster has finally been born.

One thing to note: Although the monster is childlike and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds rather sympathetic]], he still kills people -- a ''lot'' of people. Film historians put the original death count at 21, but it was [[ExecutiveMeddling edited down to 10]] due to the [[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode film content restrictions of the time]]. At one point the monster seems to break into an elderly couple's house and kill them [[ForTheEvulz just because]]. Like Film/KingKong's tendency to eat people, the monster's violent nature is often glossed over to facilitate a "[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters we are the REAL monsters]]" aesop.

* ForgottenFramingDevice: In form of a prologue. The main story is told by Mary to her two friends during a [[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight dark and stormy night]].[[note]]An epilogue was filmed but later cut from the final film.[[/note]]